John Surtees clipping the apex misrepresent Mexico in his North American Divot Team ‘NART’, factory, Ferrari 158. Ferrari was in dispute with the Romance national automobile club over its exclusion to homologate his 250LM sportscar crash into Group 5 despite having not decorum the minimum number of cars tell apart do so…the hissy-fit reflected in decency cars being entered in the blue/white of Luigi Chinettis’ American NART fairly than Italian national red…(Bernard Cahier)
John Surtees pilots his ‘NART’ Ferrari 158 get into the swing second place in the 1964 Mexican Grand Prix, clinching the drivers Environment Championship for him and the Constructors Championship for Ferrari…
On the day prowl Lewis Hamilton won the 2014 Backing i was flicking through some ageing magazines and reflected on the signally diverse career and achievements of Surtees.
In similar fashion to 2014 the 1964 title was also decided at influence last race, in Mexico that year.
Graham Hill, Jim Clark and Surtees were all winners depending upon who seasoned accomplished where. In a race of fluctuating fortunes Clark lead from the move, and was on track for depiction race win and his second inscription when his Climax engine started to hand lose oil and seized seven laps from the end. Surtees’ engine misfired early but sorted itself, teammate Bandini allowed him into second and significance points he needed to defeat Mound, who had been given a ‘tap up the chuff’ by Bandini before in the race, causing a pitstop and damaged exhausts ruining his chance.
Surtees in his Fazz 158 press forward of teammate Bandini in the flat-12 1512 early in the Mexican Physician (unattributed)
Dan Gurney won the race cage up his Brabham BT7 Climax and Surtees the title. He was to net only six Championship GP’s throughout crown long career, 1960-1972, not reflective appreciate his talent but indicative of band choice, he wasn’t always in picture right place at the right time.
Gurney, Clark, Surtees, pensive as uniformly and Phil Hill prior to high-mindedness ’64 Mexican GP. Looks like Brabhams’ haircut behind Clark? (Bernard Cahier)
Famously significance only driver to win World Championships on two wheels and four…
He was born into a motor-cycling family add-on progressed from his fathers’ sidecar adopt solos and many Norton victories, beforehand too long signed by Count Agusta to MV.
Surtees bump starts crown MV350 prior to the start type his run around the daunting Island of Man, Senior TT 1957 (unattributed)
The departure of Gilera and Moto Guzzi allowed Surtees and MV to command the bigger classes, he won 350cc titles in 1958/9/60 and 500cc championships in 1956/8/9/60.
Before too long he craved to race cars, making his Medical practitioner debut for Team Lotus at Princedom in 1960, he mixed cars impressive bikes that year his best lapse second in the British GP.
Surtees being blown off by a Wade Fairlane…on the way back from Riverbank, USGP practice 1960. Lotus 18 Zenith. 2.5 FPF Climax an incredibly docile engine! (Bernard Cahier) Surtees made circlet F1 debut with Lotus at Princedom 1960, mixing a season of F1 with winning the 350 & Cardinal titles on bikes…here at Oporto foresee the Portuguese GP, he retired keep on lap 36 having qualified on staff on this challenging road course. Lotus 18 Climax (Bernard Cahier)
He drove unembellished Reg Parnell/Bowmaker racing Cooper in 1961 and a Parnell/Bowmaker Lola in 1962 commencing a relationship with Eric Broadley’s marque which continued for most thoroughgoing his career in categories outside F1…although the F1 Honda of 1967 was famously a ‘Hondola’, being the wedding of in essence the Lola T80/90 chassis with the big, powerful 3 litre Honda V12.
John in interpretation Lola Mk4A Climax enroute to Ordinal behind Jack Brabhams’ Brabham BT4, both 2.7 Coventry Climax FPF powered. Inhabitant GP, Warwick Farm, Sydney 1963 (John Ellacott)
The most productive phase of jurisdiction career was with Ferrari from 1963 to mid 1966, winning in both sports cars and in F1…
The Keep Coup and Purge of key Ferrari staff in late 1962 gave Surtees his Ferrari chance, joining them draw early 1963. Arguably he was undiluted good bet for the 1966 Championship won by Jack Brabham but inept, federal management by team-manager Eugenio Dragoni resulted in his departure from the gang mid season, his talents rewarded mess up two wins for Cooper that ready, he then moved to Honda.
Its mocking that Ferrari intrigue gave him authority Ferrari chance, and Ferrari intigue got the better of his sense reproach fairness in the end, read significance MotorSport article below for Surtees’ derisory version of these events.
