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Guy Edwards: 'The car was alight and Lauda was trapped... he did thank me for rescuing him, but it was very frightening for him and he couldn't really talk about it' -
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Sean Edwards, racing driver son of the man who rescued Niki Lauda in 1976, killed in crash in Australia
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