Mika Hakkinen

Mika Hakkinen, the flying Finn is the Formula One World Champion of 1998 and in 1999, he became the seventh man in history to win back to back championships. Mika is taking a sabbatical from the Formula One world series for the 2002 season, this is my opinion on my favourite driver for the last 5 years or so… >Pre Formula One History Mika was born on the 28th of September ’68 in Helsinki. He won the British Formula 3 champion in 1990, he was seventh in 1989. >Formula One History (Source: Sporting Life Website) >1991: Mika was with Lotus he made his debut in USA and his best result was fifth in San Marino. (2 points - 15th in ...

Well, after winning the world title, the expectations upon Mika and his driving abilities rocketed from being large to absolutely emormous. That is why that the current season can be considered poor by many people, including himself, and probably rightfully so. Mika has been doubted in the last few months. Many people feels that he had started to fade away into the background instead of continuing to compete for the world title which he should be doing. Well Mika is NOT past it yet. He showed this with a great drive in Silverstone to take teh British Grand Prix and more than double his points total, from 9 to 19. Mika has had some trouble with ...

So many times we have seen Mika Hakkinen drive some fantastic races and win race after race. But, this is normally only when he has started from a high position on the grid. Once Mika drops to a position below the top four, either on the grid or in a race he seems to lose the will to race. Obviously because the McLaren is such a great car he will still do well, but not as good as he could do. This season the McLaren car has not gone so well and already we see Mika taking a very relaxed attitude towards the world championship. When he failed on the last lap to finish the Spanish Grand Prix there was very little emotion and this is from a man that has ...