33-475: T81 may refer to: T.81 (ITU-T recommendation) , a JPEG image standard Cooper T81 , a racing car Hawker Hunter T.81 , a British-built trainer aircraft T81 Chemical Mortar Motor Carriage , an American chemical weapons delivery system Tatra 81 , a Czechoslovak heavy truck Type 81 assault rifle Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
66-580: A United States Auto Club season-ending road race. This event pitted the best American drivers of the day – normally those who had cut their teeth as professional drivers on oval dirt tracks – against veteran Formula One Grand Prix drivers, including Jim Clark and Dan Gurney . In 1970 , Surtees formed his own race team, the Surtees Racing Organisation , and spent nine seasons competing in Formula 5000 , Formula 2 and Formula 1 as
99-764: A grasstrack competition. In 1950, at the age of 16, he went to work for the Vincent factory as an apprentice. He first gained prominence in 1951 when he gave Norton star Geoff Duke a strong challenge in an ACU race at the Thruxton Circuit . In 1955 , Norton race chief Joe Craig gave Surtees his first factory-sponsored ride aboard the Nortons. He finished the year by beating reigning world champion Duke at Silverstone and then at Brands Hatch . However, with Norton in financial trouble and uncertain about their racing plans, Surtees accepted an offer to race for
132-651: A World Championship Grand Prix. In all the T81 (and T81B) was entered a total of 85 times in its 21 race lifespan, achieving 2 wins, 1 pole position, 6 podiums, and 23 points finishes, earning 74 points in total. John Surtees John Norman Surtees CBE (11 February 1934 – 10 March 2017) was a British racing driver and motorcycle road racer , who competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1952 to 1960 and in Formula One from 1960 to 1972 . Surtees
165-538: A broken universal joint, while Ligier qualified fifth and finished sixth and last. The World Championship debut was at the 1966 Monaco Grand Prix . Jochen Rindt and Richie Ginther were the works drivers, qualifying in seventh and ninth position respectively. Both retired with mechanical problems. Guy Ligier and Jo Bonnier were also present and finished the race but were unclassified. With up to three works entries, and three privateer cars, there were suggestions that Cooper were overstretching themselves and that as
198-624: A charitable organization to assist victims of accidental brain injuries and to promote safety in driving and motorsport. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1992 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel . In 1996, Surtees was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame . The FIM honoured him as a Grand Prix "Legend" in 2003. Already a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), he
231-625: A close second behind Jack Brabham 's 3-litre Brabham BT19 . A few weeks later, Surtees led the Monaco Grand Prix, pulling away from Jackie Stewart 's 2-litre BRM on the straights, before the engine failed. A fortnight later Surtees survived the first lap rainstorm which eliminated half the field and won the Belgian Grand Prix . Due to perennial strikes in Italy, Ferrari could afford to enter only two cars (Ferrari P3s) for
264-744: A constructor. He retired from competitive driving in 1972 , the same year the team had their greatest success when Mike Hailwood won the European Formula 2 Championship. The team was finally disbanded at the end of 1978 . For a while in the 1970s Surtees ran a motorcycle shop in West Wickham, Kent, and a Honda car dealership in Edenbridge, Kent. He continued his involvement in motorcycling, participating in classic events with bikes from his stable of vintage racing machines. He also remained involved in single-seater racing cars and held
297-730: A promising third place in the first race in South Africa , the Honda RA273 hit a series of mechanical problems. The car was replaced by the Honda RA300 for the Italian Grand Prix , where Surtees slipstreamed Jack Brabham to take Honda's second F1 victory by 0.2 seconds. Surtees finished fourth in the 1967 Drivers' Championship. The same year, Surtees drove in the Rex Mays 300 at Riverside , near Los Angeles, in
330-683: A racing driver, but was killed at Brands Hatch in the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship . Surtees died of respiratory failure on 10 March 2017 at St George's Hospital in London, at the age of 83. He was buried, next to his son Henry, at St Peter and St Paul's Church in Lingfield, Surrey . A tribute to Surtees was held at the Goodwood Members Meeting on 19 March 2017. ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) † The 500 cc race
363-537: A result the preparation of the cars was suffering. However John Surtees , who had replaced Ginther after walking out on Ferrari , took the car's first win in the final race of the 1966 season in Mexico, and in turn Surtees's replacement, Pedro Rodríguez , won the very next race, the 1967 season opener in South Africa. The T81B variant was first raced by Rindt at the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix. Cooper finished third in
