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Schumacher's reaction to Hakkinen's famous pass at Spa in 2000

The move is hailed as one of the greatest overtakes in F1 history, but how did Michael Schumacher react to Mika Hakkinen's breath-taking pass at Spa in 2000? The former McLaren driver won the Belgian Grand Prix that year but it almost ended in tears when Schumacher forced the Finn on the grass on the run-up to Les Combes a lap before the latter's astonishing and crucial move. "It was natural that I went to talk to him after the race," once recounted Hakkinen. "I said: ‘You can’t push someone to the grass at 300kph. This is a life and death situation, use some common sense.' He tilted his head and looked at me. ‘What did I do wrong?'" "He didn’t say...
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