Stirling Moss started from pole position in 16 races between 1955 and 1961. Moss first achieved pole position in his home Grand Prix in 1955, driving for Mercedes. He went on to win the race, also scoring his maiden win. At the next British Grand Prix, Moss was again fastest in qualifying, this time in a Maserati. In the following two years, Moss made it four consecutive British Grand Prix pole positions. In between he collected his first pole on foreign soil when he qualified fastest for the 1957 Argentine Grand Prix.
Towards the end of 1958 Moss achieved two more poles for the Vanwall team, in Italy and Portugal. However, things went even better in the next two years. In 1959 the Briton switched to Rob Walker Racing with the Cooper chassis and started from the front of the grid four times. The first two races of 1960 meant two more poles for Moss, the first in the old Cooper and the second in the new Lotus. In Holland he made it three poles in four races, but it would take until the end of the season before a fourth pole was added.
Moss collected his final pole position in the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix, before retiring at the end of the season.
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