🏎 ACCIDENTS and BEST SAVES in the Formula 1 History

[Jay]

Niki Lauda’s accident, his miraculous save and his amazing comeback to F1 is by far the most incredible survival story in F1 history.

@Xplore

On August 1, 1976, he met with a severe accident during the second lap of the ‘German Grand Prix’. His Ferrari swerved from the track and after hitting an embankment skidded back in the path bursting into flames. Trapped in the wreckage, he inhaled toxic gases and endured severe burns.

Just 42 days after the crash, Lauda was again behind the wheel and took fourth place in the Italian Grand Prix in Monza and made the most amazing comeback ever in the history of sport as he went on to become world champion two more times, in 1977 and 1984, following his first Formula One title in 1975. He is one reason for making F1 a global sport.

@Yogesh

The most that strikes me about Niki is his fighting spirit. Here was a man who had cheated death, been given the last rites, and raced a Grand Prix car again a few weeks later with blood seeping into the bandages still covering the burns on his face.

He suffered third-degree burns to his head and face and inhaled toxic gases that damaged his lungs after his vehicle burst into flames at Nurburgring. He was given the last rites in hospital but made an almost miraculous recovery and returned to racing, still bandaged, just 40 days later.