22-05-2019, 10:25 AM
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/artic...r0wEz.html
But, equally, none better illustrates his zany sense of humour and refusal to take himself too seriously, than his response when informed that a book of every driver's race statistics ironically did not actually record him as starting the 1976 German GP because the first start, in which he had crashed, did not count as it was officially replaced by a second.
“So what happened to my ear?” he enquired amid laughter.
Forty years later, he ‘discovered’ the answer. He and his close friend Karl-Heinz Zimmermann, formerly Bernie Ecclestone’s personal chef, went to Nurburgring and visited the Bergwerk corner.
“You’re Niki Lauda!” a nearby fan exclaimed.
“I know.”
“But what are you doing here?”
“I’m looking for my ear…”
At which point Lauda ducked down and picked something up and placed it near his head. It was a pig’s ear that Zimmermann had just dropped there…
One of my favourite`s
On opening his eyes and seeing the priest who had not long before administered the last rights Niki in his usual no bullshit manner said " fuck off, i`m not dead yet"
But, equally, none better illustrates his zany sense of humour and refusal to take himself too seriously, than his response when informed that a book of every driver's race statistics ironically did not actually record him as starting the 1976 German GP because the first start, in which he had crashed, did not count as it was officially replaced by a second.
“So what happened to my ear?” he enquired amid laughter.
Forty years later, he ‘discovered’ the answer. He and his close friend Karl-Heinz Zimmermann, formerly Bernie Ecclestone’s personal chef, went to Nurburgring and visited the Bergwerk corner.
“You’re Niki Lauda!” a nearby fan exclaimed.
“I know.”
“But what are you doing here?”
“I’m looking for my ear…”
At which point Lauda ducked down and picked something up and placed it near his head. It was a pig’s ear that Zimmermann had just dropped there…
One of my favourite`s
On opening his eyes and seeing the priest who had not long before administered the last rights Niki in his usual no bullshit manner said " fuck off, i`m not dead yet"
"You live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life"....Marco Simoncelli
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