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The Surtees Racing Organisation was a race team that spent nine seasons (1970 to 1978) as a constructor in Formula One, Formula 2, and Formula 5000.

History[link]

The team was formed by John Surtees, a three time 500 cc motorcycle champion and the Formula One champion in 1964. Surtees formed the team in 1966 for the newly-formed CanAm series (an unlimited sports car series), winning the championship as an owner/driver in its first year. He fielded an entry in another newly formed series in 1969, becoming part of Formula 5000 after taking over the failed Leda F5000 project, and his team constructed its own cars for the first time. His team was successful, winning five races, all in a row, during a twelve race season.

This inspired Surtees to expand to Formula One, and after having had a difficult season with BRM in '69, John decided to become an owner/driver again. Surtees ran the full 1970 season, but John was forced to run the first four races in an old McLaren because of a delay in the construction of his in-house F1 car. The new British Petroleum sponsored car earned its first (and only) points that year in the Canadian Grand Prix.

Surtees added a second full time car in 1971 for German sports car ace Rolf Stommelen, and ran a third car for various drivers in a number of races. Three drivers, Surtees, Stommelen, and Mike Hailwood (himself a motorcycling champion) earned three points each for the marque that year.

After the 1971 season, Surtees retired from full-time competition, and the team ended up with three new full time drivers in 1972. Hailwood returned to Surtees for a full year, joining him were Australian Tim Schenken and Andrea De Adamich, the latter of whom brought sponsorship money to the team. "Mike the Bike" produced Surtees' first podium finish that year in the Italian Grand Prix finishing second to Emerson Fittipaldi. All three drivers scored points for the team, and Surtees would finish fifth in the constructors' championship.

Schenken was replaced in 1973 by Brazilian Carlos Pace, and the team went down to two full-time cars after de Adamich left following the season opener. Pace finished third in Austria and fourth in Germany, but it was the only points finishes the team had all season, as Hailwood was left scoreless. Hailwood departed for McLaren after the year, being replaced by Jochen Mass in 1974. It was a difficult year for Surtees, as Pace left the team in mid-season, and replacement Derek Bell struggled to qualify for races, capped by Austrian driver Helmut Koinigg's fatal crash at the 1974 U.S. Grand Prix. A fourth place by Pace at his home track were the only points Surtees managed to get, and they failed to finish in the top ten in the constructor's championship.

The team struggled to survive in 1975, and ran only a car for John Watson regularly. The season was a tremendous struggle for Watson and Surtees, as the team failed to score points. Desperate for money, Surtees landed a controversial sponsorship deal from Durex condoms in 1976. Australian Alan Jones drove the Durex car that year, a second car also ran for American Brett Lunger. Lunger was uncompetitive, but Jones ran effectively for the team, finishing in the points three times.

Jones's success resulted in him leaving the team for the emerging Shadow team, and money problems forced Surtees to run one car regularly again in 1977, this time for Vittorio Brambilla. Brambilla's season was effective, also finishing in the points three times. Still, his good results did not prevent Surtees from further monetary troubles. In 1978, the team added a second car for pay-driver, Briton Rupert Keegan, but the money problems continued. A lack of decent results caused further problems.

Unable to get sufficient money, the team left F1 after the 1978 season, despite having a car built for 1979. After racing the car in the British Aurora series (formerly F5000) briefly that year, Surtees Racing Organization was closed for good.

Models[link]

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  John Surtees at the wheel of the TS7 at its Brands Hatch debut.

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  The TS9B being demonstrated at the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

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  Brett Lunger entering Hawthorn's Bend at Brands Hatch during the 1976 British Grand Prix in a TS19.

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  Alan Jones' 1976 TS19 being driven in 2007.

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  Vittorio Brambilla renting a ride at the 1978 British Grand Prix in a TS20.

• TS5 1969-1970 F5000/Formula A. Based on abandoned Leda prototype. Runner up in the 1969 Guards F5000 championship. Intended as a customer car, but there were no takers.

• TS7 1970 Formula One. Designed by Surtees, Shahab Ahmed, and Peter Connew. DFV/Hewland "kit car" followed closely on TS5 layout. Surtees won the Oulton Park International Gold Cup non-Championship race in this car.

• TS8 1971-1972 F5000. Runner up in Rothmans Championship in 1971.

• TS9 1971-1972 Formula One. A derivative of the TS7 with a longer wheelbase and wider track. Surtees repeated his Oulton Park win in 1971.

