“The wonderful dexterity of Hannu Mikkola makes me want to shake hands with the whole of Finland”
– Architecture and Morality Ted and Alice
So… what do we know about Hannu Mikkola?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“The wonderful dexterity of Hannu Mikkola makes me want to shake hands with the whole of Finland”
– Architecture and Morality Ted and Alice
So… what do we know about Hannu Mikkola?
peter mcornithologist
Primarily associated with driving cars for hours on end but also appeared in several films.,including Gas in the Veins. and Rally of the Thousand Lakes.Not an Oscar nominee.
22 February 2015
this leaden paul
Finnish. Was once noted for being able to drive an Audi Quattro without it breaking down. Still alive at time of writing.
22 February 2015
Mr Larrington
He won the London-Mexico City World Cup Rally in 1970 but probably shouldn’t have, as co-driver Gunnar Palm later confessed that there had been some rule-bending repairs done to their Escort in Darkest Peru.
22 February 2015
Bobby SVARC
Yeah but he didn’t use Cossack hair spray did he?
24 February 2015
Alice van der meer
Flattered, apparently.
20 October 2020
EXXO
Might have set him on the road to writing about rallying (on my birthday, incidentally) but doesn’t mean he knows what ‘eclectic’ means. Div.
20 October 2020
dr desperate
He thought it was pretty cool, apparently (Q5).
https://www.influx.co.uk/cars/six-questions-hannu-mikkola/
21 October 2020
Barrie Francis
Farewell Hannu ……the desire to shake hands with the whole of Finland is now beginning to abate. R.I.P.
27 February 2021
HGANAVAC
Saw the thing on BBC and was immediately drawn here
27 February 2021
Jones the Steam
and a coincidence that the current World Championship Rally round is in Finland. I’loved’ Hannu and was made up he made into a HMHB track
27 February 2021
dr Desperate
Still holds the record for oldest rally world champion.
27 February 2021
dr Desperate
From a 1987 interview with Anthony Howard:
“Mikkola has trouble explaining his own dexterity further. “I’m not the kind of person who thinks first about the solution, how to drive. For me it’s been quite easy. I just sit in the car. I feel it. And that’s it.” “
27 February 2021