His Lotus 72 race car lost its right front wheel and veered into a guard rail at 205 mph Heinz Prüller, Jocehn Rindt (Kimber Publishing, 1970) p199 "Jochen Rindt Is Killed At Monza", Indianapolis News, September 5, 1970, p1 The 28-year old driver from Austria had won five of the first nine races on the 1970 Grand Prix circuit, including four in a row in the summer, and told reporters before his run "Last year I had a lot of bad luck, but this year it has changed."