Niki Lauda has died

The former Formula One driver and three-time world champion Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70, his family has said. Lauda, who won titles in 1975, 1977 and 1984, was hugely admired, respected and liked within F1 after a remarkable career during which he won two titles for Ferrari and one for McLaren and came back from an horrific accident that left him severely burned and injured in 1976. Jenson Button, the former world champion, said “a legend has left us” while prominent motorsports journalist Nick De Groot said Lauda’s status within the sport was “not just for what he achieved on the race track, but for what he overcame to get there”

Scuderia Ferrari tweeted in Italian that the Ferrari family had learned “with deep sadness” of Lauda’s death.

Source: www.theguardian.com