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Kimi’s natural talent

14. Jan 2023 
by Ziv Knoll
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The career of Kimi Raikkonen in Formula One spanned over a 20 years period, from 2001 to 2009 and from 2012 to 2021 with a total of 21 victories and one world title (2007). After a two years break, he returned to Lotus first and then to Ferrari in 2014 where he first partnered Fernando Alonso, then Sebastian Vettel with whom he enjoyed a great relationship. The German expresses his admiration in the podcast “Beyond the grid”.

Sebastian Vettel: “I think Kimi (Raikkonen) is actually the biggest natural talent I’ve come across, ever. If there was a discipline of switching cars every day, after 10 days, Kimi will be lapping everyone else. Just because he’s a natural. It doesn’t take time (for Kimi) to adapt to the car, to what the car requires. You give him a steering wheel, and he knows what to do.”

End of 2009, Kimi Raikkonen leaves Ferrari and takes a two years break in the World Rallye Championship with the Citroën Junior Team and the Ice One Racing. He finishes both years in tenth in the championship, before doing two NASCAR races, with the Kyle Busch Motorsports team. Such a talent indeed, Kimi.

Source: DR

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