MIKA HAKKINEN SITTING ON A McLAREN, ON A GOLF COURSE

Great art requires no context. Thus, when Mika Hakkinen posted the below photo to his Instagram account late last year, it was captioned, simply: ‘When I go golfing it is like this.”

This is irrefutably true. Nonetheless, it’s an image that raises a number of questions. Most pertinently: is there a Formula One car parked in the middle of a golf course? It’s a combination that, traditionally, screams ‘promotional event’. But there are no promotional event accoutrements to be seen here: no flags, no hoardings, just a double F1 world champ, sitting on a McLaren. The chaps in the background appear gloriously unaware there’s anything unusual going on behind them. Maybe there isn’t. Maybe this is how Mika spends every weekend.

Can we therefore assume that Mika is… planning on using his McLaren as a golf buggy? If so, where’s he going to put his clubs? Also does he have a spare tyre, in case he gets a hole in one? (No, YNBACA is not sorry for its golf joke.)

Also, what McLaren is it, exactly? As best YNBACA can ascertain, it’s a 2015 car wearing a 2018 livery. But we’re pretty sure that’s a 2014 nose. On the car, YNBACA means, not Mika. Whatever it is, it’s rather adding to the confusion of the whole tableau.

Then there’s the most pressing question: is it really a good idea to perch on a sticky slick tyre while wearing trousers quite that white?

Maybe one day the answers to all these questions will become clear. In the meantime, YNBACA knows only this. A man in white trousers, sitting on an orange F1 car in the middle of a golf course, no, this should be not be cool. But playing it straight in the strangest of scenes, Mika has rocked this look. When he goes golfing, it is like this.