Surtees, a 350cc and 500cc Champion in 1958, 1959, 1960, then discussed how he started racing: “It was all by accident! We went to a speed trial in a park called Trent Park which was in the north of London. This speed trial was not a circuit but it was through a wooded road. My father had taken his Vincent, because by this time he had changed from a Norton, and he was riding a Vincent HRD 1000cc in sidecar.

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