NIGEL ROEBUCK’S FORMULA ONE HEROES
May 02, 2019
4 minutes
IT IS A CURIOSITY OF OUR SPORT that some great drivers are unaccountably undervalued by history. For all his achievements, Jack Brabham, I think, is one such, and another is Mika Häkkinen, until Fernando Alonso came along the only man to worry Michael Schumacher.
After winning the British F3 championship, Häkkinen came into Formula 1 in 1991 with Lotus, and although the team was a shadow of the one founded by Colin Chapman, he showed well enough to be offered a McLaren job for ’93. With Michael Andretti coming in to partner Ayrton Senna, Mika was taken on as test driver, with a promise from Ron Dennis that ultimately
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