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Surtees appointed a CBE in New Year Honours

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John Surtees has been appointed a CBE for services to motorsport by the Queen in the New Year Honours List.

The 1964 Formula One World Champion is the only man to have won world championships on both two and four wheels having also secured seven motorcycling world titles between 1956 and 1960.

Having switched to F1, Surtees won the championship for Ferrari before going on to form his own team in 1970 which he continued to run after his retirement from competitive driving two years later.

Surtees was first made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) before being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008.

The 81-year-old is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire as the oldest surviving F1 world champion following Jack Brabham's death in 2014.

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Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.