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Lewis Hamilton is the modern-day version of James Hunt, Mercedes chairman Niki Lauda has claimed ahead of the 40th anniversary of the Britons memorable title triumph.Hunt beat his great rival Lauda to the 1976 championship by just one point following a dramatic season in which Lauda miraculously survived a fireball inferno at the Nurburgring, while Hunt secured the title in treacherous conditions at the final race of the season.Hunt, who died aged only 45 following a heart attack in 1993, had a reputation as a party animal away from the track -- an unruly playboy who once claimed to have slept with 5,000 women. In contrast, Austrian Lauda was depicted as a studious and dedicated racing driver.Hamilton, who is 33 points adrift of Nico Rosberg ahead of this weeks race in America, has spent the last two years hopping from one A-List party to another. He counts Kanye West and Pharrell Williams among his circle of friends. Rosberg meanwhile, lives in Monaco with his long-term partner Vivian. They married in 2014 and have a one-year-old daughter.It is like Hamilton and Rosberg today, Lauda told the Press Association as he reflected on his rivalry with Hunt. One lives one kind of life, and the other lives a different lifestyle. It was a similar situation between James and me.I was trying to concentrate, focus and work on my car, and get everything right. He had an easy life and got it right in another way. He was a straightforward, eccentric, and a weird guy, but very good for Formula One.Lauda led Hunt by 26 points before the Austrians near-fatal crash midway through the season. Lauda suffered severe facial burns -- ones which are still evident beneath his customary red cap today -- after he was dragged from his blazing cockpit.Incredibly Lauda missed only two races, but his six-week absence, and a run of victories for Hunt, saw the Englishman reduce the gap in the championship to just three points ahead of the decider in Japan on Oct. 24.Lauda felt the race in Fuji should have been cancelled due to the wet and misty conditions and withdrew after only two laps. Hunt crossed the line in third to win the title.I have to say that when he won the championship, I said to myself, the only one who deserves it is him, Lauda added. With his ups and downs, and drinking, and the way he lived Formula One, I was really happy it was him, and I told him that.Hunt won three further races for McLaren but failed to defend his title. In 1979, he retired from racing before pursuing a career in the BBC commentary box alongside Murray Walker. A series of poor financial investments however saw him lose a vast amount of money.He was having a rough time, Lauda, who won three championships, said as he recalled an off-the-cuff rendezvous with Hunt. He called me, and I went to meet him on Kings Road in London.He came out on a bicycle which had no air in the rear tyre, and he was completely finished. I spoke to him for a long time and I said if you keep on going like this you will end up in a disaster. I leant him some money, and really backed him to get his act together again.Three years before his death he was completely sober, fit like a whistle, and all the partying, the drugs, and the rock and roll lifestyle was gone. He was safe in his life, so it surprised me and hit me really hard when the guy passed away. I was really sad.Hunts epic battle with Lauda was befitting of a Hollywood script, and Rush -- a movie produced by Ron Howard -- was released in 2013 to great critical acclaim.The reaction was very good for a racing movie, added Lauda, 67. Eighty percent from my point of view is right, and 20 percent is Hollywood. The movie I really liked and the reaction around the world was unbelievable. Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys . -- Nathan Pancel scored twice as the Sudbury Wolves defeated the North Bay Battalion 4-2 on Saturday in Ontario Hockey League action. Cheap Minnesota Wild Jerseys . He just needed to be his best twisting, turning acrobatic self. "I didnt need to be anybody else, I just needed to be myself and be aggressive," said Burks, who scored a career-high 34 points to spark the Utah Jazz to a 118-103 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night. http://www.cheapwildjerseys.com/ . Fred Couples, captain of the U.S. side, put it all into perspective. "We know whos in charge," he said. Cheap Wild Jerseys China . DAmigo scored twice in regulation and added the shootout winner as the Toronto Marlies edged the San Antonio Rampage 5-4 in American Hockey League action. Wholesale Wild Jerseys . Speaking Thursday on TSN 1050 Thursday, the Leafs GM also touched on the questions surrounding the teams leadership and the struggles of his big-name free-agent signing. “Its not from lack of effort from the coaching staff. CLEVELAND --?Indians?ace pitcher Corey Kluber will take the mound in Game 7 on Wednesday with a chance to become the first pitcher to win three starts in one World Series since Detroits Mickey Lolich in 1968.The game has changed, the 76-year-old Lolich said Tuesday. Its a totally different game than what we played back in our days. It just doesnt happen.Cleveland is hoping for its first title since 1948.Meanwhile, Kyle Hendricks -- who led the majors in earned run average this season -- can pitch the Chicago Cubs to their first championship since 1908. Climbing back from a 3-1 World Series deficit, Chicago won 9-3 on Tuesday to force a deciding Game 7.Kluber is 4-1 with a miserly 0.89 ERA in five starts during this postseason, starting with 16 consecutive scoreless innings against Boston in the American League Division Series and Toronto in the AL Championship Series.He started on only three days rest for the first time in his big league career in Game 4 against the Blue Jays; he left after five innings with the Indians trailing 2-1 in a 5-1 defeat.Kluber then threw 88 pitches over six innings to beat the Cubs 6-0 on Oct. 25 in the World Series opener.He came back on three days rest in Game 4, throwing 81 pitches over six innings and giving up only one run, as the Indians took a 3-1 World Series lead.Hes a special guy, Hendricks said of his Game 7 opponent. You can just see it, the way he takes to the mound. Hes always locked in.Nine pitchers have won three starts in a single World Series, but none since Lolich went 3-0 with a 1.67 ERA and 21 strikeouts while tossing three complete games against St. Louis.Good players, good pitchers, can do special things. Hes in that category, Indians manager Terry Francona said of Kluber. It was kind of an easy decision after talking to him.The 2014 Cy Young Award winner as the ALs top pitcher, Kluber was 18-9 with a 3.14 ERA this season, as Cleveland won the AL Central for the first time since 2007. His win in the All-Star Game in July gavee the American League home-field advantage in this World Series.ddddddddddddI never connected those dots at that point in time, Kluber said.After Lolich had a pair of complete-game victories for Detroit in the 1968 World Series, he remembered manager Mayo Smith turning to him during the Tigers 10-run third inning in Game 6.Can you start Game 7? I only want you to pitch five innings, Lolich recalled Smith asking.Sure, that wouldnt bother me at all, the pitcher remembered responding.The only others to win three World Series starts were Charles Deacon Phillippe of Pittsburgh and Bill Dinneen of the Boston Americans in 1903; the New York Giants Christy Mathewson (1905); the Philadelphia Athletics Jack Coombs (1910); Pittsburghs Babe Adams (1909); Clevelands Stan Coveleski (1920); Milwaukees Lew Burdette (1957); and Cincinnatis Bob Gibson (1967).Arizonas Randy Johnson beat the New York Yankees in a pair of World Series starts in 2011, then won Game 7 with 1? innings of relief, a day after throwing 104 pitches over seven innings to win Game 6. Bostons Smoky Joe Wood (1912), Urban Faber of the Chicago White Sox?(1917) and the Cardinals Harry Brecheen (1946) each also won a pair of starts and once in relief in a World Series.Giants ace Madison Bumgarner won two starts in the 2014 World Series, before throwing five scoreless innings in relief in Game 7 for a save at Kansas City.During this World Series, Hendricks didnt get a decision in his Game 3 start, when he went 4? scoreless innings in a 1-0 loss.But hes looking forward to Game 7 on Wednesday at Clevelands Progressive Field.This is the ultimate dream, Hendricks said. When youre out in your backyard as a kid, playing Little League at the field with your friends, this is the moment you dream about: Game 7, 3-2, two outs, something like that, bottom of the ninth. But its always Game 7 of the World Series. ' ' '