Hunt won on three occasions that year but the Lauda and Ferrari combination proved too strong, Hunt and McLaren managing just fifth and third in the respective championships.

Five years after his first retirement, Lauda won his third title driving a McLaren MP4 / 2.

Although Lauda became the season's pacesetter, achieving six consecutive pole positions, a mixture of inexperience and mechanical unreliability meant Lauda won only one more race that year, the Dutch GP.

The 1975 F1 season started slowly for Lauda, but after nothing better than a fifth-place finish in the first four races he then won four out of the next five races in the new Ferrari 312T.

Never one to be awed by the trappings of success, Lauda famously gave away any trophies he won to his local garage in exchange for his car to be washed and serviced.

Five years after his first retirement, Lauda won his third title driving a McLaren MP4 / 2.

Having joined Brabham in 1978 for a $ 1 million salary, Lauda endured two unsuccessful seasons, notable mainly for his one race in the Brabham BT46B, a radical design known as the Fan Car: it won its first race, but Brabham did not use the car in F1 again, not wanting the car to be banned outright.

Lauda proved he was still quite capable when, in his third race back, he won the Long Beach Grand Prix.

The drivers, with the exception of Teo Fabi, barricaded themselves into a banqueting suite at Sunnyside Park Hotel until they had won the day. Lauda won a third world championship in 1984 by half a point over teammate Alain Prost, due to only half points being awarded for the shortened 1984 Monaco Grand Prix.

The whole season continued to be dominated by Lauda and Prost, who won 12 of 16 races.

Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Mike Hawthorn, Phil Hill, John Surtees, Niki Lauda, Jody Scheckter, Michael Schumacher and Kimi Räikkönen have all won drivers world championships driving for the team.

Lauda scored points in the races following his severe crash, but voluntarily withdrew from the season-ending Grand Prix at Fuji after two laps because of heavy rain, and James Hunt won the title by a single point.

In 1977 Lauda, having come back from his near fatal crash the previous year, took the title again for Ferrari ( and the team won the Constructors ' Championship ), overcoming his more fancied, and favoured, team mate Reutemann.

Mario Andretti won the race, with Lauda withdrawing due to the dangerous conditions.

A further non-championship event took place at Imola in 1979, which was won by Niki Lauda for Brabham-Alfa Romeo.

Championships were held from 1956 to 1960, 1964 to 1967 and again in 1972 .. Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham, Jim Clark and Niki Lauda won titles.

Constructors ' and drivers ' world championships were won with Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika Häkkinen and Lewis Hamilton.

British driver Jim Clark won it 4 times and Austrian driver Niki Lauda won 3 times.

The race was won by Austrian driver Niki Lauda giving the new Ferrari 312T its first win.

The race was won by Austrian driver Niki Lauda driving a Ferrari 312T, his second victory for the year after winning Monaco two weeks prior.

The race was won by Austrian driver Niki Lauda driving Ferrari 312T.

Niki Lauda has written five books: The Art and Science of Grand Prix Driving ( titled Formula 1: The Art and Technicalities of Grand Prix Driving in some markets ) ( 1975 ); My Years With Ferrari ( 1978 ); The New Formula One: A Turbo Age ( 1984 ); Meine Story ( titled To Hell and Back in some markets ) ( 1986 ); Das dritte Leben ( 1996 ).

The campaign was generally chaotic: having acquired major sponsorship, Louis Stanley originally planned to field up to six cars ( three for established drivers, three for paying journeymen and young drivers ) of varying designs including P153s, P160s and P180s and actually ran up to five for a mix of paying and paid drivers until it became obvious that it was completely overstretched — the team's sponsors insisted that the team should cut back to a more reasonable level and only three cars were run in 1973 for Beltoise, Lauda and Regazzoni.

This left Lauda and Fittipaldi twelve seconds ahead of Jarier, who was five seconds clear of a group containing Hunt, Brambilla, Mass, Peterson and Scheckter.

Lauda allowed his lead to dwindle to just under five seconds at the finish, and savored the fitting climax to his first Championship season.

Meanwhile, Lauda made his way by Depailler on lap five and took second place, seven seconds behind Regazzoni, who was beginning to seem untouchable.

At the front, Lauda suddenly increased his lead over de Cesaris from five seconds to 10 around lap 30, when the Alfa developed brake trouble.

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.

But at the German Grand Prix Lauda crashed heavily, was nearly killed and missed the next two races.

Unlike 1975 and despite tensions between Lauda and Di Montezemolos successor, Daniele Audetto, Lauda dominated the start of the 1976 F1 season, winning four of the first six races and finishing second in the other two.

Lauda returned to race only six weeks ( two races ) later, appearing at the Monza press conference with his fresh burns still bandaged.

1985 was a poor season for Lauda, with eleven retirements from the fourteen races he started, he did not start the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps after crashing and breaking his wrist during practice, he also later missed the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch ; John Watson replaced him for that race.

Hunt took pole position for the second time in two races, with Lauda alongside again.

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.

This meant that Lauda had a 21 point lead over Scheckter with four races left.

The race finished in that order ; with Andretti taking a dominant victory from Lauda, who closed in on the championship, and Jones who took his second podium in three races.

By winning races when Prost ran into trouble and scoring relentlessly when Prost proved quicker, Lauda was just able to win the title.

McLaren dominated the season, with Prost winning a record 7 races, and Lauda winning 5.

Niki Lauda won his second championship, despite Mario Andretti winning more races.

Fittipaldi, Ronnie Peterson and Carlos Reutemann each won three races, Jody Scheckter and Niki Lauda two each, Regazzoni and Denny Hulme, who retired at the end of the season, one each.

Lauda, with three wins and 69 points, needed only to score a point in any of the final three races to clinch the title, while Jody Scheckter, with two wins and 42 points, needed to win them all to have a chance.