Quote Originally Posted by D-Type
Nye also says that in 1965 Rindt's regular mechanic secured the throttle cable with tape, and as the engine heated up the tape softened, the cable moved and Rindt lost power. He suggests strongly that the same thing may have happened with Hill the previous year.
Exactly. Impossible to prove now. Odd to explain how this freelance "improvement" by the mechanic could go so long undetected. I guess Coopers was not as tight a run ship as when they were winning at will.