Niki Lauda

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Paul-M

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111 posts

178 months

Thursday 2nd August 2018
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Reports from Austria he has undergone a lung transplant. Hope he pulls through and makes a full recovery. One of the all time greats.

rog007

5,748 posts

223 months

Thursday 2nd August 2018
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Didn’t know that.

Reports on net seem positive.

Hope it takes well.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 2nd August 2018
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Wonder if his lungs were damaged after his horrendous accident or is it a new medical condition?

Hopefully a quick recovery.

MitchT

15,788 posts

208 months

Thursday 2nd August 2018
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Short piece on Autosport.

Hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Eric Mc

121,775 posts

264 months

Thursday 2nd August 2018
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Same here. Hope he makes a full recovery.

I'm pretty sure the affects of the 1976 accident have done serious damage to his lungs.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Thursday 2nd August 2018
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He drove me round Brands once..

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majordad

3,600 posts

196 months

Thursday 2nd August 2018
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I've noticed him missimg from the Mercedes screen shots in the pit garage recently and wondered. a very complex individual and in all a great driver and manager.

Kccv23highliftcam

1,783 posts

74 months

Thursday 2nd August 2018
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majordad said:
I've noticed him missimg from the Mercedes screen shots in the pit garage recently and wondered. a very complex individual and in all a great driver and manager.
Yes same here, I did wonder.

The last time I saw him on TV his colour was well off. I thought hmm, but then the next time on screen he looked quite jaundiced.

Niki Lauda is no stranger to transplants mind. clap go look it up!!

Hoping for the best of news, fingers crossed.

Exige77

6,518 posts

190 months

Friday 3rd August 2018
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Wish him speedy recovery.

One of the greats of F1

sgtBerbatov

2,597 posts

80 months

Friday 3rd August 2018
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ELUSIVEJIM said:
Wonder if his lungs were damaged after his horrendous accident or is it a new medical condition?

Hopefully a quick recovery.
I would imagine the smoke did him no favours, especially as he had to have his lungs continuously drained (according to the 'Rush' film anyway).

He's a nice bloke, I've always admired him even though I wasn't even an itch in my father's pants when he last won a race in F1. I wish him well.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 3rd August 2018
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Eric Mc said:
Same here. Hope he makes a full recovery.

I'm pretty sure the affects of the 1976 accident have done serious damage to his lungs.
My thoughts too, Eric.


rlw

3,321 posts

236 months

Friday 3rd August 2018
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Was he not a smoker too?

Eric Mc

121,775 posts

264 months

Friday 3rd August 2018
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sgtBerbatov said:
I would imagine the smoke did him no favours, especially as he had to have his lungs continuously drained (according to the 'Rush' film anyway).

He's a nice bloke, I've always admired him even though I wasn't even an itch in my father's pants when he last won a race in F1. I wish him well.
I remember reading the Monday morning headlines saying "Lauda Fights for Life". It was the weekend I had travelled to the UK for the big Greenham Common Air Show of 1976 and I had travelled back to Ireland on the overnight Holyhead car ferry. I read the headline on a newspaper of a Monday morning commuter who was reading his paper on the train I took into Dublin city centre from Dun Laoghaire ferry port.

That was the first time I'd heard the news.



LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Friday 3rd August 2018
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

DeejRC

5,708 posts

81 months

Friday 3rd August 2018
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The Rat doesn't need luck to pull through.
Death hasnt got the balls to take him yet.

Keke might be bravest bloke to have driven 4 wheels, Lauda is the hardest though.

Smollet

10,465 posts

189 months

Friday 3rd August 2018
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Wishing him a speedy recovery. F1 needs him

Stan the Bat

8,841 posts

211 months

Friday 3rd August 2018
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Doofus said:
He drove me round Brands once..

smile
Tell us your story maaan.

Kccv23highliftcam

1,783 posts

74 months

Friday 3rd August 2018
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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/137837/lauda-mak...

One of the doctors who operated on three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda says he is making good progress in a Vienna hospital after his lung transplant on Thursday.

Lauda underwent surgery in Austria after falling ill while on holiday in Ibiza. He was flown by private jet to the AKH Vienna hospital, where he remains in intensive care while he recovers from the surgery.

Dr Walter Klepetko, who is the hospital's head of thoracic surgery, told Austrian broadcaster ORF that "everything is currently going very well and we are very satisfied".

Klepetko said the usual recovery period for such a procedure is two to three weeks, but explained that 69-year-old Lauda's recovery period will be "a longer time" due to his age.

The hospital performs 120 lung transplants a year.

One aspect of Lauda's situation that Klepetko did clarify was that his fiery accident at the Nurburgring in 1976 had had no bearing on the decision to replace his lungs. "One can absolutely assume that lung transplantation is not a late consequence of the fire accident," he said.

Kccv23highliftcam

1,783 posts

74 months

Saturday 4th August 2018
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https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-autosport/99892...

Flu led to pneumonia then "severe lung disease"...

poo at Paul's

14,116 posts

174 months

Sunday 5th August 2018
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Is there no waiting list for such items in Austria? Lungs I mean!!
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