F1 - Lauda is on FIRE!

[SLiDaRr]

Lauda the burning hero! i love his race predictions in German TV these days. i wish there were a race like Nürburgring Nordschleife with updated safty measures! not only 4-7km(-4,35 miles) tracks but 24km(14,91 miles). These races would bear the best drivers in F1 like Lauda. shame its to expensive to maintain. please only one year, one F1 race it would be trend-setting... and...and....plz XD

[WatanukiF1]

if Kimi Raikkönen is the iceman... Niki Lauda is the FIREman on the track

[iamwootaek]

i can't believe the lack of marshals around that part of the track. because people had to witness shit like this in almost every other race, they were well aware of the danger involved in motorsports but the driver had to be pulled out by his colleagues

[DBXdarkangel24]

Lauda is a over opinionated DICK!!

[lloydieb123]

@DBXdarkangel24 but hes earnt the respect to opinionate ....

[DBXdarkangel24]

@lloydieb123 Nah not really. He is not liked in F1 anymore because he doesnt no what he is talking about. Sure he drove a f1 car like 20 YEARS AGO!!

[dalilrafi]

Damn! Try to imagine how it must be in First-Person-View! Flames everywhere around, your helmet still on, seatbelts, then a car hits you, flames nearer than before, it's getting really hot and you start sweating because of the temperature and your fear. You feel how your suit and skin can't take it anymore and everything starts to melt... You can't breath because of the hot air around you, you say your last prayer.

Crazy how fast this things catched fire back in the days. I like Niki Lauda :-D

[ikelleners]

Man with no fear, all naieve drivers yes, young and ignorant, thinking nothing happens to them.....

How come they all stop after a few to serieus crashes then :D?

O yes, they wise up a bit :P

[m93sek]

I bet Alsonso would have kept going - important points for the season.....

[immortalperser]

What a tough guy! Lauda is a man whom every F1 fan should respect.

[TheKubaTV]

In polish channel - Polsat Play

so "Historia Formuły 1" EN:Story Formula 1

27 November in polsat play - year 1979.

[McLarenMercedes]

And this is why they didn't race F1 cars on Nurburgring after 1976.

[keytek9]

fucking stupid racing back days drivers helped driver out stupid stupid stupid niki luda is not a manager of a team but i didnt want to see him in a wheel chair

[Yuri600ru]

Lauda is the real hero of F1!

[wdowa94]

You can see? Next car was hitted in burning car specially. Good work of this driver

[Hlover01]

Dragged Lauda from what almost became --- way to go, stopping the clip. Now I'm gonna wonder forever about what he was end the sentence with. :(

[Haz6]

Good stuff... Very lucky man

[Winneri9]

yes he survived it

[Haz6]

Did he survive this?...

[AJHG1000]

@Haz6 yes he did :D

[PassiveSmoking]

@Haz6 Yes, and he went back to racing after recovering. He ended up with some really nasty scars though.

[UnFoR1988]

niki lauda is iron man

[MrGoSkating]

fuck off chuck norris..niki lauda flow trough the ashcloud :)

[niikodas]

then you'll love GILLES

[lmeck]

I firstly think that Lauda is a good guy, but ... after when Roger Williamson died (his car fired, he was still alive and he scream for his life - only David Purley was trying to help him ) he said: " that he is paid for racing and not for parking on the track ".... Human being died and he talk like that ... !!!!

[ratzinator1]

I'll never forget in a pre-race show to a Nurnburgring race a few years ago - Bernie and Niki did a tour of the Nordeschleife and the commentators during the pre-race show said that one time Bernie said to Niki, "hey Niki, I think I found your ear." That was sick. Somewhat disturbing but funny too in a crazy way.

[ghostfac3killa]

not so lucky ... thank the guys who tried to help him the marshals were just scarred bust those racers like Arturo Merzario, Brett Lunger, Guy Edwards and Harald Ertl helped lauda they are heroes they could burned too but they helped this man

[poussyledzep]

very lucky Lauda

[paulboggan]

the reason that f1 stopped at the nordshliefe was because it was iimpossible to properly marshall it because of its length and to have adequete doctor cover. so it was on the grounds of safety. f2 and f3 raced there til the early 80s and clasic touring cars still race there i believe.

