Niki Lauda

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Andreas Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was an Austrian Formula One racer, a three-time F1 World Drivers' Champion, and an aviation entrepreneur.

He is the only racer in F1 history to have been champion for both Ferrari and McLaren, the sport's two most innovative constructors.

He is widely regarded as one of the top F1 drivers of all time.

Lauda Air, Niki, and Lauda were among the aviation pioneers who founded and operated three airlines, Lauda Air, Niki, and Lauda.

He was a Bombardier Business Aircraft brand ambassador.

He served as both a consultant for Scuderia Ferrari and team manager of the Jaguar Formula One racing team for two years.

Lauda was seriously wounded in a crash at the Nürburgring in 1976, when he was inhaling hot toxic fumes and suffering severe burns.

Nonetheless, he survived and recovered enough to compete again just six weeks later at the Italian Grand Prix.

Despite losing the year's title – by just one point – to James Hunt, he captured his second championship the following year during his last season at Ferrari.

Lauda returned and raced four seasons for McLaren between 1982 and 1985, losing by half a point over his teammate Alain Prost after a few years at Brabham and two years of hiatus.

Early years in racing

Niki Lauda was born in Vienna, Austria, on February 22, 1949, to a wealthy paper manufacturing family. Hans Lauda, a Viennese-born industrialist, was his paternal grandfather.

Despite his family's disapproval, Lauda became a racer. Lauda began with a Mini and then stepped into Formula Vee, as was normal in Central Europe, but then took the opportunity to drive in private Porsche and Chevron sports cars. With his career stagnant, he took out a £30,000 bank loan, funded by a life insurance policy policy, to buy his way into the fledgling March team as a Formula Two (F2) driver in 1971. He had an ongoing feud with them over his racing aspirations and avoided further contact as a result.

Lauda was quickly promoted to the F1 team but it wasn't until 1972 that he started racing in F1 and F2 in March. Although the F2 cars were fine (and Lauda's driving skills impressed March principal Robin Herd), March's 1972 F1 season was brutal. The Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Park, where both March cars were disqualified within three laps of each other, just over 3/4 of the race distance. It was perhaps the lowest point of the team's season so far. Lauda obtained his way into the BRM team with another bank loan in 1973. Lauda was lightning fast, but the team was in decline; however, the BRM P160E was not fast and easy to drive, and its engine lacked horsepower. After finishing in 3rd at the Monaco Grand Prix last year, Lauda's fame was on the rise, prompting Enzo Ferrari to be concerned. Enzo Ferrari, his BRM colleague, left to rejoin Ferrari in 1974, asked him what he thought of Lauda. Regazzoni praised Lauda so much that Ferrari immediately signed him, owing to his sufficient funds to clear his debts.

Personal life

Elisabeth, his mother, was born in Elisabeth. Lauda's first wife, Marlene Knaus (married 1976, divorced 1991): Mathias, a racer's brother, and Lukas, who served as Mathias' manager. He married Birgit Wetzinger, a flight attendant for his airline, in 2008. When the kidney transplant he received from his brother in 1997 failed, she donated a kidney to Lauda in 2005. Birgit gave birth to twins in September 2009.

Lauda had successfully completed a lung transplant procedure in his native Austria on August 2nd, 2018.

Lauda was a natural Austrian German, English, and Italian.

Lauda came from a Roman Catholic family. In a Ziff-time interview, he said he left the church for a while to avoid paying church taxes, but he returned after his two children were baptized.

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