The superfast life of F1's only posthumous World Champion 

Written by David Tremayne - Foreword by Sir Jackie Stewart

Jimmy Clark and Jackie Stewart were his close friends, and on his day he could beat them both.

Bernie Ecclestone is adamant that he was one of the top five drivers he ever saw, and that one way or another, had he lived, they would have gone into business together.

At Crystal Palace in May 1964 Graham Hill asked if the young boy on the front row with him was a skier. As it happened he was, but Hill later learned after losing the Formula Two race to him that he was one hell of a race driver.

This was Jochen Rindt, the Austrian with the distinctive flattened nose who drove race cars as if the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse were on his tail, who was widely acknowledged to be the fastest man in Grand Prix racing in the immediate post Clark era. And who, by a cruel quirk of Fate, become the sport’s only posthumous World Champion. This is his remarkable story. 

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