[jrdill1929]

In his day, Mr. Lauda was great. Before and after his accident.

[renaultr202]

I'm sure they use the old "boot" section for the IRL at the moment...

[erasetoimprove]

Not sure why there's always so much disrespect on fatal accident youtube vids. Speaking of tracks they don't do grand prix on anymore - why not re-open the long-unused portion of Watkins Glen and add today's safety innovations to the track? It's not as good today, but the original full length circuit looks like it was a blast when F1 ran there. Several deaths in the heavily wooded portion closed half the track, then they stopped racing there soon after.

[tommykl]

i believe there was only one death there in f1 (Helmuth Koinigg)

Mc Duffie was at the Loop

Cevert was in the Esses...

[effinvadge]

i stand by what i said...

[roadamerica30]

but the end of the full Nordschleife:( happy Nikki survived though. but how cool would it be to see a f1 race on the old Nordschleife again?!

[quasiphatpaul]

Although I agree it would be cool the safety concerns outweigh the coolness of it.

[McLarenMercedes]

very cool, but modern F1 cars are too close to the ground to be able to run there

anyway, can they alter it to modern safety standards for F1 racing? I think not.

[MrNinjaFish]

What about the Le Mans circuit?

[McLarenMercedes]

They DID run a race there in 1967, on the so called Bugatti circuit, a shortened version of the original circuit. The drivers didn't like it at all, so it was never run there again.

The original circuit is part public roads, including the Mulsanne straight, and shutting those public roads off for yet another race a year would be difficult.

Also F1 engines would probably not last long enough on the Mulsanne straight. It's really made for endurance racing.

[Pol46]

it's not a safety problem.. it's the fact that the ring is too big for television e spectators stardard....

[jraybay]

Lauda the man. He die in the car if it meant winning f1 his life he enjoy it so much bravery :D .

[Trondyard]

Lauda would be one of the last to die in the car for victory. He decided not to race in the last Grand Prix of that year because of the heavy rain. This costed him the WC 1976, but his life was more important to him and he survived! =) Niki was (and still is) great!

[McLarenMercedes]

In that race he was still suffering from his injuries and all the skin operations on his face meant he could really close his eyes, which meant that he couldn't see the racetrack in those monsoon conditions of the race

continuing driving in his conditions would have meant suicide, he did the right thing in retiring after 2 laps

[debou96]

wenn man den mit Sennas Vergleicht war der 10 Mal schlimmer aber das Wird Senna Auch nix Bringen jez ;(

[lexx745890243]

so much courage from the F1 drivers it is inspirational

[Hiosho]

i wonder if these drivers where behind Roger Williamson he wouldnt die right??

bit there was only one sad hero David P.

and 5 other drivers overtake them didnt stop...thats a shame...

lucky for Lauda he had more brave Men behind his car as this accident happends

[yepheth]

Luck for Lauda his car -unlikely from Williamson- didn't capsize and yes he had some gentlemen behind him like Arturo Merzario.

[paulboggan]

david purley was the only one to stop and help williamson at zandvoort but he couldnt right the car. even the marshalls were practically useless there. it was one of the most horrible waste of a life ever in the sport. williamson was still alive and unhurt in the accident and was screaming at purley to help him out but he simply couldnt do it single handedly. i would stop short in calling the drivers cowardly..they didnt know one their colleagues needed severe assistance.......

[xxemililyxx]

the other two drivers are heroes, dragging him out

[tommykl]

even more so, since there were four drivers helping

[StuffyG]

@xxemililyxx Hell yeah! Drivers always want to try and help in the fiery crashes because they know that is the worst way to go as a racing driver. It's like an unspoken thing. DON'T LET ME BURN.

[drenajunkie]

@StuffyG Especially after Williamson... RIP

[mynkNX]

niki lauda - what a man. respect. a man with no fear!

