Jochen Rindt

Karl Jochen Rindt (born April 18, 1942 - died September 5, 1970) was a racing driver. He posthumously won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1970, after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix. Jochen Rindt, low res, historical person source: http://kartshop. ... Jochen Rindt, low res, historical person source: http://kartshop. ... April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Formula One World Drivers Championship (WDC) is awarded by the Fédération Internationale de lAutomobile (FIA) to the most successful Formula One race car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on Grand Prix results. ...

Biography

Jochen Rindt was born in Mainz, Germany, but after his parents were killed in a bombing raid in the Second World War, he moved to live with his grandparents in Graz, Austria, where he grew up and started motor racing. Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Graz Schlossberg Clock Tower Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec IPA: /gra. ...

Despite being very successful in Formula 2 (by winning for instance the 1964 London Trophy), Rindt kept on choosing the wrong F1 cars. Rindt made his Formula One debut for Rob Walker Racing Team in the 1964 Austrian Grand Prix. It was to be his only Grand Prix of the year. From 1965 to 1967, Rindt raced for Cooper Car Company, scoring 32 points in 29 races. In 1968, Rindt raced for Brabham, but Rindt's season wasn't what he had hoped for, due to technical problems. Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Finally, in 1969, Rindt moved to Lotus and it was with Lotus that Rindt's career took off. Rindt clinched the first Grand Prix victory of his career in the Grand Prix of the USA in Watkins Glen. Rindt finished that year with 22 points, giving him fourth place in the World Drivers Championship. Rindt's 1970 season started with a dramatic last corner win at Monaco. Thereafter armed with perhaps the greatest Formula one car of all time, the Lotus 72, Rindt won four more Grands Prix (The Netherlands, France, Britain and Germany) that year. Team Lotus was one of Formula 1s most successful teams. ... Watkins Glen International (nicknamed The Glen) is an auto race track located near Watkins Glen, New York at the southern tip of Seneca Lake. ... The Lotus 72 was a Formula 1 car designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Phillipe of Lotus for the 1970 season. ...

During practice for the 1970 Italian Grand Prix in Monza, near Milan, Jochen Rindt lost control of his car upon braking for the Parabolica, possibly one of his four wheel disc brakes failed, and his car darted left, straight into and under the barriers which were placed too high for the revolutionary wedge design of his Lotus 72. He was immediately rushed to hospital, but died on the way. Rindt had only recently acquiesed to wearing a simple lap belt, and had slid underneath where the belt buckle cut his throat. Because Rindt had won five of that year's ten Grands Prix, his lead in the World Drivers Championship had become unassailable, and Rindt became motor racing's first posthumous World Champion. Jochen Rindt won the championship that year, because his Lotus team mate, Emerson Fittipaldi won the following and next to last Grand Prix of the year at Watkins Glen, depriving Ferrari driver Jacky Ickx of the points he needed to win the crown himself. Autodromo Nazionale di Monza is a motorsport race track near the town of Monza, Italy, north of Milan. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese: Milán) is the main city of northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed region in Italy. ... Emerson Fittipaldi racing in the Indianapolis 500 in 1994. ... Scuderia Ferrari is the common name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. ... Jacques Bernard (Jacky) Ickx, (born January 1, 1945 in Brussels) is a Belgian racing driver known for his success in Formula One and his six wins in the 24 hours of Le Mans. ...

Statistics

• 61 Grand Prix starts (First in Austria 1964, last in Austria 1970)
• 6 victories (United States 1969, Monaco 1970, The Netherlands 1970, France 1970, Britain 1970 and Germany 1970)
• 13 podium finishes
• 21 point finishes
• 10 pole positions
• 3 fastest laps
• 107 points scored

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Rindt per season

• 1964: no points
• 1965: 13th place, 4 points
• 1966: 3rd place, 22 points
• 1967: 13th place, 6 points
• 1968: 12th place, 8 points
• 1969: 4th place, 22 points
• 1970: World Champion, 45 points

External links

• Grand Prix History - Hall of Fame, Jochen Rindt
• Jochen Rindt statistics
• Jochen Rindt Photos