John Surtees

John Surtees, CBE (11 February 1934 – 10 March 2017) was an English Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver. He was a four-time 500 cc motorcycle World Champion – winning that title in 1956, 1958, 1959 and 1960 – the Formula One World Champion in 1964, and remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. He founded the Surtees Racing Organisation team that competed as a constructor in Formula One, Formula 2 and Formula 5000 from 1970 to 1978. He was also the ambassador of the Racing Steps Foundation.

John Surtees CBE
Surtees sitting in his Ferrari signing autographs at Brands Hatch in 1964
Nationality	British
Born	11 February 1934 Tatsfield, Surrey, England
Died	10 March 2017 (aged 83) St George's Hospital, Tooting, London, England
Motorcycle racing career statistics Grand Prix motorcycle racing Active years 1952–1960 First race 1952 500 cc Ulster Grand Prix Last race 1960 500 cc Nations Grand Prix First win 1955 250 cc Ulster Grand Prix Last win 1960 500 cc Nations Grand Prix Team(s) Norton, MV Agusta Championships 350 cc – 1958, 1959, 1960 500 cc – 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960 Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 51 38 45 N/A 34 350
Formula One World Championship career
Active years	1960–1972
Teams	Lotus, Cooper (Inc non-works), Lola, Ferrari, Honda, BRM, non-works McLaren, Surtees
Entries	113 (111 starts)
Championships	1 (1964)
Wins	6
Podiums	24
Career points	180
Pole positions	8
Fastest laps	11
First entry	1960 Monaco Grand Prix
First win	1963 German Grand Prix
Last win	1967 Italian Grand Prix
Last entry	1972 Italian Grand Prix
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1963–1965, 1967
Teams	Scuderia Ferrari Lola Cars/Team Surtees
Best finish	3rd (1964)
Class wins	0

Motorcycle racing career

Surtees was the son of a south-London motorcycle dealer.[1] His father Jack Surtees was an accomplished grasstrack competitor and in 1948 was the South Eastern Centre Sidecar Champion.[2] He had his first professional outing, which they won, in the sidecar of his father's Vincent at the age of 14.[1] 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][3] He first gained prominence 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).[4]

In 1956 Surtees won the 500 cc world championship,[5] MV Agusta's first in the senior class.[4] 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.[6] 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][5][7]

When Gilera and Moto Guzzi withdrew from 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.[5][8]

Auto racing 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

While still racing motorcycles full-time, Surtees performed a test drive in Aston Martin's DBR1 sports car in front of team manager Reg Parnell. He however continued on two wheels and did not enter car racing until the following year.

In 1960, at the age of 26, Surtees switched from motorcycles to cars full-time, making his Formula 1 debut racing in the 1960 BRDC International Trophy[9] at Silverstone for Team Lotus.[10] 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.[3]

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.[3][11]

On 25 September 1965, Surtees had a life-threatening accident at the Mosport Park Circuit (Ontario, Canada) while practising in a Lola T70 sports racing car.[3] 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.[12] 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.[13] 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.[14] 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.[15]

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. Uncertainty and confusion surrounds subsequent events and their consequences, and a number of different explanations have been offered in the decades since. The narrative explained by Ferrari at the time states that under Le Mans rules in 1966 each car was allowed only two drivers.[16] Surtees was omitted from the driver line-up[16] with one works Ferrari to be driven by Mike Parkes and Ludovico Scarfiotti, and the other by Jean Guichet and Lorenzo Bandini. When Surtees questioned Ferrari team manager Eugenio Dragoni 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.[16] However, Surtees himself described things somewhat differently. In his recollection, when the pairings were announced he was to drive alongside Scarfiotti. As the faster driver of the two, Surtees argued that he should take the first stint and "try to break" the Ford opposition by driving "flat out from the start".[17] Dragoni denied Surtees's request and insisted that Scarfiotti take the start, supposedly to please Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, Scarfiotti's uncle, who was in attendance as a spectator.[17] Either way, the decision and subsequent lack of support from Enzo Ferrari himself were deeply upsetting to Surtees and he immediately quit the team.[16] This decision likely cost both Ferrari and Surtees the Formula 1 Championship in 1966. Ferrari finished second to Brabham-Repco in the Constructors' Championship and Surtees finished second to Jack Brabham in the Drivers' Championship.[3][18] Surtees finished the season driving for the Cooper-Maserati team, winning the last race of the season.[19]

