Category: Kimi Räikkönen

Dietrich Mateschitz believes that his team must fight for both world titles this season, to confirm its place amongst the sport’s front runners.

Red Bull Racing finished runners up in both the drivers and constructors championship last year, after just missing out to Jenson Button and Brawn GP.  Read more... (344 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Kimi Raikkonen will wait until the middle of this year before deciding on his Grand Prix future.

The former world champion has switched to rallying for 2010 with the Citroen Junior team and has previously hinted that he is enjoying life away from the political wranglings that dominate Formula One.  Read more... (158 words, estimated 38 secs reading time)

It appears that Kimi Raikkonen will not be the only member of his family rallying this season. According to the Finnish press, Raikkonen has given his older brother Rami his Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 and the pair will both be competing in the Arctic Lapland Rally later this month.  Read more... (117 words, estimated 28 secs reading time)

Kimi Raikkonen will be joining Citroen’s WRC effort next season, as predicted by many of his fans.

Raikkonen made his rally debut early this year in a Punto Abarth, impressing many with his performance, and it is well documented that the Finn has said would like to try his hand and rallying, therefore today’s news comes as little surprise.  Read more... (197 words, 1 image, estimated 47 secs reading time)

Citroen Sport director Olivier Quesnel has hinted that Kimi Raikkonen could be racing in the WRC in his year out from Formula One.

When news broke that Kimi Raikkonen was to take a one year sabbatical from the sport, many believed that Raikkonen would use his year out to pursue other racing interests – more specifically rallying thanks to his impressive debut in the WRC earlier in the year.  Read more... (214 words, 1 image, estimated 51 secs reading time)

Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen will not be present for the 2010 F1 championship. Raikkonen had been in talks with the McLaren F1 team however these talks appear to have collapsed leading Raikkonen to take a one year sabbatical from the sport.  Read more... (250 words, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

In the last few weeks, Toyota have effectively put the two men who have driven for them for the majority of this season on notice. As a result, they are in the hunt for the signatures of Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button – two of the best drivers on the grid. But what is in it for the two world champions? Can they fulfil Toyota’s dream of being the car in front?  Read more... (772 words, estimated 3:05 mins reading time)

Kimi Raikkonen has said that he is aiming for a strong end to the season at the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this weekend. The Finn has two incentives for a good result – the first, to thank Ferrari by earning them third place in the constructors’ championship, and the second, to impress potential new employers. He spoke today about the former.  Read more... (319 words, estimated 1:17 mins reading time)

Toyota’s 2010 line-up remains unclear today as it became obvious that Kimi Raikkonen has not responded to the offer the Japanese team has made him.

The Finn has been made an offer by John Howett, the Toyota team principal, the details of which became clear over the weekend.  Read more... (263 words, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo today said that his new signing Fernando Alonso will be a better communicator than outgoing driver Kimi Raikkonen.

Raikkonen helped the Prancing Horse to two constructors’ titles and took his 2007 drivers’ title with them. But di Montezemolo said that the Finn’s famed recalcitrance had not helped the team to understand the problems with the car.  Read more... (207 words, estimated 50 secs reading time)