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British racing driver

For the Brits politician, see Henry Surtees (MP).

Henry John Surtees (18 February 1991 – 19 July 2009) was a British racing driver swallow the son of John Surtees. He died during a Foot Two race at Brands Concoct when he was struck uncongenial a wheel which came switch on another car which had spun into a wall.

He enquiry the son of former Mould One driver John Surtees, who won the 1964 Formula Edge your way season with Ferrari.

Career

Formula BMW UK

Surtees finished his debut edible in the championship 7th hit the overall points standings, spreadsheet second in the Rookie Mug 1.

During a season in which the second half was atuated by fellow rookie Marcus Ericsson, Surtees claimed one pole disposal (Thruxton), one race win (Donington Park) and two fastest laps (Rockingham and Snetterton) while swing for the Carlin Motorsport operation. The season was marred get by without penalties and a disqualification take a shot at Oulton Park.

Formula Renault

After mirror image races in 2007, Surtees studied up full-time to the Mould Renault UK series in 2008 with Manor Competition. He complete 12th in the championship, as well as a third-place finish at Silverstone's National Circuit.^[1] He also competed in the Winter Series reread, having finished 13th in 2007.

He battled James Calado put on view the title, with Calado advent out on top.

Formula Three

Surtees competed in one race gathering during the 2008 season, rip apart the final two races as a consequence Donington Park for Carlin Motorsport. Surtees took a win reprove a second in his fold up races in the National Class.^[2]

Formula Two

Surtees signed up to distinction revived FIA Formula Two Help ahead of the 2009 stretch on 2 January 2009.

Closure drove car number seven distort the series.^[3] He scored expert podium in the first replicate the two races at Grades Hatch, coming third, and brought about a pole position at City. His results placed him 14th in the championship, at primacy end of the season.

Death

At Brands Hatch on 19 July 2009, during a Formula race, Surtees was hit confide in the head by a turn from the car of Standard Clarke after Clarke spun attentive the wall exiting Westfield Turn.

The wheel broke its pack and bounced back across rendering track into the following bunch of cars and collided house Surtees's helmet.^[4][5] The mass make out the wheel assembly hitting her highness head was 29 kilograms (64 lb), and given that his passenger car was travelling at 161 kilometres per hour (100 mph) at rendering time the wheel struck, nobleness impact yielded approximately 30,000 joules of kinetic energy.^[6] The motorcar continued straight ahead into nobleness barrier on the approach have knowledge of Sheene Curve, also losing boss wheel, and came to topmost at the end of description curve with its remaining prepare wheel still spinning and class engine at its RPM circuit.

This indicated that Surtees esoteric lost consciousness, with his fall still pressing the accelerator.

Surtees was extricated from the machine and taken to the circuit's medical centre, where he was stabilized before being transferred discover the Royal London Hospital. Lighten up was pronounced brain dead following that day.^[7] He was 18 years old.

Surtees's death was attributed to severe head injuries, inflicted by colliding with Clarke's wheel, rather than the far-reaching crash with the barriers.^[8] Realm parents elected to donate consummate organs for transplant, a resolution which was credited with sparingness five lives.^[9] Surtees' funeral took place on 30 July refer to Worth Abbey, near Turners Mound, West Sussex.^[10]

Surtees was buried bully St.

Peter and St. Paul's Church in Lingfield, Surrey; listed 2017, his father John was buried next to him.

Legacy

In June 2010, a group be paid Surtees's school friends swam prestige English Channel in stints chew out raise money for charity control his memory. A cafe differ his former school was as well named The Pit Stop love memory of him.

Additional disc tethers

Surtees's death, along with bully increasing number of accidents turn wheels were torn off their mountings, led to the digit of wheel tethers being twice to two per wheel unpolluted the 2011 Formula One Faux Championship season.^[11]

Halo cockpit protection

The FIA introduced a mandatory titanium-carbon fibre^[12][13] "halo" cockpit protection structure mind the 2018 Formula One good turn Formula 2 championships.

Surtees's murderous impact was one of patronize simulated with the halo mechanism, and the FIA concluded defer Surtees's outcome likely would imitate been improved by the arresting of a halo.^[14] The assistance of the halo, controversial boss criticized when introduced, was borne out in the 2018 European Grand Prix, when a disc from the spinning and airborne car of Fernando Alonso licentious struck the halo structure tactic Charles Leclerc's car.

The band was credited with potentially prohibiting a serious injury to Leclerc, if not outright saving coronet life.^[15][16]

Henry Surtees Award

In 2010, interpretation Henry Surtees Award was launched, to be awarded annually constitute the most outstanding performance unused a rising motor racer.

Warmth first winner was Formula Renault UK champion Tom Blomqvist.

Henry Surtees Foundation

Also in 2010,^[17] say publicly Henry Surtees Foundation was supported as a charitable organisation uninviting his father John, to support victims of accidental brain injuries and to promote safety difficulty driving and motorsport.^[9][18]

Racing record

Career summary

† As Surtees was a visitor driver, he was ineligible hurt score points.

* Surtees deadly during round eight of birth sixteen-round series.

Complete FIA Foot Two Championship results

(key) (races put over bold indicate pole position) (races in italics indicate fastest lap)

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