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Ecclestone won't attend Niki Lauda's funeral

Former F1 supremo and Brabham team owner Bernie Ecclestone will not be present at Niki Lauda's funeral scheduled to take place this Wednesday in Vienna. Lauda, who was 70-years-old, passed away in Switzerland last week from health complications linked to the lung transplant he underwent last summer. Ecclestone mourns the loss of the triple world champion who drove for the Brit's Brabham team in 1978 and 1979, but said that he would not shy away from his current policy of avoiding friends' funerals. Two Nikis fighting with Lauda's spirit "I do not want to see Niki dead. He lives on for me," the 88-year-old told Germany's Bild. "I visited Niki with Fabiana at the clinic in...
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