00:03722 is over in England since June for the memorial of Sir Stirling Moss and today we
00:09tried to fire up the engine did some laps here to check if everything works and we're happy so far.
00:19We're at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich because basically it's like a sort of stunt
00:24double for the centre of London it's where people like Bond and such like come and film
00:29so that they've got somewhere that looks like Whitehall but is all closed roads this is where
00:37the camera guys have the time to sort of indulge themselves a little bit and get all those details.
00:43The car looks great from every angle and we're really looking forward to someday where we're
00:47going to be actually taking this out on the streets of London the 722 Stirling Moss's car
00:51back to his house it's going to be something really special.
00:58It's a once in a lifetime event today to get 722 the car that Stirling Moss made so famous
01:04on the 1st of May in 1955 back home here in London where Sir Stirling spent pretty much his entire
01:10adult life it's truly magical. We've had a helicopter up in the sky we've had people along the entire
01:16route through Westminster and then coming back to Mayfair here the car was filmed car to car with a
01:21tracking vehicle and cameras inside the car as well just to capture everything once we had one
01:27chance to do this. Stirling Moss winning the millimillion in 1955 in that car is one of the
01:35great great feats in the history of motor racing it was that car which kind of puts Stirling Moss on
01:40the map they used to call him the boy wonder and he kind of became Mr. Motor Racing after that.
01:47The car stays being driven by Gert Straub nobody knows those cars better than Gert they're kind
01:53of his family he is I think the fourth generation of his family to work at Mercedes-Benz the fifth
01:59and
01:59the sixth are already there he's retiring today so this is kind of like the last thing he's gonna do
02:03what a way to sign off a career there really couldn't be anybody better or more appropriate to be driving
02:09that car today. At the beginning I was a little bit nervous because there's always a pressure on the
02:14driver but now after we are finished there it's a fantastic feeling it's a race car designed to be
02:21on a racetrack full speed and not designed for stop and go traffic in town but the police did a
02:28perfect
02:28job they guided me through town and it was comfortable for me going over the bridges was a special moment
02:36seeing Big Ben left to me but I was always fully concentrated on the car.
02:42Lady Moss has been tremendously welcoming here at her home in Shepherd Street and also their son
02:47Elliot who we'll see in the film as well without their support and active engagement none of this
02:53would have been possible. Throughout my entire life that race this car of all the cars we drove and
02:59there are a lot and this just meant more than anything else I mean it's it's literally etched onto the
03:05building on his balconies. My personal memory of it is from 2015 which was the 60th anniversary in Brasher
03:17and I think the last time I ever did a public thing with him and that was the first time
03:23I've sat in the
03:24driver's seat and had an idea of how difficult it it would have actually been.
03:32There's something for everyone in this film whether you're a lifelong fan like me or you're new to the
03:36story of the Mille Miglia and Sir Stirling Moss and we hope that people will spot some of the things
03:40that
03:41have happened deliberately and some of them by happy accident throughout the film and I think it's only a
03:46fitting that that 722 moves to a new phase of its life and we'll be taking her back to the
03:51museum in
03:51Stuttgart where millions of people a year will get to see her up close and in person and of course
03:56for all of the rest of
03:57us there's always this fabulous film
