Rogue Profile of Mika Salo

Overview

Name	Mika Salo
Country	Finland
Active	1994 – 2002
Races	111
Wins	0
Poles	0
Championships	0
Fastest Laps	0

Rogue Points	58
All time ranking	55
Rogue Race Wins	1 wins 1999 – Hungarian Grand Prix
Rogue Championship Wins	0 wins

Rogue data for Mika Salo

Who?	Points	Action
1996 – European Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Tyrrell)	1 pts	After bringing his Tyrrell home in tenth place with fading oil pressure Salo was disqualified from the results when scrutineering found his car to be underweight. This was due to the loss of oil.
1996 – Monaco Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Tyrrell)	1 pts	Hakkinen, Salo and Irvine all collided with each other resulting in all three’s retirement, their cars locked together on the track. The less than superb Marshalling was partly to blame: more yellow flags were needed.
1996 – Spanish Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Tyrrell)	1 pts	Salo had problems with his Tyrrell on the formation lap. The Yamaha V10 cut out as he selected first gear. The Marshals pushed him into the pit-lane but as the problem persisted he switched to the spare car. He was black flagged a few laps later as he had switched cars when the field was under starters orders.
1996 – Hungarian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Tyrrell)	1 pts	Salo collided with Diniz’s Ligier in the second corner of the first lap. Both were eliminated on the spot but in the incident they collected Verstappen’s Footwork, bending a steering track rod on the Dutchman’s car.
1995 – Brazilian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Tyrrell)	4 pts	Under pressure from Hakkinen on lap thirty-eight, Salo spun his Tyrrell before he re-joined the track, loosing his third place to his fellow countryman. Salo had cramp in his left hand that made controlling the car difficult.
1995 – British Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Tyrrell)	5 pts	Salo set the fourth fastest time in his Tyrrell in Saturday’s wet qualifying session. The polish was taken off his achievement because in the dry qualifying session he missed the call for his car to be weighed and his Friday times were disallowed. This resulted in him starting the race from twenty-third on the grid, his grid position having been determined by his wet session time.
1995 – Italian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Tyrrell)	1 pts	Salo dropped to last place at the re-start, after contact with Panis’s Ligier under braking for Varante Ascari.
1998 – Canadian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Arrows)	1 pts	On lap nineteen Salo ran wide, got onto the grass and his Arrows was pitched into the wall, ripping the right-hand side off his car.
1998 – British Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Arrows)	4 pts	In the near torrential conditions Salo spun out of the race on lap twenty-seven, three laps from half distance.
1998 – Austrian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Arrows)	1 pts	On the first lap of the race Diniz spun at the hairpin collecting his team mate Salo. Coulthard, having qualified in fourteenth place was well down the order and had to spin his McLaren to avoid the strickened Arrows. Suddenly Mika Salo performed a spin turn and slewed right into Coulthard’s McLaren, damaging its nose cone. Coulthard needed a trip to the pits at the end of the lap to have a replacement fitted. The safety car was deployed in view of all the mayhem so Coulthard did not loos too much time. Salo pulled in at the end of the first lap, too damaged to continue Diniz got as far as lap four before the damage his Arrows had sustained put him out of the race.
1998 – Belgian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Arrows)	1 pts	After his car had suffered and engine failure and after a speedy change Salo was back on track with fifteen minutes of Saturdays free practice left. Like Villeneuve had done the previous day, Salo crashed heavily in Eau Rogue. He was unhurt and able to take part in qualifying plus he was able to compare crashed with his good friend, Jacques in a “mine is bigger” than your kind of way.
1999 – Monaco Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (British Americian Racing)	1 pts	On lap thirty-seven Salo slid into the guardrail at Loews hairpin, terminally damaging his BAR01. “I had been experiencing brake problems from as early as lap three.” I had to back off a little and could not push hard.” “I was coming up to the Lowes hairpin and the pedal went completely soft. Unfortunately there was nothing I could do except drive into the wall.”
1999 – Austrian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Ferrari)	1 pts	At the second turn on lap one Salo got out of shape under braking and slid into the back of Johnny Herbert’s Stewart and took the rear wing of the SF3. Herbert had to pit Salo continued until lap three when he pitted for a new nose box for his F399.
1999 – Hungarian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Ferrari)	1 pts	Salo had a torrid time in qualifying ending the day in eighteenth place, two seconds slower than Irvine.
Salo, Mika (Ferrari)	5 pts	After a miserable race where Salo finished in twelfth after qualifying eighteenth he made a heartfelt statement. “To be honest, I am embarrassed by my performance and feel I have let the team down.”
