And they were friends the entire time.

It’s like vettel and lewis

Like Hunt and Lauda

@@markhenley3097 hakkinen has said that they were not friends.

@@DavidGarcia-oi5nt Bullshit. Even in a recent interview Mika said he will always pray for Michael. And Mika and Senna are the only drivers Michael respected.

He actually did retire before the 2002 German GP.

@EL DIABLO Hakkinen replacing Bottas at Mercedes in 2021 confirmed?

Fun fact: He was testing for McLaren in 2004-2007 or somewhere in that time for his return (i dont remember). They were doing like laps or taking times on a track or airport and he was really planning to come back. But then they had a problem with the car that they used the entire day to fix and Mika remembered that was the exact reason he took the sabbatical. He was too fed up in all problems and troubleshooting in F1. Cool story tought I could share.

@John Lemon u mean Seb Vettel lol

I never realised he was only 33 when he drove his last race in '01. Just like Vettel who will be 33 when he'll drive his last race for Ferrari this year, and will probably retire(or go on a 1 year sabattical?)

You mean... The Michael

The9der That moment was beautiful, respect between two legends

Agreed. That was a great moment for F1.

While Ralf sat next to him with a stone-face. :)

Agreed,i 100 % agree

Wdym

A syarif he was in a coma

@@achmadsyarif8753 It was even explained in the video. Crash in Adelaide, break your skull etc. Spend 2 or 3 days in coma, come back to F1 and win two titles in '98 and '99 EDIT: my bad in the vid they speak about "few days" and didn't find any legit enough info how long was the period actually. Anyway he was basically dead for time.

@@moonchant You forgot the 5 weeks in the hospital.

That is SISU!

Besides Schumacher trying to put him into the wall on the Kemmel, sure. Michael lacked the race-craft CLASS that Mika had, that's why Mika is unanimously revered by fans, because not only was he fast and won two world championships, but he indisputably did it fairly at all times.

Finland, land of great drivers.

It started way back at Macau F3 Grand Prix in 1990. Michael brake tested Mika in the second race knowing that if Mika just stayed behind, he would had won the two races aggregate having won the first one by a comfortable margin. Mika crashed out with Michael's damaged car with no rear wing cruised to win. That sting was there until Mika won the title in 1998.

@@neblinasp both in rally and f1

He may have meant 'though michael' but maybe i missed something

Impossible

At least he tried 🤣🤣🤣

Great driver but a bad teacher. :)

He taugh James May how to drive quickly and that made James May only average driver in Finland

Well at least he tried to teach him scandinavian flick :D. Fun to watch.

I was waiting for that one😂

When Mika returned with an empty jar. He is really determined.

"No I would not do that Eddie don't worry" *A few moments later* "Right, that's it!" 😂

@@zubair_aslam Eddie, I'm sorry😂

@@zubair_aslam "I've got nothing to do with that"

Interestingly enough you could be describing Kimi Raikkonen IMO. The two Finns are class acts.

Most meme worthy post race interview replies ever. Yes. Hakkinen was and always will be the best to me.

1999 Mika hakennin world champion all cause schumacher injured in a accident and was away for few races ... It was Mika vs Eddie Irvine fighting for the championship.

@@user-2203xyz "Anything can happen in Formula 1, and it usually does." "F1 is IF spelled backwards."

You mean, “The Michael” 😂

Alonso, Kimi and Montoya too

True that !

Well that's a silly statement of paradox isn't it. He wasn't the best, so didn't deserve more titles. Mika was one of my favorites, how could you not like the guy, and what a sensational driver, but he also made too many mistakes in his career, and lets face it, 1999 was made a little easier for him with Shumachers accident and Irvine have some ridiculous perfomances.

@@markmark5269 I highly doubt that even if micheal was there in 1999 he would have won the title. Mika was too consistant.

