Lauda fights for life after Grand Prix crash
Formula One racing driver Niki Lauda is in a critical condition in hospital after an horrific accident at the Nurburgring Grand Prix in Germany.
The Austrian-born driver became trapped inside his Ferrari after it swerved off the track before bouncing back into the path of the oncoming cars and catching fire.

Fellow driver Guy Edwards managed to avoid the blazing wreckage but Harald Ertl and Brett Lunger both hit it.

All three drivers raced to the burning Ferrari and, with the help of the Italian driver Merzario, who also stopped, eventually managed to pull 27-year-old Lauda from his vehicle.

Niki Lauda, who has led this drivers' championship since the beginning of the season, began the race second on the grid behind James Hunt in pole position...Within six weeks of the Nurburgring accident Niki Lauda was back behind the wheel...

He fought for his life for several days following the accident and suffered horrendous burns to his head and face.

Part of one of his ears was burnt off and his tear duct mechanism was severely damaged which affected his vision in subsequent races.

Lauda won the World Championship a total of three times - in 1975, 1977 and 1984.

Before the 1976 accident he had been well on course to win it again - but eventually lost by just one point to James Hunt.

At the end of the 1970s he launched his own airline Lauda Air.

Guy Edwards was awarded a Queen's Gallantry Medal for his bravery.