Rejected petition Give John Surtees OBE a Knighthood

John Surtees is the only man in history to win multiple championship at the highest level of motorsports on a motorbike and car. He won the Formula 1 world championship with Ferrari in 1964 and the Motorcycle world championship 4 times, in 1956, 1958, 1959 and 1960.

More details

If anyone deserves a knighthood for their sporting achievements its John Surtees.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about honours or appointments.

We can't accept your petition because it asks for someone to be nominated for an honour.

You don't need to start a petition on this site to do that: members of the public can nominate people for honours directly.

You can find out how to nominate someone for an honour here: https://www.gov.uk/honours

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 3 November 2015
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.