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Niki Lauda was born on 22 February 1949 in Vienna, Austria, to a wealthy paper manufacturing family. [1] [2] ... Lauda is sometimes known by the nickname "the Rat", ...
Niki Lauda, the reigning world champion and only person ever to lap the full 22.835 km (14.189 mi) Nordschleife in under seven minutes (6:58.6, 1975), proposed to the other drivers that they boycott the circuit in 1976. Lauda was not only concerned about the safety arrangements and the lack of marshals around the circuit, he also did not like ...
2 Nickname. 3 Music. 4 See also. ... Niki Lauda (born 1949), Austrian former Formula One race car driver; Ken Linseman (born 1958), former National Hockey League player;
The 1976 German Grand Prix (formally the XXXVIII Großer Preis von Deutschland) was a Formula One motor race held at the Nürburgring on 1 August 1976. [4] It was the scene of reigning world champion Niki Lauda's near-fatal accident, and the last Formula One race to be held on the Nordschleife section of the track.
Prost joined double world champion Niki Lauda at McLaren in 1984, driving the John Barnard designed McLaren MP4/2 which used a 1.5 litre TAG-Porsche V6 engine. He lost the world championship to Lauda in the final race of the season in Portugal by half a point, despite winning seven races to Lauda's five, [17] including winning in Portugal. [21]
A nickname can be a shortened or a modified variation on a person's real name. Contractions of longer names: Margaret to Greta. Initials: using the first letters of a person's first, middle and/or last name, e.g. "DJ" for Daniel James. Dropping letters: with many nicknames, one or more letters, often R, are dropped: Fanny from Frances, Walt ...
This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [ 1 ] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule.
The 1979 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 30 September 1979 at the Circuit Île Notre-Dame, Montreal.. During practice Niki Lauda announced his retirement from Formula One.