John Surtees

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 Template:MGP to Template:MGP, and Formula One from Template:F1 to Template:F1. 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 Template:F1 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

Surtees was the son of a south-London motorcycle dealer.<ref name="50 Years of Moto Grand Prix">Template:Citation</ref> His father Jack Surtees was an accomplished grasstrack competitor and in 1948 was the South Eastern Centre Sidecar Champion.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He had his first professional outing, which they won, in the sidecar of his father's Vincent at the age of 14.<ref name="50 Years of Moto Grand Prix"/> However, when race officials discovered Surtees's age, they were disqualified.<ref name="50 Years of Moto Grand Prix"/> 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.<ref name="50 Years of Moto Grand Prix"/><ref name="Formula 1 Hall of Fame">Template:Cite web</ref> He first gained prominence in 1951 when he gave Norton star Geoff Duke a strong challenge in an ACU race at the Thruxton Circuit.<ref name="50 Years of Moto Grand Prix"/>

In 1955, Norton race chief Joe Craig gave Surtees his first factory-sponsored ride aboard the Nortons.<ref name="50 Years of Moto Grand Prix"/> He finished the year by beating reigning world champion Duke at Silverstone and then at Brands Hatch.<ref name="50 Years of Moto Grand Prix"/> 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).<ref name="smith MV 850SS">Template:Cite journal</ref>

Surtees in action during the 1960 500cc Dutch TT.

In 1956, Surtees won the 500 cc world championship,<ref name="John Surtees career statistics at MotoGP.com">Template:Cite web</ref> MV Agusta's first in the senior class.<ref name="smith MV 850SS" /> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name="50 Years of Moto Grand Prix"/><ref name="John Surtees career statistics at MotoGP.com"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref name="50 Years of Moto Grand Prix"/> 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.<ref name="John Surtees career statistics at MotoGP.com"/><ref name="John Surtees Isle of Man TT results at iomtt.com">Template:Cite web</ref>

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<ref>Adam Cooper, Obituary: John Surtees, 1934–2017, www.motorsport.com Retrieved 12 March 2017</ref> at Silverstone for Team Lotus.<ref>XII B.R.D.C. Daily Express International Trophy 1960, www.formula2.net Retrieved 12 March 2017</ref> 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.<ref name="Formula 1 Hall of Fame"/>

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.<ref name="Formula 1 Hall of Fame"/><ref name="John Surtees Formula One statistics">Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref name="Formula 1 Hall of Fame"/> 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.<ref name="Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="Collection Editions: Ferrari in Formula One">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="drivetribe">Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name="Real Racers">Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref name="John Surtees: Former F1 world champion was a towering figure"/> Surtees was omitted from the driver line-up<ref name="John Surtees: Former F1 world champion was a towering figure"/> 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.<ref name="John Surtees: Former F1 world champion was a towering figure"/> 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".<ref name=lunch >Template:Cite magazine</ref> 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.<ref name=lunch /> Either way, the decision and subsequent lack of support from Enzo Ferrari were deeply upsetting to Surtees and he immediately quit the team.<ref name="John Surtees: Former F1 world champion was a towering figure">Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name="Formula 1 Hall of Fame"/><ref>Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. by A.J.Baime Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Template:ISBN</ref> Surtees finished the season driving for the Cooper-Maserati team, winning the last race of the season.<ref name="Complete Encyclopedia of Formula One">Template:Cite book</ref>

Surtees competed with a T70 in the inaugural 1966 Can-Am season,<ref name="Aston Martin: Power, Beauty and Soul">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="The encyclopaedia of motor racing">Template:Cite book</ref> winning three races of six to become champion<ref name="George Eaton">Template:Cite book</ref> 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).<ref name="Lola T70: The Racing History and Individual Chassis Record">Template:Cite book</ref>

In December 1966, Surtees signed for Honda.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> 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.<ref name="John Surtees Formula One statistics"/>

