Formula 1 Few Formula 1 drivers who enigmatischer than Kimi Räikkönen. The now 39-year-old Fin begins this coming weekend will be his 17th season in the koninginnenklasse of the sport. Advance looked he in the F1 podcast ‘Beyond the Grid’ back on his earlier years and his reputation as fuifbeest.
After five seasons at the Scuderia Ferrari sniffs Kimi Räikkönen these days other air. The world champion of 2008 was for a loonbriefje of 4.5 million euros per year, a place at Sauber-Alfa Romeo. On his 39th must Räikkönen at the side of Antonio Giovinazzi for world cup points. Compete for the highest there is, perhaps, not more in. By the better cars in the competition and perhaps also by the age. To say it you better never ‘never’ with Räikkönen. At the end of last year, he knew after five years of drought surprisingly even the GP of the United States to win. For Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. Raw talent will wear.
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With Sauber comes Raïkkönnen back home. The Swiss-Italian team was in 2001, his first employer. The Fin made so many years ago at his first day of testing a great impression. Jacky Eeckelaert, who was the engineer at Sauber, was a privileged witness. “In the off-season was Michael Schumacher at the circuit in Mugello testing. ‘Schumi’ came suddenly to my desk inside with the question of who is in our Sauber reed. I was told that Kimi was and that he over the past twelve months, especially in a kart had been sitting. Schumacher replied that the ‘new’ in the future, sometimes very fast, could be an F1 car.”
