{"id":82327,"date":"2025-11-19T12:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ella-hakkinen-daughter-of-mika-joins-mclarens-development-program\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:25:41","slug":"ella-hakkinen-daughter-of-mika-joins-mclarens-development-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/ella-hakkinen-daughter-of-mika-joins-mclarens-development-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Hakkinen, daughter of Mika, joins McLaren&#8217;s development program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ella Hakkinen Joins McLaren Driver Development Programme<\/h2>\n\n\nThe McLaren team strengthens its commitment to female talent by incorporating Ella Hakkinen, daughter of two-time Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen, into its driver development program.\n\nWith only 14 years old, Hakkinen has experience in karting, and joins the program in preparation for his debut in single-seaters in 2027.\n\nMika Hakkinen, father of Ella, won two F1 world titles in 1998 and 1999, and has long predicted a promising career for his daughter in motorsport.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1117%2Fr1576746_1040x585_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>From left to right: Ella Hakkinen, Ella Stevens, and Ella Lloyd join McLaren&#8217;s driver development program.<\/em>\n\nThe announcement was made on Monday, along with Ella Lloyd and Ella Stevens, who will participate in the F1 Academy next season. McLaren will become the first F1 team to enter two cars in the series, with Lloyd already competing on the grid this year, while Stevens prepares for her debut after leading the inaugural rookie test.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Although I recognize that there is still much to be done to increase female representation in motorsport, I am immensely proud of the progress we have made in this space.<\/p><cite>Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMcLaren achieved its second consecutive F1 constructors&#8217; title this year, and drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri are competing for the drivers&#8217; title.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ella Hakkinen Joins McLaren Driver Development Programme The McLaren team strengthens its commitment to female talent by incorporating Ella Hakkinen, daughter of two-time Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen, into its driver development program. With only 14 years old, Hakkinen has experience in karting, and joins the program in preparation for his debut in single-seaters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10265,657,8571,177],"class_list":{"0":"post-82327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-ella-hakkinen","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-karting","11":"tag-mclaren"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}