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The closest the other Mika ever came to winning a GP
His bio labels him as an FIA drivers' steward, but Mika Salo - born on this day in 1966 - should have a win at the 1999 German GP under his name. That year, Salo had been drafted in by Ferrari for the Austrian GP after Michael Schumacher had broken his leg at Silverstone. The Finn's maiden race with the Scuderia left him with a seventh-place finish while team mate Eddie Irvine had picked up the baton from Schumacher to charge to victory. In Hockenheim however, Salo outqualified the Ulsterman and was running in front of him in second place when he inherited the lead a little after the half-way point following the retirement of fellow Finn Mika Hakkinen. Salo knew however that his dominant...
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