{"id":30977,"date":"2025-07-29T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30977\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:23:09","slug":"how-f1-driver-niki-lauda-survived-a-devastating-grand-prix-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30977\/","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":30978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-30977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}