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    THE TWO WHEEL TITLES

    Oct 15, 2018 2 minutes

    Words: Alan Cathcart Pictures: Mortons Archive

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    He won again at Assen on his Dutch TT debut, and made it a hat-trick of victories the following week at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, to establish an unassailable lead in the 1956 500cc World Championship. Surtees won his first of seven world crowns aged just 22, despite suffering a broken arm in a German GP crash.

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