Still to 31 years of his death he hurts the accident of Jochen, perhaps because the cruelest destiny interposed in its way to the glory that one warm afternoon of Monza when Lotus 72, that mechanical wonder transported that it towards the championship of the world, decided to leave the way before entering the parabolic curve.

His first passages in F1

It was very clear that a mechanical element was the cause of the confusion, but as which serves to analyze this subject when as a result of it Jochen left the life earthly and from further on it only could taste the trophy by which as much it had fought and that her Young wife received at the end of the season.

Jochen Rindt (1942-1970) as so many other adolescents initiated their way in the Kart and arrived at the F1 immediately than their strong personality, the one that was worth to him to be judged like unpleasant, self-centred and other “qualities” by trouppe of the F1, nevertheless Jackie Stewart, its faithful friend, the one of the few even unique one, described a totally opposite Jochen.

The F2 of years 'placed it to 60 in the pedestal of the recognized ones the point to unanimously call it “the King”, in contrast, the slips won to him widely to the satisfactions in its beginnings of the F1. Its quick and impulsive style did not bear relation to the cars that handled consequently the abandonments were a constant.

The Lotus of season '69

In 1968 it acceded to the Brabham equipment and although it left in many races it obtained two commendable third positions and it gained several classifications, but just in 1969 the great opportunity appeared to show its talent. Colin called it to Chapman to cover a place impossible to replace, the one that had left to Jim Clark. At the end of 1969 in Watkins Glen the first triumph arrived longed for.

Jochen Rindt

The season of 1970 appeared favorable in spite of an evil beginning in Kyalami and Jarama. During the passage of the F1 by Montecar it its star began to shine in its maximum intensity, winning in eighty and four days four Great Prizes, were evident that fantastic Lotus 72 adapted perfectly of the style of Jochen. Nevertheless in Austria, the following Great Prize, the one that as much wanted to win, the goddess made it to fortune leave, perhaps like a premonition of the danger watched that it.

In the GP of France of 1970

It was waiting for it to the tragedy in Monza and of her it could not escape. The cruel destiny caused that the coronation of Jochen took shape in the last race, when another Lotus lead by a called youngster Emerson Fittipaldi prevailed in that race, preventing that the Ferrari de Jackie Ickx snatched the title to him. Those behind schedule all the presents in the Great Prize of EE.UU saw the smile of Jochen drawn in the sky, that same smile that in its passage by the Earth was only privilege of its Young wife, her Natascha daughter and her great friend Jackie Stewart.