{"id":497540,"date":"2018-05-01T01:51:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T01:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=57613"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:09:47","slug":"mike-hailwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mike-hailwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Hailwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RobertNewman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-600223 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RobertNewman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RobertNewman.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RobertNewman-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RobertNewman-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RobertNewman-293x410.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Mike Hailwood had won no fewer than nine World Motorcycle Championships before he ever competed in his first Formula One motor race. Not to mention 14 victories in the heart-in-your-mouth Isle of Man TT. So he quickly earned himself the nickname of \u201cMike the Bike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the truth were told, he was nothing like as successful racing cars as he clearly was on motorcycles, but he did win the 1972 European Formula Two Championship driving a car built by the only man to win world titles on both two and four wheels, his friend John Surtees. 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