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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. He continued his involvement in motorcycling, participating in classic events with bikes from his stable of vintage racing machines.
Champion of two and four wheels John #Surtees takes his old #F1 Honda RA300 for a run up the hill and even a pirouette slide in the Top Paddock of the Festiv...
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Aug 20, 2020 · Without any victories in 1966 Honda was keen to prove to the world – and its star driver, 1964 F1 World Champion John Surtees – that it was still capable of building winning machines. The dream result, then, would be a win in its first race?
British motor racing legend Surtees dies, aged 83. He had few regrets. The approach worked perfectly well as his exploits on motorcycles passed into legend and he took MV Augusta to countless...
Nov 10, 2021 · Shrieking into a turn, he lost a wheel, crashed, and was knocked unconscious. For months, he recovered in a hospital and had to relearn how to walk. Each day, he counted the number of steps he was ...
In 1967 Surtees joined Honda, scoring a memorable sixth and final career GP victory at Monza as again he became deeply involved in technical matters. The Japanese company withdrew from F1 at...
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Surtees finished 1966 with Cooper, for whom he won the season finale in Mexico, then spent two years leading Honda's new Formula One team. He helped develop the Japanese cars and was rewarded with a satisfying win in Ferrari's home race, the 1967 Italian Grand Prix at Monza, though Honda left Formula One racing a year later.