• TS10 1972 Formula 2. Powered by a Cosworth BDA engine Mike Hailwood convincingly won the 1972 European F2 Championship in this car. Two independent teams purchased TS10s but were not contenders in the series.

• TS11 1972-1973 F5000. Based on the TS9 with a Chevy engine. Raced as a single car team and driven by Gijs van Lennep, this car won the 1972 European F5000 Championship. A TS11 chassis with TS8 bodywork was cobbled together to run the 1972 Tasman Cup series after the TS8 intended for the series was wrecked beyond repair. Hailwood finished second in the series in this car.

• TS14 1972-1973 Formula One. This car marked the beginning of the end for Surtees. Firestone was anticipating leaving Formula One and had little interest in working with Surtees to cure the TS14's habit of devouring tires. It was the first car in F1 to fully comply with crumple-zone legislation, incorporating these into its side pods within which the radiators were mounted, laying down the floorplan for the vast majority of subsequent F1 designs. It was a very quick car at its introduction but a series of accidents and lack of development support did not help it reach its potential. John Surtees drove his last F1 race in the TS14 at Monza in 1972.

• TS15 1973 Formula two. With BMW supplying engines exclusively to March Surtees was forced to settled for second place in the F2 Championships. A good car, but no match for the BMW engine. A development of this car, the TS17, was intended to run a Ford Motor Company V8 in F5000, but nothing came of the plan.

• TS16 1974-1975 Formula One. Based on the TS14, but overweight and with less than top notch DFV engines. The team also failed to engage a single major sponsor for 1974 so money was tight to say the least. Only a single car was run and to cap off a truly terrible year driver Helmuth Koinigg was killed during the U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. The car was run again in 1975 and John Watson scored in three non-Championship events, but no championship points were scored.

• TS19 1976-1978 Formula One. A fresh car designed by John Surtees and Ken Sears the TS19 managed to score points for Surtees in 1976 and 1977, and even ran the opening races of the 1978 season.

• TS20 1978 Formula One. A development of the TS19, the TS20 was a clean design that promised well, only to be completely overshadowed by the introduction of ground effects.

Complete Formula One World Championship results[link]

The first table below details the complete World Championship Grand Prix results for the Surtees "works" team. The second table includes results from privately owned Surtees cars in World Championship Grands Prix.

Works team entries[link]

(key) (results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Chassis	Engine(s)	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Points	WCC
1970	McLaren M7C Surtees TS7	Ford V8	F		RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX					3	8th
				John Surtees	Ret	Ret	Ret		6		Ret	9	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	8
				Derek Bell												6
1971	Surtees TS7 Surtees TS9 Surtees TS9A	Ford V8	F		RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA							8	8th
				John Surtees	Ret	11	7	5	8	6	7	Ret	Ret	11	17
				Rolf Stommelen	7	Ret	6	DSQ	11	5	10	7	DNS	Ret
				Brian Redman	7
				Derek Bell						Ret
				Mike Hailwood									4		15
				Sam Posey											Ret
1972	Surtees TS9A Surtees TS9B Surtees TS14	Ford V8	F		ARG	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA						18	5th
				Mike Hailwood		Ret	Ret	Ret	4	6	Ret	Ret	4	2		17
				Tim Schenken	5	Ret	8	Ret	Ret	17	Ret	14	11	Ret	7	Ret
				Andrea de Adamich	Ret	NC	4	7	Ret	14	Ret	13	14	Ret	Ret	Ret
				John Surtees										Ret		DNS
1973	Surtees TS9A Surtees TS9B Surtees TS14A	Ford V8	F		ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	FRA	GBR	NED	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA			7	7th
				Mike Hailwood	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	10	7	9	Ret
				José Carlos Pace	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	8	Ret	10	13	Ret	7	4	3	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Luiz Bueno		12
				Andrea de Adamich			8
				Jochen Mass									Ret		7				Ret
1974	Surtees TS16	Ford V8	F		ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA			3	11th
				José Carlos Pace	Ret	4	11	13	Ret	Ret	Ret
				Jochen Mass	Ret	17	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNS	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	Ret
				José Dolhem									DNQ				DNQ		Ret
				Derek Bell										DNQ	11	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
				Dieter Quester												9
				Jean-Pierre Jabouille												DNQ
				Helmut Koinigg														10	Ret
1975	Surtees TS16	Ford V8	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	USA				0	19th
				John Watson	DSQ	10	Ret	8	Ret	10	16	Ret	13	11		10
				Dave Morgan										18
1976	Surtees TS19	Ford V8	G		BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	USA	JPN		7	10th
				Alan Jones			NC	9	5	Ret	13	Ret	5	10	Ret	8	12	16	8	4
				Brett Lunger		11	DNQ	DNQ	Ret		15	16	Ret	Ret	10		14	15	11
				Conny Andersson												Ret
				Noritake Takahara																9
1977	Surtees TS19	Ford V8	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	MON	BEL	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN	JPN	6	11th
				Vittorio Brambilla	7	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	8	4	Ret	13	8	5	15	12	Ret	19	6	8
				Hans Binder	Ret	Ret	11	11	9	Ret									11	Ret	Ret
				Larry Perkins							12	DNQ	DNQ
				Patrick Tambay									DNQ
				Vern Schuppan										12	7	16	DNQ
				Lamberto Leoni														DNQ
1978	Surtees TS19 Surtees TS20	Ford V8	G		ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	MON	BEL	ESP	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN		1	13th
				Vittorio Brambilla	18	DNQ	12	Ret	DNQ	13	7	Ret	17	9	Ret	6	DSQ	Ret
				Rupert Keegan	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNS	Ret	DNQ	11	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNS
				Gimax														DNQ
				René Arnoux															9	Ret
				Beppe Gabbiani															DNQ	DNQ

