Niki lauda autobiography vs biography
GPRejects reviews Maurice Hamilton's wonderfully fulfilling biography of the life and times of the late, great Niki Lauda....
Maurice Hamilton first came across Lauda in and in this definitive biography tells his remarkable story.
A year after the death of three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda, renowned British journalist Maurice Hamilton (no relation) wrote and published a final biography of the great Austrian. In it he collected countless reports and interviews from then and now, taking the reader through the central events of Niki’s life from a multi-dimensional perspective that is incredibly readable and very easy to escape into.
Hamilton has been on the F1 scene since the late 1970s and in Lauda’s circle of journalistic contacts for 40 years, writing and broadcasting for F1 the UK.
Moving Swiftly On
Opposite to the developed narrative, Lauda and James Hunt were actually friends throughout just about 99% of their professional careers.
Photo: James Hunt Archive.
Firstly, an important aspect of this biography is how much quiet respect Hamilton holds for the reader as much as the subject of his book. With a few notable exceptions, just about everyone who has contributed to this book deserve