When We Were Kings
Jochen Rindt and Jackie Stewart were the fastest drivers of their era - and best friends. Stewart looks back at Rindt with Nigel Roebuck
It doesn't happen often, but just once in a while you get a race that not only lives up to its promise but actually exceeds it. Anyone who was there will tell you that the 1969 British Grand Prix was one such. Jackie Stewart versus Jochen Rindt. Matra against Lotus. The rest nowhere.
"There were something like 30 lead changes between us," says Stewart, "although they didn't necessarily register at the start-finish line because they happened out on the circuit. We'd pass each other on the Hangar Straight and on the approach to Woodcote, but intelligently, not trying to block in fact quite the reverse, because we were drawing away from the competition. We got miles ahead because we weren't blocking each other."
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