Honestly, I was a little taken aback by Mika. The man had a depth to him. You can see it in his eyes and face. This man is a beautiful combination of intellect and humor.
I think its the thing with lots of finns. They may seem reserved and thus even stupid, but if you get them talking you find out they have lots to say and are quite intellect down to earth people (well the ones I've met, im sure there are trashy folks too lol)
@@crowofcrius Agreed, but what you said at the end couldn't be more true. We have way too many crack heads but on the contrary most of the people in my "circles" (contacts) are sometimes, if they feel like it, down to earth. For me coming from Finnish culture it is hard to understand why some people take silence for a sign of low intellect. Often, but not always, the people who are the loudest give negative appearance, since they don't have anything actually intellectual or worthwhile to say. Btw disclaimer, even though I speak as a Finn, I might be wrong or have wrong picture of what most of us think.
@@ok-sj7bx odd. I'm an American. Maybe my religious background have me a different perspective, but I've never found those who speak first or loudest to come off as intelligent. Being reserved, slow to anger, & willing to listen have always been markers of a smart lad. "Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent."
I'm a finn, I've never heard a actually good way to explain Sisu in english until recently. Sisu means that you are willing to do, what you have to do. Without any consideration of you own safety, or well being. And knowing that you propably won't get any thanks for it. You just do it.
Thank you for that explanaiton. Really interesting! :) I am into military history and so of course I know the finnish exploits during the time of WW2. Sisu is another piece of the puzzle to answer the "How in the world did they do that?"-question. Nothing compares to what you guys did back then. Everybody outside Finnland who looks at your military history asks himself that, I would think. ^^ Greetings from Germany
@@thomaskositzki9424 Its a unbeliavable achievement but tbh a lot of that is thanks to Stalin. Also without German weapons it would have been a blowout. I know that being allied to Germany during ww2 sounds sketchy at best but one should not forget that finns were being invaded by motherfucking russia and had no weapons as every allied country, while they condemned the soviet aggression, they offered jack shit in actual help. We got some french MG's that were so bad that France just wanted to get rid of them and some British tanks and airplanes that had been collecting dust after WW1 and definetly weren't up to the task defending against Soviet armor and airforce. Anycase, it's a very interesting conflict during WW2 in europe. Did you know that finland is the only known country to actually pay their war reprisals in full? The last train left to Soviet union sometime in 80's if my memory serves me right. The massive war tax that soviet union demanded from finland is a corner stone of Finlands industrialization and booming hi-tech industry. So.... Thanks?.... I'm a history buff also and quite well versed in finnish military exploits durin 1930's and early 40's so if you are interested I'd be happy to answer any and all questions that I'm able.
@@Pyllymysli I wont question you, because you are correct in every way. I have seen lots of stuff on the Russian-Finnish conflict, and Finland really had no choice, because as you say, the Allies shafted them.
Finnish/British dual national here. The best translation I've found for Sisu is 'grit'. It's that gritty determination or courage in the face of extreme adversity. The Finns in the Winter War is the obvious example, but English speakers might think of the Blitz spirit in 1940s London. I would say that Samwise Gamgee showed true sisu in Lord of the Rings on several occasions, not least when he carried Frodo up the mountain.
it's all scripted, none the less mikka really is a nice person, that's why he quiet F1, he felt he should make time for his family (and his former team was collapsing )
Dean Slegos except everyone in Finland Is totally an expert driver... As in like that was average driving skill apparently... So yea.. The many times I've been in Finland I've never seen any collision, and I've seen a few while in Ireland... Also.. A lot of people start using mopeds at the age of 16 in Finland so they know how the roads works and shiz.
Finnish people don't talk much and that's a cultural fact. If you go to Finnland, you'll notice it immediately. That doesn't mean they aren't friendly, it's just that they don't do smalltalk. That was the point of this little scripted conversation which was humorous.
Always was a gentleman. A proper clinical F1 driver. Schumacher was a risk taker. He put peoples lives im danger and his own. To the point his recklessness caught him on the snow!
As a finn I'd say that My summer car is quite an accurate depiction of how life was like in the late 1990's to early 2000's, in the Finnish countryside, which usually means 3 or more miles away from the nearest city center. Things generally haven't changed that much, but it's getting harder to find cheap old cars these days. A Datsun 100A, the car the in game car is based on, goes for around 3000€ if you want a running and driving one. Cars like Volvo Amazons and VW beetles, like seen in the clip as folk racing cars, have also become collector cars and they are by no means as cheap as they were back when this was shot.
Mika Häkkinen and Michael Schumaher. Man I wish they'd still race in the F1. It was so much fun to watch them race against eachother. Truly two of the best drivers.
You get the feeling that Mika really likes James and enjoyed this bit. I've seen him smile on Camera more in this segment than I did in all my years of watching him in F1.
@@StrangeWorld11191 Finns see F1 as a quaint hobby, but for any serious motor racing it's only proper to race in a discipline where you can physically slam your opponent's car out of the way.
May: "They're quite reserved, the Finns. I mean, you, famously, when you were a F1 driver, they'd ask you a really complicated question and you'd just say 'Yes'?" Häkkinen: "Yes."
I'm so happy Mika made it to a nice retirement... I still remember him waiving on his way out. I was confused because at the time I didn't know that was his last race. He was turning Brutal Lap times when the McLaren failed... yet Mika maintained his composure... A Class Act All Around...
