Kimi Räikkönen

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Kimi Matias Räikkönen [ kimi mɑtiɑs ræik ː ONS ] ( born October 17, 1979 in Espoo ) is a Finnish automobile racing and rally drivers.

He started from 2001 to 2009 in the Formula 1 and won there in 2007 for Ferrari the World Cup. After a rally guest start in 2009 Raikkonen joined 2010 in the World Rally Championship and played there until 2011 a total of 21 rallies. 2012 returned Raikkonen back into Formula 1 and drove two seasons for Lotus. Since 2014 he joined Ferrari in Formula 1.

Räikkönen is known, not least through his media appearance as a mostly silent, cool -looking and rather introverted athletes; Therefore, it was given the nickname Iceman, he himself - on his helmet, for example - has made a habit.

• 4.1 Career stations
• 4.2 Statistics in Formula 1 4.2.1 Grand Prix wins
• 4.2.2 Individual Results
• 4.2.3 Records in Formula 1

• 4.3.1 WRC results

Career

Karting (1988-1998)

Raikkonen began in 1988 at the age of nine years, with motor racing and first started in karting in the Finnish junior classes where he could retract some victories. In 1991 he won the Finnish Karting Championship of Minis, a year later he succeeded in Raket class Junior. His first big success was in 1994 the second place in the Finnish Raket Kart Cup. 1995 Raikkonen managed his first victory in the Finnish Karting Championship Class A, he decided in 1997 and 1998.

Formula Renault (1999-2000)

He then moved to Formula racing and launched in 1999 with four races of the British Formula Renault. The subsequent winter series of the British Formula Renault, the Finn retired first and launched in 2000 in the British Formula Renault, he decided dominant with seven races won by ten of its own. After Raikkonen was left with two wins in two races in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup great impression, invited him Formula 1 team boss Peter Sauber, who had to occupy nor any of its two cockpits for the 2001 season, in winter 2000 /01 test drives a Mugello. Raikkonen showed this in spite of only 23 car races to which he was previously started, an amazing feat and had significantly more experienced competitors to the Formula 1 cockpit behind. A short time later, the Sauber team announced the official commitment Raikkonen for the 2001 season, which made for great public astonishment. Sauber was heavily criticized for his willingness to take risks and the FIA confessed the young Finn Super Licence at first only for four races to sample.

Formula 1 (2001-2009)

Clean (2001)

Raikkonen's Formula 1 career began at the Australian Grand Prix on March 4, 2001 at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne. Once again impressed the Finn and secured in his first race in sixth placement in the points. In the next race, he showed each respectable performance, so that the issue of the Super license on the first four races also needed no more discussion. Raikkonen finished his first Formula 1 season with a total of nine points in tenth overall and contributed to the team 's best result in the history of the Sauber team, which ended up with 21 points in fourth place of the designers.

Raikkonen's debut season was also the last of the two-time Finnish world champion Mika Hakkinen, who recommended his young compatriot to his employer McLaren as his successor. The British team went into the recommendation and bought Raikkonen out of his Sauber contract to sign him for the 2002 season at the David Coulthard page can. This was pulled before his teammate Raikkonen, Nick Heidfeld, who had been supported for several years by McLaren.

McLaren (2002-2006)

In his first race for the McLaren team Raikkonen won his first podium in third - place and set his first fastest race lap. Later in the season, both McLaren drivers often eliminated by technical defects, but in France Raikkonen could almost win his first race. Shortly before the end, he was ahead of world champion Michael Schumacher in the lead, but slipped in the Adelaide hairpin on a patch of oil and had to let the Germans pass. At the end of the season he was sixth with 24 points the drivers' world championship - just behind his team-mate Coulthard, who collected 41 points.

