How a driver with one hand became a racer who Formula 1 legends didn't want to pass

Spa-Francorchamps was where Archie Scott Brown’s story ended. A British sports-car driver of the 1950s, he won famous races, helped form an automotive marque and defeated several legendary drivers in the first decade of the Formula 1 world championship.“If you passed him, you really had to make sure he wouldn’t get you back,” Stirling Moss, widely considered the best F1 driver never to have won the world championship, told Motorsport News in 2015. “He was a racer, not just a driver.”Advertisement