I feel that Mika is explaining SISU a bit shallowly in here. To me SISU means more than just courage. It also means determination to finish somkething off. Like for example if you would be going through really thick snow, with your feet already cold, you would need SISU to push through even though every step would be hurting like hell. He also needed some SISU to continue after he drove out in the end =)
"I have passed a fin. She's only 12yrs old, but that's not the point." Top Gear UK is brilliant... ;-) Captain slow is awesome, he really shows to people that you should not take yourself too seriously and just be yourself. ;-)
thats right theodore,weve got a man here in australia,norm beechey,he won the 1965 and 1970 touring car championships.hes now 82 and until 4 or 5 years ago was still racing in hillclimbs and sprints and always in the top 3 or 4,more often than not winning,in a 550 HP 68 camaro he bought new
Doing all those power slides, it's always slow and just enjoying the moment. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it as much as the next Finn, but somebody that has couple of F1 championships understands speed quite differently. :D
@@istachi and you've met me in real life dumbass? no you havent. so how do you know if i can drive or not. i'd appreciate it if you just shut ur mouth up
I remember Mika used to seem so cold and calculated in his F1 days. Its weird seeing him pulling faces, laughing and being so warm and happy to give advice. I suppose you can only credit his professional demeanor.
Imagine Senna was still alive and tried to teach May, "They will tell you to be smooth, don't listen to them, put in your all God will keep you on the road."
There is a video of Senna entering the parabolica at Monza and his technique is visible. Not smooth, constantly slamming the throttle and then making corrections. Epic
I'm 15... Finnish of course. I have already had 2 cars at my cabin (other one was an old mercedes that i don't remember the model of and now i have a volvo 740 sedan) I have learned rallying since 10 and about a month ago i got my first first place victory ;)
@@zoltancsikos5604 The van being so skinny doesn't help either. My dad had a Bedford Rascal, which was basically the same one as in the show. And it was small, so my cousins sat in the back whenever my dad was driving it. Unfortunately I was only one at the time, so I can't remember being in it. Bumpy roads were a bit of a challenge, and corners were... challenging, at least according to my cousins.
I started to drive a car when I was 6 or 7. Teacher was my cousin with his car. He was 15. We were driving a sircle, about 400 m long, half at public road :-D
@@tapsulinka As a country boy from Finland I can agree, I had driven a car before I drove a moped. I think I got my first car when I was in the 4th grade.
MPF.02.725560 witch one? the first one(silver) is a mercedes, the black and grey rally car is a mercedes 190e-2.3-16. w201 chasis. trust me it is a mercedes.
Mika is laid back for an afternoon drive, meanwhile he is in perfect control of the car drifting it beautifully for the camera to capture. Then he proceeds to tell James that they are going extremely slowly. Master of car control.
Mika was my sports hero back when I was merely a kid watching F1 on TV in late 90s I remember using his iconic West livery car in PS1's F1 '99 He still amazes me to this day
@@ArtemisHasa It doesn't sound like "you" to me but besides that, it would be a convoluted way to say that Mika feared no other driver, which is not Schumacher's style if you hear his interviews.
Just to point out, they claim that Finns have less school and homework than any other western country in the world. And given Finland's PISA results, she probably is just as quick round quadratic equations as that racetrack.
I've watched this video probably 12 times over the past four or five years, it never gets old. The fact that Mika and Capt Slow are my favorites is a relevant. Great video!
I'll say this then to my grandkids:"It's better to say something others perceive as not-nice *but which is true or factual* than to tell lies and false things just to be nice." Anyway, this "lesson" of your grandmother's is *solely for kids* who haven't learned social rules and manners yet it most definitely shouldn't be held as some gospel for adults.
He's still my all time favourite F1 Driver. In fact I was watching the superb overtake move he made on Schumacher at Spa in 2000 just yesterday. He is indeed a legend!
Miss A Peal I miss them three, when I was little, we always gathered around the TV on Sundays to cheer for Mika. It was always "Who wins this week, Mika or Schumi?". Mom rooted for Schumi because he was cuter. :D
2:47 that was epic, as soon as he said that, I realized the meaning of the title of one of their GT specials: A scandi flick. It coincided with the music and it’s was magnificent
One of the few drivers who is loved by everyone. Even the fans of his biggest opponents like Mika. That’s rare. With Kimi too actually. Maybe it’s a Finnish thing
@@lolshark99b49 Alonso had illegal mass dampers and 1 DNF while Michael had 6, then, history proved what Cryonso really was: he couldn't win against a rookie hamilton, needed nelsinho piquet jr to crash so he could win, couldn't overtake some russian dude in backmarker car while he was using the best car on the grid to win championship in 2010... so, no. Mika was the true only one ever able to beat Michael.
@@marvinracer88 Mass damper wasn't illegal when it was used by Renault. They banned it later. Say what you wish, but Alonso showed he wasn't any way inferior to Michael. Excuses are for losers, and I won't justify that he wasn't able to overtake Petrov in spite of there were other reasons. Nevertheless, he performed some miracles to be in position to fight for the championship in 2010 and 2012. Since Prost (and maybe Raikkonen, Rosberg had the same car as his main rival which it's a great feature as well), any pilot has won the title if they weren't driving the best car, but ALO has been the closest to that achievement. Ferrari hasn't had the best car since Schumi's time, so I don't know what car are you talking about. I don't like especially MSC; in spite of I admire cunning people, he sometimes crossed the line and played dirty and complained too much. Furthermore, Hakkinen and ALO showed that he wasn't able to win the title if he wasn't in the best car. Team orders? What driver fighting for the title may say that he hasn't taken advantage of them?Maybe HAM when he retrieved a position to Bottas (which Bottas had previously given to HAM). Btw, there's no evidence that ALO knew anything about Briatore's plan on Singapore.
