GP: Holland
Date: 25 August 1985
Winner: Niki Lauda - McLaren-Porsche
Win number 25 for Niki Lauda. His last, putting him level with Jim Clark.
He shared the podium with Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, team-mates and rivals during an amazingly exciting era.
A moment to remember a man endowed with industrial levels of intelligence, cynicism, charisma and talent.
World champion with Ferrari in 1975 and '77 and then, after a break during which he set up an airline, in 1984 with McLaren. His name became a brand, he was able to stand up to Enzo Ferrari during a wonderful period with the Prancing Horse at a time when, thanks to television, Formula 1 was becoming a global sport.
On top of that, there was the almost fatal crash, his face forever scarred by burns. His life was like a film script and so it was in “Rush” the 2013 movie directed by Ron Howard.
Lauda was born in Vienna on 22 February 1949 into a family who would have preferred him to have taken a different career path. Abrupt as a driver, he was mellow and ironic in the third act of his life as a consultant to Ferrari and, from 2012, honorary president at Mercedes, as well as an important mentor for Lewis Hamilton.
He made an impression on everyone who met him, a privilege that no one would forget.
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