David Coulthard and Mika Hakkinen can muster one win and one pole between them.
Hakkinen predicted that either a Williams or a McLaren driver would end Michael Schumacher's run of three consecutive championships this season.
So you're not going to get to drive the Ferrari F399 as Eddie Irvine or the McLaren Mercedes as Mika Hakkinen.
Michael Schumacher rode shotgun for Irvine, gifting the Northern Irishman the win and making Hakkinen's race a total misery with some pretty dubious behaviour.
"I think Michael probably won't be champion in 2004, " said Hakkinen, who beat Schumacher in a battle for the title in 1998.
Hakkinen admitted that he had become too aware of the risks in the sport and wanted to spend more time with his family.
Hakkinen tested the car in Rovaniemi on Wednesday and is planning one more day of practice before taking a break for the Christmas and New Year holidays.
The team employed this tactic with great success in Malaysia in 1999 to ensure the title battle between Ferrari's Eddie Irvine and McLaren's Mika Hakkinen went to the last race.
He is McLaren's first world champion since Mika Hakkinen in 1999, and joins a club that includes his hero Ayrton Senna and all-time greats Alain Prost and Niki Lauda.
Hakkinen made his retirement from F1 official in July, after initially saying that he was taking a sabbatical when he stepped down from McLaren at the end of 2001.
Hakkinen believes Raikkonen is better than Renault driver Fernando Alonso, who is another of F1's biggest rising stars and rated by some to even better than the younger Finn.
Races too often turn into processions with little real overtaking: a blistering start by stars like Mika Hakkinen or Michael Schumacher can put one of them in front for the whole of the race, barring breakdowns or accidents.
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