jonnybbiker -"they asked you a really complicated question and you just said yes" -"yes"

:))

its ok, not quite british though. I prefer the finnish to Americans though

He is so cute!!!!! All finns are like him?

Ananda D'Aquino yep

Or: "That."

Kimi: FOR WHAT?

mmmwoah

"Just drink this vodka bottle and it will get it done"!

I was little boy, cant write and read. Loved His eys, loved drift,

It actually is.

As a finn I'd say that My summer car is quite an accurate depiction of how life was like in the late 1990's to early 2000's, in the Finnish countryside, which usually means 3 or more miles away from the nearest city center. Things generally haven't changed that much, but it's getting harder to find cheap old cars these days. A Datsun 100A, the car the in game car is based on, goes for around 3000€ if you want a running and driving one. Cars like Volvo Amazons and VW beetles, like seen in the clip as folk racing cars, have also become collector cars and they are by no means as cheap as they were back when this was shot.

@@thepsychobilly88 I guess thats the price of nostalgia :(

@@rubien0389 Well said my man, well said!

You mean the game or ur actual summer car?

I think its the thing with lots of finns. They may seem reserved and thus even stupid, but if you get them talking you find out they have lots to say and are quite intellect down to earth people (well the ones I've met, im sure there are trashy folks too lol)

@@crowofcrius yep

@@crowofcrius You might be on to something. Yes, I'm a finn.

@@crowofcrius Agreed, but what you said at the end couldn't be more true. We have way too many crack heads but on the contrary most of the people in my "circles" (contacts) are sometimes, if they feel like it, down to earth. For me coming from Finnish culture it is hard to understand why some people take silence for a sign of low intellect. Often, but not always, the people who are the loudest give negative appearance, since they don't have anything actually intellectual or worthwhile to say. Btw disclaimer, even though I speak as a Finn, I might be wrong or have wrong picture of what most of us think.

@@ok-sj7bx odd. I'm an American. Maybe my religious background have me a different perspective, but I've never found those who speak first or loudest to come off as intelligent. Being reserved, slow to anger, & willing to listen have always been markers of a smart lad. "Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent."

it's all scripted, none the less mikka really is a nice person, that's why he quiet F1, he felt he should make time for his family (and his former team was collapsing )

mikas lines were not scripted at all.

Dean Slegos except everyone in Finland Is totally an expert driver... As in like that was average driving skill apparently... So yea.. The many times I've been in Finland I've never seen any collision, and I've seen a few while in Ireland... Also.. A lot of people start using mopeds at the age of 16 in Finland so they know how the roads works and shiz.

Finnish people don't talk much and that's a cultural fact. If you go to Finnland, you'll notice it immediately. That doesn't mean they aren't friendly, it's just that they don't do smalltalk. That was the point of this little scripted conversation which was humorous.

Always was a gentleman. A proper clinical F1 driver. Schumacher was a risk taker. He put peoples lives im danger and his own. To the point his recklessness caught him on the snow!

Pyllymysli a year late,but thank you for explaining this beautiful concept

Thank you for that explanaiton. Really interesting! :) I am into military history and so of course I know the finnish exploits during the time of WW2. Sisu is another piece of the puzzle to answer the "How in the world did they do that?"-question. Nothing compares to what you guys did back then. Everybody outside Finnland who looks at your military history asks himself that, I would think. ^^ Greetings from Germany

@@thomaskositzki9424 Its a unbeliavable achievement but tbh a lot of that is thanks to Stalin. Also without German weapons it would have been a blowout. I know that being allied to Germany during ww2 sounds sketchy at best but one should not forget that finns were being invaded by motherfucking russia and had no weapons as every allied country, while they condemned the soviet aggression, they offered jack shit in actual help. We got some french MG's that were so bad that France just wanted to get rid of them and some British tanks and airplanes that had been collecting dust after WW1 and definetly weren't up to the task defending against Soviet armor and airforce. Anycase, it's a very interesting conflict during WW2 in europe. Did you know that finland is the only known country to actually pay their war reprisals in full? The last train left to Soviet union sometime in 80's if my memory serves me right. The massive war tax that soviet union demanded from finland is a corner stone of Finlands industrialization and booming hi-tech industry. So.... Thanks?.... I'm a history buff also and quite well versed in finnish military exploits durin 1930's and early 40's so if you are interested I'd be happy to answer any and all questions that I'm able.

