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    John Surtees: The man who saved the Kompressor

    Feb 24, 2020 2 minutes

    John Surtees is a motorsport legend. A six-time TT winner, seven-time motorcycle world champion and Formula 1 car racing world champion, he was also the man who brought Georg Meier’s BMW Kompressor back to life.

    Interviewed before his death in 2017, this is his side of the story:

    “I was evacuated to Yorkshire

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