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Sports - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2005 - 55 Euro Cent

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Sports - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2005 - 55 Euro Cent


Theme: Sports & Games
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date2005
Face Value55.00 
Edition Issued700,000
Printing TypePhotogravure
Stamp TypeCommemorative
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1878
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID101378
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Karl Jochen Rindt was born on 18 April 1942 in Mainz. Since his parents died in an Allied bombing raid on Hamburg in 1943, the child grew up with his grandparents in Graz. In 1962 he managed so well on a Formula Junior Cooper Saloon Racing that Ford Austria supported him with a F2 Brabham-Cosworth. Due to his achievements, he became teammate of Bruce McLaren in the F1 team of Cooper. For Cooper he won fourth place at the Grand Prix of Germany and a sixth at the Grand Prix of America. Rindt drove like many others also Formula 2 and started a long connection with Roy Winkelmann's private Brabham team. Rindt was already a legend in Austria when he won the Prix Du Tirol at Innsbruck 2000 in a Abarth. When Bruce left McLaren Cooper, Rindt became number one until John Surtees from Ferrari joined Cooper. In Formula 2, he climbed to the top with his Winkelmann Brabham and won, among many others in 1965, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 1968 he moved into the Formula 1 car of Jack Brabham and at the end of the year again in the Lotus team of the world champion Graham Hill. But at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona both Lotus crashed because the extreme wing constructions broke. Rindt suffered a severe concussion and a jaw fracture and had some time to struggle with visual and balance disorders. He sat down in the press for a ban on the wings on the vehicles. In Watkins Glen, he finally won in an F1 World Championship race. As teammate Graham Hill injured, he became number one in 1970. Rindt also won in Monaco in an old Lotus Model 49 from 1967, as the new wedge-shaped Lotus 72 was not yet fully developed. In model 72, he drove the GP of the Netherlands to the first place in which burned after an accident his friend Piers Courage. The F1 drivers then demanded improved safety measures for the GP at the Nürburgring. Despite the shock Rindt won the French, British and German GP, ​​which took place in Hockenheim. Since the race at the Österreichring was won by his rival Jacky Ickx on Ferrari, the pressure on Rindt, who wanted to secure the world title and then finally opt out of motorsport, increased. During training for the Italian GP in Monza on Saturday after half an hour of training, Rindt's Lotus 72 hit the crash barriers as the Parabolica slowed down. The car lost its right front wheel, overturned and was thrown back onto the track. Rindt died in the ambulance as a result of his severe neck injury, he had not put on the seat belts properly. The cause of the accident was a broken shaft to the inside front brake. Since Ickx was beaten by Emerson Fittipaldi in Lotus 72 at the season finale in the USA, the World Cup title went in 1970 posthumously to Jochen Rindt.

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Karl Jochen Rindt was born on 18 April 1942 in Mainz. Since his parents died in an Allied bombing raid on Hamburg in 1943, the child grew up with his grandparents in Graz. In 1962 he managed so well on a Formula Junior Cooper Saloon Racing that Ford Austria supported him with a F2 Brabham-Cosworth. Due to his achievements, he became teammate of Bruce McLaren in the F1 team of Cooper. For Cooper he won fourth place at the Grand Prix of Germany and a sixth at the Grand Prix of America. Rindt drove like many others also Formula 2 and started a long connection with Roy Winkelmann's private Brabham team. Rindt was already a legend in Austria when he won the Prix Du Tirol at Innsbruck 2000 in a Abarth. When Bruce left McLaren Cooper, Rindt became number one until John Surtees from Ferrari joined Cooper. In Formula 2, he climbed to the top with his Winkelmann Brabham and won, among many others in 1965, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 1968 he moved into the Formula 1 car of Jack Brabham and at the end of the year again in the Lotus team of the world champion Graham Hill. But at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona both Lotus crashed because the extreme wing constructions broke. Rindt suffered a severe concussion and a jaw fracture and had some time to struggle with visual and balance disorders. He sat down in the press for a ban on the wings on the vehicles. In Watkins Glen, he finally won in an F1 World Championship race. As teammate Graham Hill injured, he became number one in 1970. Rindt also won in Monaco in an old Lotus Model 49 from 1967, as the new wedge-shaped Lotus 72 was not yet fully developed. In model 72, he drove the GP of the Netherlands to the first place in which burned after an accident his friend Piers Courage. The F1 drivers then demanded improved safety measures for the GP at the Nürburgring. Despite the shock Rindt won the French, British and German GP, ​​which took place in Hockenheim. Since the race at the Österreichring was won by his rival Jacky Ickx on Ferrari, the pressure on Rindt, who wanted to secure the world title and then finally opt out of motorsport, increased. During training for the Italian GP in Monza on Saturday after half an hour of training, Rindt's Lotus 72 hit the crash barriers as the Parabolica slowed down. The car lost its right front wheel, overturned and was thrown back onto the track. Rindt died in the ambulance as a result of his severe neck injury, he had not put on the seat belts properly. The cause of the accident was a broken shaft to the inside front brake. Since Ickx was beaten by Emerson Fittipaldi in Lotus 72 at the season finale in the USA, the World Cup title went in 1970 posthumously to Jochen Rindt..