Surtees competed with a T70 in the inaugural 1966 Can-Am season,[20][21] winning three races of six to become champion[22] 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).[23]

In December 1966, Surtees signed for Honda.[24] 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.[11]

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.[25]

In 1970, Surtees formed his own race team, the Surtees Racing Organisation, and spent nine seasons competing in Formula 5000, Formula 2 and Formula 1 as a constructor.[3] 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.[26] The team was finally disbanded at the end of 1978.[27]

After Formula One

John Surtees in 2011

For a while in the 1970s Surtees ran a motorcycle shop in West Wickham, Kent, and a Honda car dealership in Edenbridge, Kent.[28] He continued his involvement in motorcycling, participating in classic events with bikes from his stable of vintage racing machines. He also remained 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 to 2007.[29] His son, Henry Surtees, competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, Formula Renault UK Championship and the Formula BMW UK championship for Carlin Motorsport,[30] before he died while racing in the Formula 2 championship at Brands Hatch on 19 July 2009.[31] In 2010,[32] Surtees founded the Henry Surtees Foundation in his son's memory, as a charitable organization to assist victims of accidental brain injuries and to promote safety in driving and motorsport.[33][34]

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1992 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel.[35]

In 1996, Surtees was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.[36] The FIM honoured him as a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2003.[37] Already a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours[38] and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to motorsport.[39][40][41]

In 2013 he was awarded the 2012 Segrave Trophy in recognition of multiple world championships, and being the only person to win world titles on 2 and 4 wheels.[42]

In 2015, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering by Oxford Brookes University.[43][44]

John Surtees and his second wife Janis Sheara

Personal life and death

Surtees married three times, first to Patricia Burke in 1962; the couple divorced in 1979. His second wife was Janis Sheara, whom he married in 1979 and they divorced in 1982. Jane Sparrow was his third wife, whom he married in 1987, and with whom he had three children, Leonora, Edwina and Henry.[45]

Surtees died of respiratory failure on 10 March 2017 at St George's Hospital in London, at the age of 83.[29][39] He was buried, next to his son Henry, at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church in Lingfield, Surrey.

A tribute to Surtees was held at the Goodwood Members Meeting on 19 March 2017.[46]

Racing record

Motorcycle Grand Prix results

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6
Points	8	6	4	3	2	1

(key) (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
Source:[5][8]

† 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

(key) (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	Pts
1960	Team Lotus	Lotus 18	Climax FPF 2.5 L4	ARG	MON Ret	500	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR 2	POR Ret	ITA	USA Ret				14th	6
1961	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper T53	Climax FPF 2.5 L4	MON 11	NED 7	BEL 5	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER 5	ITA Ret	USA Ret						12th	4
1962	Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing Team	Lola Mk4	Climax FWMV 1.5 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 SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 156	Ferrari 178 1.5 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 SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 205B 1.5 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 SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 205B 1.5 V8	RSA 2	MON 4	BEL Ret	FRA 3										5th	17
		Ferrari 1512	Ferrari 207 1.5 F12					GBR 3	NED 7	GER Ret	ITA Ret	USA	MEX
1966	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 312/66	Ferrari 218 3.0 V12	MON Ret	BEL 1												2nd	28
	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T81	Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12			FRA Ret	GBR Ret	NED Ret	GER 2	ITA Ret	USA 3	MEX 1
1967	Honda Racing	Honda RA273	Honda RA273E 3.0 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 RA273E 3.0 V12	RSA 8													7th	12
		Honda RA301	Honda RA301E 3.0 V12		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 P101 3.0 V12	RSA Ret													11th	6
			BRM P142 3.0 V12		ESP 5	MON Ret	NED 9	FRA
		BRM P139							GBR Ret	GER DNS	ITA NC	CAN Ret	USA 3	MEX Ret
1970	Team Surtees	McLaren M7C	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 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	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 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	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ARG	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA Ret	CAN	USA DNS		NC	0
Source:[11][47]

