How the driver who shocked Senna became an F1 legend
Mika Hakkinen seized his moment to become one of F1's all-time greats - but it was a long time coming, says NIGEL ROEBUCK
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 Hakkinen, until Fernando Alonso came along and became the only man to worry Michael Schumacher.
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