Henry Surtees
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Henry Surtees | |
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Surtees pushing his Formula Renault car out of Parc Ferme at Oulton Park in 2008
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Nationality | British |
Born | Lingfield, Surrey, England |
18 February 1991
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Whitechapel, London, England |
FIA Formula Two Championship | |
Years active | 2009 |
Teams | MotorSport Vision |
Car no. | 8 |
Starts | 7 |
Wins | 0 |
Poles | 1 |
Fastest laps | 0 |
Best finish | 14th in 2009 |
Previous series | |
2008 2008 2007-08 2007-08 2007 2007 2006 |
British F3 Formula Renault WEC Formula Renault UK FRUK Winter Series Formula BMW ADAC Formula BMW UK Ginetta GT Juniors |
Henry John Surtees (February 18, 1991 – July 19, 2009) was a British racing driver and the son of John Surtees.
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Career
Formula BMW UK
Henry Surtees finished his debut season in the championship 7th in the overall points standings, and second in the Rookie Cup. During a season in which the second half was dominated by fellow rookie Marcus Ericsson, Surtees claimed one pole position (Thruxton), one race win (Donington Park) and two fastest laps (Rockingham and Snetterton) while driving for the very successful Carlin Motorsport team. The season was marred by penalties and a disqualification at Oulton Park.
Formula Renault
After two races in 2007, Surtees moved up full-time to the Formula Renault UK series in 2008 with Manor Competition. Surtees would go on to finish 12th in the championship, including a third place finish during a wild race at Silverstone's National Circuit.[1] He also competed in the Winter Series again, having finished 13th in 2007. He battled James Calado for the title, with Calado coming out on top.
Formula Three
Surtees competed in one race meeting during the 2008 season, in the final two races at Donington Park for Carlin Motorsport. Surtees revelled with a win and a second in his two races in the National Class.[2]
Formula Two
Surtees signed up to the revived FIA Formula Two Championship ahead of the 2009 season on 2 January 2009. He drove car number seven in the series.[3] He scored a podium in the first of the two races at Brands Hatch, coming third, and achieved a pole position at Brno. Surtees' results placed him fourteenth in the championship, at the end of the season.
Death
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At Brands Hatch on 19 July 2009, during a Formula Two race, Surtees was hit on the head by a wheel from the car of Jack Clarke after Clarke spun into the wall exiting Westfield Bend. The wheel broke its tether and bounced back across the track into the following group of cars and collided with Surtees' helmet.[4][5] The mass of the wheel assembly hitting his head was 29 kilograms (64 lb), but given the speed of his car (approximately 162 km/h) at the time the wheel struck, the impact yielded approximately 60,000 Joules of kinetic energy.[6] The car continued straight ahead into the barrier on the approach to Sheene Curve, also losing a wheel, and came to rest at the end of the curve with its remaining rear wheel still spinning. This indicated that Surtees had lost consciousness, with his foot still pressing the accelerator.
Surtees was extricated from the car and taken to the circuit's medical centre, where he was stabilized before being transferred to the Royal London Hospital. He was pronounced dead later that day.[7] His death was attributed to severe head injuries, inflicted by colliding with the wheel rather than the following crash with the barriers.[8] Surtees' funeral took place on July 30 at Worth Abbey, near Turners Hill, West Sussex.[9]
In June 2010, a group of Surtees' school friends swam the English Channel in stints to raise money for charity in his memory.
Henry Surtees Award
In 2010, the Henry Surtees Award was launched, to be awarded annually for the most outstanding performance by a rising motor racer. Its first winner was Formula Renault UK champion Tom Blomqvist.
Racing record
Career summary
Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
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2006 | Ginetta GT Junior Championship | 12 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 236 | 3rd | |
2007 | Formula BMW ADAC | ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 29th |
Formula BMW UK | Carlin Motorsport | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 491 | 6th | |
Formula Renault 2.0 UK | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 22nd | ||
Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Series | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 13th | ||
2008 | British F3 National Class | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 35 | 11th | |
Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup | Manor Competition | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† | |
Formula Renault 2.0 UK | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 203 | 12th | ||
Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Series | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 113 | 2nd | ||
2009 | FIA Formula Two Championship | MotorSport Vision | 8* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 14th |
† As Surtees was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.
* Surtees died during round eight of the sixteen round series
Complete Formula Two results
(key) (races in bold indicate pole position) (races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | DC | Points |
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2009 | 7 | VAL 1 7 |
VAL 2 12 |
BRN 1 Ret |
BRN 2 Ret |
SPA 1 15 |
SPA 2 Ret |
BRH 1 3 |
BRH 2 Ret |
DON 1 |
DON 2 |
OSC 1 |
OSC 2 |
IMO 1 |
IMO 2 |
CAT 1 |
CAT 2 |
14th | 8 |
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