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John Surtees, Formula 2 and Formula 5000 from 1970 to 1978. He is also the ambassador of the Racing Steps Foundation. Contents Motorcycle racing career 1 Racing car career 2 After Formula One 3 Racing record 4 Motorcycle Grand Prix results 4.1 Complete Formula One World Championship results 4.2 Non-Championship Formula One results 4.3 Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results 4.4 References 5 External links 6 Motorcycle racing career Surtees is the son of a south London motorcycle dealer.[1] He had his first professional outing in the sidecar of his father's Vincent, which they won. However, when race officials discovered Surtees's age, they were disqualified.[1] He entered his first race at 15 in a grasstrack competition. In 1950, at the age of 16, he went to work for the Vincent factory as an apprentice.[1][2] He made his first headlines in 1951 when he gave Norton star Geoff Duke a strong challenge in an ACU race at the Thruxton Circuit.[1] In 1955, Norton race chief Joe Craig gave Surtees his first factory sponsored ride aboard the Nortons.[1] He finished the year by beating reigning world champion Duke at Silverstone and then at Brands Hatch.[1] However, with Norton in financial trouble and uncertain about their racing plans, Surtees accepted an offer to race for the MV Agusta factory racing team, where he soon earned the nickname figlio del vento (son of the wind).[3] In 1956 Surtees won the 500cc world championship,[4] MV Agusta's first in the senior class.[3] In this Surtees was assisted by the FIM's decision to ban the defending champion, Geoff Duke, for six months because of his support for a riders' strike for more starting money.[5] In the 1957 season, the MV Agustas were no match for the Gileras and Surtees battled to a third-place finish aboard a 1957 MV Agusta 500 Quattro.[1][4][6] When Gilera and Moto Guzzi pulled out of Grand Prix racing at the end of 1957, Surtees and MV Agusta went on to dominate the competition in the two larger displacement classes.[1] In 1958, 1959 and 1960, he won 32 out of 39 races and became the first man to win the Senior TT at the Isle of Man TT three years in succession.[4][7] Racing car career Surtees (left) and Mauro Forghieri in 1965 Surtees at the 1965 1000 km Nürburgring. Surtees and Yoshio Nakamura at the 1968 Dutch Grand Prix. Surtees at the 1969 Dutch Grand Prix Surtees at the wheel of the Surtees TS7. In 1960, at the age of 26, Surtees switched from motorcycles to cars full-time, making his Formula 1 debut racing for Lotus in the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo. He made an immediate impact with a second-place finish in only his second Formula One World Championship race, at the 1960 British Grand Prix, and a pole position at his third, the 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix.[2] After spending the 1961 season with the Yeoman Credit Racing Team driving a Cooper T53 "Lowline" managed by Reg Parnell and the 1962 season with the Bowmaker Racing Team, still managed by Reg Parnell but now in the V8 Lola Mk4, he moved to Scuderia Ferrari in 1963 and won the World Championship for the Italian team in 1964.[2][8] On 25 September 1965, Surtees had a life-threatening accident at the Mosport Circuit (Ontario, Canada) whilst practicing a Lola T70 sports racing car.[2] A front upright casting had broken. A.J. Baime in his book Go Like Hell says Surtees came out of the crash with one side of his body four inches shorter than the other. Doctors set most of the breaks nonsurgically, in part by physically stretching his shattered body until the right-left discrepancy was under an inch – and there it stayed. The 1966 season saw the introduction of new, larger 3-litre engines to Formula One. Surtees's debut with Ferrari's new F1 car was at the 1966 BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, where he qualified and finished a close second behind Jack Brabham's 3-litre Brabham BT19. A few weeks later, Surtees led the Monaco Grand Prix, pulling away from Jackie Stewart's 2-litre BRM on the straights, before the engine failed. A fortnight later Surtees survived the first lap rainstorm which eliminated half the field and won the Belgian Grand Prix. Due to perennial strikes in Italy, Ferrari could afford to enter only two cars (Ferrari P3s) for the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans instead of its usual entry of three prototypes (a third P3 was