Jim Clark duelled for the lead through the first two-thirds of the race with Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart and John Surtees ( who dropped out with clutch problems ), until lap 64 when his fuel pump failed.

Stewart took the lead off the grid, ahead of Rodríguez, as Fittipaldi erred on the side of caution and dropped to eighth behind Ickx, Regazzoni, Chris Amon, John Surtees and Jackie Oliver.

Lunger's Surtees dropped a clutch in practice and was never correctly fixed.

He dropped a further place on the first lap, to Rolf Stommelen's Surtees.

Surtees won the 1963 German Grand Prix, at which Mairesse crashed heavily, rendering him unable to drive again.

In 1964 Clark came within just a few laps of retaining his World Championship crown, but just as in 1962, an oil leak from the engine robbed him of the title, this time conceding to John Surtees.

The chief authority for the bishop's life is William de Chambre, printed in Wharton's Anglia Sacra, 1691, and in Historiae conelmensis scriptores tres, Surtees Soc., 1839, who describes him as an amiable and excellent man, charitable in his diocese, and the liberal patron of many learned men, among these being Thomas Bradwardine, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Fitzralph, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, the enemy of the mendicant orders, Walter Burley, who translated Aristotle, John Mauduit the astronomer, Robert Holkot and Richard de Kilvington.

That year the Stichting Autoraces Nederland ( Foundation for Car races in the Netherlands ), hired a Surtees TS7 for him to make his F1 debut in his home GP where he finished a creditable eighth in a very wet GP.

Hailwood returned to Surtees for a full year, joining him were Australian Tim Schenken and Andrea De Adamich, the latter of whom brought sponsorship money to the team.

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.

However for the very reasons that the Victorians deprecated him, Surtees ' work has continued to be read long after some of his more popular contemporaries have been forgotten.

Count Agusta's competitive nature usually saw him hire some of the best riders of the time, namely Carlo Ubbiali, John Surtees, Mike Hailwood, Giacomo Agostini, Phil Read, among others, and having the best engineers, most notably Arturo Magni.

When Clark's engine went down to just 7 cylinders, Surtees was able to pass him easily to lead him home.

Chapman called teammate Spence in from fourth place and replaced him with Clark, in the hopes that Clark could get ahead of Hill and Surtees and reduce the number of points they could earn.

Whilst Brabham maintained his lead, Rindt who had changed to rain tyres was catching him rapidly, whilst John Surtees in the Cooper was in third, well clear of the rest of the field.

Jack Brabham was odds-on favourite for the Championship – only John Surtees could stop him and only then by winning all three remaining races.

Surtees victory promoted him to second place in the championship, vaulting past Austrian driver Jochen Rindt of the Cooper team.

Hill, however, saw John Surtees, who had retired on the seventh lap, sitting on the wall, and promptly stripped him of his overalls and undergarments.

Clark was forced to stop with an oil leak on the last lap, and Ferrari signalled Bandini to let Surtees through into the second place which gave him the championship by one point from Hill.

BRM only offered him a drive in 1970 after John Surtees decided to leave BRM and set up his own team at the last minute.

In 1974, Kinnunen was looking for a job and John Surtees offered him one of his new Formula One cars, Surtees TS16, on lease.

Surtees severed relations with the Ferrari racing team following their decision to replace him with Scarfiotti at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Like John Surtees and Mike Hailwood before him, Agostini raced in Formula One cars.

He then came back from eighth place to second at the Portuguese Grand Prix after sliding off on tramlines and won after race leader John Surtees crashed.

Surtees won one race, the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix, but departed after a row with manager Eugenio Dragoni ; he was replaced by Mike Parkes.

This inspired Surtees to expand to Formula One, and after having had a difficult season with BRM in ' 69, John decided to become an owner / driver again.

In 1835, Surtees abandoned his legal practice and after inheriting Hamsterley Hall in 1838, devoted himself to hunting and shooting, meanwhile writing anonymously for his own pleasure.

Surtees left after a single unhappy season ( 1969 ), along with Tony Rudd who went to Lotus ( initially on the road-car side ), and Geoff Johnson who departed for Austin Morris.

The Scot surged past the BRM of Hill and set off after Surtees, taking the lead from the Ferrari on lap 14 as they exited the right-hander before the pits.

Surtees and Gurney got by Ginther after another lap, but by then, Hill was fifty yards ahead and pulling away.

Jim Clark celebrated Hogmanay by dominating the race, leading from pole and breaking the 100 mph barrier, winning by half a minute from Graham Hill and John Surtees and even had time to complete an extra lap after the chequered flag was waved a lap too early.

John Surtees, now in a Cooper after leaving the Ferrari team in mid-season, and Graham Hill were the only other drivers under 1: 09 on Friday.

On lap 61, Surtees developed a misfire, and Amon shot by to take off after the leaders again.

A lap behind, future world champion Alan Jones took his second points finish in his Surtees TS19 with Jochen Mass collecting the final point in the second McLaren after Chris Amon's Ensign N176 shed a wheel and rolled.

The field was almost unchanged from the previous race, but Noritake Takahara rented the second Surtees replacing Brett Lunger and Hans Binder was back in the second Wolf Williams after Masami Kuwashima's money failed to materialize.

Senna become only the second champion after John Surtees to win the Championship without having scored the largest number of points.

Ferrari appeared to be as well prepared as in 1961, but John Surtees left the team after a dispute at Le Mans, joining Cooper.

The World Championship of Drivers, fiercely contested by Jim Clark, John Surtees and Graham Hill, was decided at the Mexican Grand Prix when Hill was delayed after a collision with Lorenzo Bandini's Ferrari.

For, Pace moved to the Surtees team and improved to eleventh place in the championship after scoring a fourth place in Germany and his first championship podium finish with third in Austria.

He remained with Surtees for and scored a fourth-place finish in Brazil, but parted company with the outfit mid-season after falling out with the founder, John Surtees.

His # 19 Beta Surtees TS 19 finished 14th after

As a result, Honda withdrew from Formula One at the end of the 1968 season after Surtees again refused to drive the car at the Italian race of same year.

Parkes and Guichet led from led most of the in their Ferrari prototype after taking the lead from John Surtees and Ludovico Scarfiotti.