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Auction History Result 8y055 ITALIAN GRAND PRIX linen 19x27 Italian poster 1959 F1 car & checkered flag, Stirling Moss won! Date Sold 9/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Italian Car Race Poster (measures 18 1/2" x 26 1/2" [47 x 67 cm]) (Learn More) The Italian Grand Prix (Gran Premio d'Italia) is the fifth oldest national Grand Prix car race, having been held since 1921 (in 2013 it became the most held). It is one of the two Grand Prix which has run as an event of the Formula One (F1) World Championship Grands Prix every season, continuously since the championship was introduced in 1950. Every Formula One Italian Grand Prix in the World Championship era has been held at Monza except in 1980, when it was held at Imola. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that the race was won by British driver Stirling Moss driving a Cooper T51 for the Rob Walker Racing Team. Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss OBE is a British former Formula One racing driver from 1951 to 1961. An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he won 212 of the 529 races he entered across several categories of competition and has been described as "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship". In a seven-year span between 1955 and 1961, Moss finished as championship runner-up four times and third the other three. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had minor wear on the folds. It had pinholes in the corners. It had a 2" tear in the right of the top border, with tiny paper loss below it. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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