Honestly I am jealous, we have winding and hill roads that would be great for rallying, but in Canada if you speed you get locked in jail for like 1,000 years.
On the Prairies you get away with it. You're expected to do at least 130 km/h crossing Saskatchewan. I call it the Prairie cannonball, Winnipeg to Calgary, or vice versa...your grandpa does it in 12 hours, and that's with a one hour lunch break in Regina.
SilkyMitts18 well in finnish countryside if you get busted driving without licence and you're like 12 the cops offer you a limonade and donuts :D and just continue their day
Marco Costa Mika was the only driver on the entire grid who was able to go toe to toe with schumi and he won 2 championships which is pretty impressive considering they were during the famous ferrari-schumi dominance era in F1...thing is that 'it' is pretty much guaranteed to winning a championship or two
In finland you go to estland to buy your alcohol. Because in Finland alcohol is too damn expensive. (went to study in finland for 4 months). Also, here in Belgium everything stops when it gets -5°C, in Finland -30 and business is as usual.
There might be better drivers than the Finns, but no one is as relaxed in a car as they are. Kimi Raikonnen, Mika Hakkinen, Keke Rosberg. They are so relaxed in racing that it's sometimes rather terrifying
@@filmandfirearms no, it just gets a ton of friction. If you put the front wing upside down then it will flip over at high speed and hitting a bump tho
Man when I saw this when I was younger, didnt really know who Mika was.. but now, after watching every F1 race since 1990 (on F1TV archive ofc) I know what kind of legend he is. Mika is the man.
@@Liniik we used to do it here on Finland but The damn beats kept losing barehanded rights and fled to russia. It was like kicking Winnie The Pooh kinda fun but mostly boring
Honestly, I was a little taken aback by Mika. The man had a depth to him. You can see it in his eyes and face. This man is a beautiful combination of intellect and humor.
I think its the thing with lots of finns. They may seem reserved and thus even stupid, but if you get them talking you find out they have lots to say and are quite intellect down to earth people (well the ones I've met, im sure there are trashy folks too lol)
@@crowofcrius yep
@@crowofcrius You might be on to something. Yes, I'm a finn.
@@crowofcrius Agreed, but what you said at the end couldn't be more true. We have way too many crack heads but on the contrary most of the people in my "circles" (contacts) are sometimes, if they feel like it, down to earth. For me coming from Finnish culture it is hard to understand why some people take silence for a sign of low intellect. Often, but not always, the people who are the loudest give negative appearance, since they don't have anything actually intellectual or worthwhile to say.
Btw disclaimer, even though I speak as a Finn, I might be wrong or have wrong picture of what most of us think.
@@ok-sj7bx odd. I'm an American. Maybe my religious background have me a different perspective, but I've never found those who speak first or loudest to come off as intelligent. Being reserved, slow to anger, & willing to listen have always been markers of a smart lad.
"Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent."
The main thing i gotta say about Mika is that he has a great discrete sense of humour.
jonnybbiker
-"they asked you a really complicated question and you just said yes"
-"yes"
:))
its ok, not quite british though. I prefer the finnish to Americans though
He is so cute!!!!! All finns are like him?
Ananda D'Aquino yep
5:18 I love how he just says "Yes." Looks at the camera and exactly knows what he's doing😂
What a cheeky bastard. Gotta love him.
Mika awesome level on par with putin
He's Finnish, of course he knows what he's doing
Such a jim. Oh how loveable is mika
@@nicolaus848 lol this didn't age well
If Kimi was here instead of Mika
James: How would you go through this corner?
Kimi: bwoah just turn the wheel
Or: "That."
Kimi: FOR WHAT?
mmmwoah
"Just drink this vodka bottle and it will get it done"!
I was little boy, cant write and read. Loved His eys, loved drift,
I'm a finn, I've never heard a actually good way to explain Sisu in english until recently. Sisu means that you are willing to do, what you have to do. Without any consideration of you own safety, or well being. And knowing that you propably won't get any thanks for it. You just do it.
Pyllymysli a year late,but thank you for explaining this beautiful concept
Thank you for that explanaiton. Really interesting! :)
I am into military history and so of course I know the finnish exploits during the time of WW2. Sisu is another piece of the puzzle to answer the "How in the world did they do that?"-question. Nothing compares to what you guys did back then. Everybody outside Finnland who looks at your military history asks himself that, I would think. ^^
Greetings from Germany
@@thomaskositzki9424 Its a unbeliavable achievement but tbh a lot of that is thanks to Stalin. Also without German weapons it would have been a blowout. I know that being allied to Germany during ww2 sounds sketchy at best but one should not forget that finns were being invaded by motherfucking russia and had no weapons as every allied country, while they condemned the soviet aggression, they offered jack shit in actual help. We got some french MG's that were so bad that France just wanted to get rid of them and some British tanks and airplanes that had been collecting dust after WW1 and definetly weren't up to the task defending against Soviet armor and airforce. Anycase, it's a very interesting conflict during WW2 in europe.
