James Hunt: Clash Of The Titans - Lauda Vs Hunt

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  @MrDarthdaver · 7 years ago

  “People always think of us as rivals, but he was among the very few I liked and even fewer that I respected.” (Niki Lauda)

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• MI

  @mikesummers-smith4091 · 6 years ago

  "He was one of the few drivers I liked, one of the fewer number I respected, and the only one I envied" - Niki Lauda

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• RB

  @RB747domme · 7 years ago

  &quot;he&apos;d been breathing fumes, now, for nearly a minute..&quot;<br><br>And what the narrator didn&apos;t say, is that those fumes not only had bits of burnt plastic, carcinogens, and Petroleum.. but was also approaching 7 or 800 degrees C by the time his car had been hit on the track following the initial collision with the barrier, by the time it entered his lungs.<br><br>I know it&apos;s possibly a small point, but I just thought maybe the narrator might have mentioned that the fuse were extremely hot and damaging his lungs.<br><br>According to the doctor&apos;s, almost 40% of the alveoli had been burnt away in an instant. His lungs then started burning, melting, and filling up with fluid. And this is happening before he&apos;s got out of his car.<br><br>And while this is happening, his scalp, ears, face, lips, eyelids, eyeballs themselves, and just about anything else so horrific you can&apos;t even imagine it, was just being melted and burnt off his body at over 1000 degrees.<br><br>Fucking brave man.<br><br>To then have to go through daily vacuuming of his lungs which was like torture - sticking tubes down your throat right inside your lungs - whilst you&apos;re awake - and sucking the fluid and detritus out whilst trying not to choke and spit blood.<br><br>Extremely fucking brave man.

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• KU

  @kurzjames · 9 years ago

  The actors from the movie Rush actually look like the real guys.

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• TO

  @tonypap1 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Driving after such an accident took so much courage. Admitting that you were too scared to drive perhaps took even more. &nbsp;Lauda was a true legend and so much of the safety of modern F1 owes a debt of thanks to his courage.

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• CA

  @caiuscosades6423 · 5 years ago

  The fact that James Hunt was able to win the championship in a 3 year old car against a dominant ferrari who shat on the other competition during the first part of the season is downright impressive

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• TH

  @thatguyfromcetialphaV · 1 year ago

  I wrote to Niki Lauda shortly before he died. He sent me a signed photo, and just a few days later it was on the news that he had died. It&apos;s a little memento of the man that I treasure.

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• BO

  @bobsurgranny · 12 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c19DqS127Ac&amp;t=589">9:49</a> CAUTION WIDE VEHICLE!

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• LI

  @likilikiki · 6 years ago

  I picture these two legends enjoying a bottle of champaign together looking down on raceweekends.<br>R.I.P.

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• OS

  @osullibr · 12 years ago

  Brilliant. Rush bought me here and opened my eyes to the competitive nature of these two blokes.

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• RO

  @robertmahn · 6 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c19DqS127Ac&amp;t=1655">27:35</a> Hunt homes in on Lauda in the crowd and quickly makes his way over 😊

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• DA

  @DamianSieradzki · 12 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c19DqS127Ac&amp;t=1772">29:32</a> &quot;Good Morning. I&apos;m going to be ze world champion today&quot; - Hunt was AWESOME!

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