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#1732793277064396-589: A spectator. Either way, the decision and subsequent lack of support from Enzo Ferrari himself were deeply upsetting to Surtees and he immediately quit the team. This decision likely cost both Ferrari and Surtees the Formula 1 Championship in 1966. Ferrari finished second to Brabham-Repco in the Constructors' Championship and Surtees finished second to Jack Brabham in the Drivers' Championship. Surtees finished
429-615: Is a Formula One car produced by the Cooper Car Company for the 1966 Formula One season . It represented something of a comeback for Cooper's fortunes, winning two races and enabling Cooper to finish third in the Constructors' Championship in 1966 and 1967. The T81 was designed ahead of the 1966 World Championship season to operate within the new 3 litre engine regulations that came into effect that year. It would be powered by Maserati 's Tipo 9 2.5-litre V12 engines which had been bored out to 3 litres. These were supplied by
462-494: The 1960 BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone for Team Lotus . He made an immediate impact with a second-place finish in only his second Formula One World Championship race, at the 1960 British Grand Prix , and a pole position at his third, the 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix . After spending the 1961 season with the Yeoman Credit Racing Team driving a Cooper T53 "Lowline" managed by Reg Parnell and
495-800: The 1962 season with the Bowmaker Racing Team, still managed by Reg Parnell but now in the V8 Lola Mk4, he moved to Scuderia Ferrari in 1963 and won the World Championship for the Italian team in 1964 . On 25 September 1965, Surtees had a life-threatening accident at the Mosport Park Circuit (Ontario, Canada) while practising in a Lola T70 sports racing car. A front upright casting had broken. A.J. Baime in his book Go Like Hell says Surtees came out of
528-487: The 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans instead of its usual entry of three prototypes. Uncertainty and confusion surrounds subsequent events and their consequences, and a number of different explanations have been offered in the decades since. The narrative explained by Ferrari at the time states that under Le Mans rules in 1966 each car was allowed only two drivers. Surtees was omitted from the driver line-up with one works Ferrari to be driven by Mike Parkes and Ludovico Scarfiotti, and
561-535: The Lotus 25 four years earlier. The T81 made its race debut in the 1966 Syracuse Grand Prix . Strenuous efforts were made to save weight for the 1967 season; this lighter car was dubbed the T81B . The T81 debuted at the non-championship 1966 Syracuse Grand Prix . The works team was not present but Rob Walker entered a car for Jo Siffert and Guy Ligier entered his own car. Siffert qualified third but retired with
594-519: The MV Agusta factory racing team, where he soon earned the nickname figlio del vento (son of the wind). In 1956 Surtees won the 500 cc world championship , MV Agusta's first in the senior class. In this Surtees was assisted by the FIM's decision to ban the defending champion, Geoff Duke, for six months because of his support for a riders' strike for more starting money. In the 1957 season,
627-595: The Senior TT at the Isle of Man TT three years in succession. While still racing motorcycles full-time, Surtees performed a test drive in Aston Martin's DBR1 sports car in front of team manager Reg Parnell. He however continued on two wheels and did not enter car racing until the following year. In 1960 , at the age of 26, Surtees switched from motorcycles to cars full-time, making his Formula 1 debut racing in
660-733: The 500 and 350cc classes. Surtees then made the move to the pinnacle of four-wheeled motorsport, the Formula One World Championship, and in 1964 made motor racing history by becoming the Formula One World Champion. He founded the Surtees Racing Organisation team that competed as a constructor in Formula One, Formula 2 and Formula 5000 from 1970 to 1978. He was also the ambassador of the Racing Steps Foundation . Surtees
693-579: The Chipstead Group, Maserati's UK distributors, who had taken control of Cooper in April 1965. Cooper had tested the engine in the interim T80 model. In many ways the T81 was a typical example of its time, with a rear engine, front radiator, inboard front suspension and a monocoque chassis. In fact the car was Cooper's first monocoque chassis, although by this time such an arrangement had already become standard in Formula 1, having been pioneered by
