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The late John Surtees remains the only man to have won world titles on two wheels and four while his fellow-Briton Mike Hailwood also competed successfully in both.

At 23-years-old, he is the youngest rider to win the world title three times, surpassing Britain’s Mike Hailwood.

“We reckon it has to be the biggest such berg in British history,” Gordon Hailwood, an official with Thames Water, said at the time.

He is also the youngest rider to win two consecutive world championships, beating the previous record held by Britain's Mike Hailwood in 1963.

The previous record belonged to British rider Mike Hailwood, who was 22 in 1962.