@@Pyllymysli I wont question you, because you are correct in every way. I have seen lots of stuff on the Russian-Finnish conflict, and Finland really had no choice, because as you say, the Allies shafted them.

Finnish/British dual national here. The best translation I've found for Sisu is 'grit'. It's that gritty determination or courage in the face of extreme adversity. The Finns in the Winter War is the obvious example, but English speakers might think of the Blitz spirit in 1940s London. I would say that Samwise Gamgee showed true sisu in Lord of the Rings on several occasions, not least when he carried Frodo up the mountain.

You watched the video too, damn.

Kimi raikkonnen is better

bwoah

Oliver McCall they are brilliant in different ways.

how didn’t May cracked up on this

What a cheeky bastard. Gotta love him.

Mika awesome level on par with putin

He's Finnish, of course he knows what he's doing

Such a jim. Oh how loveable is mika

@@nicolaus848 lol this didn't age well

As funny as it was being humble is a good thing.

+Preston Bailey He means he's not good compared to what he can do on tarmac.

They call James May "Captain Slow" while he is the helluva fast driver in comparision to normal drivers.

He’s not Finnish good enough on gravel... Yes...

Preston Bailey, He's finnish, putting it into perspective, that's a sunday drive on an A grade road lol

Untill he gets lost

yeah anyone would have no trouble overtaking you

@@vitamins6611 you don't even know which pedal accelerates, dumbass.

@@istachi and you've met me in real life dumbass? no you havent. so how do you know if i can drive or not. i'd appreciate it if you just shut ur mouth up

@@vitamins6611 You realize the irony in that statement, right?

He sounds like Mario

damn is that he said? I used to always think he said "I guarentee!"

Probably they want to offends some Russians

yeah

Lol

+Kenna fajar putra Excuse my bad (or nil) knowledge of russian. What would that mean?

Santiago Machado its a swear word and it means whore or slut

+Raphael there might be a few problems with that.......

+Raphael It's pretty hard to drive an F1 if you're brain dead

Spöge XI my thoughts exactly

+Spöge XI Maldonado did it for four seasons. So there's always a chance!

Lord Yllsacky oh shit. Haha :D

At least as correctly as you can expect from a native English speaker. It's really hard to not make it a bit like "Häkkhinen".

@@wombat4191 Häkkhinen is better than Hakkinen/Haekkinen

That was nasty from James!

@@enricgmajoral5300 ikr

@@enricgmajoral5300 I thought Mika grinned at that point =)

The joke was that saying you've ONLY won two world championships is putting yourself down for no reason, that's a real accomplishment.

@@GingerNingerGames Mika is very humble. I haven't seen Jackie do humble.🤣

well in F1 he was concentrating on the race

I believe "Game Face" applies to many human endeavors.

b'couse Finns dont really love F1 , they do it couse they are bored and they can

@@StrangeWorld11191 Finns see F1 as a quaint hobby, but for any serious motor racing it's only proper to race in a discipline where you can physically slam your opponent's car out of the way.

@@pitchblackgrueFinns racing in F1 is like int'l soccer players going to the US, huh

No Comment LOL

Heh, that's a REALLY heavy Finnish accent that the hydraulic press guy has. It's pretty much the "I never went to school" accent here. :D

Oh yes. Hakkinen's accent and HPC's accent are clearly very different.

Häkkinen's accent is still very strong, but it isn't as horrible. :D

We Finns call that accent ”Rallienglanti” or ”Rallyenglish”, since it’s speaking english with finnish pronounciations.

When I heard he said that my first reaction was to go here and check lol

I started to drive a car when I was 6 or 7. Teacher was my cousin with his car. He was 15. We were driving a sircle, about 400 m long, half at public road :-D

@@tapsulinka As a country boy from Finland I can agree, I had driven a car before I drove a moped. I think I got my first car when I was in the 4th grade.

