Jochen Rindt tribute

[rscott]

Superb guesture today by Classic Team Lotus -https://www.instagram.com/p/CEwFjx_HZBn/?igshid=1g4q8feybvhd7

[LukeBrown66]

Rindt is a much ignore champion, a lot of people go on about far more less able drivers, yet Rindt was able to take on and beat the best in his time which included Clark, Hill, Stewart, Amon et al.

Died horribly, was a fairly interesting individual and had some rather unique ideas about his racing, a follow on from Jimmy certainly for Chapman, and a worthy champion

[thegreenhell]

[Sandpit Steve]

Sky also did a piece in their qualifying show, which was also very good - apart from their somewhat unnecessary showing of his fatal accident at Monza.

[williamp]

I remember an interview with Tony Rudd. If hed worn the crotch belts he probably would have survived. Such a shame...

[Fundoreen]

Sandpit Steve said:

Sky also did a piece in their qualifying show, which was also very good - apart from their somewhat unnecessary showing of his fatal accident at Monza.

Another one of those suspect stories. They were at monza and he wanted to try running the car without wings to get more speed and they let him.
Lotus didn't show much duty of care to ther drivers really and he is not around to dispute it was his idea not the teams.
Maybe they mention it in part 2 but who knows. You can see the car with no wings in the footage though.

[996Targa]

This gives an interesting perspective.

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article...

[Fundoreen]

996Targa said:

This gives an interesting perspective.

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article...

Those old team owners seemed to have the same mentality as a ww1 general sending people to the front without a care.
Chapman discovered light weight is good for good lap times . Someone else would have eventually.
The lasting importance of Jacky Stewart was to tackle the safety problem nobody else could be bothered with.

[thegreenhell]

[ChemicalChaos]

Fundoreen said:

Sandpit Steve said:

Sky also did a piece in their qualifying show, which was also very good - apart from their somewhat unnecessary showing of his fatal accident at Monza.

Another one of those suspect stories. They were at monza and he wanted to try running the car without wings to get more speed and they let him.
Lotus didn't show much duty of care to ther drivers really and he is not around to dispute it was his idea not the teams.
Maybe they mention it in part 2 but who knows. You can see the car with no wings in the footage though.

An interesting aside I'd read a few months ago C&SC:

On the weekend of his death, Rindt was supposed to be driving the brand new out of the factory chassis #5 of the Lotus 72. That morning, new hire Fittipaldi was sent out to shake it down in preparation for Rindt, but pranged it almost immediately whilst trying to get out the way of faster traffic.
Chapman was furious, and Rindt had to be sent out in 72 chassis #2 for qualifying whilst #5 was being repaired. As the older chassis on the truck, this had been earmarked as Fittipaldis Qualifying and Race car.
Of course, fatefully the front brake shaft sheared and sent Rindt into the barriers.
How different would things have been if Fittipaldi hadn't crashed #5, but had subsequently driven #2 and Rindt lived?
Would Emmo have had a similar fatal crash or not? Its a question Fittipaldi has asked himself a lot since then, and it's why he was overcome somewhat when reunited with a restored #5 at Goodwood FOS last year.