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> Funny that nearly the first comment on this thread dealt not with Lauda’s Formula 1 career but his airline ventures. The real reason I'll check HN comments f
by Torwald 7y ago
> Funny that nearly the first comment on this thread dealt not with Lauda’s Formula 1 career but his airline ventures.
The real reason I'll check HN comments first.
> He really must be more widely known for that now.
No, here in Europe F1 is a household thing. Everybody nows about the race car driver. He worked as a F1 pundit in German TV and there is even the movie about him and James Hunt, "normal" people know about that. They don't care about aircraft technology.