Kammala wannan jumla: An haifi Jochen Rindt a Jamus a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II. Iyayensa sun mutu a wani harin bam kuma kakanninsa sun dauke shi zuwa Austria. Nasarar sa ta Formula One ta zo ne tare da tuki guda ɗaya don Brabham a Babban Prix na Austrian na 1964. Ya burge isa ya tabbatar da wurin zama tare da Cooper don kakar 1965 kuma kodayake motar ba ta da gasa ya sami nasarar tabbatar da podium uku a shekarar 1966. Ya shiga Brabham a 1968 amma ya fi muni lokacin da motar da ba ta da aminci ta gama tsere biyu daga cikin goma sha biyu. Barin ƙungiyar don Lotus, Rindt ya lashe tserensa na farko a 1969, kuma ya mamaye a 1970 lokacin da aka ba shi Lotus 72, ya lashe tsere huɗu a jere. A wannan shekarar, abokai biyu na Rindt, Bruce McLaren da Piers Courage, sun mutu yayin gwaji da tsere. Ya gaya wa matarsa cewa zai yi ritaya daga wasan idan ya zama zakaran duniya, ko da yake bai taɓa cika alkawarinsa ba. Yayin da yake halartar wani zaman gwaji don
1970 Grand Prix na Italiya, motar motar Rindt ta gaba ta hagu ta kasa, ta tura shi cikin shinge kuma ta kashe shi. Kamfanin Lotus ya janye daga tseren kuma ya kawo Emerson Fittipaldi don cike kujerar da aka rasa a babban kyautar karshe a Amurka. Fittipaldi ya lashe tseren, yana taimakawa wajen ci gaba da jagorancin Rindt a gasar zakarun Turai. An nada Rindt a matsayin zakaran duniya guda daya bayan rasuwarsa a tarihin Formula One.