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Lauda's teammate Alain Prost captured pole position, averaging 155. 478 mph ( 250. 219 km / h ), followed by Nigel Mansell, Lauda, Keke Rosberg and Nelson Piquet.
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Lauda's teammate Regazzoni was caught by the leaders on lap 18, after his lengthy pit stop.
Fast and ambitious, the Frenchman quickly established his dominance over his teammate, especially in qualifying, though Lauda's race driving saw him often a match for his younger team mate.
Lauda's and Alain
Lauda's team mate Alain Prost was second in his McLaren MP4 / 2B with Brazilian racer Ayrton Senna third in his Lotus 97T.
The fastest lap of the race was set by Lauda's team mate Alain Prost ( 1: 05. 257 ) at an average speed of.
Lauda's and Prost
Niki Lauda's McLaren retired on lap 54, while Alboreto had eliminated the gap to Prost, and gotten by him to take his first lead in a Grand Prix.
The Rosberg / Lauda / Prost battle continued, but on Lap 31 Lauda's gearbox failed on the pit straight and he was out of the race.
This gave Prost the lead in the world championship, with 18 points to Lauda's 12 and Rosberg and Watson's 8.
Senna gained two more podiums during the season, finishing third at the British Grand Prix behind Niki Lauda's McLaren and Warwick's Renault, while he finished off the season with a third ( after qualifying a then career best 3rd ) in the final round in Portugal behind the dominant McLaren's of race winner Prost and World Champion Lauda.
Lauda's and pole
The Tyrrells of Scheckter and Depailler were the only cars able to stay on the same lap with Lauda's Ferrari, who won from pole position.
In the second session, Andretti went faster with a 1: 22. 06, but it was Niki Lauda's Ferrari that grabbed the pole in final qualifying on Saturday in 1: 21. 63.
Andretti had no fewer than five engine failures in 1977, costing him the world championship to Niki Lauda, even though he had won four races and taken six pole positions to Lauda's three wins.
Lauda's and position
With neither Carlos Reutemann nor Emerson Fittipaldi featuring in the points, Niki Lauda's sixth position actually allowed him to expand his points lead to 17. 5 points.
Lauda's poor handling Ferrari came on as the track dried and he moved into second while Stuck survived to claim the final podium position.
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Although the F2 cars were good ( and Lauda's test-driving skills impressed March principal Robin Herd ), March's 1972 F1 season was catastrophic and Lauda, in despair and deep debt, briefly contemplated suicide but finally took out yet another bank loan to buy his way into the BRM team in 1973.
On the second lap at the very fast left kink before Bergwerk, Lauda's Ferrari swerved off the track, due to a suspected rear suspension failure, hit an embankment and rolled back into the path of Brett Lunger's Surtees-Ford car.
Lauda's Ferrari burst into flames, but, unlike Lunger, he was trapped in the wreckage.
In Lauda's absence, Hunt had reduced his lead in the World Championship standings.
In spite of this, Lauda's move is seen as one of the bravest examples in motor racing, especially since it lost the title for Ferrari of all teams.
Lauda's previously good relationship with Ferrari was severely affected by his decision to withdraw from the race, and he endured a difficult 1977 season, despite easily winning the championship through consistency rather than outright pace.
Lauda's helmet originally was a plain red with his full name written on the sides and the Raiffeisen Bank logo in the chin area.
Other notable books that she translated for Euphorion included La Princesse de Clèves ( 1950 ), Niki Lauda's memoirs ( 1985 ), and Hans-Ulrich Rudel's memoirs, Stuka Pilot.
** Niki Lauda's famous accident occurred during the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring.
Formula 1 finally declined to race there after 1976, with Niki Lauda's near-fatal crash sealing this decision.
Regazzoni's win, coupled with Niki Lauda's first lap crash put the Swiss Ferrari driver back into the lead of the championship he had previous held earlier in the year.
Andretti's car hit the back of Lauda's, sending him into Regazzoni.
In the last laps Lauda's oil pressure was fading and Fittipaldi was closing.
Lauda's Ferrari team mate, Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni finished third.
It was Lauda's third consecutive win of the season after the Monaco and Belgian Grands Prix.
Third was taken by Lauda's Ferrari team mate, Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni.
Lauda's second place reinforced his championship, expanding to 13 points over Brabham driver Carlos Reutemann.
It was Lauda's fourth win for the season, giving him a 22 point lead in the points over Brabham driver Carlos Reutemann.
Lauda's average speed was 122. 238 mph ( 196. 289 km / h ).
By lap 12, it was obvious that Lauda's car was not set up fully to cope with wet conditions and by lap 15 Hunt stormed by to lead for the fifth time this season.
Lauda's 16. 5 point lead would be too much for Fittipaldi to bridge at the final round of the championship at the United States Grand Prix.
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It was Lauda's fourth win of the year in what was a dominant display by the reigning champion.
In Lauda's biography, To Hell And Back, he wrote that whilst other cars had to reduce speed to drive carefully over the oil, the Brabhams could simply accelerate ( as the fan was activated by the gearbox to get around regulations, this meant that higher speed produced much higher grip ) through the affected parts of the track.
Lauda ran third in the early stages, but he was passed by Alan Jones, and the duo battled until Lauda's engine failed yet again.
Lunger said that Edwards was able to get by Lauda's car to the left but Lunger was unable to avoid the wrecked Ferrari.
Lauda topped the charts through almost the entire session, but, after crashing into a wall early on, Andrea de Cesaris threw his Alfa Romeo around in 1: 27. 316 to beat Lauda's time by. 012 of a second, three minutes before the session ended!
Lauda's and Nigel
The lone American driver in the race, Eddie Cheever, put on a fine show for the home crowd, placing his Ligier ninth, behind the Lotus pair of Nigel Mansell and Elio de Angelis and just ahead of Niki Lauda's McLaren.
Lauda's and Lauda
While Hunt would eventually prove to be the challenger to Lauda for the 1976 championship Lauda's points lead at this time was over the Tyrrell pair of Patrick Depailler ( 26 points ) and Scheckter ( 24 points ).
The 1976 World Championship was to be decided at the Mount Fuji circuit, with Niki Lauda just three points ahead of James Hunt after a season full of incidents including Lauda's near-fatal crash at the Nürburgring and subsequent missed races.
Prost's second place earned him 6 points which saw him surpass his and McLaren team mate Niki Lauda as the all time career points leader, with 421. 5 to Lauda's 420. 5 points.
Two weeks later at the 1976 German Grand Prix Ertl was one of the four drivers who helped pull Niki Lauda from his burning Ferrari after Lauda's infamous crash during the second lap of the race.
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