Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen took a first victory in over five years
The driver plans to nab another title, as long as high temperatures handicap his competition
Lotus are hopeful that they can win a tug-of-war with Formula One champions Red Bull for Kimi Raikkonen’s services next season.
Kimi Raikkonen drove a brilliant race to win the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday as the Formula One season opened with a thriller at Albert Park.
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/ 29 November 2011
Lotus Renault GP has announced that Kimi Räikkönen is to return to Formula One racing next season after signing a two-year deal with them.
Kimi Raikkonen embarks on a new career in the World Rally Championship this weekend but is under no illusions about how difficult the season might be.
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/ 4 December 2009
Kimi Raikkonen, Formula 1 champion in 2007, will aim for the world rally championship (WRC) title next season after signing for Citroen.
Fernando Alonso’s move to Ferrari is likely to set off a driver merry-go-round.
Kimi Raikkonen rode his luck to claim Ferrari’s first win this year when he held off a challenge from Force India’s veteran Giancarlo Fisichella.
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/ 12 January 2009
Ferrari presented a new-look car on Monday with team boss Domenicali admitting that new regulations would make it harder to defend their title.
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/ 11 October 2008
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton has boosted his Formula One world title chances by taking pole position for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix.
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/ 4 September 2008
Defending Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen has insisted he can retain his crown this year despite a string of unimpressive results.
Defending Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen of Finland is intent on staying cool this weekend at the normally steaming Hungaroring.
Compared with an Olympic athlete, the Formula One driver of old would not stand a chance in fitness terms. The modern breed is somewhat different.
Finland’s defending drivers’ world champion, Kimi Räikkönen, is hoping that Germany will be bathing in warm sunshine and not heavy rain this weekend.
Lewis Hamilton can crack Formula One’s three-way deadlock in Germany this weekend by winning McLaren’s second home grand prix in as many races.
World champion Kimi Raikkonen lived up to his promise on Saturday when he claimed pole position for Ferrari for Sunday’s French Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton went from hero to zero on Sunday after crashing into Ferrari’s world champion Kimi Raikkonen in a bizarre pit-lane pile-up at the Canadian Grand Prix.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton battled to a masterful Monaco Grand Prix victory on Sunday despite hitting the barriers on an afternoon of mayhem on the principality’s slippery streets. ”This has got to be the highlight of my career, and it will be the highlight for the rest of my life,” declared the ecstatic Briton.
As the sun rose and shone, at last, on the traditional Friday rest day at the Monaco Grand Prix, the lurid shadow cast by the Max Mosley sex scandal continued to eclipse even the best efforts of the drivers. It barely mattered that 23-year-old Lewis Hamilton had performed brilliantly to set the fastest time for McLaren-Mercedes in Thursday’s opening practice sessions.
Brazilian Felipe Massa secured pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix on an all-Ferrari front row on Saturday. Driving in hot and humid conditions under heavy cloud cover, Massa was joined at the head of the field by Formula One world champion team mate Kimi Raikkonen, who lapped 0,482 seconds slower than the pole sitter’s time of 1,35.748.
Ferarri’s new Formula One boss, Stefano Domenicali, is keen to put last season’s spy scandal behind him and look to the future. ”For the good of the sport we need to look forward; the past is the past,” he said in Italy at his first press conference as Ferrari Formula One chief, although admitting the spy scandal would be difficult to completely forget.
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/ 14 October 2007
Although Lewis Hamilton couldn’t wrap up the Formula One title in the Chinese Grand Prix, he is still in a position to make history as the circuit’s youngest champion. Since the Englishman was nine years old he has nurtured a dream of following in the steps of former champions Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Alain Prost.