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Remembering Niki: Lauda's five best races

On what would have been his 72nd birthday, we've picked out what we think were Niki Lauda's five greatest races. The Austrian claimed victory 25 times in an extraordinary career that saw him become a triple World Champion and one of the sport's all-time greats. There's no such thing as a bad win, but some stand above the rest… 1973 Belgian Grand Prix  By the time Lauda managed to secure his first full-time Formula 1 seat at BRM, he was over £100,000 in debt. He had made his way through the classes with bank loans, and now desperately needed to succeed. Things weren't looking good four races in with three retirements to his name. Thankfully, this changed in Belgium. The surface of...
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