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.<ref name="Auto Driver">Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref name="Formula 1 Hall of Fame"/> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The team was finally disbanded at the end of 1978.<ref name="independent">Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref name="Surrey Mirror">Surrey racing legend John Surtees who won F1 and world motorcycle championships has died (Archived from the original) Surrey Mirror, 10 March 2017 Retrieved 2 December 2017</ref> 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.<ref name="bbc"/> His son, Henry Surtees, competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, Formula Renault UK Championship and the Formula BMW UK championship for Carlin Motorsport,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> before he died while racing in the Formula 2 championship at Brands Hatch on 19 July 2009.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref> In 2010,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Surtees was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1992 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel.Template:Citation needed

In 1996, Surtees was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The FIM honoured him as a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2003.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to motorsport.<ref name="theguardian"/><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2013, Surtees 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.<ref name="incheshiremagazine">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2015, Surtees was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering by Oxford Brookes University.<ref name="johnsurtees">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="brookes">Template:Cite web</ref>

Surtees was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2024.Template:Citation needed

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, including Henry. Henry would later become a racing driver, but was killed at Brands Hatch in the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship.<ref name="John Surtees obituary">Template:Cite news</ref>

Surtees died of respiratory failure on 10 March 2017 at St George's Hospital in London, at the age of 83.<ref name="bbc">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="theguardian">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=mem>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Archived at GhostarchiveTemplate:Cbignore and the Wayback MachineTemplate:Cbignore: Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>

