The first race of the 1974 season was the 1974 Argentine Grand Prix. Surtees entered two cars for Brazilian José Carlos Pace and German Jochen Mass but both drivers retired, Pace with suspension failure and Mass with engine failure.[3] At Brazil, the Brazilian finished fourth and the German was 17th,[4] The South African Grand Prix saw Pace finish 11th and Mass retire with suspension failure.[5] At Spain the Brazilian finished 13th and the German retired with a broken gearbox.[6] Both drivers retired at the Belgian Grand Prix, Pace with a bad handling car and Mass with suspension failure.[7] at Monaco Mass did not start and Pace was involved in a collision towards Massenet with Jean-Pierre Beltoise (BRM), Denny Hulme (McLaren), Arturo Merzario (Iso–Marlboro), Vittorio Brambilla (March Engineering), Brian Redman (Shadow) and Tim Schenken (Trojan).[8] Both drivers retired at the Swedish Grand Prix, Pace with a bad handling car and Mass with suspension failure. Pace parted company with the team after the race, falling out with team boss and designer, John Surtees.[9] The team only entered Mass for Holland who retired with transmission failure.[10] Mass retired with clutch failure at the French Grand Prix and new teammate José Dolhem disappointed the home crowd by failing to qualify.[11] Dolhem was replaced at the Britain by Englishman Derek Bell but he disappointed the home crowd by failing to qualify and the German finished 14th.[12] The German Grand Prix saw Bell 11th and Mass retire with engine failure, disappointing his home crowd.[13] Mass was replaced by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Jabouille for Austria but he and the Englishman failed to qualify. The team also entered Austrian Dieter Quester who finished ninth.[14] Dolhem and Bell failed to qualify for the Italian Grand Prix.[15] Dolhem was replaced by Austrian Helmuth Koinigg for Canada who finished tenth but Bell failed to qualify.[16] Bell was replaced by Dolhem for the United States Grand Prix who withdrew on lap twenty five after Koinigg crashed on lap ten probably due to a deflating rear tire. On impact with the Armco barrier, the bottom rail gave way but the top one did not, and Koinigg had no chance and was decapitated.[17] Surtees ended the season in 11th with three points but low on money for 1975, the team pared back to a single car for Englishman John Watson.
Antti Aarnio-Wihuri formed AAW Racing Team and bought a TS16 from Surtees, He hired Finnish driver Leo Kinnunen who was entered at the 1974 Belgian Grand Prix but failed to qualify. It was next entered in Sweden and the Finnish driver retired with engine failure. It was entered for the French and British Grand Prix and both times Kinnunen failed to qualify. It was finally entered in Austria and Italy and both times the Finnish driver failed to qualify. Lack of funding then forced the team to retire from Formula One.
