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Brands Hatch
Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit near Swanley in Kent, England. First used as a dirt track motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently holds many British and international racing events. The name of the circuit may derive from the Gaelic Brondehach (bron meaning "wooded slope" and hach meaning "forest entrance").
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Circuit de Catalunya
The Circuit de Catalunya aka Circuit de Barcelona is a racetrack in Montmeló, to the north of Barcelona, Catalonia. It is home to the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix and the motorcycle Catalonia Grand Prix. With long straights and a variety of corners, the Circuit de Catalunya is seen as an all-rounder circuit.
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Circuit de Valencia
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Donington Park
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England
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English Channel
The English Channel (, the "sleeve") is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some .
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Lingfield, Surrey
Lingfield is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England. It is most famous for its horse racing course, Lingfield Park. Lingfield lies to the east of the A22 which runs between Godstone and East Grinstead. Dormansland is a neighbouring village.
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London
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Masaryk Circuit
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Surrey
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Turners Hill
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Whitechapel
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Henry Surtees

Name	Henry Surtees
Pixels	180px
Caption	Surtees pushing his Formula Renault car out of Parc Ferme at Oulton Park in 2008
Nationality	British
Date of birth	February 18, 1991
Place of birth	Lingfield, Surrey, England
Date of death	July 19, 2009
Place of death	Whitechapel, London, England
Last series	FIA Formula Two Championship
Years active	2009
Teams	MotorSport Vision
Car number	7
Starts	8
Wins	0
Poles	1
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	14th
Year	2009
Prev series	British F3 Formula Renault WEC Formula Renault UK FRUK Winter Series Formula BMW ADAC Formula BMW UKGinetta GT Juniors
Prev series years	200820082007-082007-08200720072006

Henry John Surtees (18 February 1991 – 19 July 2009) was a British racing driver and the son of John Surtees.

Career

Formula BMW UK

Henry Surtees' father, John, was the only man to be World Champion on both two wheels and four wheels. Henry Surtees finished his debut season in the championship 7th in the overall points standings, and second in the Rookie Cup. During a season in which the second half was dominated by fellow rookie Marcus Ericsson, Henry claimed one pole position ([[Thruxton Circuit| Thruxton]]), one race win (Donington Park) and two fastest laps (Rockingham and Snetterton) while driving for the very successful Carlin Motorsport team. The season was marred by penalties and a disqualification at Oulton Park.

Formula Renault

in 2008]] After two races in 2007, Surtees moved up full-time to the Formula Renault UK series in 2008 with Manor Competition. Henry would go on to finish 12th in the championship, including a third place finish during a wild race at Silverstone's National Circuit. He also competed in the Winter Series again, having finished 13th in 2007. He battled James Calado for the title, with Calado coming out on top.

Formula Three

Surtees competed in one race meeting during the 2008 season, in the final two races at Donington Park for Carlin Motorsport. Surtees revelled with a win and a second in his two races in the National Class.

Formula Two

Surtees signed up to the revived FIA Formula Two Championship ahead of the 2009 season on 2 January 2009. He drove car number seven in the series. He scored a podium in the first of the two races at Brands Hatch, coming third, and achieved a pole position at Brno. Surtees' results placed him fourteenth in the championship, at the end of the season.

Death

the day before his fatal accident.]]

At Brands Hatch on 19 July 2009, during a Formula Two race, Surtees was hit on the head by a wheel from the car of Jack Clarke after Clarke spun into the wall exiting Westfield Bend. The wheel broke its tether and bounced back across the track into the following group of cars and collided with Surtees' helmet. The mass of the wheel hitting his head was . The car continued straight ahead into the barrier on the approach to Sheene Curve, also losing a wheel, and came to rest at the end of the curve with its remaining rear wheel still spinning. This indicated that Surtees had lost consciousness, with his foot still pressing the accelerator.

Surtees was extricated from the car and taken to the circuit's medical centre, where he was stabilized before being transferred to the Royal London Hospital. His death was attributed to severe head injuries, inflicted by colliding with the wheel rather than the following crash with the barriers. He was pronounced dead later that day.

Surtees' funeral took place on 30 July at Worth Abbey, near Turners Hill, West Sussex.

In June 2010, a group of Surtees' school friends swam the English Channel in stints to raise money for charity in his memory. They completed the swim in just over 13 hours, the second completed swim of 2010 (the first relay).

Racing record

Career summary

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Complete Formula Two results

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

References

External links

Henry Surtees' profile on Driver Database

Category:1991 births Category:2009 deaths Category:British Formula Renault 2.0 drivers Category:British Formula Three Championship drivers Category:English racecar drivers Category:FIA Formula Two Championship drivers Category:Formula BMW ADAC drivers Category:Formula BMW UK drivers Category:Formula Renault 2.0 WEC drivers Category:Racecar drivers killed while racing Category:Sport deaths in England

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