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Thank God he eventually lost consciousness; it was only when he relaxed that I could free the buckle'
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Niki Lauda's helmet that came off in his fiery crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix. Lauda, who retired from Formula 1 following the 1985 Adelaide Grand Prix, on the scars he
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