Niki Lauda: Rush is “glaringly realistic”

Finally, Rush (trailer visible here) arrives in theaters. This film retracing the incredible 1976 season of Formula 1 marked by the duel between Niki Lauda and James Hunt, will hit French screens in a week. Be careful, as director Ron Howard admits in an interview this week with AUTOhebdo (available at all kiosks and here in digital version), “It’s not a documentary. It's more in the vein of Apollo 13 (film on the third American mission to the Moon, released in 3 and of which he is also the author. Editor's note)."

The film is very realistic, particularly with regard to the serious accident suffered by Niki Lauda on the Nürburgring circuit and during which he was seriously burned. The three-time Austrian Formula 1 world champion himself admits to having been arrested. “When Daniel Brühl, who plays my character, came to talk to me during filming with all that black on his body and the bandage on his head, I was really shocked, says the non-executive director of Mercedes GP in AUTO columnshebdo, and this before moving on to one of the passages that had the most impact on him, namely the scenes showing him in the hospital. It's strikingly realistic, it really reproduces the atmosphere of hospitals of the time. Now that I see everything from the outside, looking back over the years, I realize how bad a state I was. »

This week in your AUTO magazinehebdo, currently on newsstands and available here in digital version, find our file on Rush, including an interview with director Ron Howard, who was rewarded in 2002 by the Academy of Oscars for A Beautiful Mind.