{"id":292228,"date":"2025-11-19T01:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292228\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T01:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:49:47","slug":"ella-hakkinen-14-added-to-mclaren-driver-development-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292228\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Hakkinen, 14, added to McLaren driver development programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ella Hakkinen, the daughter of two-time Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen, has been added to the McLaren driver development programme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 14-year-old has secured wins and podium finishes around Europe in karting and will be the youngest driver on the programme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will be joined by Briton Ella Stevens, who is the only woman to have won in Britain&#8217;s premier karting class. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stevens, 19, will represent F1 constructors&#8217; champions McLaren alongside fellow Briton Ella Lloyd, 20, in the all-female F1 Academy series in 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLaren said Hakkinen would be testing single-seaters in preparation for 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ella Hakkinen, the daughter of two-time Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen, has been added to the McLaren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-292228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}