SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2018 07 Djibouti rejects AFP| Vienna Quitting as an F1 driver gave him more room to pursue his second pas- ruling in port row n fire in a burning race sion, civil aviation, and in 1979 he with Dubai car cockpit: Formula One founded Lauda Air, selling it at a profit Niki Lauda: legend Niki Lauda will for- to Austrian Airlines in 2002. AFP| Nairobi ever be known for his 1976 But that wasn’t his last venture in accident. the airline industry: in 2004, he creat- he Djibouti presiden- OBut that didn’t stop the famous bat- ed the profitable low cost carrier Niki Tcy yesterday refused tler -- currently recovering from a lung that he sold to Germany’s Air Berlin to recognise a London transplant -- from winning a total of in 2011. court ruling which found F1 legend three world titles and later founding Then after Air Berlin went defunct, the Horn of Africa nation his own airlines. he won back the airline this January, wrongly seized a major port Lauda, 69 and currently non-exec- edging out IAG, owner of British Air- facility in the country from utive chairman of world champions ways, and Ryanair. He re-named it its Dubai-based operator. Mercedes, underwent the operation LaudaMotion, but then in another twist The Doraleh container Thursday at Vienna’s general hospital sold a majority stake in it to Ryanair in terminal, a large shipping turned following a lung infection he picked up March. hub and key transit route while on holiday on Spain’s Ibiza island. Lauda, who also runs some private on the northwestern edge “Everything is progressing very well business jets, has also suffered catastro- of the Indian Ocean, was at the moment, and we are very satis- phe in aviation: on May 26, 1991, a Lau- designed and built by DP fied,” Walter Klepetko, who operated on da Air Boeing 767 crashed on its way World, who have run it Lauda and leads the hospital’s depart- from Bangkok to Vienna. All 223 people since 2006. The company airline ment for thoracic surgery, told Austria’s on board died. has been accused by Djibou- ORF broadcaster. ti of under-managing the Lauda won his first Formula One Courting controversy container terminal in favour Grand Prix in 1975 with Ferrari, al - Recognisable by the trademark red cap of the firm’s main port in though it was on August 1 the follow- which hides scars from his racing acci- Dubai and had its 50-year ing year that his life changed forever: dent, Lauda has stayed in the limelight. contract terminated. Dubai maverick the reigning world champion’s racecar He has never strayed far from For- government said the Lon- burst into flames on the Nuerburgring mula One: he worked as a television don Court of International track in Germany. commentator, a consultant for Ferrari Arbitration had “confirmed He stayed in the burning vehicle for in the 1990s and was team principal at the illegitimacy” of seizure. almost a minute before being pulled out. the short-lived Jaguar outfit in the early Lauda, 69, Images of the accident of the defend- 2000s. In 2012, he became Mercedes’ ing champion went around the world non-executive chairman. and currently -- but it was just the start of Lauda’s Known for his expertise and some- Chile enacts historic legend. times brutal frankness, Lauda still reg- non-executive ularly comments on F1. Fighting spirit ban on plastic bags chairman of In an interview with AFP on the side- Six weeks after receiving the last rites lines of the Monaco Grand Prix in May, Santiago world champions in his hospital bed, Lauda surprised he criticised the Halo protection now everyone by taking part in the Italian installed in cockpits, saying it detracted hile made history on Mercedes, Grand Prix in Monza. from the sport’s allure of “gladiatorial CFriday when it became He finished fourth while still in combat”. the first country in Latin underwent a bandages after having suffered first- to Born on February 22, 1949 in Vienna America to ban the com - third-degree burns over his face and into an upper middle-class family, An- mercial use of plastic bags. surgery Thursday hands and inhaled toxic fumes. dreas Nikolaus ‘Niki’ Lauda is the father “I want to share with you He had missed only two races but he of four children from two marriages the joy that as of today we’re at Vienna’s was unable to resist a challenge from -- Lukas (39), Mathias (37) and eight- enacting the law,” said Pres- British racer James Hunt, who won year-old twins Max and Mia. ident Sebastian Pinera at a general hospital four of the last seven races to overhaul Despite his talent, his family did not public ceremony in the cen- Lauda and claim his only world title. share his passion for cars. tre of Santiago, after which following a lung The rivalry between the two men -- “A Lauda should be on the economic he handed out cloth bags to which demonstrated the Austrian’s ex- pages of the newspaper, not the sports passers-by. infection traordinary courage and fighting spirit pages,” his grandfather used to say. Large businesses have six -- was portrayed in the 2013 film “Rush” But at 15, before he even had his months to phase out the use by American director Ron Howard. driver’s licence, Lauda bought an old of plastic bags, while small- In 1977, Lauda went on to win his Volkswagen which he took apart and er ones will be given two second F1 world championship title patched up, driving it around his grand- years to adapt to the new with Ferrari and quit Formula One at parents’ estate. rules.It means that any form the end of 1979. In 1968, without telling his parents, of plastic bag other than But he came back in 1982, this time he took part in -- and won -- his first those constituting primary Austrian Formula One legend Niki Lauda with McLaren, with whom he won his race with a Mini Racer he had bought packaging “necessary for last world champion title in 1984. with his grandmother’s help. hygiene or to prevent food wastage” are prohibited, the government gazette Diario Oficial said on Friday. 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