JOCHEN RINDT 1ST F1 WIN - 1969 United States Formula 1 Grand Prix Pass

Jochen Rindt's first win was at the 1969 United States Grand Prix, held at Watkins Glen. He drove a Lotus 49B and secured the victory after Jack Brabham, the race leader, went off track at the final corner.

Karl Jochen Rindt - 18 April 1942 – 5 September 1970) was a racing driver, who competed under the Austrian flag in Formula One from 1964 to 1970. Rindt won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1970 with Lotus, and remains the only driver to have won the World Drivers' Championship posthumously, following his death at the Italian Grand Prix; he won six Grands Prix across seven seasons. In endurance racing, Rindt won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1965 with NART.