Lauda

NIki Lauda

Niki Lauda, born in Austria from February 22, 1949 to May 20, 2019, is a three time F1 driver champion, pilot and entrepreneur. He is the prototype of the movie "extreme wind". He is known as the bravest racing driver in F1 history and won the Lawrence Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.

On May 20, 2019, Nikki Lauda died at the age of 70.

Character experience

Nikki Lauda is from Salzburg (born in Vienna). In sports, he won the F1 driver championship three times in 1975, 1977 and 1984.

Since then, he has been a Jaguar team manager for two years. In business, Nikki Lauder is the founder of Lauder airlines.

Career

Early racing

Niki Lauda was born in a wealthy family, and the environment doomed him to be a Roman. Despite the opposition of his family, Lauda resolutely embarked on the road of racing. His racing career began with mini, and soon he switched to the more popular formula Vee race in Central Europe, but immediately upgraded to driving for the private teams of Porsche and Chevron. From then on, his career looked calm until he borrowed a large sum of money from the bank under the guarantee of a life insurance company and used the money to buy the F2 driver position of the March team. He will soon be promoted to the F1 team. In 1972, he played for March in both F1 and F2. Although March's F2 team is very good, and Lauda's test technology really impressed team director Robin Hurd, their F1 season was really miserable. The desperate Lauda even considered some radical actions, but finally, in 1973, he borrowed money from the bank and joined the BRM team. Lauda immediately played to a very high level, but the team has been in poor condition, even in recession. In 1974, he finally ushered in a turning point: Lauda's BRM team mate Cray regazzoni returned to Ferrari and praised Lauda in front of boss Enzo Ferrari. Ferrari immediately signed Lauda and paid him enough to pay off the debt.

Ferrari career

If the early 1970s were not very successful, then the beginning of 1973 was the peak of disaster. Finally, Ferrari was reorganized under the leadership of chairman Luca di Montezemolo and successfully revived in 1974. The team had a lot of trust in the then unknown Lauda, and that trust soon paid off - Lauda won the team the second place in the opening match of Argentina Grand Prix. Just three stops later in Spain, Lauda won his first F1 Grand Prix - Ferrari's first since 1972. Although Lauda has been the season leader and won six pole positions in a row, his lack of experience and the lack of stability of the car meant that he could only win another Dutch grand prix that year. At the end of the season, he was only fourth in the driver's table, but proved his excellent ability to test and improve the car.

Lauda's 1975 season started badly. But with the best result in the first four races being only fifth, he won four of the next five races in his new Ferrari 312T. After finishing fifth in the U.S. Grand Prix, his first Grand Prix title was finally set.

In 1976, unlike in 1975, Lauda was in complete control of the previous games. He won four of the first six games and finished second in the other two. After winning the fifth victory in England, he has more than doubled the points of Jodie Schott, who is third place. It seems that his "two consecutive titles" is only a matter of time. No one has been able to defend the title since Jack Braham's series in 1959 and 1960. And he looks set to break Jim Clark's record for the highest number of wins in a single season in 1963.

At this time, however, tragedy happened. In the second lap of the long Nurburgring circuit of the German Grand Prix, Lauda's car suddenly left the circuit due to the suspected failure of the rear suspension system. After hitting the protective wall, it rolled back to the circuit and came to the driving route of Langer's Sutil Ford car. Lauda's car caught fire, but worse than Langer, he was trapped in the wreckage of the car. Drivers mashalio, guy Edwards and Harad Etel soon arrived at the scene of the accident, but before the three of them and Lange struggled to pull Lauda out of the car, he had suffered severe head burns in the car, and his lung and blood system were damaged by the toxic heat he inhaled. Although Lauda was still conscious and could stand up at once, later he fell into a coma, and the priest even performed a deathbed service for him.

The fire left a large scar on Lauda, but it may have become a feature of him in the eyes of the public. He thought that there was no need for further treatment. He only performed some simple surgical operations to make the eyelids return to normal work. After the accident, he habitually wore the Palma hat in front of the public to cover the scars on his face - another distinctive feature of him.

Ferrari boycotted the Austrian Grand Prix to protest against the favouritism of McLaren driver James Hunt at the Spanish and British Grand Prix, as Lauda largely withdrew from the race. Carlos rittman is even on the replacement list.

But Lauda's back is incredible! Not only did he survive the blaze, he returned to the field just six weeks later (two Grand Prix) and won an amazing fourth place in the Italian Grand Prix. In the days when Lauda left, hunt gradually narrowed the point gap with him. After winning the Canadian and American Grand Prix, hunt and Lauda are only three points apart. Only the last Grand Prix of the season: the Japanese Grand Prix.

Lauda finished third in qualifying, behind hunt. But it rained heavily on race day and Lauda retired after two laps - he thought it was very dangerous to continue to fly on the track in this situation. After the tire was punctured by a foreign body and Hunter lost several positions, he returned to third place and won the championship by one point. Ignore the ending. Lauda's return is regarded as one of the bravest models in the racing industry.

Because of Lauda's strong desire to quit the racing industry, his previous good relationship with Ferrari has been affected. Because the team has decided to use Giles Villeneuve to drive the No. 3 car in the Canadian Grand Prix, Lauda has long announced that he will leave Ferrari at the end of the season. In the 1977 season, Lauda drove Ferrari's 312T2 to win his second F1 TITLE 17 points ahead of second place Jodie Schott. This year, Lauda won only three races, namely, the South African Grand Prix, the German Grand Prix and the Dutch Grand Prix. Although Mario Andretti of lotus Ford team won more than Lauda, Lauda's record of only three incomplete races makes it hard for other drivers to match. Although he won the championship early in 1977, his victory was due to his reliability and completion rate rather than his amazing speed. Even if already determined to leave, but Lauda and team mate rittman's joint efforts to help Ferrari win the second place lotus Ford team with 33 points to win the team championship.

Retired in dismay

After joining Braham in 1978 with an annual salary of $1 million, Lauda had two less successful seasons. One of the most striking is the brahams bt46b he drove in a grand prix. Some of the "fans" come from this idea. He won the first game, but was soon banned. At the 1979 Canadian Grand Prix, Lauda told Burney Eccleston, the owner of brahams, that he wanted to retire immediately because he was not interested in "driving around". Lauda, who founded an airline, will return to Austria to run it after retirement.

The return of the king

In 1982, to get the money to support his business, Lauda returned to the circuit and felt that his career in F1 could continue. He was very successful in McLaren's test, the only problem is how to convince team sponsor Marlboro that he has enough ability to win. Lauda proved that he was competitive with his third Long Beach Grand Prix victory after his return.

In 1984, Lauder's McLaren team and Porsche officially became partners. This year, Lauda's only opponent is his teammate: Alan Prost. This season, Lauda often lags far behind Prost in qualifying and loses 5-7 to his teammates in the championship. But the Italian Grand Prix is the best manifestation of the persistent personality of the driver who has returned from business: in this race with only eight cars to finish, Lauda, who was only fourth in the starting race, finally won Monza by 25 seconds ahead of second place. After fierce competition, Lauda finally beat his teammate Alan Prost by 1.5 points to win the third championship. McLaren dominated F1 with 12 wins and 86 points.

Legend

"All racing drivers cheat themselves that it's only for others to die. What kind of people are willing to do this

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