I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to...
Inclement weather had battered and bruised England during the early summer months, leaving people wondering how Goodwood’s Festival of Speed...
The 75th renewal of Goodwood’s annual Members’ Meeting took place last weekend at the historic Chichester circuit, awarding classic cups and trophies in a dozen classes, the winners of which are listed below. The event also marked the recent passing of the legendary British double World Champion John Surtees with...
The Goodwood Revival 2010 honored John Surtees – the only man ever to be crowned world champion on two and...
The Goodwood Revival 2010 will be held 17-19 September on the celebrated West Sussex motor circuit with three days of...
Honoring a legend Goodwood is proud to announce that the exceptional career of John Surtees – to this day the only person to win World Championships on two and four wheels – will be celebrated at this year’s Goodwood Revival, taking place over the weekend of 6-8 September. 2024 marks...
Goodwood was at its best yet again for the 13th Revival celebration. Four days of superb weather made it one...
Back in 1962 a group of retired Grand Prix drivers led by the great Juan Manuel Fangio and Nino Farina...
Lola Cars, the world’s oldest racing car constructor announced in mid-May that it was entering financial administration due to cash-flow problems caused by ongoing global economic conditions. The move includes both Lola Cars International Limited and Lola Composites Limited, and a prepared statement said it “allows the board to continue...
Peter Bryant, best known in motor racing circles as the creator of the Titanium-chassied Ti22 Can-Am car, died of a...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport,...
With no fewer than 32 world championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports car racers of all time. He was only beaten to the unofficial title of the most successful by his longtime co-driver, Jacky Ickx, who has 37 wins. Born in Munich,...
John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on...
Photo: Pete Austin As a wayward young schoolboy, John Judd found it difficult to find employment in the engineering businesses...
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...
Losing a child is one of the harshest agonies of life, and even people who don’t personally know John and...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
John Surtees Biography The eldest of three children, John was born on February 11, 1934 in Tatsfield, England. His father Jack, who owned a motorcycle shop on Tamworth Road in Croydon, South London was a three-time British motorcycle sidecar champion so it’s not surprising that by the time he was...
John Surtees, the only person to win world championships on both two and four wheels, was awarded a CBE in...
Included on the Queen’s New Year Honors List this time around is the name of John Surtees, who has been...
John Surtees OBE will serve as Guest of Honor at the 2014 Donington Historic Festival, scheduled for 3-5 May at the 12-turn, 2.5-mile Donington Park near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England. The only man ever to have won World Championships on two and four wheels will be at Donington Park...
Sad news emerged early today that motorcycle and Formula One World Champion, John Surtees has passed away at the age...
Former world champion John Surtees today paid tribute to his former teammate Jim Clark, who died 40 years ago today....
I remember talking to John Surtees a couple of years ago, and our conversation revolved around his many successes. With seven motorcycle World Championships, the 1964 F1 World Championship and the inaugural Can-Am Championship in 1966, to name but three, John wasn’t short of silverware. He did, however, cut me...
Forty Years ago this October, John Surtees added the Formula One Drivers Championship to his already impressive list of World...
2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the successful move John Surtees made from motorcycles to cars, and he remains the...
1964 Formula One World Champion John Surtees was honored at a charity dinner held near Northampton, England on June 29. Tributes were paid to Surtees’ unique accomplishment of being the only person ever to win world titles on two and four wheels, as over 400 fans and fellow drivers and...
Our European Editor, Ed McDonough, has had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
How amusing, I often smile, that a breed of racer I associate with conservatism generally speeds around to the left....
In retrospect, the end of the 1973 Can-Am championship was the pinnacle of the series. Porsche’s turbocharged “Panzer” 917/30 had handily claimed the championship, though Don Nichols’ dark and mysterious Shadow cars were finally beginning to live up to the promise they had shown over the preceding three years. No...