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Lauda undergoes lung transplant

Reports that Niki Lauda was released from hospital earlier this week were way off the mark, instead the Formula 1 legend's condition was so grave that he underwent a lung transplant in Vienna on Thursday. Initially, we were informed by Mercedes that 69-year-old Lauda missed the German Grand Prix and the Hungarian Grand Prix because of a bout of 'summer flu' and that he was on the road to recovery. However, his condition was far more serious as it turned out to be a severe lung disease that caused him to be hospitalised which the Mercedes media office was probably unaware of at the time. Numerous outlets mistakenly reporting that he was released, but this was clearly not the case. On...
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