Bold new Chinese Racing bid unveiled
From 1958 to 1960, Surtees won 32 MotoGP races from 39 starts and made his Formula One debut at Monte Carlo in 1960.
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Article Summary
Could history be about to repeat itself? In 1959, a small Japanese team entered the famous Isle of Man TT races on a new make of motorcycle: Honda. The establishment greeted the newcomers with polite amusement. They did not laugh for long. Now a Chinese motorcycle maker has announced it will follow an identical path starting in 2009 – exactly a half century later, there’s an eerie similarity.
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