Did you know that finland is the only known country to actually pay their war reprisals in full? The last train left to Soviet union sometime in 80's if my memory serves me right. The massive war tax that soviet union demanded from finland is a corner stone of Finlands industrialization and booming hi-tech industry. So.... Thanks?....
I'm a history buff also and quite well versed in finnish military exploits durin 1930's and early 40's so if you are interested I'd be happy to answer any and all questions that I'm able.
@@Pyllymysli I wont question you, because you are correct in every way. I have seen lots of stuff on the Russian-Finnish conflict, and Finland really had no choice, because as you say, the Allies shafted them.
Finnish/British dual national here. The best translation I've found for Sisu is 'grit'. It's that gritty determination or courage in the face of extreme adversity. The Finns in the Winter War is the obvious example, but English speakers might think of the Blitz spirit in 1940s London. I would say that Samwise Gamgee showed true sisu in Lord of the Rings on several occasions, not least when he carried Frodo up the mountain.
What a friendly personality of this man.
it's all scripted, none the less mikka really is a nice person, that's why he quiet F1, he felt he should make time for his family (and his former team was collapsing )
mikas lines were not scripted at all.
Dean Slegos except everyone in Finland Is totally an expert driver... As in like that was average driving skill apparently... So yea.. The many times I've been in Finland I've never seen any collision, and I've seen a few while in Ireland... Also.. A lot of people start using mopeds at the age of 16 in Finland so they know how the roads works and shiz.
Finnish people don't talk much and that's a cultural fact. If you go to Finnland, you'll notice it immediately. That doesn't mean they aren't friendly, it's just that they don't do smalltalk.
That was the point of this little scripted conversation which was humorous.
Always was a gentleman. A proper clinical F1 driver. Schumacher was a risk taker. He put peoples lives im danger and his own. To the point his recklessness caught him on the snow!
James was absolutely the perfect person to do this segment with Mika, it is endlessly charming.
Turns out My summer car is actually one of the most accurate depictions of finland
It actually is.
As a finn I'd say that My summer car is quite an accurate depiction of how life was like in the late 1990's to early 2000's, in the Finnish countryside, which usually means 3 or more miles away from the nearest city center. Things generally haven't changed that much, but it's getting harder to find cheap old cars these days. A Datsun 100A, the car the in game car is based on, goes for around 3000€ if you want a running and driving one. Cars like Volvo Amazons and VW beetles, like seen in the clip as folk racing cars, have also become collector cars and they are by no means as cheap as they were back when this was shot.
@@thepsychobilly88 I guess thats the price of nostalgia :(
@@rubien0389 Well said my man, well said!
You mean the game or ur actual summer car?
Mika Häkkinen and Michael Schumaher. Man I wish they'd still race in the F1. It was so much fun to watch them race against eachother. Truly two of the best drivers.
+Raphael there might be a few problems with that.......
+Raphael It's pretty hard to drive an F1 if you're brain dead
Spöge XI my thoughts exactly
+Spöge XI Maldonado did it for four seasons. So there's always a chance!
Lord Yllsacky oh shit. Haha :D
You get the feeling that Mika really likes James and enjoyed this bit. I've seen him smile on Camera more in this segment than I did in all my years of watching him in F1.
well in F1 he was concentrating on the race
I believe "Game Face" applies to many human endeavors.
b'couse Finns dont really love F1 , they do it couse they are bored and they can
@@StrangeWorld11191 Finns see F1 as a quaint hobby, but for any serious motor racing it's only proper to race in a discipline where you can physically slam your opponent's car out of the way.
@@pitchblackgrueFinns racing in F1 is like int'l soccer players going to the US, huh
May: "They're quite reserved, the Finns. I mean, you, famously, when you were a F1 driver, they'd ask you a really complicated question and you'd just say 'Yes'?"
Häkkinen: "Yes."
You watched the video too, damn.
Kimi raikkonnen is better
bwoah
Oliver McCall they are brilliant in different ways.
how didn’t May cracked up on this
2:37 i love how he said 'i can indeed'
He sounds like Mario
damn is that he said? I used to always think he said "I guarentee!"
The response to "I like to have the air vents on my car all pointed the same way, is that Finnish" is one of the all time great moments of TG.
Yes, I think Mila is thinking no that is British nut case.
In Finland we think it's stupid because you get no ventilation to windows to keep them clear
The weirded out look, then trying to figure out how to put James down gently... To finally, "...no"
I'm like James May too..
Yes.
Mika thinking: "WTF... That's maniac. Not finnish"
the mercedes' license plate is BLY-447, that translates to BLYAAT
Probably they want to offends some Russians
yeah
Lol
+Kenna fajar putra Excuse my bad (or nil) knowledge of russian. What would that mean?
Santiago Machado its a swear word and it means whore or slut
Finnish accent stuck to me via the Hydraulic Press Channel so much that I expected Hakkinen to say "diz road is very dangerous, vi must diil vit it".
No Comment LOL
Heh, that's a REALLY heavy Finnish accent that the hydraulic press guy has. It's pretty much the "I never went to school" accent here. :D
Oh yes. Hakkinen's accent and HPC's accent are clearly very different.
Häkkinen's accent is still very strong, but it isn't as horrible. :D
We Finns call that accent ”Rallienglanti” or ”Rallyenglish”, since it’s speaking english with finnish pronounciations.
