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Hakkinen relates to Vettel blowout outburst
Former F1 world champion Mika Hakkinen says he can understand Sebastian Vettel's outburst in the wake of the Belgian Grand Prix. The Ferrari driver's well documented rant about the safety and quality of official tyre supplier Pirelli's product in 2015 has been criticised by some, including F1 legend Niki Lauda and Eddie Jordan. But former double world champion Hakkinen said: 'I can understand that a driver will react like that in such a situation — particularly at Spa where it is really fast and a puncture is always dangerous. '80 per cent of the performance of a driver is his mental strength,' the Finn said in his latest interview with the sponsor Hermes, 'so if this happens, and...
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