Surtees
Americannoun
noun
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John. born 1934, British racing motorcyclist and motor-racing driver. He was motorcycling world champion (1956, 1958–60) and Formula One world champion (1964), the only man to have been world champion in both sports
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Robert Smith. 1803–64, British journalist and novelist, who satirized the sporting life of the English gentry in such works as Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities (1838)
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There were plenty of British title winners in the sixties in what was a very British sport, but the softly spoken Surtees stood out as an international talent.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
Karen Surtees, 60, from Crawcrook in Gateshead, said a number of people living on her street, including an 84-year-old relative, had not seen any compensation 10 weeks on.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2022
Surtees was the last to do so in 1964 and much as the tifosi took Nigel Mansell to their hearts, branding him “Il Leone”, he did not deliver a championship.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2019
In 1964 John Surtees, who had been nicknamed figlio del vento – son of the wind – lived up to it, matching his wins on motorcycles at Monza with one on four wheels.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 30, 2018
Surtees bore “Ermine with a quarter of the arms of Balliol.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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