@@MrAatami yeah but now the green party a´nd greta have taken it too far that its hard to get an old beater

top gear take out of context

Perfect class of a man

Yes, I think Mila is thinking no that is British nut case.

In Finland we think it's stupid because you get no ventilation to windows to keep them clear

The weirded out look, then trying to figure out how to put James down gently... To finally, "...no" I'm like James May too..

Yes.

Mika thinking: "WTF... That's maniac. Not finnish"

TheDanzomanzo Gup

Laszlo Illyes yes

he looks like asian

@@yumiryin8197 no he's not

koo ooo hes not asian but he looks like asian. i wonder why some scandinavian slav and german have asian looking?

His kind of dry humour is EXACTLY the kind of humour I find funny.

He really is down to earth. Just like any other Finnish guy. -Finn.

Yes. Just like any other Finnish guy. -Finn

sisu isn't courage. Mika simply mistranslasted. A more apt translation would be "inner drive" or "inner strength" for Sisu.

to me, sisu is what keeps you on your feet after two bottles of kossu

it sounds like sisu meant "determination"

Sc0pee yup, I would say SISU is a mixture of: perseverance, courage, balls and determination.

Sc0pee i would love to have as much sisu as i possibly can:)

Its the subtle smile to the camera that sells it

@@Oblivion9873 i smiled when he smiled

Doing all those power slides, it's always slow and just enjoying the moment. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it as much as the next Finn, but somebody that has couple of F1 championships understands speed quite differently. :D

Parts of this video, especially the conversation with Mika over the fire (?) are some of the best gems of this series.

there is difference between power slide and drifting, drifting is for show, just pointless sliding, and power slide is the fast way ;)

TopiAS06 Power sliding happens after the apex and drifting before the apex

that was the point...

Finn.

thats right theodore,weve got a man here in australia,norm beechey,he won the 1965 and 1970 touring car championships.hes now 82 and until 4 or 5 years ago was still racing in hillclimbs and sprints and always in the top 3 or 4,more often than not winning,in a 550 HP 68 camaro he bought new

I think Finns keep their racing capabilities with age. That's why Kimi Raikkonen is still an F1 driver at the age of, what, 86?

***** Oldest driver on the grid though :)

That's Jenson Button. I think that 2nd place is close between Kimi and Fernando.

M2orNot Nope, Jenson has had the most Grands Prix. Kimi is older, but didn't compete in F1 for two years.

Hahahahhaha

"If you don't go for a slide that exists, you're no longer a Finnish driver"

@@sud5529 Hats off. Go patent it!

Senna would say : "Go for the Gap"

There is a video of Senna entering the parabolica at Monza and his technique is visible. Not smooth, constantly slamming the throttle and then making corrections. Epic

@RC guy Finland source?

@@alexgunner1882 maybe his wife idk?

theres also bottas

@@cyberdemon6517 valtteri, its james...

Now that Bottas is no longer with Mercedes he has shown the characteristic Finnish humor which is awesome

@@makedragon Oh? Got an example(s)?

*you have to be Finnish in the first place

"Michael Schumacher said that you were the only driver YOU* really feared."

That's probably not a sequential shot. They just added the laugh in from another shot.

@@ArtemisHasa It doesn't sound like "you" to me but besides that, it would be a convoluted way to say that Mika feared no other driver, which is not Schumacher's style if you hear his interviews.

@@ArtemisHasa suggest getting those ears checked mate, if you're gonna correct somebody make sure you got it right yourself first.

@@ArtemisHasa et kyllä ymmärrä puhuttua englantia nimeksikään, koska ihan selkeesti sanoo "you were the only driver he really feared".

Music is "Grounds for Divorce" by British band "Elbow". Got excited when I recognized it!

How is it going now?

@@mikkelhansen2030 he is dead in ditch RIP

Did you get a prize?