1999 – Belgian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Ferrari)	3 pts	Salo had been told by Ferrari to act as a rear gunner for Eddie Irvine. He kept Ralf Schumacher behind in the later stages of the race much to the thinly veiled anger of Patrick Head. “Unfortunately Ralf fell foul of Ferrari’s cynical approach running a one car team with a blocking tactic to protect Irvine’s position and I am very surprised that Mika Salo was prepared to accept such orders from the pits,” seethed Head. He then went on to praise McLaren’s two-car team and let it be known that he hoped they would win both Championships that year.
1999 – European Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika (Ferrari)	1 pts	Salo needed a trip to the pits after an off track excursion resulted in damage to his front wing.
2002 – Australian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika	1 pts	Crashing in qualifying, 3 points for style and two for speed. In the morning warm up Toyota’s Mika Salo had a sizeable crash in the wet conditions. Coming in to Stewart corner. He hit standing water in the middle of the track as Barrichello flew by. Salo lost the rear end of his Toyota, which pitched the car into a spin. He then hit the wall at the side of the track, losing his car’s front wing in the process.
Salo, Mika	4 pts	Spinning off on the penultimate lap whilst trying to catch Mark Webber. In the very closing laps of the race Mark Webber was in fifth position, a dream come true for Minardi but Mika Salo was chasing down hard. With just two laps to go Salo was right on Webber’s gearbox until the cars turned in for the first corner. Salo lost the rear of his car and spun, effectively handing the two points to Webber. “We had a great race today. I was hit on the first lap and we had to change the track rod at the rear, but the car felt quick and reliable after that,” Salo said. “I am very happy for the team, they have worked really well this weekend. I have had championship points before but this point is probably the most important.”
2002 – Austrian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika	3 pts	Balking Barrichello in qualifying. Barrichello took fifth pole position of his F1 career at the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix, despite being forced into the gravel at the Remuskurve by Salo’s Toyota at the end of the qualifying session. Salo admitted to a small mistake under braking for the Remuskurve which put Barrichello into the gravel trap. “Qualifying was very close as expected with every hundredth of a second counting. I couldn’t get the lap done I wanted and suffered from understeer, which we have to improve on,” Mika said. “I am sorry for holding up Rubens on his final flying lap. He was in the blind spot of my mirror and I just didn’t see him.”
2002 – Canadian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika	2 pts	1 point for speeding in the pit-lane and 5 for the subsequent drive through penalty. On lap twenty-five Salo dived into the pits for the first of his two-stop strategy. He dropped from 10th to 19th. However, there was a problem with his refuelling rig and he returned to the pits again. In doing so he broke the pit-lane speed limit and was given a ten second driving though penalty for his troubles.
2002 – European Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika	4 pts	Sliding off the track on lap eighteen. Salo fell victim of the bumpy braking zone into turn one on lap eighteen. He lost control of his Toyota under braking and slid over the grass.
2002 – British Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika	4 pts	Spin across the grass on lap eight, dropping the Finn from eighth, to eleventh place. On lap eight Mika Salo fell victim of the falling rain. As he turned into Copse corner his Toyota lost traction and the Finn spun across the grass, dropping him from eighth, to eleventh place.
2002 – Italian Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika	1 pts	3 points for crossing the pit lane line and 5 for the drive through. As Toyota’s Mika Salo exited the pits after making his one and only pitstop on lap thirty-one he crossed the white line that demarcated the exit of the pit-lane. This was did not go unnoticed and the race stewards gave the Finn a drive-through penalty, which he took on lap thirty-three.
Salo, Mika	1 pts	Across the gravel on lap 49. On lap forty-nine Toyota’s Mika Salo took a trip across the gravel and came very close to hitting the barriers on the outside of the Parabolica as he was being lapped by first placed driver, Rubens Barrichello.
2002 – Japanese Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika	1 pts	Blue hair for last race Mika Salo celebrated his last race by taking a leaf out of Jacques Villeneuve’s book and dyed his hair a Finnish blue. Salo is a close friend of Jacques and they are no strangers to hairdressing. On of their most infamous exploits was also at the Japanese Grand Prix in 1996 when along with David Coulthard they shaved their heads.
2002 – United States Grand Prix
Misc
Salo, Mika	4 pts	Across the grass on lap 45 On lap forty-five Toyota’s Mika Salo has an off track moment and dropped behind Irvine and Panis.