Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Jochen Rindt (April 18, 1942 - September 5, 1970) was an Austrian racing driver. He was born in Germany. Rindt won the 1970 Formula One World Championship, in spite of his fatal accident in a practice lap for that year's Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Hereby he became motor racing's first posthumous World Champion. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.