Results of other Surtees cars[link]

(key

Year	Entrant/s	Chassis/	Engine	Tyres	Driver/s	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
1971						RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA
	Stichting Autoraces Nederland	TS7	Ford Cosworth DFV	F	Gijs van Lennep				8
1972						ARG	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA
	Champcar Inc.	TS9B	Ford Cosworth DFV	G	Sam Posey												12
	Team Gunston	TS9	Ford Cosworth DFV	G	John Love		16
1974						ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA
	AAW Racing	TS16	Ford Cosworth DFV	F	Leo Kinnunen					DNQ		Ret		DNQ	DNQ		DNQ	DNQ
1976						BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	USA	JPN
	Team Norev Racing	TS19	Ford Cosworth DFV	G	Henri Pescarolo						DNQ		Ret	Ret	DNQ	9	11	17	19	NC
	Shell Sport/Whiting	TS19	Ford Cosworth DFV	G	Divina Galica									DNQ
1977						ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	MON	BEL	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN	JPN
	Melchester Racing	TS19	Ford Cosworth DFV	G	Tony Trimmer										DNPQ

See also[link]

Formula One portal

Compare Brabham Racing Organisation, Fittipaldi Automotive and Stewart Grand Prix, three other Formula One teams established by Champion Drivers.

References[link]

• Hodges, David. A-Z of Formula Racing Cars 1945-1990, MBI Publishing Company, 1990. ISBN 1-901432-17-3

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

• Surtees Racing Organization in The Formula 1 Database
• Barry Boors Racing Images
• Master of Endurance, The downfall of Fearless John's marque, by Mattijs Diepraam
• Constructors: Surtees Racing Organization

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Henry Surtees
Surtees pushing his Formula Renault car out of Parc Ferme at Oulton Park in 2008
Nationality	British
Born	(1991-02-18)18 February 1991 Lingfield, Surrey, England
Died	19 July 2009(2009-07-19) (aged 18) Whitechapel, London, England
FIA Formula Two Championship
Years active	2009
Teams	MotorSport Vision
Car no.	7
Starts	8
Wins	0
Poles	1
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	14th in 2009
Previous series
2008 2008 2007-08 2007-08 2007 2007 2006	British F3 Formula Renault WEC Formula Renault UK FRUK Winter Series Formula BMW ADAC Formula BMW UK Ginetta GT Juniors

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

Career[link]

Formula BMW UK[link]

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), 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[link]

Surtees racing at Snetterton 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.^[1] 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[link]

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.^[2]

Formula Two[link]

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.^[3] 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[link]

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Henry Surtees at Brands Hatch 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.^[4][5] The mass of the wheel assembly hitting his head was 29 kilograms (64 lb).^[6] 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. He was pronounced dead later that day.^[7] His death was attributed to severe head injuries, inflicted by colliding with the wheel rather than the following crash with the barriers.^[8] Surtees' funeral took place on 30 July at Worth Abbey, near Turners Hill, West Sussex.^[9]

