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    Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda was an Austrian Formula One driver who won three F1 World Drivers' Championships in 1975, 1977, and 1984. He was the only driver to win championships for both Ferrari and McLaren, the two most successful F1 constructors. Lauda had a near-fatal crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix but recovered to continue his racing career, narrowly losing the championship that year. He later founded several airlines and worked as a consultant and TV commentator in Formula One.

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    Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda was an Austrian Formula One driver who won three F1 World Drivers' Championships in 1975, 1977, and 1984. He was the only driver to win championships for both Ferrari and McLaren, the two most successful F1 constructors. Lauda had a near-fatal crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix but recovered to continue his racing career, narrowly losing the championship that year. He later founded several airlines and worked as a consultant and TV commentator in Formula One.

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    Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda was an Austrian Formula One driver who won three F1 World Drivers' Championships in 1975, 1977, and 1984. He was the only driver to win championships for both Ferrari and McLaren, the two most successful F1 constructors. Lauda had a near-fatal crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix but recovered to continue his racing career, narrowly losing the championship that year. He later founded several airlines and worked as a consultant and TV commentator in Formula One.

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    Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda was an Austrian Formula One driver who won three F1 World Drivers' Championships in 1975, 1977, and 1984. He was the only driver to win championships for both Ferrari and McLaren, the two most successful F1 constructors. Lauda had a near-fatal crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix but recovered to continue his racing career, narrowly losing the championship that year. He later founded several airlines and worked as a consultant and TV commentator in Formula One.

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    Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 � 20 May 2019) was an Austrian

    Formula One driver, a three-time F1 World Drivers' Champion, winning in 1975, 1977
    and 1984, and an aviation entrepreneur. He was the only driver in F1 history to
    have been champion for both Ferrari and McLaren, the sport's two most successful
    constructors. He is widely considered one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time.
    [1] As an aviation entrepreneur, he founded and ran three airlines: Lauda Air,
    Niki, and Lauda. He was a Bombardier Business Aircraft brand ambassador. He was
    also a consultant for Scuderia Ferrari and team manager of the Jaguar Formula One
    racing team for two years. Afterwards, he worked as a pundit for German TV during
    Grand Prix weekends and acted as non-executive chairman of Mercedes-AMG Petronas
    Motorsport, of which Lauda owned 10%.[2]

    Having emerged as Formula One's star driver amid a 1975 title win and leading the
    1976 championship battle, Lauda was seriously injured in a crash at the 1976 German
    Grand Prix at the N�rburgring during which his Ferrari 312T2 burst into flames, and
    he came close to death after inhaling hot toxic fumes and suffering severe burns.
    [3] However, he survived and recovered sufficiently to race again just six weeks
    later at the Italian Grand Prix. Although he narrowly lost the title to James Hunt
    that year, he won his second Ferrari crown the year after during his final season
    at the team. After a couple of years at Brabham and two years' hiatus, Lauda
    returned and raced four seasons for McLaren between 1982 and 1985 � during which he
    won the 1984 title by 0.5 points over his teammate Alain Prost.Niki Lauda was born
    on 22 February 1949 in Vienna, Austria, to a wealthy family. His paternal
    grandfather was the Viennese-born industrialist Hans Lauda [de].[4][5]

    Lauda became a racing driver despite his family's disapproval.[6] After starting
    out with a Mini,[7] Lauda moved on into Formula Vee,[8] as was normal in Central
    Europe, but rapidly moved up to drive in private Porsche and Chevron sports cars.
    [9] With his career stalled, he took out a �30,000 bank loan,[10] secured by a life
    insurance policy, to buy his way into the fledgling March team as a Formula Two
    (F2) driver in 1971.[11] Because of his family's disapproval he had an ongoing feud
    with them over his racing ambitions and abandoned further contact.[12]

    Lauda was quickly promoted to the F1 team, but drove for March in F1 and F2 in
    1972. Although the F2 cars were good (and Lauda's driving skills impressed March
    principal Robin Herd), March's 1972 F1 season was catastrophic. Perhaps the lowest
    point of the team's season came at the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Park, where
    both March cars were disqualified within 3 laps of each other after just past 3/4
    race distance. Lauda took out another bank loan to buy his way into the BRM team in
    1973. Lauda was instantly quick, but the team was in decline; his big break came
    when his BRM teammate Clay Regazzoni left to rejoin Ferrari in 1974 and team owner
    Enzo Ferrari asked him what he thought of Lauda. Regazzoni spoke so favourably of
    Lauda that Ferrari promptly signed him, paying him enough to clear his debts.

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