Niki lauda autobiography of a face
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To Hell and Back: : An Autobiography
I started this book as a diversion from my typical reading of literary fiction. For the first few pages, I thought that I would not like it. Lauda was a great champion in a very high stress field, and he kept his emotions bottled up and avoided his fears. Going all out at the highest speeds possible must be inherently scary, and he simply chose to disregard these fears. At the start of the book, I thought that this bottling up would result in a book full of factual accounts without a picture of the human being behind the achievements. After a few pages, cracks appear in the image he presents to the world and more importantly to han själv . A obvious central event of his life was the 1976 crash where he suffered horrific burns to his face. He chose to push this memory out of his mind, but a big dose of marijuana later in his life elicits a fantastic image of t
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A year after the death of three-time Formula 1 world mästare Niki Lauda, renowned British reporter Maurice Hamilton (no relation) wrote and published a final biography of the great Austrian. In it he collected countless reports and interviews from then and now, taking the reader through the central events of Niki’s life from a multi-dimensional perspective that is incredibly readable and very easy to escape into. Hamilton has been on the F1 scene since the late 1970s and in Lauda’s circle of journalistic contacts for 40 years, writing and broadcasting for F1 the UK.
Moving Swiftly On
Opposite to the developed narrative, Lauda and James Hunt were actually friends throughout just about 99% of their professional careers. Photo: James Hunt Archive.
Firstly, an important aspect of this biography fryst vatten how much quiet respect Hamilton holds for the reader as much as the subject of his book. With a few notable exceptions, just about everyone who has contributed to this book deserve
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Niki Lauda The Biography / Maurice Hamilton
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020
The most comprehensive and detailed biography of Formula One legend Nick Lauda ever published, as told by Maurice Hamilton, who knew him for more than forty years. From the famous rivalry with James Hunt in the 1970s, as depicted in the film Rush, to working with Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, Lauda's career helped define modern F1.
In 1975, Lauda became world champion for the first time. Driving for Ferrari, he looked to retain his title in 1976 and was dominating the campaign ahead of James Hunt in his McLaren. Then, on 1 August, he was involved in a horrendous crash at the Nurburgring and was badly burned and in hospital he was given the last rites, so severe were his injuries. Remarkably, six weeks later, he was back racing again, determined to show he could still compete. As they came to the final race of the season in Japan, Lauda held a narrow lead in th