* 1949 – Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver and entrepreneur

Ferrari 312T2 Formula One car driven by Niki Lauda

This began the team's most successful era: with Porsche and Honda engines, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna took between them seven drivers ' championships and McLaren six constructors ' championships.

was a less successful year for the team: Fittipaldi was second in the championship behind Niki Lauda.

Niki Lauda, the reigning world champion and only person ever to lap the full Nordschleife in under 7 minutes ( 6: 58. 6, 1975 ), proposed to the other drivers that they boycott the circuit in 1976 because of the safety arrangements.

* February 22 – Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver

** Racing Champion Niki Lauda suffers serious burns in the German Grand Prix.

Andreas Nikolaus " Niki " Lauda ( born February 22, 1949 ) is an Austrian former Formula One racing driver and three-time F1 World Champion.

Regazzoni spoke favourably of Lauda, so Ferrari promptly went and signed him, paying Niki enough to clear his debts.

Niki Lauda practicing at the Nürburgring during the 1976 German Grand Prix

Like English, German uses ( German-style ) quotation marks between the first and last names ( e. g., Andreas Nikolaus „ Niki “ Lauda ).

Niki Lauda said of him, " He was the craziest devil I ever came across in Formula 1 ...

Villeneuve's arrival was prompted by Ferrari driver Niki Lauda quitting the team at the 1977 Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport having already clinched his second championship with the Italian team.

** Niki Lauda ( Austria ) wins World Drivers ' Champion, driving a Ferrari 312T.

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.

Niki Lauda driving for Ferrari at the 1976 German Grand Prix.

After three poor years, Ferrari signed Niki Lauda in 1974, and made the momentous decision to pull out of sportscar racing to concentrate upon F1.

The new Ferrari 312T, developed fully with Niki Lauda, introduced in 1975 brought Ferrari back to winning ways, Niki taking the drivers ' crown and Ferrari the constructors '.

Falco's good friend Niki Lauda named one of the Boeing airplanes in his Lauda Air fleet " Falco " after the singer.

Initial discussions were held with double World Champion Niki Lauda and McLaren on the subject of a 1980 campaign, but the BMW board denied Neerpasch's request for the programme.

Championships were clinched by the Brabham team in 1966, Jochen Rindt ( posthumously ) and Lotus in 1970, Lotus in 1973, Emerson Fittipaldi and McLaren in 1974, Niki Lauda and Ferrari in 1976, and Lauda in 1977.

The clear air and soft light has been of particular appeal to some of Western culture ’ s most outstanding painters, such as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Niki de Saint Phalle and Arman.

Since the 2nd century AD, the light of the city has attracted many famous painters and sculptors such as Chagall, Matisse, Niki de Saint Phalle, Klein, Arman and Sosno.

He is the youngest of three children and has an older sister Niki and an older brother Bart.

The central role of Mrs. Johnstone has been played by, among others, Sarah Haye, Barbara Dickson, Stephanie Lawrence, Clodagh Rodgers, Kiki Dee, Lyn Paul, Siobhan McCarthy, four of the Nolan sisters ( Linda, Bernie, Denise and Maureen ), Melanie Chisholm ( making her West End debut and receiving an Olivier nomination in 2009 ), Niki Evans and Amy Robbins.

Verhaeghen has been involved in several projects outside Klinik, including Noise Unit ( with Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber of Front Line Assembly ), D. Sign ( with Philippe and Eliane Fichot of Die Form ), X10 ( with Niki Mono, Marc Ickx of A Split-Second and Vidna Obmana ), and Para ( with his own wife Sabine Voss ).

Niki has made several television appearances in 2008 & presently in 2009 including: The Democratic National Convention 2008, CNN, Fox Network & Fuse TV.

She has had roles on soaps such as The Edge of Night, The Secret Storm, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and on One Life to Live as the original Victoria Lord / Niki Smith 1968-1970.

He has published five poetry collections Kipos Esokleistos (" Garden Enclosed ") ( 2003 ), Alexipyrina (" Flameproof ") ( 2004 ), Apteros Niki (" Wingless Victory ") ( 2008 ), Anisixasmos ( 2010 ) and " Plektani " ( 2012 ).

