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SHELL 1994 CM Mika Häkkinen

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1995 (X)

Yes Michael, why don't you just lean into him... Very subtle! 😏😏

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Sporting rivalries: Michael Schumacher vs Mika Häkkinen

Ok but imagine racing each other from formula 3, rising through the ranks together to finally compete against their heroes, only to be the only two who witnessed Ayrton Senna's car spinning out to his death from their rearview mirrors as Imola 1994 forever became an intertwining bond between those that death seems to cheat.

Imagine going to compete for world championships together, breaking world records together, but still remaining the only competitor each other ever feared. Imagine having accepted their fate to always die on the track, mourning friends and peers who left them, leaving f1 irredeemably thankful for the lives they got to walk away with.

Imagine years later finding out about the accident, the comma, realising that maybe you two weren't the lucky ones anyway, and that perhaps it is the greater pain after all, to be the one left behind when the other is gone.

Michael Schumacher hanging out with Mika Häkkinen in their pre-F1 days

Michael Schumacher and Mika Häkkinen standing on the podium of the 1994 Imola race that killed their childhood hero, Ayrton Senna

Mika Häkkinen comforting a crying Michael Schumacher, who was told that with his win that day he has equalled Ayrton Senna's all-time records

Michael Schumacher and Mika Häkkinen celebrating their world championship wins together

After Michael Schumacher's decade-long comma inducing skiing accident, Mika Häkkinen wrote him a letter, asking him to keep fighting, and that he will wait for him for as long as he needs.

Their eternal Ferrari and McLaren racing through Spa, 2000.

June 14 1964 - Belgium / Innes Ireland gives a ride back to the pits to teammate Jo Siffert (x)

June 16, 1991 - Mexico City, Mexico / Ayrton Senna gives a ride to Jean Alesi (x)

July 14, 1991 - England / Nigel Mansell gives Ayrton Senna a ride back to the pits during his victory lap after Senna had run out of fuel (x)

May 30 1995 - Hockenheim, Germany / Mika Hakkinen hitches a lift back to the pits with Gerhard Berger (x)

July 30, 1995 - Hockenheim, Germany / David Coulthard gives a ride to Rubens Barrichello

July 28 1996 - Hockenheim, Germany / Gerhard Berger hitches a ride with teammate Jean Alesi (x)

July 27 1997 - Hockenheim, Germany / Michael Schumacher gives Giancarlo Fisichella a lift back to the pits (x)

April 29 2001 -  Barcelona, Spain / Mika Hakkinen catches a lift from David Coulthard (x)

July 24, 2011 in Nuerburg, Germany / Fernando Alonso gets a lift back to the pits from Mark Webber (x)

September 22, 2013 - Singapore, Singapore / Mark Webber is given a lift back to pits by Fernando Alonso after his engine blew up (x) 

Mika Hakkinen  1991

For my fellow davika girlies❤️

Why do I even do this shit to myself??

It was at this moment...

That I knew...

I fucked up.

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Young Mika*

so again google images has granted me some beautiful photos from the ancient times

here we have baby Mika Salo and baby Mika Häkkinen and I feel the need to point out that while Mika S manages to smile very charmingly Mika H looks like a dork (a cute one but a dork)

it’s cute because they didn’t really like each other

i’ve posted this one before but it kinda proves my point above, there’s barely any change even after they entered F1, Mika S smiles and poses like a pro and Mika H is like “are you taking the photo now or did you take it already what am i doing”

also this one is perf because there’s JJ Lehto all “fuck yeah bitches imma winner look at my pepsodent smile and beautiful hair” and Mika H who finished third is like “trophy”