entered by the N.A.R.T. and driven by Pedro Rodríguez and Richie Ginther). Under Le Mans rules in 1966 each car was allowed only two drivers per car. Surtees was omitted from the line-up and one team Ferrari was to be driven by Mike Parkes and Ludovico Scarfiotti and the other by Jean Guichet and Lorenzo Bandini. When Surtees questioned Ferrari team manager as to why, as the Ferrari team leader, he would not be allowed to compete, Dragoni told Surtees that he did not feel that he was fully fit to drive in a 24-hour endurance race because of the injuries he had sustained in late 1965. This excuse was deeply upsetting to Surtees, and he immediately quit the team. This decision likely cost both Ferrari and Surtees the Formula 1 Championship in 1966. Ferrari finished second to Brabham-Repco in the manufacturers' championship and Surtees finished second to Jack Brabham in the drivers' championship.[2][9] Surtees finished the season driving for the Cooper-Maserati team, winning the last race of the season and finishing second in the drivers' championship, 14 points behind Brabham. Surtees competed with a T70 in the inaugural 1966 Can-Am season, winning three races of six to become champion over other winners Dan Gurney (Lola), Mark Donohue (Lola) and Phil Hill (Chaparral) as well as the likes of Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon (both in McLarens). In December 1966, Surtees signed for Honda.[10] After a promising third place in the first race in South Africa, the Honda RA273 hit a series of mechanical problems. The car was replaced by the Honda RA300 for the Italian Grand Prix, where Surtees slipstreamed Jack Brabham to take Honda's second F1 victory by 0.2 seconds. Surtees finished fourth in the 1967 drivers' championship.[8] The same year, Surtees drove in the Rex Mays 300 at Riverside, near Los Angeles, in a United States Auto Club season-ending road race. This event pitted the best American drivers of the day — normally those who had cut their teeth as professional drivers on oval dirt tracks — against veteran Formula One Grand Prix drivers, including Jim Clark and Dan Gurney. In Formula 5000, Formula 2 and Formula 1 as a constructor.[2] He retired from competitive driving in 1972, the same year the team had their greatest success when Mike Hailwood won the European Formula 2 Championship.[11] The team was finally disbanded at the end of 1978. After Formula One John Surtees in 2006 For a while in the 1970s Surtees ran a motorcycle shop in West Wickham, Kent and a Honda car dealership in Edenbridge, Kent. He continues his involvement in motorcycling, participating in classic events with bikes from his stable of vintage racing machines. He also remains involved in single-seater racing cars and held the position of chairman of A1 Team Great Britain, in the A1 Grand Prix racing series from 2005-7. His son, Henry Surtees competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, Formula Renault UK Championship and the Formula BMW UK championship for Carlin Motorsport,[12] before he died whilst racing in the Formula 2 championship at Brands Hatch on 19 July 2009.[13] In 1996, Surtees was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.[14] The FIM honoured him as a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2003.[15] Already a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.[16] In 2013 he was awarded the Segrave Trophy in recognition of multiple world championships, and being the only person to win world titles on 2 and 4 wheels. Following the death of Australian Sir Jack Brabham on 19 May 2014 at the age of 88, Surtees is currently the oldest surviving Formula One World Champion. He is also the oldest surviving 500cc/MotoGP World Champion following the death of his friend and rival Geoff Duke, who died at the age of 92 in 2015. Racing record Motorcycle Grand Prix results[4][7] Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 Points 8 6 4 3 2 1 () (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Class Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Points Rank Wins 1952 500cc Norton SUI - IOM - NED - BEL - GER - ULS 6 NAT - ESP - 1 18th 0 1953 125cc EMC IOM DNS NED - GER - ULS - NAT - ESP - 0 - 0 350cc Norton IOM DNS NED - BEL - GER - FRA - ULS - SUI - NAT - 0 - 0 500cc Norton IOM DNS NED - BEL - GER - FRA - ULS - SUI - NAT - ESP - 0 - 0 1954 350cc Norton FRA - IOM 11 ULS Ret BEL - NED - GER - SUI - NAT - ESP - 0 - 0 500cc Norton FRA - IOM 15 ULS 5 † BEL - NED - GER - SUI - NAT - ESP - 0 - 0 1955 250cc NSU FRA - IOM - GER Ret NED - ULS 1 NAT - 8 7th 1 350cc Norton IOM 4 GER 3 BEL - NED - ULS 3 NAT - 11 6th 0 500cc Norton ESP - FRA - IOM 29 BEL - NED - ULS - NAT - 0 - 0 BMW GER Ret 1956 350cc MV Agusta IOM DSQ NED 2 BEL 1 GER Ret ULS - NAT - 14 4th 1 500cc MV Agusta IOM 1 NED 1 BEL 1 GER - ULS - NAT - 24 1st 3 1957 350cc MV Agusta GER Ret IOM 4 NED Ret BEL Ret ULS Ret NAT Ret 3 10th 0 500cc MV Agusta GER Ret IOM 2 NED 1 BEL Ret ULS Ret NAT 4 17 3rd 1 1958 350cc MV Agusta IOM 1 NED 1 BEL 1 GER 1 SWE - ULS 1 NAT 1 48 1st 6 500cc MV Agusta IOM 1 NED 1 BEL 1 GER 1 SWE - ULS 1 NAT 1 48 1st 6 1959 350cc MV Agusta FRA 1 IOM 1 GER 1 SWE 1 ULS 1 NAT 1 48 1st 6 500cc MV Agusta FRA 1 IOM 1 GER 1 NED 1 BEL 1 ULS 1 NAT 1 56 1st 7 1960 350cc MV Agusta FRA 3 IOM 2 NED 1 ULS 1 NAT Ret 26 1st 2 500cc MV Agusta FRA 1 IOM 1 NED Ret BEL 1 GER 1 ULS 2 NAT 1 46 1st 5 † The 500 cc race was stopped by bad weather, and the FIM excluded the race from the World Championship. Complete Formula One World Championship results[8] () (Races in bold indicate pole position; Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 WDC Points 1960 Team Lotus Lotus 18 Climax Straight-4 ARG MON Ret 500 NED BEL FRA GBR 2 POR Ret ITA USA Ret 14th 6 1961 Yeoman Credit Racing Team Cooper T53 Climax Straight-4 MON Ret NED 7 BEL 5 FRA Ret GBR Ret GER 5 ITA Ret USA Ret 12th 4 1962 Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing Team Lola Mk4 Climax V8 NED Ret MON 4 BEL 5 FRA 5 GBR 2 GER 2 USA Ret RSA Ret 4th 19 Lola Mk4A ITA Ret 1963 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 156 Ferrari V6 MON 4 BEL Ret NED 3 FRA Ret GBR 2 GER 1 ITA Ret USA Ret MEX DSQ RSA Ret 4th 22 1964 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 158 Ferrari V8 MON Ret NED 2 BEL Ret FRA Ret GBR 3 GER 1 AUT Ret ITA 1 1st 40 North American Racing Team USA 2 MEX 2 1965 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 158 Ferrari V8 RSA 2 MON 4 BEL Ret FRA 3 5th 17 Ferrari 1512 Ferrari Flat-12 GBR 3 NED 7 GER Ret ITA Ret USA MEX 1966 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 312/66 Ferrari V12 MON Ret BEL 1 2nd 28 Cooper Car Company Cooper T81 Maserati V12 FRA Ret GBR Ret NED Ret GER 2 ITA Ret USA 3 MEX 1 1967 Honda Racing Honda RA273 Honda V12 RSA 3 MON Ret NED Ret BEL Ret FRA GBR 6 GER 4 CAN 4th 20 Honda RA300 ITA 1 USA Ret MEX 4 1968 Honda Racing Honda RA300 Honda V12 RSA 8 7th 12 Honda RA301 ESP Ret MON Ret BEL Ret NED Ret FRA 2 GBR 5 GER Ret ITA Ret CAN Ret USA 3 MEX Ret 1969 Owen Racing Organisation BRM P138 BRM V12 RSA Ret ESP 5 MON Ret NED 9 FRA 11th 6 BRM P139 GBR Ret GER DNS ITA NC CAN Ret USA 3 MEX Ret 1970 Team Surtees McLaren M7C Cosworth V8 RSA Ret ESP Ret MON Ret BEL NED 6 FRA 18th 3 Surtees TS7 GBR Ret GER 9 AUT Ret ITA Ret CAN 5 USA Ret MEX 8 1971 Brooke Bond Oxo / Team Surtees Surtees TS9 Cosworth V8 RSA Ret ESP 11 MON 7 NED 5 FRA 8 GBR 6 GER 7 AUT Ret ITA Ret CAN 11 USA 17 19th 3 1972 Team Surtees Surtees TS14 Cosworth V8 ARG RSA ESP MON BEL FRA GBR GER AUT ITA Ret CAN USA DNS NC 0 Non-Championship Formula One results () (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 1960 Team Lotus Lotus 18 Climax Straight-4 INT Ret SIL 6 LOM Ret OUL Ret 1961 Yeoman Credit Racing Team Cooper T53 Climax Straight-4 LOM 3 GLV 1 PAU BRX Ret VIE AIN 4 SYR Ret NAP LON SIL Ret SOL KAN 3 DAN Ret MOD Ret FLG 10 OUL Ret LEW VAL RAN NAT RSA 1962 Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing Team Lola Mk4 Climax V8 CAP BRX Ret LOM Ret LAV Ret GLV Ret PAU AIN Ret INT 3 NAP MAL 1 CLP RMS Ret SOL WD KAN Ret MED DAN Ret OUL Ret MEX Ret RAN 3 NAT 1963 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 156 Ferrari V6 LOM GLV PAU IMO WD SYR WD AIN INT Ret ROM SOL KAN MED 1 AUT OUL RAN 1 1964 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 158 Ferrari V8 DMT NWT SYR 1 AIN WD INT Ret SOL 2 MED RAN 1965 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 158 Ferrari V8 ROC Ret SYR 2 SMT INT 2 MED RAN 1966 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 312/66 Ferrari V12 RSA SYR 1 INT 2 OUL 1967 Honda Racing Honda RA273 Honda V12 ROC Ret SPC 3 INT SYR OUL ESP 1968 Honda Racing Honda RA300 Honda V12 ROC Ret INT OUL 1969 Owen Racing Organisation BRM P138 BRM V12 ROC DNS INT MAD OUL 1970 Team Surtees McLaren M7C Cosworth V8 ROC Ret INT OUL 1 1971 Brooke Bond Oxo / Team Surtees Surtees TS9 Cosworth V8 ARG ROC 3 QUE SPR Ret INT 12 RIN 3 OUL 1 VIC 6 1972 Team Surtees Surtees TS14 Cosworth V8 ROC BRA INT 3 OUL REP VIC Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Driver Car Class Laps Pos. 1963 Ferrari Willy Mairesse 250P P 3.0 252 15 (DNF) 1964 Ferrari Lorenzo Bandini 330P P 5.0 337 3 1965 Ferrari Ludovico Scarfiotti 330P2 P 5.0 225 17 1967 Lola Cars David Hobbs Lola T70 P 5.0 3 53 (DNF) References ^ a b c d e f g h ^ a b c d e f ^ a b ^ a b c d ^ ^ ^ a b ^ a b c ^ Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. by A.J.Baime Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. ISBN 978-0-618-82219-5 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58729. p. 13. 