Bottas: Following in Hakkinen's footsteps
Mika Hakkinen retired from Formula 1 in 2001, and left the DTM in 2007. Today he helps to guide upcoming talent and fellow Finn Valtteri Bottas, a man who Hakkinen and Williams's Mark Gillan believe may be cut from the same cloth, as Tony Dodgins discovered
It was good to catch up with Mika Hakkinen at McLaren's Hockenheim HQ on Saturday. The two-time world champion was on Mercedes Night of the Stars ambassadorial duty with former Woking team-mate David Coulthard later that evening, and we got to do some reminiscing as we watched Adam Scott take over the lead of The Open at Lytham on the big screen.
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