5th Sept 1970

[skeggysteve]

On this day in 1970 we lost what some people, including Sir Frank Williams(I have read) , consider to be the faster driver of the era.

Jochen Rindt. The 1970 Formula One World Drivers Champion and thankfully the only driver to posthumously win that award.

Most people will remember him for the last few laps at Monaco the same year....

Link to YouTube of those laps

I remember him because I was at Brands Hatch in July that year watching my first GP, aged 11, and can still remember him drifting around Clearways. He got me hooked on motor racing and was my first motor racing hero.

Thank you for the memories and RIP.

[kiteless]

Good man.

Many thanks for the reminder, and that clip.

[DBSV8]

skeggysteve said:

On this day in 1970 we lost what some people, including Sir Frank Williams(I have read) , consider to be the faster driver of the era.

Jochen Rindt. The 1970 Formula One World Drivers Champion and thankfully the only driver to posthumously win that award.

Most people will remember him for the last few laps at Monaco the same year....

Link to YouTube of those laps

I remember him because I was at Brands Hatch in July that year watching my first GP, aged 11, and can still remember him drifting around Clearways. He got me hooked on motor racing and was my first motor racing hero.

Thank you for the memories and RIP.

I was only 5 and too young to apreciate racing, would have loved to have been at Le Mans in 70 , Porsche 917 , Ferrari 512s , The Capri Rs 2600s winning spa in 71/ 72 etc... must have been a great time

I got into racing in the late 70s and followed F1 since 1980 ..Saudia Williams

[SoliD]

That flyby/wire camera angle at monaco on the youtube link is awesome, need more cameras like that these days!! Never got to see Rindt but from what my parents tell me he was some driver.

[456lbft]

DBSV8 said:

skeggysteve said:

On this day in 1970 we lost what some people, including Sir Frank Williams(I have read) , consider to be the faster driver of the era.

Jochen Rindt. The 1970 Formula One World Drivers Champion and thankfully the only driver to posthumously win that award.

Most people will remember him for the last few laps at Monaco the same year....

Link to YouTube of those laps

I remember him because I was at Brands Hatch in July that year watching my first GP, aged 11, and can still remember him drifting around Clearways. He got me hooked on motor racing and was my first motor racing hero.

Thank you for the memories and RIP.

I was only 5 and too young to apreciate racing, would have loved to have been at Le Mans in 70 , Porsche 917 , Ferrari 512s , The Capri Rs 2600s winning spa in 71/ 72 etc... must have been a great time

I got into racing in the late 70s and followed F1 since 1980 ..Saudia Williams

Me too, my first GP was Williams first win with Reggazoni at Silverstone 1979? IIRC. I remember the line up of Corvettes in Saudia livery in the paddock for the Princes.

[Eric Mc]

Nice to see the original broadcast TV footage. It was actually broadcast in colour as I have seen that same footage in colour. Obviously, Norway hadn't switched over to colour TV at the time so their tape was recoded in black and white only.

Don't the cars look so much more exciting - the way they twitch and slide?

[chevronb37]

Like many, I never saw the great man in action (I was born many moons later), though JYS rated him as his finest adversary and closest friend in motor racing. My Godfather was an enormous fan and apparently felt his death most keenly. He once showed me a lovely portrait he took of him in the paddock at Brands I believe.

[skeggysteve]

Eric Mc said:

Don't the cars look so much more exciting - the way they twitch and slide?

Yes.

Not wanting to start a (nother) debate about old v new F1 drivers but back then us, the fans, could actually just how close to the edge they were.