14 June 2008. External links John Surtees official web site Biography from GrandPrix.com Biography from F1db.com Sky Sport video documentary on John Surtees John Surtees Isle of Man TT statistics at iomtt.com Sporting positions Preceded by Geoff Duke 500cc Motorcycle World Champion 1956 Succeeded by Libero Liberati Preceded by Libero Liberati 500cc Motorcycle World Champion 1958-1960 Succeeded by Gary Hocking Preceded by Jim Clark Formula One World Champion 1964 Succeeded by Jim Clark Preceded by Inaugural Can-Am Champion 1966 Succeeded by Bruce McLaren Awards and achievements Preceded by Ian Black BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1959 Succeeded by David Broome Preceded by Jim Clark Hawthorn Memorial Trophy 1964 Succeeded by Jim Clark 500cc/MotoGP Motorcycle World Champions 1949 – L. Graham 1950 – U. Masetti 1951 – G. Duke 1952 – U. Masetti 1953 – G. Duke 1954 – G. Duke 1955 – G. Duke 1956 – J. Surtees 1957 – L. Liberati 1958 – J. Surtees 1959 – J. Surtees 1960 – J. Surtees 1961 – G. Hocking 1962 – M. Hailwood 1963 – M. Hailwood 1964 – M. Hailwood 1965 – M. Hailwood 1966 – G. Agostini 1967 – G. Agostini 1968 – G. Agostini 1969 – G. Agostini 1970 – G. Agostini 1971 – G. Agostini 1972 – G. Agostini 1973 – P. Read 1974 – P. Read 1975 – G. Agostini 1976 – B. Sheene 1977 – B. Sheene 1978 – K. Roberts 1979 – K. Roberts 1980 – K. Roberts 1981 – M. Lucchinelli 1982 – F. Uncini 1983 – F. Spencer 1984 – E. Lawson 1985 – F. Spencer 1986 – E. Lawson 1987 – W. Gardner 1988 – E. Lawson 1989 – E. Lawson 1990 – W. Rainey 1991 – W. Rainey 1992 – W. Rainey 1993 – K. Schwantz 1994 – M. Doohan 1995 – M. Doohan 1996 – M. Doohan 1997 – M. Doohan 1998 – M. Doohan 1999 – À. Crivillé 2000 – K. Roberts, Jr. 2001 – V. Rossi 2002 – V. Rossi 2003 – V. Rossi 2004 – V. Rossi 2005 – V. Rossi 2006 – N. Hayden 2007 – C. Stoner 2008 – V. Rossi 2009 – V. Rossi J. Lorenzo 2011 – C. Stoner J. Lorenzo 2013 – M. Márquez 2014 – M. Márquez 350cc Motorcycle World Champions 1949 - F. Frith 1950 - B. Foster 1951 - G. Duke 1952 - G. Duke 1953 - F. Anderson 1954 - F. Anderson 1955 - B. Lomas 1956 - B. Lomas 1957 - K. Campbell 1958 - J. Surtees 1959 - J. Surtees 1960 - J. Surtees 1961 - G. Hocking 1962 - J. Redman 1963 - J. Redman 1964 - J. Redman 1965 - J. Redman 1966 - M. Hailwood 1967 - M. Hailwood 1968 - G. Agostini 1969 - G. Agostini 1970 - G. Agostini 1971 - G. Agostini 1972 - G. Agostini 1973 - G. Agostini 1974 - G. Agostini 1975 - J. Cecotto 1976 - W. Villa 1977 - T. Katayama 1978 - K. Ballington 1979 - K. Ballington 1980 - J. Ekerold 1981 - A. Mang 1982 - A. Mang Formula One World Drivers' Champions 1950 G. Farina 1951 J.M. Fangio 1952 A. Ascari 1953 A. Ascari 1954 J.M. Fangio 1955 J.M. Fangio 1956 J.M. Fangio 1957 J.M. Fangio 1958 M. Hawthorn 1959 J. Brabham 1960 J. Brabham 1961 P. Hill 1962 G. Hill 1963 J. Clark 1964 J. Surtees 1965 J. Clark 1966 J. Brabham 1967 D. Hulme 1968 G. Hill 1969 J. Stewart 1970 J. Rindt 1971 J. Stewart 1972 E. Fittipaldi 1973 J. Stewart 1974 E. Fittipaldi 1975 N. Lauda 1976 J. Hunt 1977 N. Lauda 1978 M. Andretti 1979 J. Scheckter 1980 A. Jones 1981 N. Piquet 1982 K. Rosberg 1983 N. Piquet 1984 N. Lauda 1985 A. Prost 1986 A. Prost 1987 N. Piquet 1988 A. Senna 1989 A. Prost 1990 A. Senna 1991 A. Senna 1992 N. Mansell 1993 A. Prost 1994 M. Schumacher 1995 M. Schumacher 1996 D. Hill 1997 J. Villeneuve 1998 M. Häkkinen 1999 M. Häkkinen 2000 M. Schumacher 2001 M. Schumacher 2002 M. Schumacher 2003 M. Schumacher 2004 M. Schumacher 2005 F. Alonso 2006 F. Alonso 2007 K. Räikkönen 2008 L. Hamilton 2009 J. Button 2010 S. Vettel 2011 S. Vettel 2012 S. Vettel 2013 S. Vettel 2014 L. Hamilton 2015 L. Hamilton Winners of the 12 Hours of Sebring Six-time Tom Kristensen Five-time Rinaldo Capello Four-time Frank Biela Allan McNish Three-time Mario Andretti Marco Werner Two-time Bob Akin Geoff Brabham Derek Daly Andy Evans Juan Manuel Fangio Juan