It is official. Kimi Räikkönen will not race in Formula One in 2010 season and will switch to WRC instead. The one year deal that will see Kimi Räikkönen to compete in Red Bull’s colours on 12 of the 2010 FIA World Rally Championship’s 13 rounds (the exception being the Rally of New Zealand) was [...]
2010
2010 F1 Drivers – Kimi Raikkonen will not race in F1 in 2010
Following his departure from Ferrari Kimi Raikkonen made it clear that it will either be McLaren in 2010 for him or nothing. According to Raikkonen’s manager the talks with McLaren have collapsed and Kimi will be left without F1 drive next season. This is what Steve Robertson had to say to Finnish papers Turun Sanomat:
“The [...]
2010
Official – Alonso replacing Raikkonen in Ferrari
What has been rumoured for months was confirmed today. Fernando Alonso has signed three year deal with Ferrari starting in 2010. Felipe Massa stays on.
“We are very proud to welcome to our team another winning driver, who has demonstrated his amazing talent by winning two world championships in his career to date. Of course, we [...]
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Video – Kimi Raikkonen crashes out of WRC Neste Oil Rally Finland
It is F1 holiday time. Kimi Raikkonen used his free time for doing some rally racing. Here is his WRC Rally Finland experience ended,
The ever ice cool Kimi still managed to take off his helmet and put on the oversized sponsor cap before getting out of the vehicle … “It was good fun and nobody [...]
2009
Stewards decisions – No penalty for Raikkonen, Renault suspended from European GP
Kimi Raikkonen escaped without penalty following the investigation of an incident at the start of the race. While I do not wish any driver loosing his podium finish I would welcome some explanation from stewards while this incident was investigated after the race while two weeks ago similar incident involving Mark Webber was investigated right [...]
2009
2009 F1 Drivers Helmets
With the teams revealing their 2009 Formula One cars we also have chance to see some of the 2009 F1 drivers helmets. Here they come, including the new yellow helmet of Jenson Button . I will be adding more (or better) pictures as they become available.
2008
Does Ferrari need only Alonso to win the drivers’ title again ?
The rumours about Fernando Alonso signing for Ferrari will probably keep on coming until the Spanish driver actually makes the move. But if we are to believe what we read in the news his eventual move to Ferrari would be a popular one in Italy. Several Italian racing figures voiced their support for Alonso-Ferrari link. [...]
2008
November day in Formula 1 – Medals, Bulls, technology, banks and drivers
I planned only one round up a week (roughly) during this off season but this day deserves its own wrap up. Some of the developments of last 24 hours may have some serious implications of the future of Formula 1. Or not …
2008
2008 Formula 1 – Wolf’s Driver rankings – Part 3 – 10th to 6th
The 2008 Formula 1 driver rankings continue with part 3 – ranks 10 to 6. I did not have too difficult time to select the five drivers for this post but giving them their ranks was a bit different story. Here is how I settled it:
10th Kimi Raikkonen
Ferrari had bad start to the season in [...]
2008
2008 Japanese F1 GP – Stewards vs Hamilton vs Massa vs Bourdais
Another race, another controversy. And yet again it involved both main title contenders Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa.
Incident no 1 – Race start – Hamilton (and Kovalainen) vs Kimi
I watched the video replay of the race start few times (at the moment you can see it here). Raikkonen had quite good start and it looked [...]
2008
It is unofficial – Raikkonen to support Massa
Kimi Raikkonen is still in the title fight. With 4 races to go and 40 points still to fight for he can still in theory make up the 21 points gap that at this moment separates him from the championship lead. His team mate Felipe Massa however is only 1 point behind the leader Lewis [...]
2009
Ferrari extends Raikkonen’s contract to the end of 2010
Ferrari again had an annoucement to make during their home race weekend in Monza. The team confirmed yesterday the extension of Kimi Raikkonen’s contract to the end of 2010 season ending the speculations about Raikkonen’s retirement. With Felipe Massa already having his contract for 2009 and 2010 it is rather safe to assume that Ferrari [...]
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