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* 1942 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver ( d. 1970 )
For 1968 Austrian Jochen Rindt replaced Hulme, who had left to join McLaren.
Brabham raced alongside his team mate Jochen Rindt during the 1968 season.
Belgian driver Jacky Ickx being the first crowned driver. Beside, Jochen Rindt won both F2 1967 Trophées de France and British championship, while team mate Alan Rees winning the Autocar contest.
Winners included Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart ( twice ), and Jochen Rindt.
* 1970 ( Jochen Rindt )
* 5 September – Formula One World Drivers ' Championship points leader Jochen Rindt ( Austria ) in killed in practice at Monza, driving a Lotus 72 – Cosworth.
* 24 hours of Le Mans – Jochen Rindt / Masten Gregory win, sharing a Ferrari 275LM
The Lotus had a reputation of being very fragile and dangerous at that time, especially with the new aerodynamic aids which caused similar crashes of Hill and Jochen Rindt at the 1969 Spanish Grand Prix.
Championships were clinched by the Brabham team in 1966, Jochen Rindt ( posthumously ) and Lotus in 1970, Lotus in 1973, Emerson Fittipaldi and McLaren in 1974, Niki Lauda and Ferrari in 1976, and Lauda in 1977.
The stars of the era all visited the Tasman Series, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Timmy Mayer, Phil Hill, Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Jochen Rindt, Pedro Rodriguez, Piers Courage, leading teams from Cooper, Lotus, Lola, BRM, even the four wheel drive Ferguson P99 and finally, Ferrari, racing against the local stars, Brabham, McLaren, Denny Hulme, Chris Amon, Frank Gardner, Frank Matich, Leo Geoghegan and Kevin Bartlett.
As reported in Sporting Motorist " Gerry Marshall really gets to grips with his motor cars and flings them about with such gay abandon that people expect him to fly off the road – he has been named the Jochen Rindt of club racing, also the Mr. Dunlop Benefit ( by commentator Barry Simons ) but he rarely does and more often than not wins ".
Jochen Rindt driving a Formula 2 Lotus in 1970 at the Nürburgring
The overall win went to Jochen Rindt driving an Alfa Romeo GTA ( an Under 2-Liter entry ), with Bob Tullius ( driving a Dodge Dart ) taking second overall and first in the Over 2-Liter class.
Born and raised in Woking, England, Dennis began working for the Cooper Formula One team in 1966 at the age of 18 where he worked alongside lead driver Jochen Rindt .< ref name =" mclarenbio ">
His father also noted that " he was very upset when Jochen Rindt was killed, too ".
* 1970 Jochen Rindt, killed when crashing at the Parabolica during qualifying for the 1970 Italian Grand Prix
The small engine proved just as competitive as the larger version ; and Jim Clark took four victories in 1968, followed by one win for Piers Courage and brace of victories for Jochen Rindt in 1969.
* 1970 Jochen Rindt ( Team Lotus )
The film includes real-life racing footage and cameo appearances by drivers including F1 World Champions Phil Hill, Graham Hill, Juan-Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark, Jochen Rindt and Jack Brabham.
Jochen Rindt in a Cooper T77.
Hill's new BRM teammate, Jackie Stewart, who had broken Clark's string of five consecutive victories with his first Grand Prix win at Monza three weeks before, was running at The Glen for the first time, as was Austrian Jochen Rindt.
John Surtees, still recovering from a crash at Mosport Park led for 14 laps from Jackie Stewart, Jochen Rindt and Denny Hulme until his differential broke, handing the lead to Stewart.
Surtees took a 42-second victory over Austrian driver Jochen Rindt driving a Cooper T81.
Brabham's win put him ten points clear in the championship chase over Austrian Cooper racer Jochen Rindt with Hulme and Ferrari's Lorenzo Bandini a point further back.

Jochen and first
Winkelhock's first attempt at qualifying for a Formula One Grand Prix race was in Italy, when he stood in for the injured Jochen Mass at Arrows.
The first exploration was made by Jochen Hasenmayer, a famous German cave diver.
The technique of playing more channels of music than the Amiga hardware was capable of was first introduced with Jochen Hippel's " Hippel 7V " routine, which used one hardware sound channel, and performed software mixing of two channels as the source of the remaining three Amiga hardware sound channels.
In 2001, Eric Simonson, leader of the 1999 Mallory and Irvine Expedition, and German researcher Jochen Hemmleb, who inspired it, travelled to Beijing to interview some of the remaining survivors of the 1960 Chinese Everest expedition, which had been the first expedition back to the north side since the British attempts of the 1920s and 1930s.
In that race at Brands Hatch, Pryce took an unfancied Royale RP11 to first place in the Formula Three support race for the 1972 Formula One Race of Champions against many established Formula Three drivers such as Roger Williamson, Jochen Mass and James Hunt.
After the first lap the order was: Stewart, Andretti, Amon, Hill, Jochen Rindt, Hulme, Gurney, John Surtees and Bruce McLaren.
Jochen Rindt survived an early duel with newly-crowned Champion and close friend Jackie Stewart and claimed his first Grand Prix victory, the first ever by an Austrian.
Jochen Rindt, on the other hand, had flirted with his first victory throughout the season, his first with Lotus, but without success.
The first Lotus driver was Jochen Rindt, qualyfing in only eighth place.
The race was won by Lotus-Ford driver Jochen Rindt in his new monocoque-chassis Type 72, which had only raced twice before ( but in a different spec ); and this came 3 years after the 72's predecessor ; the tubular-chassis Type 49 won in 1967 won first time out at exactly the same track with the late Jim Clark driving.
Watson led for the first 10 laps until Hunt moved ahead and pulled away, with Mario Andretti's Lotus third, but soon the other McLaren of Jochen Mass took the place.
With eight minutes of the session left, Villeneuve came over the rise after the first chicane and found Jochen Mass travelling much more slowly through the left-handed bend before the Terlamenbocht corner.
Entering the first corner, sure enough, Ricardo Zunino, Andretti, Jochen Mass and Jean-Pierre Jarier all made contact under braking.

Jochen and victory
Surtees victory promoted him to second place in the championship, vaulting past Austrian driver Jochen Rindt of the Cooper team.
In 1972, Stuck teamed up with Jochen Mass to drive a Ford Capri RS2600 to victory at the Spa 24 Hours endurance race in Belgium.
Other victories at the Nürburgring, Spa, Mosport and Sandown helped Bellof claim the World Sportscar title by eight points from Jochen Mass, and also helped Porsche secure the manufacturer's title for the year ; the make taking all but one victory in the season.

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