@@Hawthorne-Games his or hers bodyweight in beer

Waw what a great childhood 😊

Mustaine actually has Finnish ancestry through his father i think . His last name also hails from Finland

@@pit19931 I'm Finnish myself and I've never heard about last name called Mustaine. But maybe it is, I don't know

Сначала вижу тебя у Трогли, теперь здесь Краб, ну ты даешь...

@@joonapousi3905 Se tulee Mustosesta.

@@yontimo1820 Jaajaa, en tullu ajatelleeks

Seen Through Glass Your channel is awesome

Seen Through Glass but I thought you were a Ferrari guy

KIMI IS BETTER KIMI IS BETTER

I like the Mika also

Agreed.

Yeah, all he had was Hammond.

if u want to win, u need a finn (or me cos im finnish)

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mindlessgonzo In seriousness, it's because his van's center of balance was far too high.

@@zoltancsikos5604 The van being so skinny doesn't help either. My dad had a Bedford Rascal, which was basically the same one as in the show. And it was small, so my cousins sat in the back whenever my dad was driving it. Unfortunately I was only one at the time, so I can't remember being in it. Bumpy roads were a bit of a challenge, and corners were... challenging, at least according to my cousins.

It's mine as well!

Honestly, should be the next stop in the Our Man in .... series

@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 James May: Our Man In Finland Featuring Mika Hakkinen

It¨s not a bloody Mercedes Benz! It's a VOLVO.

MPF.02.725560 witch one? the first one(silver) is a mercedes, the black and grey rally car is a mercedes 190e-2.3-16. w201 chasis. trust me it is a mercedes.

Bryen Goheen In the beginning is Volvo V50, that they didn't drive much. Then MB C and 190. The yellow folks racing car was volvo amazon.

they didn't even tell a single thing about the car

never mind that the car that got the most screen time was out of production

(Almost flying at 300km/h): is the drink on or not?

@@alejandrop.s.3942 Actually, that makes me wonder. If you flipped an F1 car upside down at 300 km/h, would it take off like a plane?

@@filmandfirearms no, it just gets a ton of friction. If you put the front wing upside down then it will flip over at high speed and hitting a bump tho

When Kimi shouted over the radio "I know what I am doing" says it all right there.

There were 3 major threats to Schumacher in the 90s F1 Top 3 1. Jaques Villanueve 2. Mika Hakkinen 3. Jaun Alesei

+jippalippa Finland

Haista vittu My knowledge of finnish is hereby exhausted

+Killthreath herra jumala

+jippalippa EEEiih

+jippalippa torilla tavataan

If only we knew what that music name was.

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might have been Kalle Rovanperä :D

i think she did her homeworks while driving.

Just to point out, they claim that Finns have less school and homework than any other western country in the world. And given Finland's PISA results, she probably is just as quick round quadratic equations as that racetrack.

mysterioACE I'd just like to point out that PISA doesn't really show much.

HAHA!!! Puns

"He is only 13 but that's not the point" (the one boy who bushed him to the ditch)

...yes...

Yes.

He couldn't believe that somebody can be so clumpsy xD. Nevertheless, Capt. Slow learnt fast. He's actually a good driver.

If that had happened, it wouldn't have been a competition unless Schumacher came back from his coma.

that Mercedes is modified,its performance isnt that bad as you think,price also.

well she is a fucking idiot then

Thats why ive been quiet my whole life

I'll say this then to my grandkids:"It's better to say something others perceive as not-nice *but which is true or factual* than to tell lies and false things just to be nice." Anyway, this "lesson" of your grandmother's is *solely for kids* who haven't learned social rules and manners yet it most definitely shouldn't be held as some gospel for adults.

well with the friends, i had to say one word and it was going to put you in the most evil un-nicest person book and they were mentally ill. so talking at all was banned oh what fun it was being friends with those losers.

He's still my all time favourite F1 Driver. In fact I was watching the superb overtake move he made on Schumacher at Spa in 2000 just yesterday. He is indeed a legend!

I saw that , miss the old days

I miss them too! :-(

Miss A Peal I miss them three, when I was little, we always gathered around the TV on Sundays to cheer for Mika. It was always "Who wins this week, Mika or Schumi?". Mom rooted for Schumi because he was cuter. :D

You sir are a legend for this

An old Finn in a Mercedes can keep up with my FD? I'm the second best driver of the Akagi Red Suns! NANI?!?

