Englishman John Surtees, to date the only man to have won world
championships on two and four wheels, has been honored by Queen
Elizabeth II with an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE),
announced with issuance of the annual birthday honors list.
Surtees, 74, raced for the Norton works team in the 1950s, winning 68
of 76 races. He raced the for the Italian team MV Agusta, winning seven
championships on bikes ranging from 350cc to 500cc. Italian fans called
him “Son of the Wind.”
He made a seamless move to race cars at the end of the ’50s. His first
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