Makkinen

Mika, I think everyone remembers that when you were at the peak of your career, when you were winning your two world championship titles for McLaren, there was one guy who you tended to be racing against more than most - he became kind of a famous... problem. His name is Michael Schumacher.

And Michael and you - it was the Schumacher-Häkkinen era of Formula 1. How did you deal with the pressure of competing against a guy like Michael Schumacher, and a team like Ferrari, and was that pressure internal or was it coming from Michael? How did you cope with that pressure? How did you deal with that competitive landscape?

MH: ...Yeah, it was a... it was a really tough, tough years against Michael Schumacher for sure. Starting already when I was fourteen years old, I was racing against him in the go-karts, and then later in the Formula 1. Unbelievable- first of all, great personality. Unbelievable racing driver. And... and what I admired him was a lot of different areas, but one of them was he never [gave] up. You know, doesn't matter how his car was working, doesn't matter what position he started the race, what position he was racing in the race - always flat out. Never [gave] up. And that was incredible. Because I had a moment, sometimes, when I was racing I was going like position 15 and oh my god, you know, when this race gonna end, I wanna go home!