May 22 Although Niki Lauda once said he has no real friends, plenty of them are paying emotional tribute to the inimitable F1 legend this week. "Niki always had his own opinion," an emotional Bernie Ecclestone told Blick newspaper. "And that is very rare in Formula 1." The former F1 supremo said he visited Lauda, who was 70 when he died on Monday, in late April. "I visited him in Switzerland and he was already very weak," Ecclestone said. "I was really worried. "Now he is not suffering anymore. He was allowed to leave this world with pride, which is certainly better for him." Austria's Kurier newspaper said one of Lauda's closest lifetime...
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