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          The life and times of John Surtees, as told by the man himself

          Talent is a word often misused in the world of sport. Defined as ‘an innate ability’ – something instinctual and inherited rather than learned – there are, in fact, very few people to whom the term can be correctly attributed.

          John Surtees CBE, however, is one of them.

          I was fortunate enough to have met him.

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          Initially, we were introduced in the race control building at Goodwood circuit – the very place where his four-wheeled career started in 1959. He smiled, shook my hand and we chatted a while. His slight frame was disguised under a full, blue race suit.

          The second meeting, rather bizarrely, was at a Battle of Waterloo-themed ball, where again he wore blue, only a full 19th-century Bourgeois court costume instead of a race suit. On the third, and what would turn out to be the final occasion I spoke to him, it was a glorious summer’s day.

          His memory and the way he articulated responses were as clear as the sky that da