Niki Lauda has died

Re:Niki Lauda has died by vermontdevil on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:36AM (#19968935)

He wanted to boycott the race at Nürburgring saying it’s too dangerous to race there. The track is spread far for emergency personnel to quickly reach any accident.

Ironically he crashed and the rest of the story is well-known.

One of the greats

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Re:Niki Lauda has died by richman777 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:19PM (#19975174)

Compared to today's tracks it's insane to me that Nürburgring was widely used. The logistics at the track are clearly very high stakes and seeing how we could look at how huge that track is and think that's a good idea just shows how far the sport has come.

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Re:Niki Lauda has died by rconti on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:22PM (#19972280)

One thing that gets me about the photo of the scene: Porsche 911 fire extinguisher. If that's not German, I don't know what is.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NINTCHDB...

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Re:Niki Lauda has died by mhh__ on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:09PM (#19975637)

The safety cars have to be able to get round then track within a reasonable amount of time relative to the F1 cars, especially at the Nordschleife

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Re:Niki Lauda has died by mhh__ on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:00PM (#19975554)

"Every time I see this it frightens me" - Jackie Stewart talking about the Nurburgring

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