* 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

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 ).

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.

In 1967 Proby scored his only Billboard Hot 100 Top 30 hit with " Niki Hoeky ".

Through the Marstall Gate you arrive at the bank of the river Leine, where the world-famous Nanas of Niki de Saint-Phalle are located.

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

Vincenzo Amato, Body of Hector / Glaucus ; Miriam Bloom, Shooliloo ; Fritz Bultman, Garden at Nightfall ( extended loan ); Chryssa, Untitled ; Lucille Friedland, Big Stride ( gift of the artist ); Red Grooms, Marathon ; Sarah Haviland, Staten Island Arch ; Jon Isherwood, Borromini's Task ; Zero Higashida, Maquette for a Small Universe ; Valerie Jaudon, Untitled ; Niki Ketchman, Red Inside ; Win Knowlton, Ellipse ; Mark Mennin, Torak ; Don Porcaro, Moon Marker ; and Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Stele in the Wind.

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

Birmingham-born Niki Evans was playing the role in the West End at the time, so while the tour visited Birmingham, Webb briefly took over in the London production to allow Evans to play her home city.

With the McLarens of Prost and Niki Lauda dominating 1984, Arnoux had a less successful second season at Ferrari, only finishing 6th with 27 points, with his new teammate Michele Alboreto progressively taking the initiative and team leadership from him.

: The Indianapolis production was at the Ben Davis Performing Arts Center and the Indiana Historical Society, directed and produced by Don Drennen, and starring Dane Rogers as Jon, Michael Davis as Michael, and Niki Hurrle-Warner, a founding member of Indyprov, as Susan.

* Niki de Saint Phalle, when asked about her own Nanas, is reported to have stressed that it was not an intellectual connection to Zola that she was aiming at, but more a kind of " fusion " with the opulent forms of Rubens.

On the international stage, Niki Lauda, Emerson Fittipaldi and Keke Rosberg, all Formula 1 champions, raced Formula Vees in Europe or America at the beginning of their careers.

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

The Greek restaurant and bar owners ' union president, Niki Constantinou, made a public plea, directed at the people of Finland and Greece, not to allow Lordi to perform in the contest, claiming the group was Satanic.

It connects Eleusis near Athens with the border of the Republic of Macedonia at Niki.

Niki Lauda and James Hunt had a superb duel for 20 laps before Hunt got past on lap 66 and began slicing into the Tyrrells ' lead at 2 seconds a lap.

Once the débris had been cleared and holes in the catch fencing mended, there was a second accident as Niki Lauda spun on engine oil, hitting the wall at 120 mph.

The race saw the return of World Championship leader Niki Lauda to the sport after his serious crash at the-he finished this race in fourth place.

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.

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 pole position time set by Niki Lauda ( 6: 58. 6 ) was the fastest officially timed lap ever on that track configuration, though it was not eligible as lap record as it did not occur during the race.

The track began to dry and everyone had to pit for tyres, and those who stopped early were the ones who benefited, as now Niki Lauda was leading from Jochen Mass and Scheckter was down to fifth.

With the rain soaking the track, Niki Lauda sought out Bernie Ecclestone on the grid in a bid to have the Tunnel flooded as well ( the Tunnel was dry but coated with oil from the previous days use which Lauda explained had turned it into a 5th gear skid pad when the cars came racing in carrying the spry from their tyres ).

Patrese's gearbox dropped oil onto the track which took off Niki Lauda and nearly took off Teo Fabi and race leader Michele Alboreto ; Alboreto's off handed the lead to Alain Prost.

It was also the first time in nine years the German GP was held at Nürburgring ; previously the German GP was held on the dangerous and very long Nordschleife section of the track up until 1976, and at that race Niki Lauda had a near-fatal accident in his Ferrari that forced the Formula One circus to move to the safer, shorter and faster Hockenheimring.