In the 2003 season, Raikkonen and McLaren were very optimistic, because you had to compete with a further development of the previous model and was surpassed in 2002 in the battle for second place in the Constructors' World Championship of Williams. But Juha already at the second round in Malaysia at the Sepang International Circuit his first Formula 1 victory. Also during the subsequent chaotic wet race two weeks later in Brazil, Räikkönen was initially evaluated and celebrated after the race was stopped in the 54th round as the winner. Later, however, the race organizers had to admit a mistake and lost his victory Raikkonen back to the first runner-up Giancarlo Fisichella in the Jordan. The tendency of the unexpected competitiveness are also confirmed in the further course of the season, at the end Raikkonen Although no other victory had been able to post, but with a total of ten podium finishes and just two points behind surprise runners-up was behind Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher. Here Raikkonen had until the last race chances of winning the title.

During the 2004 season, the new McLaren MP4 -19, who suffered from cooling problems disappointed. Raikkonen and Coulthard retired from numerous engine failures and other technical defects. Only with the improved version, the MP4- 19B, followed by further podiums and Räikkönen's second Grand Prix victory in Belgium. Raikkonen was founded in 2004 with 45 points seventh in the drivers 'world championship and the McLaren team with 69 points in fifth in the constructors' championship. This Raikkonen was again ahead of his teammate Coulthard, who left McLaren at the end of the season.

In the 2005 season, the new McLaren MP4 -20 showed greatly improved compared to last year. Raikkonen made ​​his new team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya in the internal driver duel no chance, however, the almost faultless driving eventual champion Fernando Alonso in the Renault had to concede defeat. Raikkonen had indeed MP4- 20 the fastest car of the 2005 season are available, which, however, unlike the Renault still had problems with reliability. So Raikkonen retired in three races of the season in the lead because of technical defects of. At the Grand Prix of Europe even in the last round after his suspension was broken as a result of brake disks. Other races he could due to punitive transfers in the grid, which he had received on account of damage to the engine, quit after only comebacks with positions two to four.

In Japan, Räikkönen started from position 17, overtook opponents such as Michael Schumacher and Alonso on the final lap until then leading Fisichella and won the race. Raikkonen was vice-champion in the final for the second time and had 21 points behind Alonso, who had as Raikkonen won seven victories.

For the 2006 season, Räikkönen was still under contract with McLaren was faster than his teammate Montoya as last year. After Montoya and Raikkonen were colliding and excreted in the U.S. Grand Prix in the second curve, the Colombian left surprisingly the team and joined the American NASCAR series. Raikkonen's new team-mate, the previous test pilot Pedro de la Rosa, who had Montoya injury previously been represented in the previous year.

Raikkonen came to the podium six times, went three times to the pole position, but could not win a race. At the Monaco Grand Prix, he had to give up lying with broken heat shield in second place in Hungary in the lead when he collided with Vitantonio Liuzzi lapping and the Grand Prix of Canada took him two botched pit stops for the chance to win. In China, he was in second place until an electronics defect ended his race. His highlight of the season was the first race in Bahrain, where he still drove up from 22 and last place to third place. He was at the end of the season fifth in the Drivers' Championship with 65 points. For McLaren, it was the first winless season since 1996.

At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza was officially announced that Räikkönen in the 2007 season the successor to Michael Schumacher at Ferrari and will be earning an annual salary of around 22 million euros. His new team-mate was the Brazilian Felipe Massa. Even early in his McLaren -Mercedes - era transfer rumors to Ferrari of the press were given repeatedly, but were confirmed in late summer 2006. Raikkonen's McLaren took place at a Alonso, new team-mate of the former World Champion was the former GP2 champion Lewis Hamilton.

Ferrari (2007-2009)

His first victory for Ferrari Raikkonen celebrated the very first race in Australia in 2007, after he had reached the pole position in qualifying. He is the first Ferrari driver since Nigel Mansell, who won in his first race for the Scuderia, and the first driver since Juan Manuel Fangio in 1956, who started from pole in this. In the second race in Malaysia Raikkonen was behind Alonso and Hamilton third. At the Bahrain Grand Prix, he was also third in Spain and he fell for a broken cable to the alternator from. In Monaco, he reached the eighth place, as he in the second qualifying afforded a mistake and had to start 16th. In North America the race he ran fifth in Canada and ranked in fourth place at the race in Indianapolis. At the French Grand Prix Räikkönen was able to win over his teammate Massa. At Silverstone Grand Prix of Great Britain, he could win again and thus celebrate his third win of the season. It was the fifth time in a row that Raikkonen was at Silverstone on the podium.