[ratzinator1]

@mynkNX

yeah, real lucky he didn't burn to death - I have to blame Enzo for that - he mades those cars unsafe - killed a few guys - Lauda was lucky - don't get me wrong, Ferrari is awesome - good manufacturer - loved it when Michael Schumacher won those championships with Ferrari but Lauda's near-death experience was totally ridiculous

[HoskieDC]

@ratzinator1 he lost his helmet in the impact - that surely contributed to his burns

[ratzinator1]

@HoskieDC

holy lord, never knew that, damn it, I am shaking my head at that unbelievable

[HoskieDC]

@ratzinator1 Yeah I know, I didn't believe it when I first read it but Lauda always wore a red helmet and if you look closely you can see when the car is spinning that he only has the white balaclava on

[czopor]

Roger Williamson 1973 GP Zandvoort Hollaand - The Famous Firey Formula 1 Wreck. He die ;(

[grako76]

my dad calls pork scratchings "niki lauda`s ear holes"........now i know why!!!

[timmyt258]

that is NOT funny! he was given the last rites, u know

[YeefeiMr]

How Lauda survived was a miracle

[hartistry1957]

Is it just me or does anyone else feel a little guilty for enjoying the imminent threat of mutilation or violent death these guys face? I mean really, are we just enjoying some car drivers jockying at break-neck speeds for a prize as a profession, or are we really hoping for the inevitible, albeit, unpredictable and unmistakably thrilling

car crash?

[filips989]

ok, now this is the 2nd or the 3rd time i saw your comment on 2 or 3 different videos.

if you watch f1 races just for the thrill of crashing, that's your problem.

a lot of people who watch f1 or some other motosport are car lovers, speed lovers, racing lovers...

and anyway, f1 cars nowdays are safer than fort knox, just look at kubica's 2007 crash in canada!

[hartistry1957]

You are NOT alone! I love to watch car racing strictly for the potential crashes. The adrenaline must be very intense for the racers; nothing compared to my thrill.

--Me, Myself, and Eye.

[Staff777]

always wonder how lauder got that way. wonder if that shunt (moving him out of the fuel and forcing another driver to stop) helped save his life?

[milanistaanimalista1]

lauda ha x caso origini italiane?

[THEKINKS08]

no,suo nonno era galiziano, quindi e' di origini spagnole dalla parte del padre.

[milanistaanimalista1]

meno male che tre si fermano x aiutarlo che animo nobile hanno avuto cosi il caro lauda, si e' fatto tutta la sua gioventu' fossero finiti cosi anche gli altri incidenti della f1

[RomanBMW]

that wasn't dangerous fire.

[Serge192]

It's not the fire per se that killed many F1 drivers; most of them died of asphyxiation. That's the fuel that's burning, emmitting poisonous fumes. If you inhale them, they kill the brain cells through the lungs. So even in those cases when the flames don't look too massive, the trapped driver suffers as much.

[grako76]

you silly twat!!! he died on the operating table. he had minor burns and 5 fractures to the legs. melted fat? wtf?

[JpNineteen82]

Check the facts before u post and certainly before dishing out stupid insults you berk ! Here is a quote from wiki - think you will find im right

'Unfortunately, during the night, bone marrow went into Peterson's bloodstream through the fractures, forming fat globules on his major organs including lungs, liver, and brain. By morning he was in full renal failure and was declared dead a few hours later. The cause of death was given as fat embolism.'

[JpNineteen82]

Ok it was the leg fractures that caused the embolism, im not a doctor, i had heard an f1 tv comentator say the fat 'melted' and took his word for it. But after the operation he was expected to pull through , he did not die on the operating table

[milanistaanimalista1]

sind die 3 menschen wo niki haben gerettet noch am leben

[eragon812]

ja der mann war noch feuer und flamme für seinen job lool

[ManusPlere91]

poor niki

[HoskieDC]

Its great that the other drivers helped him here, but why did no-one stop to help Roger Williamson at Zandvoort '73?

[nickg421]

someone did stop. but one man couldn't turn a a burning f1 car back upright

[themalloys]

David Purley tried to help, but the marshalls didnt help him.

[drMerkwuerdigliebe]

The marshalls couldnt help him, joker. David Purley had burns at his hands even though he wore asbestos clothing. When you want to know what happened if some of the guys touched the car...switch the cooktop at full power and touch it.

One of the guys pushed Purley who tried to flip over the car. That was all he could do.

[drMerkwuerdigliebe]

...the heat around such a fire is even too hot to get near without protection longer than seconds.

