It is an unfortunate fact of life that as we age, so we lose more and more friends to the ravages of time. As I sat in the church at the funeral of John Surtees—listening to the wonderful tributes from his daughters Leonora and Edwina, as well as a most moving eulogy from one of John’s best friends, Terry Regan—I reflected upon the fact that so many of the “great and the good” of motor racing have departed for that…
