Surtees
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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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A multiple world champion on motorbikes as well, Enzo Ferrari recognised his ability, with Surtees winning the Scuderia's fifth F1 drivers' title and as the second Briton to do so after Hawthorn.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025
John Surtees, the only person to have won the world championships on both two and four wheels was next, and then it was on to three-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2020
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
Only two British drivers have won titles for Ferrari, Mike Hawthorne and John Surtees.
From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2019
My Dear Surtees, I enclose herewith copies of two letters which I have received from the office of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William
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