Legendary racing driver Sir Stirling Moss died in the early hours of Sunday morning aged 90, The Guardian reports.

Speaking with the Press Association, the F1 great’s wife, Lady Moss said “It was one lap too many. He just closed his eyes.”

Moss is widely regarded as the greatest ever driver to have not won a Formula 1 World Championship. His long and successful F1 career started in 1951 where he raced for HW Motors. He continued to compete for 10 years and came second in the championship no less than four times while also finished third in the championship in each of his final three seasons in 1959, 1960, and 1961.

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One of Moss’s most remarkable feats behind the wheel came in 1955 when he won Italy’s Mille Miglia in just ten hours and seven minutes, beating second-place finisher Juan Manuel Fangio by an incredible 32 minutes.

In early 2018, the son of Sir Stirling Moss, Elliot, announced that the legendary driver would retire from public life to spend more time with his wife and family.

Lewis Hamilton was one of many current drivers to pay his respects to Moss.

“Today we say goodbye to Sir Stirling Moss, the racing legend. I certainly will miss our conversations. I am truly grateful to have had these special moments with him. Sending my prayers and thoughts to his family. May he rest in peace,” the British driver wrote on Twitter. “I think it’s important that we celebrate his incredible life and the great man he was. To be honest, it was such an unusual pairing, our friendship. Two people from massively different times and backgrounds, but we clicked and ultimately found that the love for racing we both shared made us comrades,” he added on Instagram.