Quote Originally Posted by BDunnell
In (very) short, for one thing, Jones and also Tim Schenken have both been extremely critical in interviews about how they would be called up to test for Surtees, then wait for hours on end while Surtees himself drove before getting a chance in the car, leaving no time to set it up to their liking. Schenken said in MotorSport that he finds it impossible to talk about Surtees 'without inviting a shoal of solicitors' letters', and described the man himself as 'absolutely impossible'; Jones remarked that the two most difficult team bosses he ever had were ex-World Champions, namely Surtees and Graham Hill, and recounted how Surtees once claimed that his chassis was 'too good' in that it was getting too much heat into the tyres, to which Jones says he retorted, 'Well, John, why don't you go and **** it up a little?' The view of both drivers was that Surtees would think it best if he did everything — all the set-up, all the testing — but that the team made little progress as a result. And, of course, Surtees F1 was perennially under-funded. The sums brought in by its sponsorship deals were peanuts compared with those of the larger teams.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that side of him.