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I step on the gas, I want to have fun - the early years with Jochen Rindt

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Created in 2012

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Rainer Braun

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Daniel Reinhard

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Noack / Hallo Fahrerlager

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Hallo Fahrerlager

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Wald / Hallo Fahrerlager

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Daniel Reinhard

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Foto Josef u. Daniel Reinhard

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A. H. Rottensteiner

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Noack / Hallo Fahrerlager

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Jochen Rindt at the Hockenheimring on 12.4.1970

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Birthday greetings from the champion

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Wrapping of Rindt's Lotus F2 racing car for 1000 marks

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Rindt in full swing

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Udo Jürgens at a young age (with jacket and program booklet in hand) on the occasion of the Austrian Grand Prix in 1970 next to Jochen Rindt (in a shirt with a floral pattern). In the middle is Gunther Philipp, doctor, actor and racing driver with his own racing team Ecurie Vienne, behind him on the right is Helmut Zwickl, long-time F1 reporter and current organizer of the Ennstal-Klassik.

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA (1966) - Jochen Rindt at the 4 Hours of Sebring 1966

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Abarth 1300 OT (1965) - Rindt at the airport race in Vienna-Aspern

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Abarth 2000 OT (1965) - Rindt beat Mitter with this two-liter prototype

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA (1966) - Jochen Rindt in the Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA during the 4-hour race of the preliminary program (12 Hours of Sebring 1966)

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Summary

Rainer Braun talks about his first years with Jochen Rindt and describes the highs and lows of their relationship in a flowing and interesting way. The story begins when the journalist meets the still unknown and young driver for the first time in the fall of 1963. From the first volume of the popular book series "Hallo Fahrerlager" by Rainer Braun.

This article contains the following chapters

Tug-of-war over nationality
A deal for 1000 marks

Estimated reading time: 9min

Preview (beginning of the article)

I meet 21-year-old Jochen Rindt for the first time in the fall of 1963 at the Bückeburg-Achum airfield race near Hanover. He and his Viennese friend Curd Bardi-Barry had been driving two Cooper Formula Junior racing cars from racecourse to racecourse all year. Kurt Ahrens from Braunschweig, also a fast Formula Junior driver, introduces me to the two Austrians. In conversation with Rindt, I realize that we are almost neighbors - he has a second home in Mainz. He has a spice mill there that he inherited from his late parents. I live "next door" in Wiesbaden and have just set up my own, mini editorial office.

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