Michael Schumacher led Mika Hakkinen past the old pits for the last time, and the Finn was tucked right in the slipstream of the German F3 champion.
That, thought the West Surrey Racing team that ran Hakkinen, was surely enough to give him Macau Grand Prix victory to add to that year’s British F3 title.
Hakkinen had 2.66 seconds in his pocket – the margin by which he’d beaten Schumacher in the first heat. All he had to do was sit right behind the WTS Motorsport man.
And off they headed into the kink then known as Yacht Club Bend, now Mandarin Oriental…
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