![]() The next year, Marko won the Le Mans 24 Hours with Gijs van Lennep and became a fixture on the Grand Prix scene, but in July 1972, in the French Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand, Marko would sustain life-changing injuries.Ī stone flicked up and hit Marko in the left eye, causing him to go permanently blind in that eye as his career came to an end, with a Ferrari pre-contract in his pocket for 1973. Rindt's death did not deter Marko, who pledged to follow in the Lotus racer's footsteps. Rindt would be killed at Monza in 1970 and become the first, and only, posthumous F1 World Champion. In 1967, he received his doctorate in law – hence the Dr prefix – but it was the exploits of fellow Austrian Jochen Rindt which ignited the motorsport bug. Until the death of founder Dietrich Mateschitz in 2022, he was confidant and right-hand man to the billionaire, tasked with ensuring only the best drivers got into the senior team. Born on 27 April 1943 in Graz, Thursday marks Helmut Marko's 80th birthday, but he is still the lynchpin of Red Bull's racing division.
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