Manuel Fangio II Olivier Gendebien Hurley Haywood Hans Herrmann Phil Hill Al Holbert Jacky Ickx Stefan Johansson JJ Lehto Emanuele Pirro Brian Redman Hans-Joachim Stuck Eric van de Poele Fermín Vélez Andy Wallace Phil Walters One-time Aïello Alboreto Baker Baldi Barbosa Barbour Behra Bernhard Bianchi Bonnier Bourdais Gary Brabham Castellotti Collard Collins Daigh Dalmas Davidson de Narváez Dumas Duval Dyer Earl Elford Fässler Fitch Fittipaldi Fitzpatrick Foyt Franchitti Frisselle Garretson Gartner Gené Giunti Gray Gregg Gurney Hall Hawthorn Helmick Herbert Heyer Jarvis Kaffer Keyser Kulok Lapierre Larrousse Leven Lloyd Ludwig Luyendyk Maglioli Mass McFarlin McLaren Mendez Miles Millen Moffat Moretti Morton Moss Mullen Müller Nierop O'Connell Oliver Pace Panis Parkes Paul, Jr. Paul, Sr. Pescatori Peter Pruett Rahal Robinson Rojas Ruby Scarfiotti Sharp Siffert Surtees Taylor Theys Tréluyer Vaccarella Wollek Woods Wurz BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award 1954–1959 1954 Christopher Chataway 1955 Gordon Pirie 1956 Jim Laker 1957 Dai Rees 1958 Ian Black 1959 John Surtees 1960–1969 1960 David Broome 1961 Stirling Moss 1962 Anita Lonsbrough 1963 Dorothy Hyman 1964 Mary Rand 1965 Tom Simpson 1966 Bobby Moore 1967 Henry Cooper 1968 David Hemery 1969 Ann Jones 1970–1979 1970 Henry Cooper 1971 HRH The Princess Anne 1972 Mary Peters 1973 Jackie Stewart 1974 Brendan Foster 1975 David Steele 1976 John Curry 1977 Virginia Wade 1978 Steve Ovett 1979 Sebastian Coe 1980–1989 1980 Robin Cousins 1981 Ian Botham 1982 Daley Thompson 1983 Steve Cram 1984 Torvill and Dean (Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean) 1985 Barry McGuigan 1986 Nigel Mansell 1987 Fatima Whitbread 1988 Steve Davis 1989 Nick Faldo 1990–1999 1990 Paul Gascoigne 1991 Liz McColgan 1992 Nigel Mansell 1993 Linford Christie 1994 Damon Hill 1995 Jonathan Edwards 1996 Damon Hill 1997 Greg Rusedski 1998 Michael Owen 1999 Lennox Lewis 2000–2009 2000 Steve Redgrave 2001 David Beckham 2002 Paula Radcliffe 2003 Jonny Wilkinson 2004 Kelly Holmes 2005 Andrew Flintoff 2006 Zara Phillips 2007 Joe Calzaghe 2008 Chris Hoy 2009 Ryan Giggs 2010–present 2010 Tony McCoy 2011 Mark Cavendish 2012 Bradley Wiggins 2013 Andy Murray 2014 Lewis Hamilton Honda in Formula One Personnel 1963–1968 Soichiro Honda Shoichiro Irimajiri Nobuhiko Kawamoto Yoshio Nakamura Shoichi Sano Yoshitoshi Sakurai 1999 Harvey Postlethwaite Tim Densham 2006–2008 Nick Fry Ross Brawn Yasuhiro Wada Geoff Willis Shuhei Nakamoto Loïc Bigois Notable drivers Rubens Barrichello Ronnie Bucknum Jenson Button Richie Ginther Jo Schlesser John Surtees Formula One cars RA270 RA271 RA272 RA273 RA300 RA301 RA302 RC100 RA099 RA106 RA107 RA108 Honda as an engine manufacturer Drivers' titles 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Constructors' titles 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Scuderia Ferrari Founder Enzo Ferrari President Sergio Marchionne Team Principal Maurizio Arrivabene Current key personnel James Allison Luca Baldisserri Loïc Bigois Mattia Binotto Jock Clear Simone Resta Massimo Rivola Lorenzo Sassi 2015 Race drivers 5. Sebastian Vettel 7. Kimi Räikkönen 2015 Test and reserve drivers Marc Gené Esteban Gutiérrez Davide Rigon Jean-Éric Vergne Ferrari Driver Academy Antonio Fuoco Raffaele Marciello Lance Stroll Guanyu Zhou World Champions Alberto Ascari Juan Manuel Fangio Mike Hawthorn Phil Hill Niki Lauda Kimi Räikkönen Jody Scheckter Michael Schumacher John Surtees Former drivers See category Drivers' titles: 1952 1953 1956 1958 1961 1964 1975 1977 1979 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2007 Constructors' titles: 1961 1964 1975 1976 1977 1979 1982 1983 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2007 2008 Former personnel Mario Almondo Luca Badoer John Barnard Ross Brawn Gustav Brunner Rory Byrne Carlo Chiti Gioacchino Colombo Aldo Costa Stefano Domenicali Chris Dyer Alfredo Ferrari Cesare Fiorio Mauro Forghieri Pat Fry Hirohide Hamashima Vittorio Jano Aurelio Lampredi Claudio Lombardi Luca Marmorini Neil Martin Paolo Martinelli Marco Mattiacci Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Marco Piccinini Harvey Postlethwaite Enrique Scalabroni Michael Schumacher Gilles Simon Rob Smedley Nigel Stepney Jean Todt Nicholas Tombazis Formula One cars 125 212 166 275 340 375 500 553 625 555 D50 801 246 246P 156 158 1512 246 F1-66 312 312B 312T 126C 156/85 F1/86 F1/87 640 641 642 643 F92A F93A 412 T1 412 T2 F310 F300 F399 