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Lauda Air founder and former Formula One World champion Niki Lauda addresses a news conference in Vienna November 5, 2003. [Lauda said that he took over more than 51 percent of the
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Former Formula One World Champion Niki Lauda poses for photographers in front of an airbus A320 at Vienna's Airport November 28, 2003. Lauda took over more than 51 percent of the Austrian
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The Austrian triple world champion of Formula 1 Niki Lauda, the eponym of the airline Laudamotion GmbH "Lauda" was on 20.5.2019 peacefully fallen asleep in the circle of his family Stock Photo - Alamy
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