I'm so happy Mika made it to a nice retirement... I still remember him waiving on his way out. I was confused because at the time I didn't know that was his last race. He was turning Brutal Lap times when the McLaren failed... yet Mika maintained his composure... A Class Act All Around...
Perfect class of a man
"I'm not really good on gravel," then he drives like a pro rally driver lol
As funny as it was being humble is a good thing.
+Preston Bailey He means he's not good compared to what he can do on tarmac.
They call James May "Captain Slow" while he is the helluva fast driver in comparision to normal drivers.
He’s not Finnish good enough on gravel... Yes...
Preston Bailey, He's finnish, putting it into perspective, that's a sunday drive on an A grade road lol
I feel that Mika is explaining SISU a bit shallowly in here. To me SISU means more than just courage. It also means determination to finish somkething off. Like for example if you would be going through really thick snow, with your feet already cold, you would need SISU to push through even though every step would be hurting like hell. He also needed some SISU to continue after he drove out in the end =)
sisu isn't courage. Mika simply mistranslasted. A more apt translation would be "inner drive" or "inner strength" for Sisu.
to me, sisu is what keeps you on your feet after two bottles of kossu
it sounds like sisu meant "determination"
Sc0pee yup, I would say SISU is a mixture of: perseverance, courage, balls and determination.
Sc0pee i would love to have as much sisu as i possibly can:)
I once went out with Jackie Stewart, who won the world championship 3 times...instead of 2.
*MIKA GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR*
That was nasty from James!
@@enricgmajoral5300 ikr
@@enricgmajoral5300 I thought Mika grinned at that point =)
The joke was that saying you've ONLY won two world championships is putting yourself down for no reason, that's a real accomplishment.
@@GingerNingerGames Mika is very humble. I haven't seen Jackie do humble.🤣
Really love Mika's sense of humour. Highly intelligent, confident, and ultimately funny and down-to-earth guy.
He really is down to earth. Just like any other Finnish guy.
-Finn.
Yes. Just like any other Finnish guy.
-Finn
"I have passed a fin. She's only 12yrs old, but that's not the point." Top Gear UK is brilliant... ;-) Captain slow is awesome, he really shows to people that you should not take yourself too seriously and just be yourself. ;-)
Finn.
god Häkkinen is still one hell of a driver, even while retired
thats right theodore,weve got a man here in australia,norm beechey,he won the 1965 and 1970 touring car championships.hes now 82 and until 4 or 5 years ago was still racing in hillclimbs and sprints and always in the top 3 or 4,more often than not winning,in a 550 HP 68 camaro he bought new
I think Finns keep their racing capabilities with age. That's why Kimi Raikkonen is still an F1 driver at the age of, what, 86?
***** Oldest driver on the grid though :)
That's Jenson Button. I think that 2nd place is close between Kimi and Fernando.
M2orNot Nope, Jenson has had the most Grands Prix. Kimi is older, but didn't compete in F1 for two years.
Hakkinen:"whats going on now is we are going really really slowly"
CaptSlow: "Are we??"
me: ..... O.o
Doing all those power slides, it's always slow and just enjoying the moment. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it as much as the next Finn, but somebody that has couple of F1 championships understands speed quite differently. :D
Parts of this video, especially the conversation with Mika over the fire (?) are some of the best gems of this series.
there is difference between power slide and drifting, drifting is for show, just pointless sliding, and power slide is the fast way ;)
TopiAS06 Power sliding happens after the apex and drifting before the apex
that was the point...
They call him Captain Slow but he'll whip the most of us on a race track.
Untill he gets lost
yeah anyone would have no trouble overtaking you
@@vitamins6611 you don't even know which pedal accelerates, dumbass.
@@istachi and you've met me in real life dumbass? no you havent. so how do you know if i can drive or not. i'd appreciate it if you just shut ur mouth up
@@vitamins6611 You realize the irony in that statement, right?
You gotta love Mika. The best dry humor I've seen. He also seems to really enjoy hanging out with James.
I've always loved how James pronouces Mika Häkkinen correctly, that's rare
At least as correctly as you can expect from a native English speaker. It's really hard to not make it a bit like "Häkkhinen".
@@wombat4191 Häkkhinen is better than Hakkinen/Haekkinen
I hold Mika in higher regard than his comtemporaries. Ice cold surgeon on the track but warm and charming off track. What a guy 🤩
Seeing Mika’s reaction to James’ driving is just about the funniest thing I’ve seen from a Finnish person other than Kimi Raikkonen
I swear, Mika Hakkinen hasn't aged at all.
TheDanzomanzo Gup
Laszlo Illyes yes
he looks like asian
@@yumiryin8197 no he's not
koo ooo hes not asian but he looks like asian. i wonder why some scandinavian slav and german have asian looking?
"...and you'd just answer 'Yes'"
"Yes"
LOL!! Hakkinen is awesome
Its the subtle smile to the camera that sells it
@@Oblivion9873 i smiled when he smiled
I love the Finns. They’re so special, Mika then Kimi. Great driving skills. I hope I get to see them someday
theres also bottas
@@cyberdemon6517 valtteri, its james...
Now that Bottas is no longer with Mercedes he has shown the characteristic Finnish humor which is awesome
@@makedragon Oh? Got an example(s)?
Kalle rovenperä is a hell of a driver
Mika’s sense of humor is so low-key it’s almost unnoticeable
"But that was average in Finland. Anywhere else, and I would've been brilliant!" .... nuff said.