F1-2000 F2001 F2002 F2003-GA F2004 F2005 248 F1 F2007 F2008 F60 F10 150° Italia F2012 F138 F14 T SF15-T IndyCar/CART cars 375 Indy 637 Sports racing cars 166MM 166MM Le Mans 195 S 340 America 212 Export 225 S & 250 S 250MM 340 MM 375 MM 250 Monza 750 Monza 860 Monza 118 LM & 121 LM 410S 500 TR 625 LM 500 TRC 290 MM 315 S 335 S 250 Testa Rossa Ferrari 250 TR 61 250 GT SWB 250 GTO 330 LMB 250 P, 275 P & 330 P 275 P2, 330 P2 & 365 P2 250 LM 330 P2 330 P3 330 P3/4 & P4 212 E 312P 512S & 512M 312PB 512 BB LM 333 SP Categories Use dmy dates from May 2013 Use British English from May 2013 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from October 2008 1934 births Living people 500cc World Championship riders 350cc World Championship riders 250cc World Championship riders 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers 12 Hours of Reims drivers A1 Grand Prix team owners BBC Sports Personality of the Year winners BRDC Gold Star winners BRM Formula One drivers Cooper Formula One drivers English Formula One drivers English motorcycle racers English racing drivers Ferrari Formula One drivers Formula One team owners Formula One World Drivers' Champions Honda Formula One drivers International Motorsports Hall of Fame inductees Isle of Man TT riders Team Lotus Formula One drivers North American Racing Team Formula One drivers Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Tandridge (district) Reg Parnell Racing Formula One drivers Surtees Formula One drivers World Sportscar Championship drivers
Surtees is the son of a south London motorcycle dealer.[1] He had his first professional outing in the sidecar of his father's Vincent, which they won. However, when race officials discovered Surtees's age, they were disqualified.[1] He entered his first race at 15 in a grasstrack competition. In 1950, at the age of 16, he went to work for the Vincent factory as an apprentice.[1][2] He made his first headlines in 1951 when he gave Norton star Geoff Duke a strong challenge in an ACU race at the Thruxton Circuit.[1]
In 1955, Norton race chief Joe Craig gave Surtees his first factory sponsored ride aboard the Nortons.[1] He finished the year by beating reigning world champion Duke at Silverstone and then at Brands Hatch.[1] However, with Norton in financial trouble and uncertain about their racing plans, Surtees accepted an offer to race for the MV Agusta factory racing team, where he soon earned the nickname figlio del vento (son of the wind).[3]
In 1956 Surtees won the 500cc world championship,[4] MV Agusta's first in the senior class.[3] In this Surtees was assisted by the FIM's decision to ban the defending champion, Geoff Duke, for six months because of his support for a riders' strike for more starting money.[5] In the 1957 season, the MV Agustas were no match for the Gileras and Surtees battled to a third-place finish aboard a 1957 MV Agusta 500 Quattro.[1][4][6]
When Gilera and Moto Guzzi pulled out of Grand Prix racing at the end of 1957, Surtees and MV Agusta went on to dominate the competition in the two larger displacement classes.[1] In 1958, 1959 and 1960, he won 32 out of 39 races and became the first man to win the Senior TT at the Isle of Man TT three years in succession.[4][7]
In 1960, at the age of 26, Surtees switched from motorcycles to cars full-time, making his Formula 1 debut racing for Lotus in the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo. He made an immediate impact with a second-place finish in only his second Formula One World Championship race, at the 1960 British Grand Prix, and a pole position at his third, the 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix.[2] After spending the 1961 season with the Yeoman Credit Racing Team driving a Cooper T53 "Lowline" managed by Reg Parnell and the 1962 season with the Bowmaker Racing Team, still managed by Reg Parnell but now in the V8 Lola Mk4, he moved to Scuderia Ferrari in 1963 and won the World Championship for the Italian team in 1964.[2][8]
On 25 September 1965, Surtees had a life-threatening accident at the Mosport Circuit (Ontario, Canada) whilst practicing a Lola T70 sports racing car.[2] A front upright casting had broken. A.J. Baime in his book Go Like Hell says Surtees came out of the crash with one side of his body four inches shorter than the other. Doctors set most of the breaks nonsurgically, in part by physically stretching his shattered body until the right-left discrepancy was under an inch – and there it stayed.
