Jochen Rindt, beyond death

At the pinnacle of motor crashes are countless stories of accidental or intentional, controversial stories that go beyond the tracks and the curious history of Jochen Rindt.

In addition to his exploits in the Grand Prix of Monaco, many of which we spoke, the pilot of Austrian nationality, but born in Germany, began to board the cars on the tracks of Graz (Austria), after his parents died in a bombing raid during World War II.

His first laps with the teams began Brahbham-RBM in 1964, through Cooper-Climax (1965), Cooper-Maserati (1966 and 1967) where he won a 3rd place and returning with Brabham in 1968.

But the glory of reaching the command of a car built by Lotus-Ford team, reaching his first season in fourth place.

The year 1970 began badly for Rindt, finishing 13th in the South African Grand Prix, which was pretty bad considering that was the last place an eventful race that had 10 withdrawals.

After retiring at the Grand Prix of Spain by problems in the ignition (anyway, that race was completed by only 5 runners), began a string of victories that put him on the absolute top.

On September 5, 1970 began practice at Monza with a concern, noting that one of its wheels had trouble turning, blocked in some corners.

The insistence led him to jump on the car, and during one of their laps, the car began to zigzag, the wheels are blocked and crashed into a wall filled.

The wounds he quickly faded after impact the lives of Jochen Rindt, leaving it out of the last four Grands Prix, but not outside the top: total points scored allowed him posthumously crowned champion of Formula 1.