I remember Mika used to seem so cold and calculated in his F1 days. Its weird seeing him pulling faces, laughing and being so warm and happy to give advice. I suppose you can only credit his professional demeanor.
@RC guy Finland source?
@@gigel99324 maybe his wife idk?
Imagine Senna was still alive and tried to teach May, "They will tell you to be smooth, don't listen to them, put in your all God will keep you on the road."
Hahahahhaha
"If you don't go for a slide that exists, you're no longer a Finnish driver"
@@sud5529 Hats off. Go patent it!
Senna would say : "Go for the Gap"
There is a video of Senna entering the parabolica at Monza and his technique is visible. Not smooth, constantly slamming the throttle and then making corrections. Epic
One of my favourite Top Gear clips. Love that sense of humor, nice driving, perfectly matching music and glorious montage of the film. Perfection.
Music is "Grounds for Divorce" by British band "Elbow". Got excited when I recognized it!
"Car Kontrol" The way he says it just makes me want to put the pedal to the metal!
I'm 15... Finnish of course. I have already had 2 cars at my cabin (other one was an old mercedes that i don't remember the model of and now i have a volvo 740 sedan) I have learned rallying since 10 and about a month ago i got my first first place victory ;)
How is it going now?
@@mikkelhansen2030 he is dead in ditch RIP
Did you get a prize?
@@Hawthorne-Studios his or hers bodyweight in beer
Waw what a great childhood 😊
This is my all-time favorite top gear episode. James May in Finland should be it's own show.
It's mine as well!
Honestly, should be the next stop in the Our Man in .... series
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 James May: Our Man In Finland Featuring Mika Hakkinen
I like how Mika was genuinly exited when he nailed the drift
That explains what Richard tried to do during the Man With A Van challenge. Too bad he didn't have a Finnish driver on hand.
Yeah, all he had was Hammond.
if u want to win, u need a finn (or me cos im finnish)
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mindlessgonzo In seriousness, it's because his van's center of balance was far too high.
@@zoltancsikos5604 The van being so skinny doesn't help either.
My dad had a Bedford Rascal, which was basically the same one as in the show. And it was small, so my cousins sat in the back whenever my dad was driving it. Unfortunately I was only one at the time, so I can't remember being in it. Bumpy roads were a bit of a challenge, and corners were... challenging, at least according to my cousins.
What Alain Prost was to Senna, Hakkinen was to Schumi. Quiet, calm, analytical textbook racing with fire concealed within
5:21
It looks like a scene from The Office when Mika looks right to the camera
Golden years of Top Gear
4:05 The best "oh no" expression
haha I love Mika!
Seen Through Glass Your channel is awesome
Seen Through Glass but I thought you were a Ferrari guy
KIMI IS BETTER KIMI IS BETTER
I like the Mika also
Agreed.
Mika Hakkinen expression on 3:27 is price less. lol It was awesome watching him battling it out with MS during his F1 career.
He couldn't believe that somebody can be so clumpsy xD. Nevertheless, Capt. Slow learnt fast. He's actually a good driver.
I'm a Schumi fan, and I definitely love and respect Mika Hakkinen. He's a great driver and competitor.
For May to have finished "in the middle of the pack" was quite an accomplishment. He's always very understated but inside I'm sure he was quite proud.
“She’s only 12 but that’s not the point”
When I heard he said that my first reaction was to go here and check lol
I started to drive a car when I was 6 or 7. Teacher was my cousin with his car. He was 15. We were driving a sircle, about 400 m long, half at public road :-D
@@tapsulinka As a country boy from Finland I can agree, I had driven a car before I drove a moped. I think I got my first car when I was in the 4th grade.
@@MrAatami yeah but now the green party a´nd greta have taken it too far that its hard to get an old beater
top gear take out of context
This is the longest Mercedes-Benz commercial ever made
It¨s not a bloody Mercedes Benz! It's a VOLVO.
MPF.02.725560
witch one? the first one(silver) is a mercedes, the black and grey rally car is a mercedes 190e-2.3-16. w201 chasis. trust me it is a mercedes.
Bryen Goheen In the beginning is Volvo V50, that they didn't drive much. Then MB C and 190. The yellow folks racing car was volvo amazon.
they didn't even tell a single thing about the car
never mind that the car that got the most screen time was out of production
Mika is laid back for an afternoon drive, meanwhile he is in perfect control of the car drifting it beautifully for the camera to capture. Then he proceeds to tell James that they are going extremely slowly. Master of car control.
That's a great Top Gear segment. Mika is a great guy and James May is my favourate host. Respect to Mika for taking his time and being hilarious.
"If you want to finish first, first you have to be Finnish"
*you have to be Finnish in the first place
I want to see Mika in the reasonably priced car!
If that had happened, it wouldn't have been a competition unless Schumacher came back from his coma.
that Mercedes is modified,its performance isnt that bad as you think,price also.
Mika was my sports hero back when I was merely a kid watching F1 on TV in late 90s
I remember using his iconic West livery car in PS1's F1 '99
He still amazes me to this day
0:49
James: "Michael Schumacher said that you were the only driver he really feared."
Mika: *laughs*
Epic.
"Michael Schumacher said that you were the only driver YOU* really feared."
That's probably not a sequential shot. They just added the laugh in from another shot.
@@ArtemisHasa It doesn't sound like "you" to me but besides that, it would be a convoluted way to say that Mika feared no other driver, which is not Schumacher's style if you hear his interviews.
