{"id":42660,"date":"2018-05-26T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/26\/mika-hakkinen-monaco-is-very-demanding-if-you-are-panic-you-are-in-the-wall\/"},"modified":"2018-05-26T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T13:47:20","slug":"mika-hakkinen-monaco-is-very-demanding-if-you-are-panic-you-are-in-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=42660","title":{"rendered":"Mika H\u00e4kkinen: \u2018Monaco is very demanding. If you are panic, you are in the wall\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formula One double world champion recalls the day his luck changed in Monte Carlo and how having fun on the track led to the Finn\u2019s first title in 1998\u201cI have never forgotten what James Hunt said to me: \u2018Remember, Mika, remember to have fun,\u2019\u201d recalls the double world champion Mika H\u00e4kkinen, relaxing on a yacht in Monaco beside the very car that enabled him to fulfil Hunt\u2019s bidding. H\u00e4kkinen believes his win here 20 years ago, on the way to his first Formula One title, was the stand\u2011out performance of his career and that the drivers who take to the streets on Sunday still face the ultimate test in Monte Carlo.Hunt\u2019s words had been delivered to an intense young Finn in 1991. By 1998, after a life-changing accident and some tough years in F1, he was finally able to do as the British champion advised and revel in his endeavour. \u201cWhen I did the first test in \u201998 I felt the car was fast whatever I did, turn or break, it did exactly what I wanted,\u201d he says. \u201cI told myself: \u2018Now is the time. You can win the world championship\u2019.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/may\/26\/mika-hakkinen-monaco-demanding-formula-one\" target=\"_blank\">Mika H\u00e4kkinen: \u2018Monaco is very demanding. If you are panic, you are in the wall\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula One double world champion recalls the day his luck changed in Monte Carlo and how having fun on the track led to the Finn\u2019s first title in 1998\u201cI have never forgotten what James Hunt said to me: \u2018Remember, Mika, remember to have fun,\u2019\u201d recalls the double world champion Mika [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}