And the I'll bea dezain and welcome to shift F1 a podcast about speedy race cars. You may note that that is not Monagask or French, I guess they speak there.

German, in honor of the dearly departed Nicki Lauda who passed away this week

Really starting the show with kind of a bummer, but this is impossible to ignore

Nicky Lauda as a Titan of Formula One and has been around forever

At least as long as I've been watching, he's always been in the pits with Mercedes and it's sad to see him go.

Yeah, I feel like we had our, you our you know started the season when Charlie

passed away so young and I don't know I was kind of put back by the fact that

Nicki Lido was 70 years old because he looks older obviously than

his years and even that feels a little bit young you know what I mean like Like, yeah. And also Sad, I actually don't know exactly how much the

long stuff is connected to his crash. I imagine it's pretty connected to it, but sad to see that it seems to have been that

that maybe eventually is what caught up with him.

But there you go and he kept fighting for 30 33 years or whatever of the 43 years after the incident so you know fair play.

Yeah I think I'll say like it's strange because it's one of those characters who looms really large in sort of the

Formula One of my father's generation, right? Like for me Lauda was always it's strange but for me Lauda was always like a far like a long

ago figure in some ways like I didn't really fully appreciate the role he played

in the sport or how vast and all-encompassing his career was probably into the last few years, right, when like there's a lot of tension

on his life story via, you know, the Ron Howard movie, Rush.

And it's a wild to think about like he, him unretiring in what 84 to win a final

world championship and like that is not as far back as I would think, right?

It's the dammedest thing, but like he, like for me he's always sort of loose,

he's been like one of those, oh he's one of those old timers, you know, the part of that

golden era of F1.

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