Lotus 72D- Jochen Rindt

[Paolo-LoveGT40 Modelworks]

I am currently finishing the body finishing and painting of a lotus 72d in 1/8 scale for a customer, in gold leaf livery.
He provided me also some interesting pictured of Rindt car, and there is also one taken few minutes before his fatal crash.
Seems..and nobody knows why, he deleted all the wings from his Lotus, This picture is incredble cause the racing car seems more a rocket than a formula one car.
..and he already had the pole..so wonder what happened there..

If i can save it from this book i will post here, but probebaly many of u already knows what I am referring to.

 

[CraigB]

That car did look very strange running without wings! Monza still is a very low downforce circuit and teams drop a lot of their aero bits even now. (I have been there for the last 3 tears to watch the F1).

Is the Rindt car in Gold Leaf livery? I thought the JPS colours only came in for 1971 onwards.

 

[Paolo-LoveGT40 Modelworks]

EIDAI GRIP JOHN PLAYER SPECIAL LOTUS 72D 1/8 VINTAGE - eBay (item 140267836638 end time Dec-15-08 14:14:13 PST)

The kit is this.
Plus an HUGE resin kit (dunno if bought or scratchbuild)to change rear wing and airscope details.
yes, rindt car was gold leaf scheme, I have to post those strange pics...the car comes too strange before the crash. Nobody knows why Jochen choosed this setup..

 

[Paolo-LoveGT40 Modelworks]

YouTube - Jochen Rindt fatal accident Monza 1970
second 00.37 u see clearly there are no wings on his lotus.
So I ask myself...why did he do such?..till today I was sure he maybe wanted to test some extreme setup (but no downforce is a terrible mistake for such skilled pilot)..and..he already got the pole, so there was no reason at all to go out that way.
Why then?

 

[just ernst]

hi paolo

look at this site .....Jochen Rindt Home

erich is a long time friend of me, iff you need infos about jochen, write him, hes nows all seconds from jochens time

ernst

 

[Paolo-LoveGT40 Modelworks]

Thank u very much Ernst!, always great help!
The picture I have is exactly the one in the website,from those pictures I have some more detail clearer.
will post pictures of the work in progress soon!

Grazie

 

[Ardern Cars]

I heard he was out without his anti submarine belt clipped. That was the reason for his fatal injuries. Anyone else ever hear that?

 

[Eric Johnson]

Maybe the wings were removed due to wing failure on Loti at other races that season. If so that would be sadly ironic...

 

[CraigB]

I heard he was out without his anti submarine belt clipped. That was the reason for his fatal injuries. Anyone else ever hear that?

I heard that as well It seems that when the front of the car got torn off under the armco it tried to pull him with it, very sad.

I believe the accident was attributed to a brake shaft (inboard brakes on the front) failing on entry to the parabolica.

 

[Price Walton]

I heard he was out without his anti submarine belt clipped. That was the reason for his fatal injuries. Anyone else ever hear that?

Yes.

I have always been of the understanding that Rindt didn't like wearing crutch belts and as such would refuse to do them up. The removal of the wings was to reduce drag, not to mitigate against failure.

 

[Ardern Cars]

I can't believe I never noticed the car had no wings that day. I had never heard that or seen that. Can you even imagine that? Those were the years man!

 

[Paolo-LoveGT40 Modelworks]

this is the incredible pic from Ernst friend website, incredible..