Sir Stirling Moss has died at the age of 90 following a long illness.
The British motor-racing legend was a frequent visitor to Merseyside over the years, racing many times at Aintree racecourse and Oulton Park in Cheshire.
Recognised as one of the greatest drivers of all time and also the greatest driver never to win the world championship, Moss won 212 of his 529 races.
"He died as he lived, looking wonderful," his wife Lady Susie Moss said. "He simply tired in the end and he just closed his beautiful eyes and that was that."
"It was one lap too many."
In his seven seasons he won 16 races and the closest Moss came to winning the F1 drivers' championship was in 1958, when he lost out on becoming Britain's first world champion to Mike Hawthorn by a point, despite winning four races to the Ferrari driver's one.
Indeed, he finished runner-up four times between 1955 and 1961 and was forced to retire after a serious accident at Goodwood in April 1962 when his Lotus crashed into a grass bank.
Sir Stirling retired from public life in 2018.
The McLaren team wrote: "All at McLaren mourn the passing of a legend of our sport, Sir Stirling Moss. A prodigious competitor, supremely talented racer, and consummate gentleman, he leaves an indelible mark of greatness on the history of international motorsport. Our condolences to his family."