The 1966 season saw the introduction of new, larger 3-litre engines to Formula One. Surtees's debut with Ferrari's new F1 car was at the 1966 BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, where he qualified and finished a close second behind Jack Brabham's 3-litre Brabham BT19. A few weeks later, Surtees led the Monaco Grand Prix, pulling away from Jackie Stewart's 2-litre BRM on the straights, before the engine failed. A fortnight later Surtees survived the first lap rainstorm which eliminated half the field and won the Belgian Grand Prix.
Due to perennial strikes in Italy, Ferrari could afford to enter only two cars (Ferrari P3s) for the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans instead of its usual entry of three prototypes (a third P3 was entered by the N.A.R.T. and driven by Pedro Rodríguez and Richie Ginther). Under Le Mans rules in 1966 each car was allowed only two drivers per car. Surtees was omitted from the line-up and one team Ferrari was to be driven by Mike Parkes and Ludovico Scarfiotti and the other by Jean Guichet and Lorenzo Bandini. When Surtees questioned Ferrari team manager as to why, as the Ferrari team leader, he would not be allowed to compete, Dragoni told Surtees that he did not feel that he was fully fit to drive in a 24-hour endurance race because of the injuries he had sustained in late 1965. This excuse was deeply upsetting to Surtees, and he immediately quit the team. This decision likely cost both Ferrari and Surtees the Formula 1 Championship in 1966. Ferrari finished second to Brabham-Repco in the manufacturers' championship and Surtees finished second to Jack Brabham in the drivers' championship.[2][9] Surtees finished the season driving for the Cooper-Maserati team, winning the last race of the season and finishing second in the drivers' championship, 14 points behind Brabham.
Surtees competed with a T70 in the inaugural 1966 Can-Am season, winning three races of six to become champion over other winners Dan Gurney (Lola), Mark Donohue (Lola) and Phil Hill (Chaparral) as well as the likes of Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon (both in McLarens).
In December 1966, Surtees signed for Honda.[10] After a promising third place in the first race in South Africa, the Honda RA273 hit a series of mechanical problems. The car was replaced by the Honda RA300 for the Italian Grand Prix, where Surtees slipstreamed Jack Brabham to take Honda's second F1 victory by 0.2 seconds. Surtees finished fourth in the 1967 drivers' championship.[8]
The same year, Surtees drove in the Rex Mays 300 at Riverside, near Los Angeles, in a United States Auto Club season-ending road race. This event pitted the best American drivers of the day — normally those who had cut their teeth as professional drivers on oval dirt tracks — against veteran Formula One Grand Prix drivers, including Jim Clark and Dan Gurney.
In Formula 5000, Formula 2 and Formula 1 as a constructor.[2] He retired from competitive driving in 1972, the same year the team had their greatest success when Mike Hailwood won the European Formula 2 Championship.[11] The team was finally disbanded at the end of 1978.
For a while in the 1970s Surtees ran a motorcycle shop in West Wickham, Kent and a Honda car dealership in Edenbridge, Kent. He continues his involvement in motorcycling, participating in classic events with bikes from his stable of vintage racing machines. He also remains involved in single-seater racing cars and held the position of chairman of A1 Team Great Britain, in the A1 Grand Prix racing series from 2005-7. His son, Henry Surtees competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, Formula Renault UK Championship and the Formula BMW UK championship for Carlin Motorsport,[12] before he died whilst racing in the Formula 2 championship at Brands Hatch on 19 July 2009.[13]
In 1996, Surtees was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.[14] The FIM honoured him as a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2003.[15] Already a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.[16]
In 2013 he was awarded the Segrave Trophy in recognition of multiple world championships, and being the only person to win world titles on 2 and 4 wheels.
Following the death of Australian Sir Jack Brabham on 19 May 2014 at the age of 88, Surtees is currently the oldest surviving Formula One World Champion. He is also the oldest surviving 500cc/MotoGP World Champion following the death of his friend and rival Geoff Duke, who died at the age of 92 in 2015.
() (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
† The 500 cc race was stopped by bad weather, and the FIM excluded the race from the World Championship.
