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Full name | Surtees Racing Organisation |
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Base | Edenbridge, Kent, United Kingdom |
Founder(s) | John Surtees |
Noted staff | Len Terry |
Noted drivers | John Surtees Derek Bell Carlos Pace Andrea de Adamich Mike Hailwood Jochen Mass |
Formula One World Championship career | |
First entry | As a team 1970 South African Grand Prix As a constructor 1970 British Grand Prix |
Races entered | As a team: 123 entries (122 starts) As a constructor: 119 entries (118 starts) |
Engines | Cosworth DFV |
Constructors' Championships | 0 |
Drivers' Championships | 0 |
Race victories | 0 |
Podiums | 2 |
Points | As a team: 54 [lower-alpha 1] As a constructor: 53 |
Pole positions | 0 |
Fastest laps | 3 |
Final entry | 1978 Canadian Grand Prix |
The Surtees Racing Organisation was a race team that spent nine seasons (1970 to 1978) as a constructor in Formula One, Formula 2, and Formula 5000.
The team was formed by John Surtees, a four-time 500cc motorcycle champion and the 1964 Formula One champion in 1966 to compete in the newly formed Canadian-American Challenge Cup (CanAm) "unlimited" sports car racing series. Entering as an owner/driver, Surtees won the championship in its first year, driving a Lola T70.
Surtees also fielded an entry in another newly formed series in 1969, becoming part of Formula 5000 after taking over a project started by Len Terry and Roger Nathan, [1] and his team constructed its own cars for the first time. His team was successful, winning five races, consecutively at Mondello Park, [2] Koksijde, [3] Zandvoort, [4] Snetterton [5] and Hockenheim, [6] during a twelve race season. [7]
This inspired Surtees to expand to Formula One, and after having had a difficult season with BRM in 1969, he decided to become an owner/driver again. The team ran the full 1970 season, but Surtees was forced to run the first four races in an old McLaren due to a delay in the construction of his in-house F1 car. The new BP-sponsored car earned its first (and only) points that year in the Canadian Grand Prix.
Surtees added a second full-time car in 1971 for German driver Rolf Stommelen, and ran a third car for various drivers in a number of races. Three drivers, Surtees, Stommelen, and motorcycling champion Mike Hailwood earned three points each for the marque that year.
After the 1971 season, Surtees retired from full-time competition, and the team ended up with three new full-time drivers in 1972. Hailwood returned to Surtees for a full year; joining him were Australian Tim Schenken and Italian Andrea de Adamich, the latter of whom brought sponsorship money to the team. Hailwood produced Surtees' first podium finish that year in the Italian Grand Prix, finishing second to Emerson Fittipaldi. All three drivers scored points for the team, and Surtees finished fifth in the Constructors' Championship.
Schenken was replaced in 1973 by Brazilian Carlos Pace, and the team only ran two full-time cars after de Adamich left following the season opener. Pace finished third in Austria and fourth in Germany, but it was the only points finishes the team had all season, as Hailwood was left scoreless. Hailwood departed for McLaren after the year, being replaced by Jochen Mass in 1974. It was a difficult year for Surtees, as Pace left the team in mid-season, and replacement Derek Bell struggled to qualify for races, capped by Austrian driver Helmut Koinigg's fatal crash at the 1974 United States Grand Prix. A fourth place by Pace at his home track were the only points Surtees managed to get, and they failed to finish in the top ten in the Constructors' Championship.
Low on money for 1975, the team pared back to a single car for John Watson (although a second car was entered for Dave Morgan at Silverstone). The season was a tremendous struggle for Surtees, with no points scored, and the team missed three of the final four races. 1976 was much better, however, as Surtees landed a well-known, but otherwise controversial sponsorship deal with Durex condoms, and Australian Alan Jones joined the team. Jones finished fifth in Belgium and at Brands Hatch, and fourth in Japan. A second car, with Chesterfield sponsorship, was entered for American Brett Lunger, while a customer car was raced by Frenchman Henri Pescarolo during the second half of the season. With seven points, Surtees placed tenth in the Constructors' Championship.
Jones's success resulted in him leaving the team for the emerging Shadow team, and money problems forced Surtees to run one car regularly again in 1977, this time for Vittorio Brambilla. Brambilla's season was effective, also finishing in the points three times. Still, his good results did not prevent Surtees from further monetary troubles. In 1978, the team added a second car for pay driver, Briton Rupert Keegan, but the money problems continued. A lack of decent results caused further problems.
Unable to get sufficient money, the team left F1 after the 1978 season, despite having a car built for 1979. After racing the car in the British Aurora championship (formerly F5000) briefly that year, Surtees Racing Organization was closed for good.
The first table below details the complete World Championship Grand Prix results for the Surtees "works" team. The second table includes results from privately owned Surtees cars in World Championship Grands Prix.
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Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engines | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
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1971 | Stichting Autoraces Nederland | TS7 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | F | RSA | ESP | MON | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA | CAN | USA | |||||||
Gijs van Lennep | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||
1972 | Team Gunston | TS9 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | RSA | ESP | MON | BEL | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA | CAN | USA | ||||||
John Love | 16 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Champcar Inc. | TS9B | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | Sam Posey | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
1974 | AAW Racing | TS16 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | F | ARG | BRA | RSA | ESP | BEL | MON | SWE | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA | CAN | USA | |||
Leo Kinnunen | DNQ | Ret | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | ||||||||||||||||
1976 | Team Norev Racing with BS Fabrications | TS19 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | BRA | RSA | USW | ESP | BEL | MON | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | CAN | USA | JPN | ||
Henri Pescarolo | DNQ | Ret | Ret | DNQ | 9 | 11 | 17 | 19 | NC | |||||||||||||
ShellSport Whiting | TS16 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | Divina Galica | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||
1977 | Melchester Racing | TS19 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | BRA | RSA | USW | ESP | MON | BEL | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | USA | CAN | JPN | |
Tony Trimmer | DNPQ |
Year | Chassis | Engine(s) | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pos | Pts |
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1966 | Lola T70 Mk.2 | Chevrolet | MNT | BRD | CAN | LGS | RIV | STA | |||
John Surtees | 1 | Ret | Ret | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1st | 27 | |||
Graham Hill | 3 | 9th | 4 | ||||||||
1967 | Lola T70 Mk.2/3B | Chevrolet | ROA | BRD | MNT | LGS | RIV | STA | |||
John Surtees | 3 | 4 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 1 | 3rd | 16 | |||
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