In the Honda RA 301, at Monaco 1968, Surtees qualified 4th but the gearbox broke after only 16 laps.
Photo: Ed McDonough
Surtees qualified his Ferrari 158 5th for the 1964 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch and drove up to finish 3rd behind Jim Clark and Graham Hill.
How do you get to be the only man to have won both the motorcycle and Formula One World Championships in a single lifetime? Perhaps Mauro Forghieri, the man whose Ferraris won 11 world titles, got it right when he said John Surtees was a classy driver, a complete tester and a good technician.
Surtees was certainly blindingly fast which, added to his engineering and design prowess, meant he understood why and how things worked: a marvellous stock in trade with which to cross swords with the world’s best.
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