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Mika Salo
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TYRRELL will shortly announce that Finnish rising star Mika Salo is to join Ukyo Katayama this season. Salo has spent the last few years exiled in Japanese racing, but was a strong contender to Mika Hakkinen in the 1990 British F3 Championship. Salo made his F1 debut last year with the now-defunct Lotus team.
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Mika Salo begann schon im Alter von sechs Jahren das Kartfahren. Mit 12 wurde er zum ersten Mal finnischer Kart 100 Champion. Diesen Titel holte er sich auch in den Jahren 1980, 82 und 83. Mit 21 Jahren begann der Finnen dann mit dem Formelsport.
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Mika Juhani Salo (born November 30, 1966 in Helsinki) is a Finnish racing driver. He competed in Formula One between 1994 and 2002. His best ranking was 10th in the world championship in 1999.
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During the initial testing stages, the team met with several setbacks, including a Mika Salo crash. But the testing process smoothed out as car, driver and team put on the miles, and a new engine was installed in September of the same year. At the end of the year, TMG was ready to introduce the TF102.
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Salo could so easily have become the forgotten one of the two Mikas following a hard-fought British Formula 3 championship in 1990 when the Finn from Helsinki pushed his rival Hakkinen all the way in a two-horse battle for the title. The champion was snapped up by Lotus, while Salo, despite six wins to his credit, was left without sufficient backing even to scrape up a ride in European F3000.
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Eddie Irvine rejoined 1.9 seconds ahead of David Coulthard and both had to pass a few backmarkers including Mika Salo in the other Ferrari. towards the last few lap, Coulthard finally made a serious attempt to cath and pass Eddie Irvine but with no sucess and he had to accept second position and more importantly hand a crucial 10 points to rivals Ferrari by touching with Mika Hakkinen on the first lap of the race.
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