Finnish F1 legend loses priceless silverware in accident

We told you not long ago about the fire that razed Mika Hakkinen’s new French mansion. Now it’s been confirmed, by the great man himself, that his precious F1 trophies were indeed burnt to an unrecognisable cinder in the accidental blaze. “They were destroyed,” Haikkinen told German newspaper Express.

Not a great surprise, given that the fire reportedly started in his trophy cabinet (faulty wiring, apparently), but a great shame that he should lose a bunch of silverware that can never be properly replaced. Cowboy electricians, eh.