A garage of complete Nordic silence. Now that would have been championship material

Ive heard that after the birth of his first child his heart wasnt in it any more. He had 2 championships and nothing left to prove at the time so i cant blame him.

@@Ghiaman1334 Häkkinen is very chatty for a Finn.

@karel bellic "Would you kindly tell us why are you both so silent?" Kimi and Mika "Why not?"

'minimum talking'

He is actually a bad development driver, i think someone said that, he is good but isnt actually really good at developing car

@@tilentgamer8758 yes, he is indeed very fast but not good at developing the car.

Senna also said that Frentzen was a huge talent that Williams should sign. And they kicked out Hill. And Frentzen was not even close.

If only Senna lived long enough to race with them

And Palmeiras Não Tem mundial

I think he was trying to say:"I don't know if though Michael did."

@@dgaming8567 he always said the michael

I reckon it's part of the finnish grammar. It's the same in German. "Der Michael"

@@axemanracing6222 nope, no articles in Finnish.

Time stamp?

the guy who won in 3 different engines v10,v8 and v6

He also raced Verstappens dad xD

bwoah

@@Chuckiele I hope that verstappen and kimi son robin race together in future

The last Ferrari champion

Did you just compare Valtteri to Mika and Kimi? Don't ever do that again. Thanks.

Dude, same here, out of all the rivalries in F1, I love this one the most, always clean, no bulshit and drama, just pure driving, pure racing, pure pressure

@Matej Zizza Kimi has won more races than Hakkinen or Valtteri, and Kimi at his peak was insane should have won 2 more world titles in 2003 and 2005 - his car let him down. They are not comparable. Raikkonen is an all time great who destroyed peak Coulthard by a bigger margin than Hakkinen did. Bottas is just average. I repeat, Kimi and Mika in one group, Salo, Bottas and Heikki in the other.

@@ciaronsmith4995 I never compared them results-wise, only as personalities. I know exactly how much you love Kimi already so your efforts are a bit wasted here.

@@FightingTorque411 Mika is also a great driver. There is no love here, just objectivity. Bottas not so much.

It is overtake on "the" Michael 😉

A close second to Nelson Piquet overtaking Senna around the outside on full opposite lock In Hungary 1986

Alonso...that is all.

@@Rubbinz24 130R?

@@ianperan3880 Yes. 👌

You were not the only one. Same happened to me :D Everyone was cheering for Schumi, and I was Mika all the way!

Same for me. Even my father loved Schumi, but Mika was my favorit.

Same 😉

You and me both. That rivalry only comes once in a while and those two were absolutely amazing drivers.

same. he was our hero.

you can't not say The Michael and not think of this rivalry.

same

Indeed! Both Senna and Michael saw the greatness in Mika. Especially after coming back from such adversity there is no doubt he has the heart of a champion.

I dunno about that, he once said "if you think im fast, wait until you see my nephew bruno"😂

@@tomcharlton586: Maybe he was adopted? Let's not forget that in 1978, Ayrton lost the Karting World Championship to American Stock car racer Lake Speed. Not exactly his finest hour.

@@tomcharlton586 Bruno Senna was forced by his mother to stop racing for 10 years after Ayrton's crash. He still made it all the way to F1. To this day I'm yet to see a talent stop for 10 years and still manage to rise to the top. Bruno's talent with Ayrton's coaching would've been unstoppable, had the legend lived.

@@SdoubleA Bruno could do even better with a better team

I remember watching that live, I was never a schumacher fan so that move was especially sweet!

It's one of the all time greatest overtakes ever in motorsport. ever.

Mika is a true gent. all class. love him.

Maybe, but always, there is a hope

One of a kind. Unique. Tenacious. Relentless. Attacking!

Once actually. 1998.

Mika is not talking about the overtake there, however. He’s disciplining Michael about Michael’s dangerous defensive move, which almost made them crash one lap before the overtake.

@@Box0rz If my memory serves me correctly, Michael brushed Mika off with something along the lines of 'that's racing'.