Perhaps you occasionally get the opportunity to stand by an "modern" oven with glass-door. When theres much wood burning with full air circulation...wow thats awesome hot, the infrared radiation alone is burning and this is only a small oven and no fire that you cant kill with a whole fire extinguisher.

[05027802]

well said, it's difficult to imagine how powerful fire can be just watching from your computer.

[Serge192]

You guys know nothing! Arturo Merzario along with Guy Edwards and Brett Lunger saved Lauda. David Purley, on the other hand, tried to overturn Roger Williamson's March that caught fire in 1973 in Holland. In addition, David did not suffer burns, but rather he suffered ruptured vessels on his palms due to desperate attempts to save his fellow out of fire.

[drMerkwuerdigliebe]

Serge...go fuck yourself. Someone said that the marshalls didnt help when Purley tried to rescue Williamson...and now I ask you smartass again how you would get someone out of a overall burning car without a protection suit.

When you think you could do you have never ever stood i.e. in the near of at least a bigger campfire and you should get some contact with the real world from time to time.

[drMerkwuerdigliebe]

..sorry for beeing mean. A great greek philosopher once said: "I know that I dont know" but: I can imagine...imagine that if you try to put a guy out of a car without asbest-clothing when he is right in the flames, your armflesh is 'well done' that very day.

[jacko970]

wht he said ... =D i think who evvr saved him is a hero. well done

[imacrystal]

funny that you mentioned this i mean the "I know that I dont know" thing. It was Socrates who said that and for a very good reason. Socrates was spectacular in arguing with people and his dialogs were based only on persuading people that he's right although he knew very well he's not.

[micklfc2008]

thats a different video m8

[MortuxLT]

The commenter is pretty calm compared with nowadays...

[x3StrifyKiroShin2oo8]

At that moment he was very lucky.

[LukRacer]

And he's still alive!

[danigahan]

ojala se hubiera quemadoi asi no diria las tonterias q dice el abuelo este bastardo.

[LukRacer]

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[timmyt258]

?habla usted ingles danigahan?

[johnny77ast]

hay que ser morboso de cojones para colgar esta mierda!

[48971538]

Niki Lauda best

[charliewspringfield]

i dont like the title man.

[HeiseiGodzilla]

why you know in the car from niki lauda

and than no write this fucking song again

czsjovica

[Seemorelearnmore]

This was a time when it wasn't rare for drivers to stop and help fellow drivers, gosh how did someone hit him head on though? Now-a-days it isn't that easy to get out of a car to help someone.

[AyrtonSennaGODsPilot]

niki lauda an amazing driver lucky to get out of this alive one of the reasons the ring was stopped too dangerous!

[sixtolojunior]

jodete antialonsista de los huevos.

[jobbyman10]

Man....what a luck and unlucky guy. i feel happy for him ! :P !

[ruppeldi]

Lauda once visited this corner and he asked some campers there if they found his ear xDDD

[Codemned]

"Some people are naturaly ugly, I can say I had an accident" by Niki Lauda :). He is a great guy with a great sence of humor.

[hoppuss44]

who was the driver who stopped, ran across the track and ran to him to try and free him from the car?

[searcherer]

Fellow driver Guy Edwards managed to avoid the blazing wreckage but Harald Ertl and Brett Lunger both hit it. All three drivers raced to the burning Ferrari and, with the help of the Italian driver Merzario, who also stopped, eventually managed to pull 27-year-old Lauda from his vehicle.

[superzaff]

He can't wearing a glasses no more.

[bushytr1000]

Why not?

[mozzateste]

A good car driver ,even a better pilot, a special man...I'M glad he made it all right...Thanx Capt. Lauda.Grazie.Danke.

[crispixoo7]

this man survived? amazing

[DonPaps]

and started racing again shortly after ;)

[tommykl]

and then went on to win two more championships:)

[usmctanks1]

on TOP of all his driving accomplishments, he became a certified Commerical pilot and owned Lauda Airlines, which I believe he sold to Lufthansa. I met him once in Sydney, nobody knew him, I just thanked him for his excellent driving etc. (sounded stupid I bet) and he was nothing but nice. Class act all around.

[ScroogeM]

Niki Lauda is such a classy guy.  You can still easily see the scars on his face. He's practically missing an ear.