The rare version of this 216 page hardback biography of the only posthumous F1 world champion. Jochen Rindt died in a track crash in his Lotus with a couple of races of the 1970 season left to run .But no one overtook his points haul by season's end.
A very popular and spectacular driver , he had a tempestuous relationship with the brilliant Lotus owner/designer Colin Chapman , so much so that this edition controversially includes reproductions of several letters between the two, in one, Jochen expresses his fear that Lotus cars were built too lightly and therefor too prone to mechanical failure and he was getting scared to race them... as it turned out, literally fore-telling his own demise later in the year.
Chapman took legal action to prevent the English translation of the book from featuring these letters - but you can read them here in the original edition.
The title translates to TRIBUTE TO A WORLD CHAMPION and the book is highly regarded for it's telling of the story.
1970 publication Very good clean example,No jacket. German text
