{"id":493648,"date":"2014-02-01T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=13194"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:26:38","slug":"john-surtees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/john-surtees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"John Surtees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<figure id=\"attachment_523491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-523491\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/HE201402-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-523491 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/HE201402-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/HE201402-p1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/HE201402-p1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/HE201402-p1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/HE201402-p1-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/HE201402-p1-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/HE201402-p1-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/HE201402-p1-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/HE201402-p1-293x195.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-523491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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\u2019s best.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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