Talk:Mika Häkkinen

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Pronounciation?? could someone please add the pronounciation of Häkkinen.. --Rev.bayes 17:56, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I am quite sure it's IPA: ['hækːinen], but please do correct me if I'm wrong. --Jarkko Piiroinen 19:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nicknames

Does someone still know whether "Iceman" was one of Häkkinen's common nicknames or not? I think so, but some people disagree, while this nickname had been removed from this article, but now another user has put this name back into Häkkinen's statistics. This seemed a good subject for discussion. Could someone help us?

• That's Kimi Räikkönen's nickname.
  • First it was Häkkinen's nickname but then Kimi took it.84.251.152.157 09:34, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

His nick name was or is "FLYING FINN"

• • • I remember Peter Collins, of Lotus, referring to Hakkinen as an iceman, due to his confidence and calm in his early days.

Tom Prankerd 19:03, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding Results

I am in the process of adding his results table - aprithvi

His nick name was "FLYING FINN"

If you go back to Hakkinen's racing days, Derek Daily often called him the iceman, this came about midway through the 1998 F1 season when so often Mika would be out front after one of his signiture good start, often times Schumacher would not be able to make up any ground when Mika had the open road unless a car failure, during many U.S televise races, the term iceman was used very often during Mika's career peak and I do have VHS tape of these races to back this up. So he was often called the Iceman Long before Kimi was ever in F1. The nicknam carried over to Kimi when he entered McLaren. Mika's nicknam as the ice man Comes from his days driving on ice back back home, he as often mentioned that this is why his car control is so good. Keke Rosberg was also called the Fying Finn as well as several Downhill Skiers from Finland during olympic broadcast here in the US. Dale B. S.

[edit] Williams

I half-remember something in 1993 - didn't Mika originally sign for the second Williams for '93, but was switched across to McLaren as part of some arcane deal involving McLaren not objecting to Williams' entry irregularities for that year?

Tom Prankerd 19:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

As a Long Time Mika Hakkinen and Senna fan, I can say that Mika did not sign in any shape or form a formal contract for the second seat at Williams for 1993. Alain Prost sign to be a Williams driver, Ricardo Patresse was out, and soon signed with Benneton, but subsequently, ole Nig wanted nothing to do with Prost and Ricardo could have actually kept his spot. The corntrovesy your referring to is that of David Couldtard in 1994. During the 1994 Spa Race was when this came up, McLaren tried to find a loophole in the contract he had with Williams and it was not until 1996 that McLaren was able to get him. Dale B S.