At the Nürburgring he left third of lying after he took the pole position in qualifying. At the Hungarian Grand Prix, he fought a duel lasting the whole race with Hamilton and was 0.715 seconds behind the McLaren pilots second. At the Turkish Grand Prix he was again second, just behind his team-mate Massa. In his first Italian Grand Prix for Ferrari he finished third after he had survived unhurt in qualifying an accident at 300 km / h and had to contest the race with the spare car. In the Belgian Grand Prix Räikkönen took his fourth victory of the season. In Fuji he went to an extremely difficult race with many accidents in third place. Since Hamilton won the race and goal for his lead in the overall standings to 17 points over Raikkonen, the Finn has been granted only a theoretical chance at the world title. At the 16th World Championship race in China Raikkonen has already achieved his fifth win of the season. With this result he could the gap to the championship leader Lewis Hamilton - of the failure he profited - to shorten at a still races to seven points.

The chances of winning the title were still low. In victory Raikkonen had not been enough for a fifth place title Hamilton or Alonso's second place. After a driving error and a technical problem Hamilton only reached seventh place while Alonso behind Massa, Raikkonen interests of the child itself, only reached the third place. Thus Raikkonen was the first time Formula 1 world champion. Since he made it in his first year with the Scuderia Ferrari, he was able to pull in these statistics with Fangio.

In addition to the world title Räikkönen also won the DHL Fastest Lap Trophy, a 2007 first prize to the logistics group DHL for the driver with the most fastest laps in a season. The Finn won the award as the sole title holder, although his team-mate Massa had just as often the fastest lap of the race ( six times ). In the end, the number of third-best laps Raikkonen decided in favor. A year later he was again awarded this prize.

After excellent reviews of Ferrari in winter Raikkonen went as title favorites in the 2008 season. During the first race in Australia, however, he and his team-mate Massa could not confirm the expectations. Raikkonen finished a turbulent race with the safety car phases, two spins and technical problems ultimately eighth. In the second race in Malaysia, the Finn then celebrated his first victory of the season and took second place in Bahrain the lead in the world championship. In Barcelona he won again, in Turkey, he had to be content with third place behind Massa and Hamilton. At the Monaco Grand Prix Räikkönen lost the championship lead after a botched race and ninth back to McLaren driver Hamilton. In Canada, Räikkönen was initially behind Hamilton and Kubica in third place. After it had been a safety car phase, completed the three leaders their pit stop in which Kubica and Raikkonen could go by Hamilton. Since the pit exit light was switched to red, Kubica and Räikkönen remained standing side by side before the traffic light. Hamilton, who had not seen the lights, drove on Raikkonen and made so that the Finn was forced to retire fault. At the next race in France, he already looked like the sure winner, as a broken exhaust forced him to a slower pace. Nevertheless, he brought two place behind his team-mate Massa to the finish.

During rainy race at Silverstone Raikkonen was nevertheless still fourth after his team had committed a strategy error and the Finn got no new intermediate tires at his first pit stop. After the race in Great Britain were with Hamilton and the two Ferrari drivers Massa and Räikkönen three drivers on points at the top of the drivers' standings. In the following race, however Räikkönen lost some ground on its competitors. From relatively poor grid positions followed meager results in the races - rumors of listlessness and thoughts of resignation to the world champion made ​​the rounds in the press. Raikkonen was announced then, his lack of success would lie in the fact that he had problems getting the tire on his Ferrari on temperature. After his failure by engine failure in Valencia The Finn had 13 points behind leader Hamilton.

The aufschwelende criticism of Raikkonen seemed, given its power to have been a wake up call at the Grand Prix of Belgium. Until three laps to go, the Finn looked like the winner before a shower of rain tore it out of the race, so he went out again empty. Also during the subsequent wet race at Monza Raikkonen managed not to adapt to the weather conditions and missed a ninth championship point.