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#1732793277064726-465: The Constructors' Championship in 1966 and 1967, their highest placing since 1962, but it would be their last flourish. The T81's last race came at the start of the 1968 season in South Africa in the hands of privateers Jo Siffert and Jo Bonnier , as by this time the works team had moved on to the T86 chassis. As it happened, Cooper folded at the end of the 1968 season, making the T81 the last Cooper to win
759-517: The MV Agustas were no match for the Gileras and Surtees battled to a third-place finish aboard a 1957 MV Agusta 500 Quattro. When Gilera and Moto Guzzi withdrew from Grand Prix racing at the end of 1957 , Surtees and MV Agusta went on to dominate the competition in the two larger displacement classes. In 1958 , 1959 and 1960 , he won 32 out of 39 races and became the first man to win
792-467: The crash with one side of his body four inches shorter than the other. Doctors set most of the breaks nonsurgically, in part by physically stretching his shattered body until the right-left discrepancy was under an inch – and there it stayed. The 1966 season saw the introduction of new, larger 3-litre engines to Formula One. Surtees's debut with Ferrari's new F1 car was at the 1966 BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, where he qualified and finished
825-486: The other by Jean Guichet and Lorenzo Bandini. When Surtees questioned Ferrari team manager Eugenio Dragoni as to why, as the Ferrari team leader, he would not be allowed to compete, Dragoni told Surtees that he did not feel that he was fully fit to drive in a 24-hour endurance race because of the injuries he had sustained in late 1965. However, Surtees himself described things somewhat differently. In his recollection, when
858-456: The pairings were announced he was to drive alongside Scarfiotti. As the faster driver of the two, Surtees argued that he should take the first stint and "try to break" the Ford opposition by driving "flat out from the start". Dragoni denied Surtees's request and insisted that Scarfiotti take the start, supposedly to please Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli , Scarfiotti's uncle, who was in attendance as
891-767: The position of chairman of A1 Team Great Britain , in the A1 Grand Prix racing series from 2005 to 2007. His son, Henry Surtees , competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, Formula Renault UK Championship and the Formula BMW UK championship for Carlin Motorsport , before he died while racing in the Formula 2 championship at Brands Hatch on 19 July 2009. In 2010, Surtees founded the Henry Surtees Foundation in his son's memory, as
924-529: The season driving for the Cooper - Maserati team, winning the last race of the season. Surtees competed with a T70 in the inaugural 1966 Can-Am season , winning three races of six to become champion over other winners Dan Gurney (Lola), Mark Donohue (Lola) and Phil Hill (Chaparral) as well as the likes of Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon (both in McLarens). In December 1966, Surtees signed for Honda . After
957-451: The title T81 . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=T81&oldid=1157772543 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cooper T81 The Cooper T81
990-725: Was a seven-time Grand Prix motorcycle World Champion , with four titles in the premier 500cc class with MV Agusta . Surtees won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1964 with Ferrari , and remains the only driver to win World Championships on both two- and four-wheels ; he won 38 motorcycle Grands Prix and six Formula One Grands Prix . On his way to become a seven-time Grand Prix motorcycle World Champion, he won his first title in 1956, and followed with three consecutive doubles between 1958 and 1960, winning six World Championships in both
1023-399: Was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to motorsport. In 2013 he was awarded the 2012 Segrave Trophy in recognition of multiple world championships, and being the only person to win world titles on 2 and 4 wheels. In 2015, he
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1056-411: Was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering by Oxford Brookes University . Surtees married three times, first to Patricia Burke in 1962; the couple divorced in 1979. His second wife was Janis Sheara, whom he married in 1979 and they divorced in 1982. Jane Sparrow was his third wife, whom he married in 1987, and with whom he had three children, including Henry . Henry would later become
1089-499: Was the son of a south-London motorcycle dealer. His father Jack Surtees was an accomplished grasstrack competitor and in 1948 was the South Eastern Centre Sidecar Champion. He had his first professional outing, which they won, in the sidecar of his father's Vincent at the age of 14. However, when race officials discovered Surtees's age, they were disqualified. He entered his first race at 15 in
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