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“... and driver skill. Some of the best drivers of all time began their careers paying for their seats. Niki Lauda, a three-time world champion whose autobiography has been reissued following his death last year, funded his early career with £160,000 of bank loans. He bought his first car, a 1949 drophead Beetle, when he was 12. ‘I seemed to have an easier ...”

“... opponent in the go-karts was the British driver Terry Fullerton. No mention of Nigel Mansell or Niki Lauda or Michael Schumacher. Still less of Alain Prost. All Senna ever wanted, in this perspective, was to drive cars fast. Politics and fame were for other people; or perhaps just a cross he had to bear. He was fond of calling on God to help him, and ...”

“... Schumacher era 25 years later.When​ it came to drivers, the arc of Ferrari’s relationship with Niki Lauda, who won the Drivers’ World Championship in 1975 and 1977, is not untypical. In 1973, his second full Formula One season, the 24-year-old Austrian, racing for BRM, had come seventeenth in the Drivers’ Championship with only two points, having ...”