“I have, for instance, a 70 per cent chance of getting killed if I have a crash: if something goes wrong on my car. At the Nürburgring, there is no chance. It’s 100 per cent at the Nürburgring.” NIKI LAUDA

“I want to get this title after fighting for it with Niki on the track. If he has to watch the next races as a spectator, I won’t enjoy winning that much anymore.” JAMES HUNT

“James was a bit like having a dog; you think you have trained it and it’s being good, and then it goes and craps on someone else’s living room carpet. And that’s what he did all the time. Every race there was something.” JOHN HOGAN

“The doctors told my wife that there’s no hope that I would survive. I looked like some grotesque animal because my whole head and neck were swollen to three times their normal size.” NIKI LAUDA

“James Hunt was a silly jerk. He is champion of the world right? The problem is that he thinks he’s king of the goddamned world as well.” MARIO ANDRETTI