Heck, ‘Big John’ was still racing the other team car, so his feedback and analysis couldn’t have been more up-to-date and relatable. However, Honda pulled out of World Championship bike racing at the end of ’67, and Hailwood had a lot more time on his hands as the Japanese marque had paid him a year’s salary to not race for anyone else in ’68. After signing Hailwood for ’71, Surtees knew as a fellow ex-biker precisely how to interpret what Hailwood was telling him, and what questions to ask. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. But World Championship gratification was a little harder to come by. Staying on at this team for 1970, he scored two more F5000 wins, a handful more top-three finishes and was fourth in the title race.

At this point, Hailwood decided to retire from racing, aged 34, and move to New Zealand.

Of four points finishes, Monza was the highlight as Hailwood again finished runner-up to Fittipaldi – although he hated the revamped track which he felt had been ruined by chicanes.

So after crashing out of a couple of non-championship races in ’65 and being blown away by teammate Dickie Attwood in his one championship outing that year, the Monaco GP, Hailwood was done with racecars for a while. In an F1 car, Hailwood’s efforts were solid rather than startling, driving for Reg Parnell Racing in a year-old Lotus 24-Climax, then a Lola Mk 4, in a handful of championship and non-championship F1 races in 1963.
She is with her beloved Mike and Michelle. Sadly, my mother, Pauline Hailwood passed away peacefully on Saturday 13th June 2020 after a long illness. Hailwood would retire from 10 of the World Championship races, while of the five he finished, not one of them was in the points. To have survived a lethal time in bike and car racing at the top level and then perish at the hands of another in a road traffic accident still seems so impossibly cruel. The problem was that whereas Surtees’ 1960 toe-in-the-water F1 experience had been the start of a full-scale conversion to cars in ’61 (once he had finished demolishing his opposition in 500cc and 350cc bikes), Hailwood was still at the height of his game on two wheels in the mid-’60s and was in no hurry to quit, rendering his four-wheel adventures more of a dabble in the unknown. The year started off with Hailwood finishing runner-up in the Tasman F5000 championship ‘down under’.
Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. These early forays into car racing weren't convincing, his main focus still being on pummeling his … Mike Hailwood, Lotus 25-BRM, at the 1964 German GP. At the culmination of what would stand as the fastest ever GP (150.754mph) for the next 32 years, five drivers – Peter Gethin, Ronnie Peterson, Francois Cevert, Hailwood and Howden Ganley passed the checkered flag covered by just 0.61sec. David Hailwood & family. In fact his standout moment came outside the cockpit – pulling Clay Regazzoni from his burning BRM after the pair collided at Kyalami, an act of bravery for which Hailwood received the UK’s prestigious George Medal. Hailwood - When 'Mike the Bike' went car racing. Connect with friends faster than ever with the new Facebook app. Hailwood (rear car) embroiled in battle at Monza in 1971, that would see him classified fourth – despite finishing just 0.18sec behind the winner! Bike racing legend Mike Hailwood should have turned 80 today, but instead died following a banal road traffic accident. The resultant collision left David slightly injured, killed Michelle instantly and left Mike himself clinging onto life. She will be sadly missed by her family and friends.

Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Navy training plane crashes into Alabama neighborhood, killing 2 pilots, A 24-year-old engineer created a website that tells you if your McDonald's has a working ice-cream machine. In between those two achievements had been F1’s South African GP, in which Hailwood was stalking race leader Jackie Stewart until his rear suspension broke and he was forced to retire. All professionally made for quick delivery. On bikes, Mike Hailwood was beyond astonishing.