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THE PAST: SURTEES TS19
John Surtees is perhaps best remembered as the only man to win world titles on two and four wheels.
He became a driver-constructor in 1970 and managed to run as high as seventh in his first outing. Surtees formed the team in 1966 for the newly-formed CanAm series (an unlimited sports car series), winning the championship as an owner/driver in its first year.
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This inspired Surtees to expand to Formula One, and after having had a difficult season with BRM in ‘69, decided to become an owner/driver again. Surtees ran the full 1970 season, but was forced to run the first four races in an old McLaren because of a delay in the construction of his in-house F1 car.
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 Andrea De Adamich, the latter of whom brought sponsorship money to the team. “Mike the Bike” 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 would finish fifth in the constructors’ championship.
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Surtees landed a controversial sponsorship deal from Durex condoms in 1976 and earned the team a permanent place in Grand Prix history.
The TS19 was the first car to wear the Durex livery and was the reason that the BBC withdrew their cameras from pre-season British races during 1976. |
Australian Alan Jones drove the Durex car that year, a second car also ran for American Brett Lunger.
With the spiraling costs of F1 the Surtees Racing Organisation closed in 1979.
Other notable drivers for Surtees were, Derek Bell, Andrea de Adamich, Mike Hailwood, James Hunt and Jochen Mass. |
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THE PRESENT: SURTEES TS19
The TS19 is now owned and raced by 29 year old Rob Austin who founded Rob Austin Racing in 2005.
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As a driver Rob became the youngest ever winner of a national level motor race and also nabbed the Graham Hill award for most promising up and coming British driver.
In his second season in Formula Renault, Rob was series runner-up to Brazilian Antonio Pizzonia who later went on to drive for Jaguar F1. |
Since setting up the team Rob Austin Racing have now built a fantastic reputation as one of the top teams in British motorsport.
They have made their mark in many areas from Historic restoration to European GT4 champions. They are also Ginetta specialists and have won races for the manufacturer at every level of racing they have entered. |
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WHERE CAN YOU NEXT SEE THE TS19 IN ACTION? |
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SILVERSTONE Grand Prix Masters |
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NOGORO France
ROUND 5 FIA Historic Formula 1 |
The FIA Historic Formula One Championship ™ is at the pinnacle of historic motorsport. Its fans get a taste of classic old school Formula 1 and thrill to the sights and sounds of the cars driven by legends such as Gilles Villeneuve, Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi and Keke Rosberg.
The Championship features the great Grand Prix cars raced between 1966 and 1985 re-creating the spectacle of the legendary 3 litre Formula 1 era on the great Race Circuits of the World. |
The Masters Historic Car Series is for 3 litre F1 Cars built between 1968 and 1978. From the pre-ground effects and pre-turbo era of F1 racing, Grand Prix Masters promises fast racing and close competition. Running in four distinct classes, providing a series of double-header races, emotive grids from the likes of Tyrrell, Lotus, Matra, McLaren, Cooper, Surtees and BRM, compete over two separate races per weekend.
Grand Prix Masters relives a fantastic decade of Grand Prix racing, including the actual cars driven by GP stars such as Hunt, Fittipaldi, Stewart, Amon, Rindt, Hill, Reutemann, Beltoise, Cevert and Peterson. |
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