Norville married Swedish businessman Karl Wellner in 1987 ; the couple has three children, Niki, Kyle, and Mikaela.

He is the son of three-time Formula One world champion Niki Lauda and Marlene, and also has a brother, Lukas, who is currently his manager.

Niki has had two serious relationships with Vince Wolek ( 1968 – 69 ) and Harry O ' Neill ( 1985 ); neither Vinny or Harry realized at the time that Niki was an alter of Viki.

Niki Caro is married and has a daughter who was shortly born after the success of Whale Rider.

Niki has won many awards national and internationally such as San sebastan film festiavl award for best actress ..< ref name =" Cannes ">

For similar reasons, Kiki's Delivery Service was retitled in Spanish " Niki, la aprendiz de bruja " (" Niki, the witch apprentice "), as the original name of the character has ( unintentional ) adult connotations: kiki is vulgar for coitus in Spain.

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.

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.

Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Conceptual art and other tendencies or groups are represented with works by Andy Warhol, Rauschenberg, Arman, César, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Agam, Vasarely, Beuys, Dubuffet, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell and Louise Bourgeois.

** Niki Lauda's famous accident occurred during the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring.

Its name was emblazoned on the cap of Niki Lauda, which he always wore following his 1976 German Grand Prix accident.

The eventual race winner was Austrian Niki Lauda, this being his first win since his near fatal accident during the 1976 German Grand Prix.

At the 1979 Canadian Grand Prix, he replaced Niki Lauda at Brabham after the Austrian abruptly quit the team and Formula One.

After Niki Lauda's near-fatal accident at the dangerous Nürburgring in 1976, the German Grand Prix was moved to and held every year except for 1 at Hockenheim until 2007, and this was the second year the race was held there ( the first being 1970 ).

The main news before the Belgian Grand Prix was that the new Lotus 79 was now ready to race, and immediately Mario Andretti showed its pace by taking pole comfortably from Carlos Reutemann and Niki Lauda.

Qualifying was as expected, Mario Andretti taking pole with Ronnie Peterson alongside in the all-Lotus front row ( it would be Lotus ' last 1-2 qualifying result until the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix ), and Niki Lauda heading the second row.

The prelude to the race was notable for a strike action by the Grand Prix Drivers ' Association, led by Niki Lauda and Didier Pironi, in protest at the new superlicense conditions imposed by FISA, which would have tied the drivers to a single team for up to three years.

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 third row of the grid was taken by the first of the Pirelli runners in Nelson Piquet, while defending World Champion ( and 1984 French Grand Prix winner ) Niki Lauda ( McLaren ) rounded out the top six.

Before Saturday morning practice triple ( and defending ) World Champion ( and 1984 race winner ) Niki Lauda announced to the media, flanked by a very unhappy McLaren team boss Ron Dennis, that he would be retiring for good from Formula One following the Australian Grand Prix to concentrate on running his airline Lauda Air.

The race also proved to be the 34th and last Dutch Grand Prix and the 25th and last Grand Prix victory for triple ( and defending ) World Champion Niki Lauda.

Most of the Formula One drivers, including Alain Prost, Niki Lauda and Nigel Mansell were personally very much against racing in South Africa, but the drivers held the mentality that because they were contracted to drive at every Grand Prix, they would race at Kyalami.

On Friday morning, Niki Lauda announced the reformation of Grand Prix Drivers ´ Association ( GPDA ).

1985 Also saw the last race at the full Paul Ricard Circuit, the last European Grand Prix to be held at Brands Hatch, the last race with Monaco's infamous dog leg corner and the last British Grand Prix at Silverstone with the Woodcote chicane and the permanent addition of the Spa-Francorchamps as the venue for the Belgian Grand Prix, and the last win of 25 for Niki Lauda in his final season in Formula One.

At the first race of the season, the South African Grand Prix, Niki Lauda led a drivers ' strike against the " superlicences ", newly required for participation in the championship, which included clauses that Lauda believed would unfairly tie drivers to their teams.