Regardless, Ferrari announced before the home race of the racing contract extension with the Finn until 2010, thus ending the numerous speculations about a premature withdrawal of Raikkonen.

At the end of the season Raikkonen finished behind his team-mate Massa and the former world champion Hamilton in third place in the World Cup. However, Ferrari was thanks to the achievements of its constructors' world championship ahead of McLaren driver.

In the 2009 season showed early on that Ferrari could not keep up with the teams at the top. Raikkonen, who seemed unmotivated in part, a weak start to the season and remained the first three races without points. With an improved Ferrari Raikkonen announced in Monaco back in third place on the podium. After Raikkonen was unable to repeat this performance in the next three races, he scored at the Hungarian Grand Prix in second place his best result until then. However, the good result of a serious accident, his team-mate Massa was overshadowed, who had to quit due to an injury on the season. After Raikkonen was once again on the podium at the Grand Prix of Europe as a third party, he won his first race in Belgium for over a year. Raikkonen benefited in the race of KERS, an energy recovery system, with whose help he drove starting from sixth on the first lap in second place. After a safety car phase Raikkonen could benefit from KERS and overtook the leader Fisichella again. In another race, he was able to keep the Romans behind him and scored the first win for Ferrari this season. Raikkonen's team-mate in Europe, and Belgium was Ferrari's reserve driver Luca Badoer, he could clearly distance. Due to poor performance Badoer was a few days after the race in Belgium replaced by Fisichella. At the Grand Prix of Italy, the Finn benefited from a failure Hamilton and was third in the fourth race in a row once again on the podium. Also in the other races of the season in which he did not reach podium placement more, Raikkonen was significantly faster than his team-mate Fisichella.

Against the Japanese Grand Prix, it was announced that Räikkönen Ferrari will leave after the season. His cockpit took over from the 2010 season, the Spaniard Alonso, who was already in Raikkonen's McLaren successor. The contract of the Finns, who would have been true in 2010, was dissolved by mutual consent. After contract negotiations with other teams had failed, Raikkonen decided to leave Formula 1 for 2010 and to move to the World Rally Championship.

World Rally Championship (2010-2011)

Raikkonen was back in 2009 at the Rally Finland as a guest with a Fiat Grande Punto S2000 his debut in the World Rally Championship. From 2010 he started with his co-pilot Kaj Lindström now regularly in the World Rally Championship. In his first full season he drove a Citroën C4 WRC of the Citroën Junior Team. At the Rally Germany he won a special stage for the first time. Overall, he graduated in 2010 eleven rallies and drove it five times in the points, but never came close to the podium. His best result was a fifth place in the Rally of Turkey. At the end of the season, he finished with 25 points in tenth place in the drivers' standings.

Even with ten selected WRC rounds of the 2011 season starts were scheduled in the World Rally Championship. He drove a Citroën DS3 as the customer's vehicle WRC, which was prepared by his newly created ICE 1 Racing team. Räikkönen scored 2011 points in the six first disputed WRC rallies and was after the ninth race in tenth place in the drivers' standings. The points of ICE 1 Racing in the team standings, however, were denied by order of 9 September by the FIA and it was taken out of the World Cup team standings. The reason for this and an additional fine of 16,200 euros was that he had not, as planned, participated in the Rally Australia. The regulations prescribe for a team that is enrolled for brand championship points, at least two races outside Europe before. Raikkonen had called for the Jordan Rally and in Australia, but had waived the participation in Australia. Raikkonen was allowed to start for the remaining three rounds of the World Rally Championship as before. In the Rallye de France, he left quite unhappy when he tried to warm up his tires on the road section before the third special stage while Henning Solberg drove into the car. He ended up with a broken suspension in the ditch. At the Rally Catalunya, he did not reach the target as well. The reason was a problem with the fuel supply his World Rally Car. In the UK, lying on the third day in sixth place, he did not reach, after a rollover, the goal. The 2011 season he finished in spite of everything on the tenth World Cup ranking.