@@charamia9402 just like the torpedo?

@@sumanthbhat7879 Yep. And a whole lot of other drivers that have made a not quite fair move.

That wasn't a dangerous move... a dangerous move is schumacher nearly ramming barichello into a concrete wall during his 2nd stint in a mercedes!

Was there any official reason for hakkinen retiring.. Did he have enough or maybe spend time with his family? I felt like he has quite aways to go before retirement.

@Rollo Treadway aww... dammit I miss him and Schumacher fighting it out

@@jamie7168 He already had motivation problems in 2000 and 2001. His terrifying crash at the 2001 Australian Grand Prix certainly didn't help either, and his performances in the following races were really lackluster. As it turned out, Räikkönen proved a worthy successor, as went on to humiliate Coulthard in a way Häkkinen never managed to do. Still he intended to return in 2006 I believe, but by then he'd become too slow to be a serious option.

@@mrdraw2087 Well Coulthard was past his prime.

@@jamie7168 Mika has said in his book and on interviews that one of the reasons was that the start of the season 2001 there were Australia accident that reminded him about adelaide 1995 accident, then he got scared again on interlagos when his cars stalled on the grid and he feared someone could hit him. So he thought he wanted to retire, but Dennis changed his mind so he would only take sabbatical (which eventually became retirement). He then wanted to win 2 races that he had not won and had very high respect for (with Monaco and SPA) and those two were Silverstone and Indianapolis and he won them both. Mika was very close to comeback in 2005, he had actually already decided to do so (with Williams) and contract was already agreed but then when Mika was ready to sign, Williams had already decided to sign Button (which didn't happend in the end). Mika was so furious after that.

I am a simple man I see Mika I like, share, subscribe, comment

G.O.A.T

Replace him with Raikkonen and that commercial is the 2007 Season in a nutshell

and also the advert with Rosberg

And Palmeiras não tem mundial

He didn't.

@@Olivyay yeah, but it's a popular nickname because of Mika.

@@Olivyay yes he did what the end of the video or listen to his interview on beyond the grid, he does it all the time

im from finland so i was the other way around :D

We all were :)

I was a Hakkinen fan and looking back maybe also in love with Schumi. What racing!

Best comment. I feel the same

He has a wife yknow

Yes , and Palmeiras não tem mundial

That wink...

I know were his mclaren is there's a vid if it on my chanel

MrCatsEyes yeah, on his boat

@@jorritvanderkooi939 no in mercedes benz world

IKR. He almost had that! I think the traction control prevented him from saving the spin.

And his freaking starts!! He perfected that science with McLaren I wish they included the one when he was 3rd on the grid but made it to 1st corner ahead? with the rest of the pack 2 car lengths behind him

Jesus he’s not dead you know

But hes not ded

Him and Senna also really understood each other in a friendly manner, very cool to see.

Valtteri meh

Sorry Kimi you mean

@@eliasburlon5205 maybe, but I here a lot of people saying it to Valtteri

Elías Burlón Kimi is the iceman

Bwoah

Hakkinen's still alive.

@@stevemcrichards8768 I ment Schumi I guess

Did he say that ?

@nordsporthoughts are you feeling okay?

@Diamond Dog I'd agree with that actually. Senna was good but held himself back a lot

Osman Aklan Kind of. Im not sure who, but someone asked Mika how he can be faster then Senna in his first Qualifing with McLaren. And Mika answerd: i have bigger balls then Senna. Classic Mika. 😂

@@1AngryPanda I think it was Senna who asked mika how was he so fast in particular corner and mika said big balls. he never said to have bigger balls than senna.

Its okay, he defended his title. Had nothing left to prove .

Real MEN do show emotion and vulnerability

@@georgedanilov8898 It is a funny quote from Hakkinen himself after going off at imola!

@@infinityeight8705 Gotcha! Thank you for context

I dont cry when i hear the v10 *do i have any feelings??*