Niki Lauda said yesterday that Mercedes will have a far easier time ... The 29-year-old German’s hopes of glory were shattered by a failure of his car’s ERS (energy recovery store) on lap 23 of the 55 ...

It's a livery that apes the cars Lauda drove for the Scuderia in the mid-70s, and carries through with tricolore racing stripes over the roof and throughout the red-stitched black leather interior.

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. Niki Lauda was trapped in his ...