() (Races in bold indicate pole position)
1949 – L. Graham
1950 – U. Masetti 1951 – G. Duke 1952 – U. Masetti 1953 – G. Duke 1954 – G. Duke 1955 – G. Duke 1956 – J. Surtees 1957 – L. Liberati 1958 – J. Surtees 1959 – J. Surtees
1960 – J. Surtees 1961 – G. Hocking 1962 – M. Hailwood 1963 – M. Hailwood 1964 – M. Hailwood 1965 – M. Hailwood 1966 – G. Agostini 1967 – G. Agostini 1968 – G. Agostini 1969 – G. Agostini
1970 – G. Agostini 1971 – G. Agostini 1972 – G. Agostini 1973 – P. Read 1974 – P. Read 1975 – G. Agostini 1976 – B. Sheene 1977 – B. Sheene 1978 – K. Roberts 1979 – K. Roberts
1980 – K. Roberts 1981 – M. Lucchinelli 1982 – F. Uncini 1983 – F. Spencer 1984 – E. Lawson 1985 – F. Spencer 1986 – E. Lawson 1987 – W. Gardner 1988 – E. Lawson 1989 – E. Lawson
1990 – W. Rainey 1991 – W. Rainey 1992 – W. Rainey 1993 – K. Schwantz 1994 – M. Doohan 1995 – M. Doohan 1996 – M. Doohan 1997 – M. Doohan 1998 – M. Doohan 1999 – À. Crivillé
2000 – K. Roberts, Jr. 2001 – V. Rossi 2002 – V. Rossi 2003 – V. Rossi 2004 – V. Rossi 2005 – V. Rossi 2006 – N. Hayden 2007 – C. Stoner 2008 – V. Rossi 2009 – V. Rossi
J. Lorenzo 2011 – C. Stoner J. Lorenzo 2013 – M. Márquez 2014 – M. Márquez
1949 - F. Frith
1950 - B. Foster 1951 - G. Duke 1952 - G. Duke 1953 - F. Anderson 1954 - F. Anderson 1955 - B. Lomas 1956 - B. Lomas 1957 - K. Campbell 1958 - J. Surtees 1959 - J. Surtees
1960 - J. Surtees 1961 - G. Hocking 1962 - J. Redman 1963 - J. Redman 1964 - J. Redman 1965 - J. Redman 1966 - M. Hailwood 1967 - M. Hailwood 1968 - G. Agostini 1969 - G. Agostini
1970 - G. Agostini 1971 - G. Agostini 1972 - G. Agostini 1973 - G. Agostini 1974 - G. Agostini 1975 - J. Cecotto 1976 - W. Villa 1977 - T. Katayama 1978 - K. Ballington 1979 - K. Ballington
1980 - J. Ekerold 1981 - A. Mang 1982 - A. Mang
1950 G. Farina 1951 J.M. Fangio 1952 A. Ascari 1953 A. Ascari 1954 J.M. Fangio 1955 J.M. Fangio 1956 J.M. Fangio 1957 J.M. Fangio 1958 M. Hawthorn 1959 J. Brabham
1960 J. Brabham 1961 P. Hill 1962 G. Hill 1963 J. Clark 1964 J. Surtees 1965 J. Clark 1966 J. Brabham 1967 D. Hulme 1968 G. Hill 1969 J. Stewart
1970 J. Rindt 1971 J. Stewart 1972 E. Fittipaldi 1973 J. Stewart 1974 E. Fittipaldi 1975 N. Lauda 1976 J. Hunt 1977 N. Lauda 1978 M. Andretti 1979 J. Scheckter
1980 A. Jones 1981 N. Piquet 1982 K. Rosberg 1983 N. Piquet 1984 N. Lauda 1985 A. Prost 1986 A. Prost 1987 N. Piquet 1988 A. Senna 1989 A. Prost
1990 A. Senna 1991 A. Senna 1992 N. Mansell 1993 A. Prost 1994 M. Schumacher 1995 M. Schumacher 1996 D. Hill 1997 J. Villeneuve 1998 M. Häkkinen 1999 M. Häkkinen
2000 M. Schumacher 2001 M. Schumacher 2002 M. Schumacher 2003 M. Schumacher 2004 M. Schumacher 2005 F. Alonso 2006 F. Alonso 2007 K. Räikkönen 2008 L. Hamilton 2009 J. Button
2010 S. Vettel 2011 S. Vettel 2012 S. Vettel 2013 S. Vettel 2014 L. Hamilton 2015 L. Hamilton
Italy, Formula One, Red Bull Racing, Team Lotus, McLaren
Italy, United Kingdom, Giacomo Agostini, John Surtees, MV Agusta 500 Three
European Union, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada
Isle of Man, India, Canada, European Union, British Overseas Territories
United Kingdom, Norton Motorcycle Company, Italy, MV Agusta, Switzerland
United Kingdom, Italy, Norton Motorcycle Company, MV Agusta, Germany
United Kingdom, Italy, Norton Motorcycle Company, Germany, Japan
Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Motorcycle, Road racing, 1949 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme