BIOGRAPHY

H A K K I N E N , Mika (SF)
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b 28/9/1968
Place of birth:      Helsinki              

Fan Club             Club Mika Hakkinen
                     58 Durack Way
                     Padbury WA 6025
                     Australia
                      
Height:              1,79 m
Weight:              66 kg
Marital status:      single
Children:            -
Sports:              skiing, swimming
Favourite music:     pop music
Favourite singers:   Michael Jackson, 
                     Simon LeBon
Favourite drink:     water, milk
Dream:               driving for McLaren 
                     in Formula 1
Start racing career: at the age of six in 
                     karts
First racing car:    Formula Ford 1600
First success:       Finnish Kart Champion 
                     in 1981

GP Starts:           60
Wins:                0
Poles:               0
Points:              60

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SOURCE: Darren Galpin
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~py3dlg/motorsport/
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Mika Häkkinen biography by McLaren
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Mika has been driving since he was six
years old and has been winning
championships ever since his karting days
in his native Finland. 

Mika Hakkinen's talents were apparent from
an early age, highlighted by the five
national karting Championship titles he
captured between 1974 and 1986 in Finland.

He then progressed into FF1600 - a category
which he duly conquered by being crowned
Finnish, Swedish and Nordic Champion - the
Lotus Euroseries and the British GM Lotus
Series, becoming Champion and runner-up 
respectively.

A year after entering the British Formula
Three Championship in 1989, he realised his
ambitions, winning the Macau Grand Prix on
his way to the overall title.

Mika finally reached Formula One in 1991
with Lotus and joined Marlboro McLaren as
Test and Development Driver in 1993, being
elevated to the position of Race Driver for 
the final three rounds of the Championship
following Michael Andretti's departure to
return to American Indy Car racing.

In his race debut for the team at the
Portuguese Grand Prix, Mika made a grand
entry by outqualifying his illustrious team
mate, three time World Champion Ayrton
Senna. He finished 1993 in great style by
scoring his first ever Formula One podium
finish with a third place at the Japanese
Grand Prix.

In the final race of 1993 in Adelaide,
Australia, Mika really became a "Flying
Finn" when he literally took off the ground
at East Terrace.

In 1994, Mika's aggressive style benefited
from his steadily increasing maturity and
experience. He became a regular visitor on
the rostrum, finishing second at the
Belgian Grand Prix and third in four other
Grands Prix.

He ended the 1994 season with a well
deserved fourth place in the Drivers
Championship, and to many, confirmed his
potential as a future World Champion.

Mika is 26 and single.

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SOURCE: McLaren, 1995
http://www.mclaren.co.uk/mclaren/
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RACING CAREER:

H A K K I N E N , Mika (SF)
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1987 - Won 3 FF1600 titles (Finnish, 
       Swedish, Nordic). 7th in FF1600 
       Euroseries
1988 - Won GM Opel Lotus Euroseries, 4 
       wins (Zandvoort, Paul Ricard, Spa, 
       Knutsdorp), UK Series 2nd, 3 wins 
       (Silverstone, Mondello, Thruxton)
1989 - UK F3 (7th) - switched from Dragon 
       to WSR and won Cellnet F3 race
1990 - Won UK F3 championship, 9 wins. Won 
       F3 Macau GP. Won at Imola in
       Italian F3. Won at Hockenheim in 
       German F3
1991 - 16 F1 races (Lotus), 2 points, 
       15th, DNQ=1
1992 - 16 F1 races (Lotus), 11 points, 
       8th, DNQ=1
1993 - 3 races (McLaren), 4 points. 
       (Gambled on Senna not taking
       other seat, and had to wait till 
       Michael Andretti vacated his seat), 
       15th in WC
1994 - 15 races (McLaren), 26 points, 4th. 
       Suspended from Hungarian GP due to
       causing huge startline pile-up at 
       Germany.
1995 - 15 races (McLaren), 17 points, 7th. 
       (2nd Italy, Japan, 4th Brazil, 
       5th Imola). DNS Australia - 
       qualifying accident and 
       hospitalised.

F1 Statistics (at the end of 1995)

Grand Prix Starts:  63 
Grand Prix Points:  60 
                    3 x 2nd, 6 x 3rd,
                    3 x 4th, 3 x 5th,
                    3 x 6th
Grand Prix Wins:    0 
Pole Positions:     0 


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SOURCES:
McLaren, 1996
http://www.mclaren.co.uk/mclaren/
Darren Galpin
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~py3dlg/motorsport/
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