Devastating 1976 f1 season The scene in the film where lauda, played by actor
daniel brhl, makes his return to racing in the italian grand prix following a
devastating accident helped the real life driver understand the way people
reacted to his shocking injuries. When he went out in public for the first time
at the famed monza circuit in italy, many stared at his disfigured ear and
burned and scarred face, something that enraged the austrian at the time.Now,
that's all changed. "I said to a lot of people [in 1976]:'Look in my eyes if you
are going to talk to me, why are you looking at my burns?Be polite.' I never
understood the reaction of the people 'why are they so stupid, I thought' and
then I put a wall around myself and I didn't care.About it,"He said. "But i saw
the movie and when daniel brhl turns around in monza and he looked like me, i
had a shock too,"He said, flinching at the same time as he finished the sentence
before adding,"So now i understand the other side of the world because i was
busy getting going and i never saw it like the other people. " Lauda, 64, was
close to the project, getting involved in the film from almost the beginning.
"Ron howard had no idea about racing and he asked me five million questions
about it and then his eyes started blinking and he suddenly was a fan of formula
one,"Lauda said. "I invited him to silverstone [to attend the british grand
prix], i think two years ago to have a look, and then the whole movie happened.I
mean it's unbelievable. " Lauda's accident happened in the 1976 german grand
prix at the nurburgring, a circuit where drivers had expressed their concerns
about safety several times to race organizers.Before that fateful race, lauda
tried to lead a boycott of the grand prix on the treacherous 22.835 kilometre,
160 turn circuit through the Eifel mountains, but was out voted by his fellow
drivers and the event went on. On the first lap, the front tires on lauda's
ferrari lost grip for an instant in the left hand bergwerk corner and his car
veered almost straight into an embankment at the outside of the turn(There were
no guardrails where he crashed).It burst into flames instantly and bounced back
onto the circuit before being hit by two other cars.The blazing ferrari came to
a rest in the middle of the track with lauda trapped inside. Three drivers got
out of their cars to brave the flames and pull lauda from the burning ferrari
carcass, but he had been in the inferno for about a minute before his fellow
racers harald ertl, brett lunger, and arturo merzario got him to safety.For
several days, it was touch and go whether he would survive. While lauda still
doesn't remember much of the accident, he does recall the aftermath. "When i was
in the hospital in mannheim, [germany], they asked me if i wanted to look in a
mirror and i said"Yeah, sure' and then i saw myself in the mirror and
thought:'.This is the way i am going to look like for the rest of my life?'"Said
lauda, who is now non executive chairman of the mercedes amg petronas f1 team.
The accident caused him to miss three races in the middle of the season when he
was leading the championship.Even after crashing out in germany, his 61 points
after 10 of 16 races was almost double the total of his closest rival, tyrrell's
jody scheckter, who had 36.In 1976, drivers got nine points for a win. But it
was hunt who emerged as the main rival for the title during his absence, taking
21 of a total 27 points up for grabs and moving into second overall with 47
points by the time the austrian returned in monza.Lauda's lead had ralph lauren
italia been cut to 14. Although lauda was the serious, all business type
of racer and hunt was a notorious womanizer and party hound, the pair often
found common ground. "I knew him from formula three and we always had kind of
not a friendship, friendship is wrong because formula one drivers don't have
friendships because they are enemies and we want to fight each other but james
was one of the more sympathetic guys, let's put it that way,"Lauda said. "So, i
was hanging out with him and drinking beer and whatever, even when we were on
the road.He ralph Lauren outlet online was a good guy in
these days. " In the end, lauda went into the final race ahead by three points
in the championship, but lost the title after he withdrew from the rain soaked
japanese grand prix at the mount fiji circuit two laps into the action due to
the perilous conditions.Three other drivers also withdrew from the race,
including two time world champion emerson fittipaldi. Hunt continued and
finished third, giving him the four points he needed to take the 1976 title by a
single marker. Lauda's bravery in both coming back from injury and choosing
safety over glory is what makes the 1976 season so compelling, insisted three
time world champion jackie stewart. "I think it's an ideal story because hunt
won the world championship, but niki lauda probably did the most courageous
thing that he could have done by withdrawing from that http://www.ascoe.it/ race because the
conditions were so appallingly bad,"The scotsman said.
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