Niki Lauda counterfelt his diploma
http://www.zeit.de/2...i-Lauda/seite-1Time Magazine: Mr. Lauda, you were 19 years old when you started to race. Assuming there is not actually going to school?
Niki Lauda: Yes. And my parents insisted that I make the graduation. But I did it all took too long, so
I faked my school leaving certificate. Everyone was happy, and I could concentrate on racing.
Time Magazine: Did you show your testimony is not your parents?
Niki Lauda
63, born in Vienna, former racing driver was, between 1971 and 1985 he raced in the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Germany at the Nurburgring in 1976, he crashed heavily, but survived. A year later he was the second time world champion. Lauda's second wife, Birgit Wetzinger married, which he donated a kidney in 2005. The first replacement kidney he received in 1997 from his brother Florian
Lauda: Sure, I've shown them only from a distance, because you could clearly see above that the name of the real owner had been done away with Inkdeath. You could see a hundred yards, that something is wrong.
Time Magazine: Did you not feel guilty?
Lauda: Oh yes, but since then I have become like race car driver and was able to put my ideas, the bad conscience was quickly gone. I have only my mother confessed years later, as I was, however, been successful.
Time Magazine: You come from a family of industrialists who laid much emphasis on performance. Did you have to fight their way to racing hard?
Lauda: My grandfather was a despot. My motivation was to prove to him that you can go another way. For that I have taken every risk.
That was my salvation
Time Magazine: Has he tried to prevent that you are racing?
Lauda: Yes, yes, as an industrialist, he intervened with my bank and scared away a sponsor, I would have desperately needed at that time. He is constantly trying to influence. He wanted me to study. He has always said about the members of our family should be able to read the financial pages of a newspaper, not on the sports page.
Time Magazine: How did you react when the sponsorship deal failed?
Lauda: With him they could not talk. I then went my own way. I had to take out a loan with another bank, which then allows me to enter the Formula 1. For four years I have repaid it.