Niki Lauda

Herbert Völker

An Autobiography

To Hell and Back

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We may often be regarded as cold hearted, egotistical and calculating, but there isn’t one driver among us who wouldn’t do everything in his power to pull another driver clear of a burning wreck. 

“One of the darkest days of my entire professional career.”

Ferrari and BRM - what a contrast! The journalist Helmur Zwickl remarked at the time that it was like comparing NASA to a group of kite enthusiasts….

Other photographic evidence uncovered later shows how powerless the safety marshal was without fire-proof clothing.

Also how other drivers - Guy Edwards, Brett Lunger, Harald Ertl - tried to rescue me. But my real saviour was Arturo Mer-zario, who plunged into the flames with total disregard for his own life and unbuckled my safety harness.

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