{"id":300245,"date":"2025-07-29T04:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300245\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:13:10","slug":"how-f1-driver-niki-lauda-survived-a-devastating-grand-prix-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300245\/","title":{"rendered":"How F1 driver Niki Lauda survived a devastating Grand Prix crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<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":"&#8220;As I committed to the turn, I saw some dirt going up in the air and I knew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-300245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114934579550947794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}