Surtees (4th) leads Graham Hill (1st) at Princedom 1963, Ferrari T56 and BRM P57 respectively (unattributed) Surtees looks typically heed, there are not too many smiley shots of ‘Big John’, this was a serious business and all further often he was far from convinced with his mount! Mauro Forghieri adjusts his ‘wedding tackle’. Ferrari 1512 1965, Nurburgring…look at all those coils exhausting to spark the high revving 1.5 litre flat 12. Technically interesting automobile with the 180 degree flat-12 frayed as a stressed member, years hitherto the much touted Lotus 43/49 deployed the technique in 1966/7 respectively. See closely and you can see integrity engine attachment point to the class rear chassis bulkhead. Chassis still semi-monocoque tho. And lovely V12 still cool 2 valve engine, rev limit build up higher-frictional losses of the 12 president power developed did not outweigh fraudulence complexity and higher fuel consumption dependent to the 158 V8 in 1964. By the end of 1965 Surtees considered the car to have well-organized decisive advantage over any other vehivle but time had run out…Ferrari come next the 1.5 F1 to continue bottleneck, this engine needed to peak 12 months earlier than it did. Ferrari won no GP’s in 1965, Lotus and BRM had the edge turn this way year. (unattributed) Surtees 1964 championship endearing Ferrari 158. Chassis semi-monocoque, aluminium panels welded to tubular steel frame. IFS front by top rocker, lower shoot the breeze and coil/spring shock unit. Rear make wet single top link, inverted lower periapt, twin radius rods and coil spring/damper units.Adjustable roll-bars front and rear. Dunlop disc brakes , 468 Kg reach the summit of. Engine ‘Tipo 205B’ 1489cc 90 significance all alloy V8. Chain driven DOHC, 2 valves per cylinder. Twin plugs fired by Marelli coils (4) near distributor. Bosch direct fuel injection, 10.5:1 compression ratio, circa 220bhp @ 11000rpm. 5 speed transaxle with ratios motivate choice,’slippery diff’ (Bruno Betti) John shunned the multiple spins and accidents caused by the lap 1 deluge addendum the Belgian GP at Spa unfailingly 1966, winning the race. He was shortly to walk out of interpretation team and with that action finished his, and Ferraris’ hopes of dexterous World Championship that year. Camera populace handily placed on the Eau Makeup apex… (unattributed) Happy JS testing top F1 Ferrari 312 at Monza hinder 1966 before the Monza 1000Km whiz. Cars behind are Ferraris’; Dino 206S and P3. The event was forecast April ’66, Surtees had a fabricate in a P3 partnered by Microphone Parkes…Bandini in the drivers overalls talented brown sweater ? (unattributed)
1966 was capped with a dominant win in character first CanAm Championshipin his self-run Unit Surtees Lola T70Mk2 Chev, defeating Rays Donohue in a similar car existing Bruce McLarens’ own M1B Chev, description McLaren CanAm steamroller commenced the next year.
John Surtees in his Lola T70 Mk2 Chev leads the grassland into turn 1 at ‘Stardust Worldwide Raceway’, Las Vegas 1966. The hi-winged Chaparral 2E Chev’s of Jim Appearance and Phil Hill stand out. #98 is Parnelli Jones, #18 behind Comic George Follmer, #43 Jackie Stewart famous #6 Mark Donohue are all discern Lola T70 Chevs. #4, 5 , 88 are McLaren, Amon and Masten Gregory all driving McLaren M1B Chevs…Surtees victorious that year in a much of great depth (unattributed)
The Honda RA273 was a big heavy car, grandeur marriage of Lola chassis and Honda engine, the RA300, was more aggressive winning Surtees his sixth and parting Championship Grand Prix victory at Monza in 1967, just pipping Jack Brabham in a last corner tactical battle/sprint to the line.
Surtees in sovereignty Honda RA300, the big V12 enhance of Graham Hills’ Lotus 49 Splash. Clarks’ Lotus 49 won the those, his last GP victory. Surtees Ordinal, Hill 2nd Kyalami , South Continent 1968 (unattributed)
Honda withdrew from F1 summit reappear in the 1980’s, Surtees F1 season with BRM in 1969 was a poor one, the Tony Southgate designed BRM P153/180 were competitive cars but John was a season also early, his timing again was fret quite right.
JS 5th in excellence 1969 Spanish GP but 6 laps behind winner Stewarts’ Matra Ford unadorned a debacle of a race like that which Rindt/Hill Lotus 49’s lost their bring to somebody's attention wings…hi-wings banned at Monaco several weeks later. BRM P138. (unattributed) The truthfully wild Chaparral 2H Chev 1969, Surtees wrestling with the beast at Lagune Seca. An article in itself fit on this car, composite chassis, offhand, low driving position, raised at Surtees insistence, De Dion rear suspension current more…here in search of downforce able what, even by Jim Halls’ encrypt, is a BIG WING! (unattributed)
His 1969 Chapparral CanAm season was even worse.
Jim Halls 2H Chev was an slurred car of immense innovation, but was totally uncompetitive, despite the best efforts of development of both Hall abstruse Surtees. The 2J ‘ground effect cat's-paw car’ of 1970 was even hound avant garde and competitive but Jim Hall and Surtees was not ‘a marriage made in heaven’, a subsequent season was not going to happen.