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 Template:Small	NAT	ESP		1	18th	0
1953	125cc	EMC	IOM Template:Small	NED		GER		ULS		NAT	ESP	0	–	0
	350cc	Norton	IOM Template:Small	NED	BEL	GER	FRA	ULS	SUI	NAT		0	–	0
	500cc	Norton	IOM Template:Small	NED	BEL	GER	FRA	ULS	SUI	NAT	ESP	0	–	0
1954	350cc	Norton	FRA	IOM Template:Small	ULS Template:Small	BEL	NED	GER	SUI	NAT	ESP	0	–	0
	500cc	Norton	FRA	IOM Template:Small	ULS 5 †	BEL	NED	GER	SUI	NAT	ESP	0	–	0
1955	250cc	NSU		FRA	IOM	GER Template:Small		NED	ULS Template:Small	NAT		8	7th	1
	350cc	Norton			IOM Template:Small	GER Template:Small	BEL	NED	ULS Template:Small	NAT		11	6th	0
	500cc	Norton	ESP	FRA	IOM Template:Small		BEL	NED	ULS	NAT		0	–	0
		BMW				GER Template:Small
1956	350cc	MV Agusta	IOM Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ULS	NAT				14	4th	1
	500cc	MV Agusta	IOM Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	GER	ULS	NAT				24	1st	3
1957	350cc	MV Agusta	GER Template:Small	IOM Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	ULS Template:Small	NAT Template:Small				3	10th	0
	500cc	MV Agusta	GER Template:Small	IOM Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	ULS Template:Small	NAT Template:Small				17	3rd	1
1958	350cc	MV Agusta	IOM Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	GER Template:Small	SWE	ULS Template:Small	NAT Template:Small			48	1st	6
	500cc	MV Agusta	IOM Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	GER Template:Small	SWE	ULS Template:Small	NAT Template:Small			48	1st	6
1959	350cc	MV Agusta	FRA Template:Small	IOM Template:Small	GER Template:Small			SWE Template:Small	ULS Template:Small	NAT Template:Small		48	1st	6
	500cc	MV Agusta	FRA Template:Small	IOM Template:Small	GER Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small		ULS Template:Small	NAT Template:Small		56	1st	7
1960	350cc	MV Agusta	FRA Template:Small	IOM Template:Small	NED Template:Small			ULS Template:Small	NAT Template:Small			26	1st	2
	500cc	MV Agusta	FRA Template:Small	IOM Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ULS Template:Small	NAT Template:Small			46	1st	5
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† 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	Template:Tooltip	Pts
1960	Team Lotus	Lotus 18	Climax FPF 2.5 L4	ARG	MON Template:Small	500	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR Template:Small	POR Template:Small	ITA	USA Template:Small				14th	6
1961	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper T53	Climax FPF 2.5 L4	MON Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	USA Template:Small						12th	4
1962	Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing Team	Lola Mk4	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	NED Template:Small	MON Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small		USA Template:Small	RSA Template:Small					4th	19
		Lola Mk4A								ITA Template:Small
1963	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 156	Ferrari 178 1.5 V6	MON Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	NED Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	USA Template:Small	MEX Template:Small	RSA Template:Small				4th	22
1964	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 205B 1.5 V8	MON Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	AUT Template:Small	ITA Template:Small						1st	40
	North American Racing Team											USA Template:Small	MEX Template:Small
1965	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 205B 1.5 V8	RSA Template:Small	MON Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	FRA Template:Small										5th	17
		Ferrari 1512	Ferrari 207 1.5 F12					GBR Template:Small	NED Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	USA	MEX
1966	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 312/66	Ferrari 218 3.0 V12	MON Template:Small	BEL Template:Small												2nd	28
	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T81	Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12			FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	NED Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	USA Template:Small	MEX Template:Small
1967	Honda Racing	Honda RA273	Honda RA273E 3.0 V12	RSA Template:Small	MON Template:Small	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	FRA	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	CAN						4th	20
		Honda RA300										ITA Template:Small	USA Template:Small	MEX Template:Small
1968	Honda Racing	Honda RA300	Honda RA273E 3.0 V12	RSA Template:Small													7th	12
		Honda RA301	Honda RA301E 3.0 V12		ESP Template:Small	MON Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	NED Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	CAN Template:Small	USA Template:Small	MEX Template:Small
1969	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P138	BRM P101 3.0 V12	RSA Template:Small													11th	6
			BRM P142 3.0 V12		ESP Template:Small	MON Template:Small	NED Template:Small	FRA
		BRM P139							GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	CAN Template:Small	USA Template:Small	MEX Template:Small
1970	Team Surtees	McLaren M7C	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	RSA Template:Small	ESP Template:Small	MON Template:Small	BEL	NED Template:Small	FRA								18th	3
		Surtees TS7								GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	AUT Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	CAN Template:Small	USA Template:Small	MEX Template:Small
1971	Brooke Bond Oxo - Rob Walker	Surtees TS9	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	RSA Template:Small	ESP Template:Small	MON Template:Small	NED Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	AUT Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	CAN Template:Small	USA Template:Small			19th	3
1972	Team Surtees	Surtees TS14	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ARG	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA Template:Small	CAN	USA Template:Small		NC	0
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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 Template:Small	SIL Template:Small	LOM Template:Small	OUL Template:Small
1961	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper T53	Climax FPF 2.5 L4	LOM Template:Small	GLV Template:Small	PAU	BRX Template:Small	VIE	AIN Template:Small	SYR Template:Small	NAP	LON	SIL Template:Small	SOL	KAN Template:Small	DAN Template:Small	MOD Template:Small
		Cooper T56																FLG Template:Small	OUL Template:Small	LEW	VAL	RAN	NAT	RSA
1962	Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing Team	Lola Mk4	Climax FPF 2.5 L4	CAP	BRX Template:Small	LOM Template:Small	LAV Template:Small
			Climax FWMV 1.5 V8					GLV Template:Small	PAU	AIN Template:Small	INT Template:Small	NAP	MAL Template:Small	CLP	RMS Template:Small	SOL				OUL Template:Small		RAN Template:Small	NAT
		Lola Mk4A															KAN Template:Small	MED	DAN Template:Small
		Lotus 24																			MEX Template:Small
1963	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 156	Ferrari 178 1.5 V6	LOM	GLV	PAU	IMO Template:Small	SYR Template:Small	AIN	INT Template:Small	ROM	SOL	KAN	MED Template:Small	AUT	OUL	RAN Template:Small
1964	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 205B 1.5 V8	DMT	NWT	SYR Template:Small	AIN		SOL Template:Small	MED	RAN
			Ferrari 178 1.5 V6					INT Template:Small
1965	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 158	Ferrari 205B 1.5 V8	ROC Template:Small	SYR Template:Small	SMT	INT Template:Small	MED	RAN
1966	Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC	Ferrari 312/66	Ferrari 218 3.0 V12	RSA	SYR Template:Small	INT Template:Small	OUL
1967	Honda Racing	Honda RA273	Honda RA273E 3.0 V12	ROC Template:Small	SPC Template:Small	INT	SYR	OUL	ESP
1968	Lola Racing	Lola T100	BMW M12 2.0 L4	ROC Template:Small	INT	OUL
1969	Owen Racing Organisation	BRM P138	BRM P101 3.0 V12	ROC Template:Small	INT	MAD	OUL
1970	Team Surtees	McLaren M7C	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ROC Template:Small	INT
		Surtees TS7				OUL Template:Small
1971	Brooke Bond Oxo Team Surtees	Surtees TS9	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ARG	ROC Template:Small	QUE	SPR Template:Small	INT Template:Small	RIN Template:Small	OUL Template:Small	VIC Template:Small
1972	Team Surtees	Surtees TS9	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ROC	BRA	INT Template:Small	OUL	REP	VIC
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Complete British Saloon Car Championship results

