Brave Lauda back winning
NZPA-Reuter Hockenheim
The courageous Austrian, Niki Lauda, looks to be on course for regaining the wo-' ’ drivers’ championship if he can keep reproducing the form which won him yesterday’s West German Grand Prix at Hockenheim.
His rivals were unanimous in praising the style of Lauda’s triumph achieved in a car many experts consider in danger of becoming technically outdated next season. The 28-year old Austrian, returning to an event which nearly cost his life almost exactly a year before, took over the lead from Jody Scheckter, (S.A.), on the thirteenth of the 47 laps. Scheckter managed to keep his Wolf-Ford in touch
with him until about the halfway mark but from then on Lauda’s red Ferrari became a receding dot to his pursuers as he broke the lap record several times and finished with a 14-second lead. The blond West German, Hans Stuck, was third behind Scheckter, with Lauda’s Ferrari team-mate Carbs Reutemann, of Argentina — the 1975 German Grand Prix winner — in fourth place, The Australian Vem Schuppan, driving a Surtees, finished seventh, one lap behind Lauda. James Hunt, of Britain the world champion retired 15 laps from the end when he damaged the exhaust system on his McLaren. He is now 26 points behind Lauda.
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