Tributes have been pouring in for three-time Formula One world champion Niki Lauda who has died at the age of 70.
The legendary Austrian, one of the best-known figures in motor racing, took the title for Ferrari in 1975 and 1977 and McLaren in 1984.
He will also be remembered for his remarkable recovery and return to racing after being badly burned in a crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix and his rivalry with British racer James Hunt.
Telegraph Sport has gathered together some of Lauda's comments on various moments across his life.
Lauda on... returning to racing just 40 days after suffering life-changing injuries at the 1976 German Grand Prix
The Austrian suffered third-degree burns to his head and face and damage to his lungs after inhaling toxic gases in the horrific crash at the Nurburgring but made an incredible return to the track.
He finished fourth at the Italian Grand Prix, with his unhealed wounds having soaked his fireproof balaclava in blood by the end of the race. Remarkably he went on to finish the World Championship second to James Hunt
Writing in his autobiography To Hell And Back, he said:
Lying in bed ruminating about the 'Ring would have finished me.
I said then and later that I had conquered my fear quickly and cleanly. That was a lie. But it would have been foolish to play into the hands of my rivals by confirming my weakness. At Monza, I was rigid with fear.
Lauda on... his frank assessment of the first Ferrari car he drove
Lauda would win the first two of his three world titles (1975 and 1977) with Ferrari before also suffering the crash that nearly killed him in 1976.
Recalling the moment to CNN, Lauda was his usual unapologetic self when explaining his thoughts about initial testing with Ferrari after joining in 1974.
I remember my first test in Fiorano,” [Lauda] recalls. “I drove the first couple of laps and (team founder) Enzo Ferrari was there and Piero his son to translate.
Ferrari said, ‘So kid what do you think of this car?’ I said the car was s**t. And Piero said, ‘You cannot say this. You cannot tell my father that the car is s**t because he will throw you out. Tell him it’s no good, it sounds a little better.’
He told him and the old man really got upset because I criticized a Ferrari.
Lauda on...his famous rivalry with James Hunt
Although the 2013 film Rush portrays Lauda and James Hunt as two drivers who disliked each other in the early days of their careers, Lauda once admitted they used to go out on the town in London together and on at least one occasion he spent the night in Hunt's flat. "But not together. There were four of us".
There are good drivers and bad ones and then there are the really talented ones who are difficult to beat and James was one of them.
We respected each other very much because in the old days, to drive 300 kilometres an hour side by side towards a corner, if someone makes a mistake, one or both are killed. Hunt was someone you could rely on to be really precise.
Lauda on... being portrayed by actor Daniel Brühl in Formula One film Rush
The racing rivalry between Lauda and Hunt was immortalised in the 2013 film Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth as Hunt and Brühl as Lauda.
Former Formula One world racing car champion Niki Lauda estimates he has been approached 30 times over the years by people wanting to tell his story.
But it was not until the British playwright and screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) contacted him that he finally agreed.
I had to ask my wife who Daniel Brühl was, to be honest. She told me right away, then I met him and I liked the guy right from the beginning. He said it was very difficult to play me because I was still alive and people knew me from television and knew my body language.
I think he did an incredible job because when I first saw the movie, I said, 'S---! That's really me.
Lauda on... his distaste for Formula One trophies and choosing to swap his for a lifetime of free car washes
Speaking in 2015 after Britain's Lewis Hamilton spoke out against the British Grand Prix trophy he had received 12 months earlier, Lauda, who won 25 grands prix, made clear that he thought the awards were no better in his day.
I binned them all, you’re absolutely right, because in my time they were most of them ugly and for me useless.”
I said ‘If you give me a free car wash for the rest of my life you can have all of them’, and that is what I did. The guy died unfortunately and his son was running the petrol station but they were so demolished and terribly kept there, that a friend of mine took them away, polished them and then my kids took them and put them on eBay.
Now I have to pay for it (the car wash).