David Coulthard vs Mika Häkkinen, 1998
Teammates at McLaren — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 1998 season, David Coulthard and Mika Häkkinen competed as teammates at McLaren over 16 races. Häkkinen outqualified Coulthard 13 times and finished ahead 9 times, while Coulthard managed to finish ahead only once. Häkkinen secured 100 championship points and 8 race wins, compared to Coulthard's 56 points and 1 win, with both drivers achieving a best finish of 1.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.3–13Qualifyingof 16 compared
1–9Race finishesof 10 compared
Qualifying is compared on the grid they actually started from. A race counts only where both were classified — one of them retiring leaves nothing to compare, so it is not scored to the other.
1998 season
1616
56100
18
911
P1P1
3.11.7
3.21.9
43