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Mercedes to keep permanent red star for Lauda
Mercedes will keep a red star on their Formula One cars as a permanent remembrance of triple world champion Niki Lauda, the team’s non-executive chairman who died last Monday. A red three-pointed star on the engine cover is one of several on-car tributes to the Austrian at Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix, with the ‘halo’ head protection device painted red as a reference to Lauda’s familiar red cap. “Niki we miss you,” is written on top of the halo, while the nose of the car bears Lauda’s signature. The Austrian, who was 70, wore a red cap to cover the burns sustained in a fiery 1976 crash at the Nurburgring which almost cost him his life. The then-Ferrari driver, a two-times...
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