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    THE BEGINNING OF COMPETITION

    Oct 15, 2018 2 minutes
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    John Surtees may have had his first taste of riding a motorcycle at the age of 12 on the Wallace-Blackburne speedway bike, but it wasn’t until the lofty age of 14 that he took his first step into motorcycle competition.

    John said: “I was 14 when I

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