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Originally Posted by racerbruce
....his mantra of "performance through lightweight" and "subtracting weight makes you faster" created a new standard for race cars, but also created potential death to the drivers.
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Bernie Ecclestone was Jochen Rindt's manager. Here he talks about his council to Jochen on his leaving Cooper to go where?...
"And I said to Jochen, 'If you want to win the World Championship you've got more chance with Lotus than with Brabham. If you want to stay alive you've got more chance with Brabham than with Lotus'. It wasn't a bad thing to say; it was a matter of fact. That was what the pattern was, for whatever reason: people did get killed in Lotuses. Maybe Colin (Chapman) took things to the edge a bit — and anyone who drove for Lotus was prepared to go along with that and take it to the edge. And Jochen was prepared to accept that.”
Later (concerned and scared ), Jochen wrote this letter to Chapman: