Niki Lauda's near fatal crash

[a99999999999a]

amazing..about 40 cars on the track!

[bethsqeak]

Yes Ron is making a film about F1 Its called Rush and has a few known actors in it.

[PopulationProblem]

i think ron howard is doing a film about the 77 championship....that shud be good! amazed how calm lauda is as he is slowly patched up by EMS...i guess the adrenaline numbed the pain!

[andysnap]

An F1/Niki Lauda movie by Ron Howard??! Excellent!!

[biggles132]

Looks like Ronny's doing a Nikki Lauda movie.

[rafdes]

Ron Howard is interested in this footage: @RealRonHoward "Any one know the young boy who shot the 8mm footage of Lauda's crash? I'm looking for leads"

[mojorero]

does anybody know the name of the first song? It sounds until 21st second of the video. Thanks people.

[whitefalcon79]

And all he did was get back in the car and win the championship the following year.

[mathiasvanacker]

At the end of the video you can see good the edge of the way, and it's a way to steep. Somethimes that cause that the one side of the car is a little moment in the air. And that's what is so dangerous!

[thevmanvj]

The response time was mostly due to vastness of the circuit at Nordschleife (or North Loop)....14.7 Miles around, and the track marshals were terribly ill-prepared. All the drivers that abandoned their cars and came to Niki's rescue did a fantastic job getting him out of the car. Niki would climb back in a race car at the lightning fast circuit at Monza later that year.....That's courage.

[DBOwnz]

Lauda deserves also deserves a movie like Senna, both two great drivers, my two favorites

[TittyTittyBangBangXX]

Unbelievable.

[xTheChocoCookie]

Schon so lange ist es her und er ist immernoch bei der formel 1 aktiv...

[TetraRage]

Glad he's alive.

Doesn't know his arse from his elbow though

[tavolaccia]

@nhf1ps3 To have a comeback as great as Lauda had.....pardon, but he should be GREAT like Lauda was!!!!!!!

[ANT90120]

Arturo Merzario, Guy Edwards, Brett Lunger and Harald Ertl they are real heroes and corageous men with a lot of humanity!thank guys

[godzassassiinz]

Mi head on fire ! Mi heads on fire !

[TheLkvoice]

RUSH

[88hiHAHa]

REALY LEGEND



[maurizio864]

legend

[MocksyOne]

Sorry nhf. Unlike Lauda, Kubica can't drive fast. He'll never be in an F1 car again.

[siralanlordsugar]

@MocksyOne but that shouldn't stop Kubica from racing... look at Alessandro Nannini, almost a year after taking the 1989 Japanese GP crown from Senna, he had his hand cut off from a helicopter crash and sewn back on and though he couldn't drive a F1 car again, he went on to have a successful career in DTM and BPR GT before starting his coffee business

[schuey7wc]

@siralanlordsugar nannini actually lost his right forearm in the crash

[TheEdRock77]

NIKI LAUDA YOU ARE THE BEST !!!!!!! AND I AGREE, FUCK YOU JAMES HUNT SON OF A BITCH!

[zuss10r]

@TheEdRock77 Strange thing to say, considering he and Hunt were very close friends!

[TheEdRock77]

@zuss10r the quote is from an interview of Lauda with the guys of Fox Sports i think is a joke lol

[zuss10r]

@TheEdRock77 That would make sense then:)

[KingCastFranconia]

@TheEdRock77 OMG I forget he returned to race less than 2 months later!!!! Just watched Senna last night.

Sigh.

[mohawkman251988]

Merzario, Edwards and Lunger were heroes allong with Stuck for trying to save Lauda's life. That era seemed to have a lot of drivers that saved other drivers.

[supermonkeyCL]

Oh shit

[Scottdvz]

@nhf1ps3 To think he survived that horrific crash in the Canadian GP only to get injured more severely in a rally.

I too hope he returns.

[cocodeb59]

the historique crash



[lifethelifetoday]

@nhf1ps3 yes please

[MegaSpudgun]

that guy has got massive bollocks of steel

[marcelolitoful]

niki lauda sos lo mas grande que vi en mi vida....sos un dios junto con maradona

[ltsaint911]

39 days?! Fucking hell that's brave. Those burns looked horrific. If that was me I'd never step foot near a racetrack again.

[ThePivotClub]

Eh der coolste

[wondereyedrive]

Thats Greg rust talking from Australia's Channel Ten. Was this a documentary they aired?

[PeterCRF150]

true hero to F1!



[MrMasterSteven]

@esukem ok but in 1984 Lauda was lucky because Alain Prost was a little bit better

[TheMaroth]

after that crash and a few days he just step back in the car and drove to place 4 in his comaback. a year later he won the WC again, what a beast

[TheLloydA1]

@TheMaroth i think it was 3 - 4 weeks later he raced at imola or was it monza and finished fourth.

[pzrk]

I wouldn't dare to 'like' this video, but it conveys indeed a very powerful message about the history of Formula One and the legendary drivers of the time.

[imnotftw]

takes serious balls to get back into a car and continue driving the same as before after a crash like that. I admire this man.

[Mark0zz]

@imnotftw Drivers of those times had a lot of guts.

[11994h]

these drivers have got some balls!!!!!!!!!! Niki Lauda what a brave legend

[29manzglade]

@11994h

No, the drivers have not bigger balls than you, but they need adrenaline, they are Junkies ;) Believe me ;)

[gttc321]

If he drove the modern f1 cars, he would not be burned or injured.

[thatciggaweed]

@gttc321 ladies and gentlemen.... sherlock holmes

[aussiekwv]

@gttc321 are you really sure drivers driving Modern F1 cars have never been burnt or injuried?

[VanHalenLedZeppelin7]

Greg Rust you legend!

[0000kris0000]

Got to admirer him for getting back in the car!! How did the top of his head get burnt so badly if he was wearing a helmet?

[B182NP44]

@0000kris0000 his helmet came off during the crash

[lifethelifetoday]

sports!

[umityldz]

This man is amazing. Real racer

[FCB1992ify]

"Niki Lauda's (n)ear fatal crash"

[tomboy287]

LOOK AT THIS - NIKI IS A PRICK for critisizing hamilton the way he did. say what u want to say about his achievements but he is still a PRICK

[flipsidedogchop]

@tomboy287 I think niki is entitled to an opinion, but you arn't!

[fenriz218]

People from my generation really don't know Niki without his scars - who knows what he would have looked like without the accident, but I always thought that the scars just added to his character.

[flipsidedogchop]

This story would make a great movie

[urmo345]

@flipsidedogchop indeed, what a amazing recovery and comeback story based on VERY true story.

[odsall]

Hard as nails Niki Lauda.

[bob333336]

IF this crash didn't happen, he'dve won that championship. Poor Lauda...

[mircea1910]

the incredible thing is that he won the championship the next year; if it was me, I'd never step foot in a car ever again

[PeterMayer]

Niki, du hast grosse Hoden! And brass ones at that!

[L420licious]

@Moose6340 Today's F1 drivers would not last a second in this green hell.

[mrceq]

I still admire him !!

[defigi]

Scary as hell

[halucikamukikuka]

hala istennek megmenekult egy nagyszeru ember

[CanYurGameTV]

I didn't even know that f1 races were held at the Nordschleife .... But respect to the guys who have been driving there

[rakan111YT]

Nikki lauda is by all means a different kind of man.... chapeau!

[derbigpr500]

I wish they would drive at Nordscheife today again...i mean, today F1 cars are extremely safe...so why not make a race with 10-11 full laps. It would be amazing to watch the race today....with cars doing <5 min lap times.

[PulletSurprise]

@derbigpr500

They'd have to resurface the entire Nord and find places to put hundreds of marshals and dozens of Emergency vehicles. There aren't many ways out of the North course when you get into the forest, either.

And this sounds awfully stupid, but people live there and F1 cars are especially loud.

[supercas46]

@derbigpr500 The cars are safe, but the track is not.

[10110101100]

Nordschliefe is a death trap. I get nervous just driving through it on my Playstation.

[XcopeS]

@10110101100 I hear you. Sometimes when I have a really fast car I slow down not only because the corner ahead, if there is any, but because I get scared of what might happen next, you miss a corner even by a bit and you're suddenly into the walls. It's really, as you said, a death trap

[tod4y]

In 1973 Roger Williamson died in fire because nobody stoped when David Purley tried to make them to. Lauda later said that he's been paid for driving and not parking. In 1976 he nearly died in fire. Maybe destiny.

[Erik2Ammo]

@tod4y

It´s good to see that those drivers learned from that, every racedriver should be like David Purley.

[rmachayes]

That take stones to crawl back into a race car. talk about confronting your demons. Well done Mr. Lauda, well done.

[8master8of8desaster8]

häää?

am ende is die nochmal!!!

[ADadasadasdadw]

@8master8of8desaster8 ist das echt so schwer zu begreifen?

Das ist ne Reporterin, der Beitrag war nur ne Reportage/Bericht.

Warscheinlich ein Bericht von 2006 am F1 Nürburgring Wochenende.

[KerBi79]

drückt bei 0.00 auf stop wer ist die frau

[8master8of8desaster8]

@KerBi79 die hab ich auch gesehen wer ist das???

[ej36055]

During the 30th anniversary of this crash in 2006,Niki went back to the accident scene where he just narrowly escaped death.Some suprised fan asked what he was doing and the reply is "Looking for my ear".

UTTER LEGEND.

[John27346]

@ej36055 Sounds more like urban legend.

[DarthPlagueis1990]

@ej36055 thats wrong ... one of his friends asked what niki is doing and he replied, that his is looking for his ear.

[DarthPlagueis1990]

@ej36055 so ... again, because my english sucked :P

one of nikis friends was asked by a couple of germans what he (niki) is doing there ... the friend replied, that lauda is just looking for his ear

[TheItalianoMafiosi]

THATS how the drivers should act. even if they wanted to win, they got out and helped niki. as far as i know nowadays no one does something like that. at least i've never seen someone doing it.

[Bobobidodo]

@TheItalianoMafiosi Yeah true, but today the chances of people dying in F1 crashes is remarkably small, a scary crash like Webber's last season (the backflip) didn't even scratch him. It would have killed him almost definitely in the time period of this video... Plus, marshals are now highly trained and have ambulances on location, so drivers need not get out of their cars to help, they'd just be in the way. Back then, other drivers were your lifeline... They were heroes.

[GamerSpencer]

@Bobobidodo I think you're forgetting the terrifying crash that Kubica had at Canada when he hit a concrete wall at an almost head on angle, car was obliterated, and all that happened was a sprained ankle and a concussion.

[thenascarguy24]

arturo merzario, bret lunger, guy edwards, and harald ertl are as heroic as david purley

[1HeerenveenSC]

I respect this guy definitely!

[Adacold]

i have forza 2 on xbox 360 and that turn is a bit hard

[LFCEOIN]

the moment when he really needed to get out of the car and someone crashes into him ahh

[thegreatbasher]

Niki Laudas recovery after this accident has to be the great escape by a sportsman or women ever. Remarkable the next season he won the 1977 world drivers championship and then again for the third and last time in 1984. What an amazing person he is.

[international153]

Thanks god, he's alive.

[jasonmartinradio]

01:13 - he just casually points, yeh thats where it was. Incredible man.

[WhuBilly10]

doesnt look like nordschleife but im used to crappy video games

[dojOdRiFTeR]

james hunt fluked 1976

[axoram]

Niki avevo 12 anni e piansi come un bambino, come ero ; eri e rimani il mio idolo , anche se te ne andasti dalla Ferrari , un campione sempre nel mio cuore.

[F1guy1]

back in those days drivers HAD BALLS!!

[Cactaceae33]

Unbelievable, yet, nowadays with improved safety etc, I wish that F1 would return to Nordschiefe!! :\

[DonParedes95]

Terrible accident!!!!!!!!

Is a miracle that he is alive!!!!!

[turtle343434]

zandvoort 29-07-1973 ...do you remember, nikki?

[Myfarteaga]

Pech ka

[hearts76100]

Thats unbelievable. Hard as nails

[bearfaeces22]

Niki lauda is a real warrior.

[11994h]

Amazing!

[Zoomer30]

Pretty typical open wheel car crash:  car gets loose, driver counters to correct it, THEN the car grabs and you going right into the wall.

[heartonfirestrong]

Niki Lauda THE PHOENIX!

[Kokrow]

Ricordo questo momento ero piccolo ed avevo paura quando facevano gli incidenti perchè di rimettevano la vita. Niki è un grande della formula uno.

[MrMore4]

that why his faced looked loke he was in a fire with his face

[TheMrDiddlez]

What's the name of the corner (or section) where Lauda crashed?

[EmersonMeyer33]

@TheMrDiddlez Lauda crashed at the fast left hander before Bergwerk.

[JCCyC]

@EmersonMeyer33 ...which didn't have a name before, but is now named the Lauda Kink.

[FormulaUnos]

@EmersonMeyer33 what a great champion!

[cay311]

@TheMrDiddlez

on the corner of 46th and 47th street!

[SpartanMk55]

@TheMrDiddlez the corner is now called The Lauda Kink

[jonash19112]

@TheMrDiddlez it's inofficial title is "Niki Lauda Corner"

[stiggg7]

@TheMrDiddlez It's the barbecue corner, or grillkurve in german

[Juggernaut30]

@TheMrDiddlez : Now it`s called Lauda Links (Lauda left)

[gtaboy1224567]

wow bak in the day if u make 1 wrong move i wud cost u dearly and often ur life

nowaday u can have a crash at 200mph and walk away from it

bak then if u crashed 70mph+ u wud probz die niki is amazingly lucky 2 even have his life in tacked

[demiandjoel1]

my teacher met him and my teacher raced for 28 uears he also wrote a book about the cars he raced its called kart racing

[TheRozpierdalacz]

ooooo kurwa

[gnark1ll1us]

True tough guy

[hooly360]

Looks 10 times worse than senna's and yet even though it was 18 yrs earlier he survived!!!???

[makdous]

@hooly360 senna was goin way faster and did a 90% full frontal crash, he died instantly due to wreckage hitting him on the head....bottom conclusion fuck schumacher

[ceemosp]

@makdous bottom conclusion: You're a moron! What does the tragic death of one of the greatest drivers (Senna) do to validate your statement - nothing. Go back to playing your F1 games on your playstation!

[natch]

IDK why the commentator talks about Merzario Edwards and Lunger at 1:22 because the guy on the right is John Watson...

[Zoomer30]

Most F1 tracks back then were death traps. Poorly designed, useless safety teams, a band if circus chimps as medical help would have been a vast improvment.

[Errorcode38]

around that year and earlyer, safety was the last thing the were thinking about ;) (sorry for my bad english)

[jaapaap5]

to me, one of the top F1 drivers of all times!

[TreinKub]

And a car sets on fire... Crazy :O

[CombatArmsSN1P3R]

True Sportsmanship, fellow drivers, I think Arturo Merzario, Guy Edwards, Brett Lunger, and Harald Ertl, all stopped to help Niki, with their combined efforts w/o the very ill fitted marshals he survived. A man made of steel.

[jedininja21]

Brave man....But never been a fan of his though.

[TheZonda5002]

if it were'nt for a 15 year old boy with an 8mm camera and a pair of brave racers to get lauda out, he would be dead.

[Moose6340]

I imagine this crash is one of the major reasons they don't use the Nordschliefe for F1 and similar events anymore.

[EmersonMeyer33]

@Moose6340 Yes, it was the last F1 race held at Nordschleife.

[sunnyrainshine]

@Moose6340 Yes, also because there was a detour of approx. 20 km to the next hospital which is pretty far considering the importance of injuries that pilots may suffer.

[F1VideoFreak]

@Moose6340 But today there are many events on the track again, but all with tourin or GT-cars or very old cars...

[TheColinChapman]

@Moose6340 this is widely stated, although it is not true(!). It was already clear before Niki Lauda's crash that the Hockenheimring was to host the 1977 Grand Prix. Niki Lauda himself stated in his autobiography "The Niki Lauda protocol' that he and his rivals needed to be persuaded to start one more time at the Nordschleife and they comforted themselves with the conclusion that it was the last time for them. Unfortunately even this last time was once too often for Niki.

[TurkishGamer92]

@Moose6340 The major reason is that the Ambulance-Cars do have to drive a long time untill they can reach a crash. The Nürburgring Nordschleife was too big and too long for Races.

[J90JAM]

@Moose6340

It's on the 2011 F1 calendar??

[mrmootheirrev]

@J90JAM Different track.

[boyfilhote]

@J90JAM @J90JAM '76 was the last year the german grand prix was run in Nordschliefe. But you can remember this beautiful circuit in PS3's Gran Turismo 5, wich tries to revival every curve of this fabulous nearly 8 minutes' lap circuit. It's worth to check it out

[elninokronos3]

@J90JAM Yea, but its south version. The Nurbugring GP is a shorter track and its like a "side track" of Nordscheleift, with about 7 KM.

[NONVOGLIONOMI]

@Moose6340 It was a too long track, so emergency vehicles weren't able to reach the accident point in a decent time..

[sesselfurzer2000]

@Moose6340 but honestly it is too dangerous look at heidfeld driving around the track in a f1 car in 2007.. look at all the bumps n everything.. it's good that they don't drive there anymore...

[indigoblue555]

At what speed approx.did he crash ? I'd say 140/160 Kmh....and he was severely injured though (put apart burns and hot gasbreathing damage overall).

Great driver and brave man: he was back on the starting grid in a month and won the WCT a few years later at the wheel of the TAG-Mc.Laren.

Respect.

[terrunazz]

great racer.but great idiot outside the track.he has criticized everything and everyone.

clearly a man little integrity..

[marconibungalows]

Balls of Steel Mr Lauda.

[xxxturkishboy88]

oh shit,what is the man on the right side holding in his hands,looks like the half face of niki lauda

[rafl1983]

@xxxturkishboy88 It's called gloves, jeeez

[craine63]

Niki Lauada will always be my nos 1 F1 driver. Skill and incredible guts to drive again 1 month later

[RedhotIta1]

@TheELGREKO1000

Ehum... Ayrton Senna was at 300 km/h... i don't know the speed of Niki but i'm sure was not at 300 km/s. By the way i don't like Lauda. I prefer Villeneuve, Niki is just Lucked

[sesselfurzer2000]

@RedhotIta1 don't underrate the speed at this part of the track. I'm pretty sure he went more than 250 kmh

[RedhotIta1]

@sesselfurzer2000 nope, was lower then 250km/h asked my uncle and my dad (My uncle follows F1 from 1965 my dad 1969

[sesselfurzer2000]

@RedhotIta1 are you sure? okay. I know that this part of the track is a very fast one. But I mean, if you have sources.^^ But I can't imagine he went lower than 200 kmh...

[RedhotIta1]

@sesselfurzer2000 200km/h - 250km/h

[sesselfurzer2000]

@RedhotIta1 yes. ^^ BUt if you see, 200-250 kmh is also very quick and he crashed nearly frontal as I could see from that angle.. ^^

[saturnino1987]

DO CARALEO Esse num é qualquer piloto... Isso é ANDREAS NIKOLAUS LAUDA!!!

[Ferbbie]

poor guy...but mostly BRAVE guy!

[robertgarven]

In 2004 at monterey I was outside the ferrari tent and there was a rush of people I was forced up against a chain link fence and Niki Lauda emerged from the tent. There was such a crush of people, he was forced towards me and the side of his face brushed against mine. As the crowd thinned I tried to explain to my wife what happened. I did not wash my face for week! I shook Frolian Gonzales hand also, the first driver to win a Grad prix for Ferrari!!! What a day.......

[cayennethedog]

Ultimate BAMF



[fabiooliveira73]

Emerson Fittipaldi estava

entre os pilotos que estavam em volta do Niki, é só ver em 1: 28, 1:29, por exemplo

[shirfield]

what a driver and if it werent for the other driver he would be here and how quick he cam back to racing

[skynet091287]

It's amazing that Lauda could have won the championship, had he just participated in the final race. He thought the conditions too dangerous, so he drove into the pits after just a few laps...

[71SRBlackbird]

omg:-(

[TheZonda5002]

poor niki. i mean, god still did not want to be with him. but we all know that he burnt half of his face badly

[FCB1992ify]

rspekt fürs comeback ;) es war ein feuriges comeback..

[wlogra2]

Masakra ba ryju.

[Fastbikkel]

Lauda said he came back into F1 after the accident because there was nothing else he could do. He had to succeed to make something out of his life.

The man is a legend yes, he has guts.

[bestishiphop]

That´s a great example how sport have to be. The other drivers stopped and helped him. Great. Thats very glory. I am German, so I see him nearly every day in the TV

[expiondi]

@bestishiphop me to hes on now

[TheBlimp888]

Not only did he get back into a race car, but he came second in the championship that very year and went on to win another 2 world championships. Balls of steel !

[tscholliwolli]

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