In June 2010, a group of Surtees' school friends swam the English Channel in stints to raise money for charity in his memory. Dominic Robinson, Rory Pickard, Sasha Richards, Nicholas Elvidge, Nicholas Gandy and Benjamin Clyde-Smith raised over £12,000 and completed the swim in 13 hours and 13 minutes, the second completed swim of 2010 and the first relay.^[10]

Racing record[link]

Career summary[link]

† As Surtees was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

* Surtees died during round eight of the sixteen round series

Complete Formula Two results[link]

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

Henry Surtees Award[link]

In 2010, the Henry Surtees Award was launched, to be awarded annually for the most outstanding performance by a rising motor racer. Its first winner was Formula Renault UK champion Tom Blomqvist.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Henry Surtees

• Henry Surtees' profile on Driver Database

John Surtees John Surtees sitting in his Ferrari signing autographs at Brands Hatch in 1964 Nationality British Born 11 February 1934 Motorcycle racing career statistics Grand Prix motorcycle racing Active years 1952 - 1960 First race 1952 500cc Ulster Grand Prix Last race 1960 500cc Nations Grand Prix First win 1955 250cc Ulster Grand Prix Last win 1960 500cc Nations Grand Prix Team(s) Norton, MV Agusta Championships 350cc - 1958, 1959, 1960 500cc- 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960 Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 49 38 45 N/A 34 350 Formula One World Championship career Active years 1960 - 1972 Teams Lotus, Cooper, Lola, Ferrari, Honda, BRM, McLaren, Surtees Races 113 (111 starts) Championships 1 (1964) Wins 6 Podiums 24 Career points 180 Pole positions 8 Fastest laps 11 First race 1960 Monaco Grand Prix First win 1963 German Grand Prix Last win 1967 Italian Grand Prix Last race 1972 Italian Grand Prix 24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 1963 – 1965, 1967 Teams Scuderia Ferrari Lola Cars/Team Surtees Best finish 3rd (1964) Class wins 0

John Surtees, OBE (born 11 February 1934, Tatsfield, Surrey) is a British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver from England. He was 500cc motorcycle World Champion in 1956 and 1958–60, Formula One World Champion in 1964, and remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. He is also the ambassador of the Racing Steps Foundation.

Motorcycle racing career[link]

Surtees is the son of a south London motorcycle dealer.^[1] He had his first professional outing in the sidecar of his father's Vincent, which they won. 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][2] He made his first headlines 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.

In 1956 Surtees won the 500cc world championship.^[3] In this he 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.^[4] 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][3][5]

When Gilera and Moto Guzzi pulled out of 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.^[3][6]

John Surtees at the 1965 1000 km Nürburgring.

John Surtees (left) and Mauro Forghieri in 1965

Racing car career[link]

In 1960, at the age of 26, Surtees switched from motorcycles to cars full time, making his Formula 1 debut racing for Lotus in the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo. He made an immediate impact with a second place finish in only his second Formula One race, at the 1960 British Grand Prix, and a pole position at his third race, the 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix.^[2] 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.^[2][7]

On September 25, 1965, Surtees had a life-threatening accident at the Mosport Circuit (Ontario, Canada) whilst practicing a Lola T70 sports racing car.^[2] A front upright casting had broken. Surtees made a full recovery and competed with a T70 in the inaugural Can Am series in 1966, winning three races of six to become champion 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).

The 1966 season saw the introduction of new, larger 3-litre engines to Formula One. 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. 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.

Due to perennial strikes in Italy, Ferrari could only afford to enter two cars (Ferrari P3s) for the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans instead of its usual entry of three prototypes (a third P3 was entered by the N.A.R.T. and driven by Pedro Rodríguez and Richie Ginther). Under Le Mans rules in 1966 each car was only allowed two drivers per car. Surtees was omitted from the line-up and the two team Ferraris were to be driven by Mike Parkes-Lodovico Scarfiotti and Jean Guichet-Lorenzo Bandini. When questioned as to why, as the Ferrari team leader, he would not be allowed to compete, Ferrari team manager Eugenio Dragoni told Surtees that he did not feel that he was fully fit to drive in a 24 endurance race due to the injuires he has sustained late 1965. This excuse was deeply upsetting to Surtees, and he immediately quit the team. This decision, cost both Ferrari and Surtees, the Formula 1 Championship in 1966. Ferrari finished second to Brabham-Repco in the manufacturers' championship and Surtees finished second to Jack Brabham in the drivers' championship.^{[2][8][citation needed]} Surtees finished the season driving for the Cooper-Maserati team, winning the last race of the season and finishing second in the drivers' championship, 14 points behind Brabham.