F1 driver survives a Grand Prix crash

F1 driver, Niki Lauda, who participated in Formula One for eight years from 1971 to 1979 met with a sports event's historic tragedy on 1st August 1976.

Austrian speedster Niki, was racing Ferrari around 49 years ago and on lap two just before Bergwerk’s high speed left kink, car collided with an embankment and caught fire.

The World Drivers' Championship winner got trapped in a sports car and almost lost his right ear. The Nürburgring shocking accident left the motorist scarred and he does not have recollection of a life-threatening crash which also led him into coma.

The 25 times Grand Prix winner revealed: "When I met the accident, I must have got a big bang on my head, as I lost the memory for it, I don't know, the last three minutes and then the following 20 minutes after the crash."

“You try to keep your brain working and to get the body to fight against the illness. And I think that it was very good that I did that because in that way I survived,” fateful race survivor told the BBC.

The German Grand Prix 1976 fatal accident caused health problems to Niki and in July 2018 he went for double lung transplant too. F1 legend died on May 20, 2019 at the age of 70.