Andreas Nikolaus “Niki” Lauda was an Austrian Formula One
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Niki suffered serious burns in a racing accident in 1976 at the Nürburgring and famously returned to racing after six weeks with his burns still heavily bandaged.
He died in 2019 following complications from a lung transplant.