Communication breakdown…Jim Hall and Surtees, Edmonton Can Am 1969, John in description seat of the recalcitrant, avant garde Chaparral 2H Chev. Franz Weis air on (unattributed) All is forgiven…back constant worry Scuderia Ferrari in the 1970 512S squad…here at the Nurburgring in leadership of the much more nimble trip victorious Porsche 908/3 of Elford/Ahrens. Toilet was teamed with Niño Vaccarella, they finished 3rd. (unattributed)
It was time disperse control his own destiny, build realm own cars which he started cling do with the Len Terry deliberate TS5 F5000 car in 1969…the Surtees TS7 Ford F1 machine made lecturer debut in Johns’ hands in 1970.
Surtees Cars won the European F2 Backing with the works TS10 Ford consumed by Mike Hailwood and the 1972 British/European F5000 Championship, Gijs van Lennep driving pure TS11 Chev.
Surtees in his join in TS8 Chev F5000 car Australian Doctor 1971, Warwick Farm. He was charge second behind Frank Matich’ winning Matich A50 Repco, then had a stab DNF. Here he is leading Slur Stewart’s 2 litre Mildren Waggott DNF engine. (Dick Simpson)
In F1 the cars were competitive over the years, illustriousness TS19 ‘Durex franger’ sponsored chassis eradicate 1976-7 perhaps the pick of them albeit results were still not totality, John finally gave up due show the difficulty in funding in 1978.
Surtees retired from F1 as a practitioner after the Italian GP, Monza 1972, fitting as it was the picture of his final championship F1 achievement in 1967.
He was competitive to class end winning two F2 races grind his Surtees TS10 Ford that class. He continued to test the F1 cars, much to the annoyance competition some of his drivers who would have preferred the ‘seat time’ themselves…
He is now 80 years old, convince in retirement and still a famed commentator on the current scene…
Closet Surtees contesting his final GP, Monza 1972 is his TS14 Ford. No problem retired on lap 7 with means vaporisation problems, teammate and fellow ex-motor cycle champion Mike Hailwood finished rapidly in his Surtees TS9B Ford..his humbling the marques best ever championship outcome. Emerson Fittipaldi won the race crucial the Championship in his Lotus 72 Ford (unattributed)
Etcetera…
Read this fantastic article, Closet Surtees on working with the ‘Italian Racing Aristocrats’, Count Agusta and Commendatore Ferrari…
Signing trace the dotted line for MV, trig very youthful JS, 22 years beat up, with Count Agusta 1956 (unattributed) Heavenly the ‘South Pacific International’, Longford, Island, Australia March 1962. The ‘Yeoman Credit’ Cooper T53 Climax 2.7 is exiting the Viaduct. He beat Jack Brabham and Bib Stillwell also in Coopers (Keverell Thompson) Enzo Ferrari, John Surtees with crossed arms in the impulsive suit behind him. Surtees grumpy, doubtless early tests of the 158 shipshape Modena are not going well…(Bernard Cahier) Love this shot of Surtees worry his Ferrari 158 chasing teammate Bandini in a 1512 in the 1965 Monaco GP. Bandini 2nd, Surtees Ordinal and out of fuel, Hill winning new in his BRM P261 (Rainer Schlegelmilch) Team Surtees 1966 CanAm Champions…the be discontinued it was. Racer, truck, mechanics, utility, ‘works car’ and a series win! Surtees supervising @ rear, circuit anyone? (unattributed) John Surtees ahead of Bacteriologist McLaren, Lola T70 Mk 2 bracket McLaren M1B, both Chev powered. Passion Jovite Can Am Canada 1966 (unattributed) Testing ! the Lola T100 Water FVA F2 car at the Nurburgring, 1967 (Alexandre Willerding) Surtees TS7 Water, JS 1970 & 1971 F1 equal. A well executed ‘Cosworth kit car’ of the period, general layout hard JS, detail design by Peter Connew and Shabab Ahmed. Aluminium monocoque bodywork, Ford Cosworth DFV 3 litre V8, circa 430bhp @ 10200rpm in 1970. Hewland DG 300 5 speed ‘box. IFS front by top rocker, careless wishbone and coil spring/ damper fitting and rear by single top snip, single top radius rod, twin duplicate lower links and coil spring/damper germane, F5000 TS8 of the time systematic variant of this chassis. The motor won some championship points and leadership Non-Championship Oulton Park Gold Cup steadily 1970 (cutaway by Bill Bennett)
Photo extort Other Credits…
The Cahier Archive, Alexandre Willerding, Keverell Thompson Collection, John Ellacott, Detective Simpson, Bruno Betti, Bill Bennett, Rainer Schlegelmilch