(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	Template:Tooltip	Pts	Class
1961	Peter Berry Racing Ltd	Jaguar Mk II 3.8	Template:Tooltip	SNE ovr:2 cls:2	GOO	AIN	SIL	CRY	SIL	BRH	OUL	SNE	27th	6	9th
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Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
1963	Template:Flagicon Automobili Ferrari S.E.F.A.C.	Template:Flagicon Willy Mairesse	Ferrari 250P	P 3.0	252	DNF	DNF
1964	Template:Flagicon SpA Ferrari SEFAC	Template:Flagicon Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari 330P	P 5.0	337	3rd	3rd
1965	Template:Flagicon SpA Ferrari SEFAC	Template:Flagicon Ludovico Scarfiotti	Ferrari 330 P2	P 5.0	225	DNF	DNF
1967	Template:Flagicon Lola Cars	Template:Flagicon David Hobbs	Lola T70-Aston Martin	P +5.0	3	DNF	DNF
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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	Template:Tooltip	Pts
Template:F2	Lola Racing	Lola T100	Ford	SNE Template:Small	SIL Template:Small							BRH Template:Small	VAL					NC	0‡
			BMW			NÜR Template:Small	HOC	TUL	JAR	ZAN	PER
Template:F2	Team Surtees	Surtees TS10	Ford	MAL	THR Template:Small	HOC	PAU	PAL Template:Small	HOC	ROU Template:Small	ÖST	IMO Template:Small	MAN	PER	SAL	ALB	HOC	NC	0‡
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^‡ Graded drivers not eligible for European Formula Two Championship points

Complete Canadian-American Challenge Cup results

(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 Template:Small	BRI Template:Small	MOS Template:Small	LAG Template:Small	RIV Template:Small	LVG Template:Small						1st	27
1967	Team Surtees	Lola T70 Mk.3	Chevrolet	ROA Template:Small	BRI Template:Small	MOS Template:Small	LAG Template:Small	RIV Template:Small	LVG Template:Small						3rd	16
1969	Chaparral Cars Inc.	McLaren M12	Chevrolet	MOS Template:Small	MTR Template:Small	WGL Template:Small									9th	30
		Chaparral 2H					EDM Template:Small	MOH Template:Small	ROA Template:Small	BRI Template:Small	MCH	LAG Template:Small	RIV Template:Small	TWS
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External links

• John Surtees official web site Template:Webarchive
• 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