Formula One triple world champion and airline entrepreneur Niki Lauda has been released from hospital, the Vienna General Hospital said Wednesday, after he was treated for influenza following a lung transplant five months ago.
Lauda, a 69-year-old Austrian, had been holidaying in the Spanish island of Ibiza when he was flown to the hospital for treatment in early January.
When asked about a report by APA newswire, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed Lauda had left the hospital on Wednesday.
Lauda, who was badly burned in 1976 in a Formula One race and later became an airline entrepreneur, underwent a lung transplant in August and was recuperating from the surgery.