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Friends of Schumacher said he cut a different figure after a race – and ‘there are some stories that you couldn’t print’
IT IS a sport where fatal risks, extreme pressure and bitter rivalries are the norm.
But off the track Formula One is a playboy’s paradise decorated by yachts, supermodels and the millionaire high life.
So it’s little wonder many drivers have been known to party at top speed.
And The Sun can exclusively lift the lid on the hellraising sessions that took place in the 90s, a wild era for the sport.
Ex-Red Bull boss Richard Hopkins recalled a time Mercedes legend Mika Hakkinen drank a whole bottle of vodka after a race in the late 90s, which left him “almost dead.”
Hopkins, head of operations at Red Bull from 2013 to 2015, told The Sun: “Hakkinen drank a bottle of vodka in one Sunday night.
I was like Jesus Christ, I never knew. I thought he might have a little sip or a shot or something, but to down a bottle of vodka?
“He wouldn’t turn up the next day, which was a Monday so that was fine, but he had some media stuff the next day and you’d find out he was extraordinarily hungover.
“It was in Germany I think during the ‘98 or ‘99 season, probably Hockenheimring, it was during his Mercedes days and they had a function after.
“It was with his wife. His wife at the time would lead him astray a little bit, but Mika didn’t need a lot to lead him astray.
