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Hamilton success not just down to 'having the best car' - Hakkinen

Two-time F1 world champion Mika Hakkinen says that Lewis Hamilton's outstanding success in F1 is not merely rooted in having the best car on the grid. Seventy of Hamilton's record 91 wins in F1 - a benchmark shared with Michael Schumacher - and g-five of his six world titles have been achieved with Mercedes on the back of the German manufacturer's dominance of Grand Prix racing's hybrid engine era. Hamilton's remarkable streak of success since 2014 was only interrupted once, in 2016 when Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg conquered the crown at the final round of the season in Abu Dhabi. For all of Mercedes' supremacy and accomplishments, Hakkinen says the Brackley outfit could not have...
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