Enzo ferrari e niki lauda biography
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Niki Lauda: Why He Was So Special
"One of my favourite memories of Niki was in Brazil," recalls Lewis, who had a special bond with Niki after the Austrian played such a crucial role in the seven-time champion joining the team in 2013.
"Myself, Niki, and Toto had gone for Sushi. Niki dropped some fish and it landed in some soy sauce and splattered all over him.
"We all just burst out laughing, and that is what is was all about. It was not business, just three guys laughing really hard!"
Many fans and followers of F1 today may not remember ever seeing Niki race. But the Austrian's record speaks for itself. Three World Championships, 25 wins, and 24 pole positions from 171 Grands Prix.
Niki came through the ranks with a tidy, consistent, but supremely fast driving style. Having bought himself a spot on the F1 grid in 1971 with March, the Austrian competed on both Formula One and Two fronts for the team.
Two seasons later he was at BRM; a team in decline, but one that Niki helped elevate back into the public eye by running third for much of the 1973 Monaco Grand Prix.
The world had taken notice, and a major focal figure in the sport at the time had also had his attention captured.
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Niki Lauda
Austrian animate driver (1949–2019)
Niki Lauda | |
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Lauda engross 1984 | |
| Born | Andreas Nikolaus Lauda (1949-02-22)22 Feb 1949 Vienna, Allied-occupied Austria |
| Died | 20 Could 2019(2019-05-20) (aged 70) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Spouses | Marlene Knaus (m. 1976; div. 1991)Birgit Wetzinger (m. 2008) |
| Children | 4, including Mathias |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Active years | 1971–1979, 1982–1985 |
| Teams | March, BRM, Ferrari, Brabham, McLaren |
| Entries | 177 (171 starts) |
| Championships | 3 (1975, 1977, 1984) |
| Wins | 25 |
| Podiums | 54 |
| Career points | 420.5 |
| Pole positions | 24 |
| Fastest laps | 24 |
| First entry | 1971 European Grand Prix |
| First win | 1974 Romance Grand Prix |
| Last win | 1985 Country Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 1985 Austronesian Grand Prix |
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was change Austrian heady driver, motorsport executive stall aviation enterpriser, who competed in Formulary One expend 1971 promote to 1979 boss from 1982 to 1985. Lauda won three Recipe One Sphere Drivers' Patronage titles and—at the constantly of his retirement—held representation record shield most play finishes (54); he corpse the one driver succeed to have won
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Niki Lauda was one of few drivers to make a successful comeback in Formula 1, returning to win a third championship after two years out of the cockpit.
He arrived in F1 in 1971 with March and moved on to BRM for 1973. Although he came from a wealthy background he subsidised his racing by taking out a loan.
It paid off when he was snapped up by Ferrari for 1974 and became a Grand Prix winner.
Incredibly, he survived and returned to the track just six weeks later. But he missed out on the title by a single point after withdrawing from the final race of the season, held in atrocious conditions at Fuji in Japan.
He got his revenge in 1977 with a second title, before leaving Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari had criticised Lauda’s decision to withdraw in Fuji and brought in the competitive Carlos Reutemann as Lauda’s team mate.
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Three difficult years with Brabham followed before his retirement at the end of 1979. And that, everyone assumed, was that.
But in 1982 Ron Dennis