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John Surtees
CBE
Surtees at the 1964 British Grand Prix
Born
John Norman Surtees

(1934-02-11)11 February 1934
Tatsfield, Surrey, England
Died10 March 2017(2017-03-10) (aged 83)
Tooting, London, England
Spouses
Patricia Burke
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(m. 1962; div. 1979)​
Janis Sheara
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(m. 1979; div. 1982)​
Jane Sparrow
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(m. 1987)​
Children3, including Henry
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Active years1952–1960
First race1952 500cc Ulster Grand Prix
Last race1960 500cc Nations Grand Prix
First win1955 250cc Ulster Grand Prix
Last win1960 500cc Nations Grand Prix
Team(s)Norton, EMC, NSU, BMW, MV Agusta
Championships350cc – 1958, 1959, 1960
500cc – 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
68 38 45 N/A 34 350
Formula One World Championship career
NationalityUnited Kingdom British
Active years1960–1972
TeamsLotus, Parnell, Ferrari, Cooper, Honda, BRM, Surtees
Entries113 (111 starts)
Championships1 (1964)
Wins6
Podiums24
Career points180
Pole positions8
Fastest laps10
First entry1960 Monaco Grand Prix
First win1963 German Grand Prix
Last win1967 Italian Grand Prix
Last entry1972 Italian Grand Prix
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years1963–1965, 1967
TeamsFerrari, Lola
Best finish3rd (1964)
Class wins0

John Norman Surtees (11 February 1934 – 10 March 2017) was a British racing driver and motorcycle road racer, who competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1952 to 1960, and Formula One from 1960 to 1972. Surtees was a seven-time Grand Prix motorcycle World Champion, with four titles in the premier 500cc class with MV Agusta. Surtees won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1964 with Ferrari, and remains the only driver to win World Championships on both two- and four-wheels; he won 38 motorcycle Grands Prix and six Formula One Grands Prix.

On his way to become a seven-time Grand Prix motorcycle World Champion, he won his first title in 1956, and followed with three consecutive doubles between 1958 and 1960, winning six World Championships in both the 500 and 350cc classes. Surtees then made the move to the pinnacle of four-wheeled motorsport, the Formula One World Championship, and in 1964 made motor racing history by becoming the Formula One World Champion. 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.

Motorcycle racing career

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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]

Surtees in action during the 1960 500cc Dutch TT.

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

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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

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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.[citation needed]

In 1996, Surtees was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.[35] The FIM honoured him as a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2003.[36] 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[37] and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to motorsport.[38][39][40]

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.[41]

In 2015, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering by Oxford Brookes University.[42][43]

John Surtees and his second wife Janis Sheara

Personal life and death

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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, including Henry. Henry would later become a racing driver, but was killed at Brands Hatch in the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship.[44]

Surtees died of respiratory failure on 10 March 2017 at St George's Hospital in London, at the age of 83.[29][38][45] 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

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Motorcycle Grand Prix results

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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

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(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

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(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 British Saloon Car Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pos. Pts Class
1961 Peter Berry Racing Ltd Jaguar Mk II 3.8 D SNE
2 		GOO AIN SIL CRY SIL BRH OUL SNE 27th 6 9th
Source:[48]

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

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Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1963 Italy Automobili Ferrari S.E.F.A.C. Belgium Willy Mairesse Ferrari 250P P 3.0 252 DNF DNF
1964 Italy SpA Ferrari SEFAC Italy Lorenzo Bandini Ferrari 330P P 5.0 337 3rd 3rd
1965 Italy SpA Ferrari SEFAC Italy Ludovico Scarfiotti Ferrari 330 P2 P 5.0 225 DNF DNF
1967 United Kingdom Lola Cars United Kingdom David Hobbs Lola T70-Aston Martin P +5.0 3 DNF DNF
Source:[49]

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

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(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

Complete Canadian-American Challenge Cup results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pos Pts
1966 Team Surtees Lola T70 Mk.2 Chevrolet MTR
1 		BRI
Ret 		MOS
Ret 		LAG
12 		RIV
1 		LVG
1 		1st 27
1967 Team Surtees Lola T70 Mk.3 Chevrolet ROA
3 		BRI
4 		MOS
Ret 		LAG
Ret 		RIV
Ret 		LVG
1 		3rd 16
1969 Chaparral Cars Inc. McLaren M12 Chevrolet MOS
3 		MTR
Ret 		WGL
12 		9th 30
Chaparral 2H EDM
4 		MDO
5 		ROA
Ret 		BRI
Ret 		MCH LAG
DNS 		RIV
Ret 		TWS
Source:[50]

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Sporting positions
Preceded by 500cc Motorcycle World Champion
1956 		Succeeded by
Preceded by 500cc Motorcycle World Champion
1958-1960 		Succeeded by
Preceded by 350cc Motorcycle World Champion
1958-1960 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Formula One World Champion
1964 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Inaugural
 Can-Am
Champion
1966 		Succeeded by
Awards and achievements
Preceded by BBC Sports Personality of the Year
1959 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Hawthorn Memorial Trophy
1964 		Succeeded by
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