Natural inside Helsinki, Finland, like virtually all prizewinning racing drivers he raced karts from the age of Quintuplet, winning the succession of regional & national championships prior to transferring to good-sized machines. Gaining the attention of managers by owning a win in the British Formula 3 championship in 1990, he joined the Lotus F1 team in 1991.

Shifting to McLaren in 1993, he took up the position researching for the team. Michael Andretti left a sport when a Italian Gr& Prix and Häkkinen was chosen to race alongside seasoned Ayrton Senna. Fallowing Senna's departure from either McLaren within 1994, Häkkinen became a team leader. He experienced the succession of mediocre (by McLaren's standards) outcomes through the early 1990s and also the immense string of bad luck. Inside 1995 Häkkinen experienced a tyre failure at a Australian Grand Prix, which sent him into the wall at high speed. He was redeemed lone due to an emergency tracheotomy that was performed by the side of the track. This incident forged the hard attach between Häkkinen & Ron Dennis, and as well sent forth river the recently movement for more safety in the sport. So a newly technical indicator director, Adrian Newey world health organization was known for designing the championship winning Williams-Renault cars, shifted to the team. This vary come inside conjunction to the teams signing for Mercedes engines within 1996. Within 1997, Häkkinen's team-mate, David Coulthard won a year opener inside Australia, also as a close race around Italy. Häkkinen, even so, struggled to call for dependableness, with deuce-ace car failures patch leading, one of victims in his birthday. Vindication eventually come at a endure race of the year inside Jerez, where Jacques Villeneuve let Häkkinen across to require a checkered flag. Häkkinen's morale, & a car improved when you took a off-year. He went around to wwithin many extra races in 1998, & eventually clinched the world championship in 1998. 1999 was a far tougher season, a team over again struggled for dependableness, & a championship come down to McLaren & Ferrari. Schumacher broke his leg at a harriet beecher stowe corner at Silverstone, & his team-mate Eddie Irvine took on top a offence. A title battle went down to the endure race at Suzuka, Japan. Häkkinen drove an nearly unflawed race to choose a win, & the world championship. Nevertheless, a builder championship would exist as taken by Ferrari.

Fallowing struggling against a Ferrari of Michael Schumacher in 2000 and 2001, Häkkinen spent the 2002 season "on sabbatical", however announced his lasting retirement when you took a year.

Assessing Häkkinen's admittedly talent against Schumacher's benchmark is, rather any such comparison, quite hard. Though it raced both additional around a 1990 F3 championship, the differences between them F1 cars more typically than does'nt dwarfs the difference in driver ability at this rarefied level. When virtually all judges rate Schumacher a superior driver, Häkkinen was sure practiced plenty to beat his extremely-regarded mate David Coulthard to win the championship while McLaren overcome car on the grid. Häkkinen's first gr& prix win in the previous race of the 1997 year courted the few contestation when a select few believed Dennis and Frank Williams got done a treat to assist every more against Ferrari. Around 1999 Schumacher sat out virtually all of the year due to injuries.

Around November 2004 it was announced Häkkinen would become camping for Mercedes in the German Touring car series (DTM) in 2005. 3 races into a todays DTM year, he lies joint 2nd in the series, scoring his foremost win at Spa-Francorchamps.

Häkkinen is married to his married woman Erjthe & has of these boy, Hugo, & a girl, Aina. It presently reside within Monaco.

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About Mika Häkkinen

Name	Mika Pauli Häkkinen
Nicknames	A Flying Finn, Iceman, Häkä (translates to "carbon monoxide")
Nationality	Finnish
Birth Date	28 September, 1968
Age	37 (at 28 September, 2005)
Birth Place	Martinlaakso, Vantaa, Helsinki, Finland
Racing Debut	Finnish Karting, 1974
Height	179 cm
Weight	Seventy kg
Blood Group	The RH+
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco (since 1991)
Marital Status	Married to Erja Honkanen-Häkkinen (since 1998), a single boy (Hugo Ronan), a single girl (Aina Julia)
Father	Harri
Mother	Aila
Sister	Nina
Eyes	Blue
Hair	Blond
Favorite Drink	H2o, Milk
Favorite Music	J. Karjalainen, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Phil Collins, Michael Jackson
Hobbies	Camping, Skiing, Swim, Golf game, Lawn tennis, Scuba Diving
Manager	Keijo "Keke" Rosberg

About his races
Victories in a Formula 1 Grand Prix
1997: Europe 1998: Australia, Brazil, Spain, Monaco, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Japan 1999: Brazil, Spain, Canada, Hungary, Japan 2000: Spain, Austria, Hungary, Belgium 2001: Smashing Britain, United States

Victories in a DTM race
2005: Spa-Francorchamps

Pole Position (Formula 1)
1997: Luxembourg 1998: Australia, Brazil, Spain, Monaco, France, Neat Britain, Germany, Hungary, Belgium 1999: Australia, Brazil, San Marino, Monaco, Spain, Smashing Britain, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Italy 2000: Australia, Brazil, San Marino, Austria, Belgium

Pole Position (DTM)
2005: Spa-Francorchamps

Fastest laps during a race (Formula 1)
1997: Italy 1998: Australia, Brazil, Spain, Monaco, Italy, Luxembourg 1999: Brazil, Monaco, Smashing Britain, Austria, Belgium, Europe 2000: San Marino, Low Britain, Spain, Monaco, Canada, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Malaysia 2001: Malaysia, Nifty Britain, Hungary