The Finnish pilot of Formula 1 Mika Häkkinen probably has concluded his activity in the category, taking leave with an impeccable trajectory to all sense, leading in the Great Prize of Japan 2001 McLaren MP4/16 Mercedes-Benz/Bridgestone. -
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Which will be the future of the Finn?
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In eleven years in Formula 1, from laborious work, careful learning, worries and joys, gained twenty victories and two World-wide Championships of Pilots, without ignoring a tremendous accident in the free tests in Australia `95, while McLaren MP4/10 lead Mercedes-Benz/Goodyear, fact that was on the verge of definitively moving away it of the tracks due to the gravity of the wounds, that to other predisposed and pilots less had made daring them leave. -Nevertheless, Häkkinen, after its recovery, continued working with firmness, believing in itself and, in the end, demonstrating to all detractors that could get to obtain his more noble and high objectives, that acquired the dye of sublime by the peculiar characteristics of his made an effort and sacrificed trajectory. -
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Hakkinen with the McLaren Peugeot
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Häkkinen has known to heft its Scandinavian coldness with its value at the right moments; everything with the aim of extracting the best one of the yields to each one of the models of cars that touched to him in turn. -Well it is known that Häkkinen did not have a net winning car until the end of the season `97, time at which first victory in the Formula 1 in the Great Prize of Europe on board McLaren MP4/12 obtained his Mercedes-Benz/Goodyear, in the Spanish circuit of Sherry of the Border, that one remembered 26 of October. -
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In Monaco during the era Mercedes
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An excellent quality of the Häkkinen nobleman always was its sensitivity in the handling and the superfluous, vain or merely speculative absence of calculations and strategies. -In addition, by his own nature, in the last six years that shared team anglian-Germanic McLaren Mercedes-Benz, it was quicker than his coequiper, the Scot David Coulthard, arriving to be dupla more lasting in the history of Formula 1. -As far as its opponents, Häkkinen dealed with not interacting inadequately with them within the tracks, and it did not do either outside them. -It was always concentrated in making “his race”, trying to offer the best thing of himself. - He is the pilot of Formula 1 more prolific than it has given Finland until the present. -
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Silhouette unmistakable of the MP4/16
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It obtained the World-wide Championships of Pilots of 1998 (McLaren MP4/13 Mercedes-Benz/Bridgestone) and of 1999 (McLaren MP4/14 Mercedes-Benz/Bridgestone). -The presence of Häkkinen in the equipment McLaren Mercedes-Benz will continue being beside the point the necessary to collaborate with its sapiencia, and thus to contribute to equipment advice to new and young titular pilot, also the Finnish Kimi Räikkönen, that not yet has acquired the sufficient experience like evolving of efficient way in the detection of technical falencias and the completion of the machines. -
This writing was published in the Argentine Newspaper “the NEW PROVINCE” Domingo 16 of December of 2001.
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