{"id":12696,"date":"2025-07-28T10:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12696"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:21:45","slug":"how-f1-driver-niki-lauda-survived-a-devastating-grand-prix-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12696","title":{"rendered":"How F1 driver Niki Lauda survived a devastating Grand Prix crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;As I committed to the turn, I saw some dirt going up in the air and I knew something was wrong, and, sure enough, I came around, exited the turn, and he was sideways on fire in the middle of the track,&#8221; Lunger told the BBC. &#8220;I slowed, but my car still went into his and impacted his.&#8221; Harald Ertl, an Austrian driver who was following, then hit Lunger&#8217;s car. Despite the danger, Ertl, Lunger and Edwards got out of their vehicles to try to pull Lauda out of his. But they could not get him free of the cockpit&#8217;s harness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As I committed to the turn, I saw some dirt going up in the air and I knew something was wrong, and, sure enough, I came around, exited the turn, and he was sideways on fire in the middle of the track,&#8221; Lunger told the BBC. &#8220;I slowed, but my car still went into his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1872,2273,5329,4858,6340,6339,6162,4599],"class_list":{"0":"post-12696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-crash","9":"tag-devastating","10":"tag-driver","11":"tag-grand","12":"tag-lauda","13":"tag-niki","14":"tag-prix","15":"tag-survived"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}