@@ArtemisHasa suggest getting those ears checked mate, if you're gonna correct somebody make sure you got it right yourself first.
@@ArtemisHasa et kyllä ymmärrä puhuttua englantia nimeksikään, koska ihan selkeesti sanoo "you were the only driver he really feared".
It's Ahvenisto circuit in Finland Hämeenlinna.
"That girl next to me should be doing her maths homework". Yeah, well she probably finished it early so she could Finnish you, Captain Slow. :D
i think she did her homeworks while driving.
Just to point out, they claim that Finns have less school and homework than any other western country in the world. And given Finland's PISA results, she probably is just as quick round quadratic equations as that racetrack.
mysterioACE
I'd just like to point out that PISA doesn't really show much.
HAHA!!! Puns
"He is only 13 but that's not the point" (the one boy who bushed him to the ditch)
I didn't knew that Dave Mustaine is so good at driving.
Mustaine actually has Finnish ancestry through his father i think . His last name also hails from Finland
@@pit19931 I'm Finnish myself and I've never heard about last name called Mustaine. But maybe it is, I don't know
Сначала вижу тебя у Трогли, теперь здесь
Краб, ну ты даешь...
@@joonapousi3905 Se tulee Mustosesta.
@@yontimo1820 Jaajaa, en tullu ajatelleeks
Finland is a great country!
+jippalippa Finland
Haista vittu
My knowledge of finnish is hereby exhausted
+Killthreath herra jumala
+jippalippa EEEiih
+jippalippa torilla tavataan
Watched a lot of Top Grear on UA-cam and I always enjoy them but this one was much better than average.
I've watched this video probably 12 times over the past four or five years, it never gets old. The fact that Mika and Capt Slow are my favorites is a relevant. Great video!
Hakkinen is clearly just an unbelievably good bloke (as well as being a phenomenal driver).
2:40
all I can think of is an Initial D drift around gravel...
Finnitial D.....
You sir are a legend for this
An old Finn in a Mercedes can keep up with my FD? I'm the second best driver of the Akagi Red Suns! NANI?!?
NANI? KANSEI DORIFTO?
Major Kushanagi kansei dorifto
*RUNNING IN THE 90s*
HAHAHA Mika is so awesome... funny and cool guy... proud of Mika
...yes...
Yes.
Mika looks very friendly on cam, especially when he looks through and tries to diffuse whatever awkwardness there is at the moment. Haha!
The coolest thing about this episode when it aired was that it demonstrated the Finns invented lemon racing.
My grandmother always said to me: "If you have nothing nice to say, dont say anything at all"
well she is a fucking idiot then
Thats why ive been quiet my whole life
I'll say this then to my grandkids:"It's better to say something others perceive as not-nice *but which is true or factual* than to tell lies and false things just to be nice." Anyway, this "lesson" of your grandmother's is *solely for kids* who haven't learned social rules and manners yet it most definitely shouldn't be held as some gospel for adults.
Mika-what a legend I am insanely jealous of Captain Slow for getting taught by him
My F1 legend I grew up with - MIKA
He's still my all time favourite F1 Driver. In fact I was watching the superb overtake move he made on Schumacher at Spa in 2000 just yesterday. He is indeed a legend!
I saw that , miss the old days
I miss them too! :-(
Miss A Peal I miss them three, when I was little, we always gathered around the TV on Sundays to cheer for Mika. It was always "Who wins this week, Mika or Schumi?". Mom rooted for Schumi because he was cuter. :D
2:47 that was epic, as soon as he said that, I realized the meaning of the title of one of their GT specials: A scandi flick. It coincided with the music and it’s was magnificent
If only we knew what that music name was.
One of the few drivers who is loved by everyone. Even the fans of his biggest opponents like Mika. That’s rare. With Kimi too actually. Maybe it’s a Finnish thing
Mika made this episode great, instant classic
Mika is awesome. He is likeable, funny and pretty modest but damn fast at the same time. A truly special driver.
Mika was a treasure. The stories he must have. He's the most human human I think I've ever seen in a video. He's so full of personality.
James May and Finland. Two of my favorite things.
"Slowly?"
"Yeah,"
hahahaha great old Mika, the only one ever able to beat the n.1, Kaisermichael. That was an amazing F1.
Alonso
@@lolshark99b49 Alonso had illegal mass dampers and 1 DNF while Michael had 6, then, history proved what Cryonso really was: he couldn't win against a rookie hamilton, needed nelsinho piquet jr to crash so he could win, couldn't overtake some russian dude in backmarker car while he was using the best car on the grid to win championship in 2010... so, no. Mika was the true only one ever able to beat Michael.
Mark V.G. ok cool thanks dude
@@marvinracer88 still won
@@marvinracer88 Mass damper wasn't illegal when it was used by Renault. They banned it later.
Say what you wish, but Alonso showed he wasn't any way inferior to Michael.
Excuses are for losers, and I won't justify that he wasn't able to overtake Petrov in spite of there were other reasons. Nevertheless, he performed some miracles to be in position to fight for the championship in 2010 and 2012. Since Prost (and maybe Raikkonen, Rosberg had the same car as his main rival which it's a great feature as well), any pilot has won the title if they weren't driving the best car, but ALO has been the closest to that achievement. Ferrari hasn't had the best car since Schumi's time, so I don't know what car are you talking about.
