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  • Dutch Grand Prix
  • Hunt holds off Regazzoni to slice Lauda's lead

  • August 29, 1976: James Hunt celebrated his 29th birthday with victory at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, and in so doing closed the gap on Niki Lauda in the drivers' championship to three points with four races remaining

  • German Grand Prix
  • Hunt's win forgotten as Lauda's life hangs in the balance

  • August 1, 1976: James Hunt won the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring but no-one remembers that. Instead, the abiding memory of the race is a burning Ferrari with an unconscious Niki Lauda trapped within

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