Three-time Formula One World champion and chairman of the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Niki Lauda is recovering in an Austrian hospital after having an emergency lung transplant.
The 69-year old Lauda was on holiday in Ibiza when he fell ill and was subsequently flown by private jet to Vienna where he ultimately received a lung transplant at the AKH Vienna Hospital. Doctors there say he is making good progress, though still recovering in intensive care. Interestingly, doctors pointed out that Lauda’s transplant was not as a result of his horrific accident at the Nürburgring, in 1976, where Lauda’s lungs were badly injured in the resulting blaze.
