Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan ya fito a matsayin tauraron direba na Formula One a tsakiyar cin nasarar lakabi da kuma jagorantar gwagwarmayar cin kofin, Lauda ya ji rauni sosai a wani hadari a 1976 Grand Prix na Jamus
a Nürburgring lokacin da Ferrari 312T2 ya fashe da wuta, kuma ya kusan mutuwa bayan shan iska mai guba mai guba da kuma shan wahala mai tsanani. Ya tsira kuma ya warke sosai don sake yin tsere bayan makonni shida a Grand Prix na Italiya. Kodayake ya rasa taken wannan shekarar ta hanyar maki daya kawai ga James Hunt, ya lashe gasar zakarun duniya ta biyu a shekara mai zuwa, a kakar wasan karshe a Ferrari. Bayan shekaru biyu a Brabham da hutu na shekaru biyu, Lauda ya dawo ya yi tsere a kakar wasa hudu don McLaren tsakanin 1982 da 1985 <unk> lokacin da ya lashe gasar da rabin maki a kan abokin aikinsa Alain Prost.