I don't like especially MSC; in spite of I admire cunning people, he sometimes crossed the line and played dirty and complained too much. Furthermore, Hakkinen and ALO showed that he wasn't able to win the title if he wasn't in the best car.
Team orders? What driver fighting for the title may say that he hasn't taken advantage of them?Maybe HAM when he retrieved a position to Bottas (which Bottas had previously given to HAM). Btw, there's no evidence that ALO knew anything about Briatore's plan on Singapore.
Mika should replace Chris Evans.
Then again, a small piece of styrofoam retrieved from a bin should replace Chris Evans.
LOL
Mika isn't really the best choice for such a job, but yes, I'm sure a reasonable piece of styrofoam could do better than Chris. :D
At least Mika can drive fast without being sick
They should all be replaced
Except Sabine schmidt
James May looks so proud at the end of the race, happy for him, a grand effort :)
Great drivers, great hockey players. Canada is jealous.
Trust me bud.......we are
Teemu Selanne!!
Honestly I am jealous, we have winding and hill roads that would be great for rallying, but in Canada if you speed you get locked in jail for like 1,000 years.
On the Prairies you get away with it. You're expected to do at least 130 km/h crossing Saskatchewan. I call it the Prairie cannonball, Winnipeg to Calgary, or vice versa...your grandpa does it in 12 hours, and that's with a one hour lunch break in Regina.
SilkyMitts18 well in finnish countryside if you get busted driving without licence and you're like 12 the cops offer you a limonade and donuts :D and just continue their day
1:15 Loved that cricket playing example
Segments like these demonstrate why this format of Top Gear was the pinnacle of motoring shows. Nothing will ever come close to it.
I miss Mika Haakinen. My favorite Formula 1 Driver. True talent and a really nice guy to everyone around him.
Mika now trains Valtteri Bottas... no wonder he is so damn quick! Go BO77AS!!!
Really?? I didn´t Know! that explains it!
Bottas has the same driving style that Mika has ... the only thing is that it has a long way to winning a world championship of Formula 1
Marco Costa Mika was the only driver on the entire grid who was able to go toe to toe with schumi and he won 2 championships which is pretty impressive considering they were during the famous ferrari-schumi dominance era in F1...thing is that 'it' is pretty much guaranteed to winning a championship or two
rantingraj well for 1998 anyway, in 99 when Schumi broke his legs, it was more Mika vs Irvine.
natty_the_great senna.
"But the 12 year old wasnt having it" - I almost spat my whisky laughing at that point.
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might have been Kalle Rovanperä :D
In finland we alcohol
Ikinä ottanu mitään saatana.
Vittu oon kännissä perkele. Antakaa mulle nyt ees yks nakkisämpylä.
In finland you go to estland to buy your alcohol. Because in Finland alcohol is too damn expensive. (went to study in finland for 4 months).
Also, here in Belgium everything stops when it gets -5°C, in Finland -30 and business is as usual.
MisterLion estland
suomi drunkards + eesti alcohol = good times
There might be better drivers than the Finns, but no one is as relaxed in a car as they are. Kimi Raikonnen, Mika Hakkinen, Keke Rosberg. They are so relaxed in racing that it's sometimes rather terrifying
(Almost flying at 300km/h): is the drink on or not?
@@alejandrop.s.3942 Actually, that makes me wonder. If you flipped an F1 car upside down at 300 km/h, would it take off like a plane?
@@filmandfirearms no, it just gets a ton of friction.
If you put the front wing upside down then it will flip over at high speed and hitting a bump tho
When Kimi shouted over the radio "I know what I am doing" says it all right there.
There were 3 major threats to Schumacher in the 90s F1
Top 3
1. Jaques Villanueve
2. Mika Hakkinen
3. Jaun Alesei
Mika seems like an absolute legend, seems really modest and a bit of a laugh, as he kept on pulling faces to the camera.
If Mika got a long hair. He face familiar to Dave Mustaine from Megadeth
Wow thats actually so True :D
well, dave Mustaine has finnish blood from his father, so it's normal for him to look like a finn ahah
bravery, heart and spirit to push through all difficulties never giving up = sisu
"Called the Scandinavian flick" The last time that was used on top gear, Hammond flipped a van and had everybody applying for his job....
Man when I saw this when I was younger, didnt really know who Mika was.. but now, after watching every F1 race since 1990 (on F1TV archive ofc) I know what kind of legend he is.
Mika is the man.
Agreed. That F1 TV archive subscription is worth every Penny
probably one of the best videos top gear ever did
Spending a day with this man learning car control would be a dream.
Having Mika joyfully chuckle at how well I performed in a forest road curve would make me very happy.
Yes. In finland we also go to school 20km on skis and uphill both ways
Dont forget the part where we have to ski across a frozen lake that is on fire.
Dont forget the part where we have to ski across a frozen lake that is on fire.
And where is the bear fighting?
@@Liniik
That’s Russia, blyat.
@@Liniik we used to do it here on Finland but The damn beats kept losing barehanded rights and fled to russia. It was like kicking Winnie The Pooh kinda fun but mostly boring
3:25 Mikkas expression was priceless!
What a fantastic driver and person Mika (still is). Good battles against Michael, one of my favorite McLaren drivers for sure...
Brings back so many memories watching Mika. Who remembers the great rivalry between him and schumi? Man i miss those old F1 days
Oh those were the days. Nostalgia hits hard.