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Hakkinen: I told Ayrton I had bigger balls than him

Mika Hakkinen looked back on his first race as Ayrton Senna's teammate back in 1993 and recalled how he told the Formula 1 legend that he had bigger balls than him which in turn infuriated the Brazilian and as result, the pair were never close after that. In 1993, after a hugely successful partnership with Honda, McLaren were running Ford customer engines and Senna had waited until the eve of the season-opening South African Grand Prix before signing for the team. It was a race-by-race deal apparently worth a million dollars per grand prix to the Brazilian whose teammate was Michael Andretti. But the American did not deliver and after the Italian Grand Prix, 13 races into his F1 campaign,...
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