NANI? KANSEI DORIFTO?

Major Kushanagi kansei dorifto

*RUNNING IN THE 90s*

That's him on the spot. Always says or making something funny

Trust me bud.......we are

Teemu Selanne!!

Honestly I am jealous, we have winding and hill roads that would be great for rallying, but in Canada if you speed you get locked in jail for like 1,000 years.

On the Prairies you get away with it. You're expected to do at least 130 km/h crossing Saskatchewan. I call it the Prairie cannonball, Winnipeg to Calgary, or vice versa...your grandpa does it in 12 hours, and that's with a one hour lunch break in Regina.

SilkyMitts18 well in finnish countryside if you get busted driving without licence and you're like 12 the cops offer you a limonade and donuts :D and just continue their day

Alonso

@@lolshark99b49 Alonso had illegal mass dampers and 1 DNF while Michael had 6, then, history proved what Cryonso really was: he couldn't win against a rookie hamilton, needed nelsinho piquet jr to crash so he could win, couldn't overtake some russian dude in backmarker car while he was using the best car on the grid to win championship in 2010... so, no. Mika was the true only one ever able to beat Michael.

Mark V.G. ok cool thanks dude

@@marvinracer88 still won

@@marvinracer88 Mass damper wasn't illegal when it was used by Renault. They banned it later. Say what you wish, but Alonso showed he wasn't any way inferior to Michael. Excuses are for losers, and I won't justify that he wasn't able to overtake Petrov in spite of there were other reasons. Nevertheless, he performed some miracles to be in position to fight for the championship in 2010 and 2012. Since Prost (and maybe Raikkonen, Rosberg had the same car as his main rival which it's a great feature as well), any pilot has won the title if they weren't driving the best car, but ALO has been the closest to that achievement. Ferrari hasn't had the best car since Schumi's time, so I don't know what car are you talking about. I don't like especially MSC; in spite of I admire cunning people, he sometimes crossed the line and played dirty and complained too much. Furthermore, Hakkinen and ALO showed that he wasn't able to win the title if he wasn't in the best car. Team orders? What driver fighting for the title may say that he hasn't taken advantage of them?Maybe HAM when he retrieved a position to Bottas (which Bottas had previously given to HAM). Btw, there's no evidence that ALO knew anything about Briatore's plan on Singapore.

Ikinä ottanu mitään saatana.

Vittu oon kännissä perkele. Antakaa mulle nyt ees yks nakkisämpylä.

In finland you go to estland to buy your alcohol. Because in Finland alcohol is too damn expensive. (went to study in finland for 4 months). Also, here in Belgium everything stops when it gets -5°C, in Finland -30 and business is as usual.

MisterLion estland

suomi drunkards + eesti alcohol = good times

Really?? I didn´t Know! that explains it!

Bottas has the same driving style that Mika has ... the only thing is that it has a long way to winning a world championship of Formula 1

Marco Costa Mika was the only driver on the entire grid who was able to go toe to toe with schumi and he won 2 championships which is pretty impressive considering they were during the famous ferrari-schumi dominance era in F1...thing is that 'it' is pretty much guaranteed to winning a championship or two

rantingraj well for 1998 anyway, in 99 when Schumi broke his legs, it was more Mika vs Irvine.

natty_the_great senna.

Agreed. That F1 TV archive subscription is worth every Penny

jumalaut

Oh shit Totta :/

So everyone saw this at least once. What am I going to show my coworkers next? Cat videos? Cat videos. Imma show them cat videos

Wow thats actually so True :D

well, dave Mustaine has finnish blood from his father, so it's normal for him to look like a finn ahah

Nah, that would never work,Kimi would go: "Yes,yes,yes leave me alone, I know what Im doing!" and go back drinking. ;P But Another session with Mika though...

Raikkonen IS Captain Slow.

Zane Kelvinator Nice joke.

Zane Kelvinator no

Zane Kelvinator Lol great joke my stomach hurts