Non-Championship Formula One results

(key) (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 FPF 2.5 L4	GLV	INT Ret	SIL 6	LOM Ret	OUL Ret
1961	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper T53	Climax FPF 2.5 L4	LOM 3	GLV 1	PAU	BRX Ret	VIE	AIN 4	SYR Ret	NAP	LON	SIL Ret	SOL	KAN 3	DAN Ret	MOD Ret
		Cooper T56																FLG Ret	OUL Ret	LEW	VAL	RAN	NAT	RSA
1962	Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing Team	Lola Mk4	Climax FPF 2.5 L4	CAP	BRX Ret	LOM Ret	LAV Ret
			Climax FWMV 1.5 V8					GLV Ret	PAU	AIN Ret	INT 3	NAP	MAL 1	CLP	RMS Ret	SOL				OUL Ret		RAN 3	NAT
		Lola Mk4A															KAN Ret	MED	DAN Ret
		Lotus 24																			MEX Ret
1963	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 156	Ferrari 178 1.5 V6	LOM	GLV	PAU	IMO WD	SYR WD	AIN	INT Ret	ROM	SOL	KAN	MED 1	AUT	OUL	RAN 1
1964	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 205B 1.5 V8	DMT	NWT	SYR 1	AIN		SOL 2	MED	RAN
			Ferrari 178 1.5 V6					INT Ret
1965	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 205B 1.5 V8	ROC Ret	SYR 2	SMT	INT 2	MED	RAN
1966	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 312/66	Ferrari 218 3.0 V12	RSA	SYR 1	INT 2	OUL
1967	Honda Racing	Honda RA273	Honda RA273E 3.0 V12	ROC Ret	SPC 3	INT	SYR	OUL	ESP
1968	Lola Racing	Lola T100	BMW M12 2.0 L4	ROC DNS	INT	OUL
1969	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P138	BRM P101 3.0 V12	ROC DNS	INT	MAD	OUL
1970	Team Surtees	McLaren M7C	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ROC Ret	INT
		Surtees TS7				OUL 1
1971	Brooke Bond Oxo Team Surtees	Surtees TS9	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ARG	ROC 3	QUE	SPR Ret	INT 11	RIN 3	OUL 1	VIC 6
1972	Team Surtees	Surtees TS9	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ROC	BRA	INT 3	OUL	REP	VIC
Source:[47]

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1963	Automobili Ferrari S.E.F.A.C.	Willy Mairesse	Ferrari 250P	P 3.0	252	DNF	DNF
1964	SpA Ferrari SEFAC	Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari 330P	P 5.0	337	3rd	3rd
1965	SpA Ferrari SEFAC	Ludovico Scarfiotti	Ferrari 330 P2	P 5.0	225	DNF	DNF
1967	Lola Cars	David Hobbs	Lola T70-Aston Martin	P +5.0	3	DNF	DNF
Source:[48]

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

(key) (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	Pos.	Pts
1967	Lola Racing	Lola T100	Ford	SNE Ret	SIL 3							BRH DNQ	VAL					NC	0^‡
			BMW			NÜR 2	HOC	TUL	JAR	ZAN	PER
1972	Team Surtees	Surtees TS10	Ford	MAL	THR Ret	HOC	PAU	PAL DNQ	HOC	ROU DNQ	ÖST	IMO 1	MAN	PER	SAL	ALB	HOC	NC	0^‡
Source:[47]

^‡ Graded drivers not eligible for European Formula Two Championship points

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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
• Grand Prix History: Hall of Fame John Surtees
• John Surtees appearance on This Is Your Life