Formula 1 (since 2012)

Formula 1 comeback with Lotus (2012-2013 )

After Raikkonen was first performed in 2011 with Williams negotiations on a Formula 1 comeback, end of November 2011 it was announced that Räikkönen for Lotus returned to Formula 1. He received a two-year contract. In 2012, he joined together with Romain Grosjean on the team in Formula 1. At the season opener in Australia Raikkonen reached starting from 17th to seventh place. A race later, at the Malaysian Grand Prix, he scored the fastest lap of the race and crossed the finish line in fifth place. In the third race in China, he was in the second half for a long time in second place. Since his tires but taking down in the closing stages, he fell back to 14th place. Finally, the fourth Grand Prix in Bahrain, he came in second place to the goal and scored his first podium placing after his comeback. In the rest of the season he was third in the Grand Prix of Spain and the Grand Prix of Germany as well as second in the Grand Prix of Europe more times on the podium. In Hungary, Räikkönen worked from fifth starting gradually to the front and was in the second half of the race in second place within striking distance of leader Hamilton. However, for an overtaking maneuver he was too far away. A race later in Belgium, he was in third place once again on the podium. At the Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi Raikkonen finally won his first race for Lotus. At the end of the season he finished third in the World Championship.

2013 denied Raikkonen together with Grosjean his second season for Lotus. At the season opener in Australia put Raikkonen, in contrast to the other pilots from the top group, rather than a three-stop strategy to a two -stop strategy. This allowed him to take the lead and win the race. At the next race in Malaysia, he lost the world championship lead again, after he came in seventh place finish. In the next race in China, Bahrain and Spain, Räikkönen was in second place on the podium again. At the Grand Prix of Great Britain came Raikkonen 25 times in a row in the Top 10 So he set a new record. In the following two races in Germany and Hungary, he finished second. At the next race in Belgium Raikkonen retired with brake problems. This ended his series with top - 10 finishes in a row after 27 races. It was also his first loss since his comeback in 2012. During the Singapore Grand Prix Räikkönen made ​​in the race ten places well and was starting from 13th of third parties. At the following Grand Prix in Korea Raikkonen was starting from ninth second.

In Abu Dhabi Raikkonen was moved because of a non-compliant sub-floor to the back of the grid. He dropped out in the first lap after a collision. Raikkonen finished the season after this race early because he had to undergo an operation on killing. He had multiple back problems during the season. Raikkonen decided against surgery after the season, as this preparation would have been affected for the next season. His recovery took about four weeks. Raikkonen was fifth in the drivers' world championship and sat down with 183 to 132 points internally against Grosjean through.

According to media reports, Lotus was 2013 with salary payments to Raikkonen in arrears, so that the ratio of Raikkonen and Lotus at the end of the season was not the best. Lotus confirmed in mid-December that Raikkonen had not yet received his full salary.

Return to Ferrari ( 2014 )

To Formula 1 2014 season Raikkonen returned to the Scuderia Ferrari. He received a two-year contract. After the third race he finished in twelfth place overall.

Others

Raikkonen is about his racing career, owners of the team Räikkönen Robertson Racing, which he founded together with his manager Steve Robertson in 2004. His team has been active since 2005 in the British Formula 3 Championship. With Mike Conway, the team won the 2006 for the first and only time the drivers' title of the British Formula 3

Upon introduction of the permanent Formula 1 race number 2014 Raikkonen chose # 7 for his future career. He decided on the number that he had already in the 2013 Formula 1 season.

Private / Miscellaneous

Kimi Raikkonen is the son of Matti (1954-2010) and Paula Raikkonen. He has an older brother, Rami, who is as a rally driver in Finland also active in motorsport. The family comes from Espoo. Kimi Raikkonen was married from 2004 to 2013 with the former Finnish model Jenni Dahlman. The couple lived in Switzerland. In February 2013, both announced their separation.

The cool nature of the Finns in the public as well as the impression of many observers that it apparently can bring anything from the rest, Räikkönen took the nickname "Iceman". Originally McLaren team boss Ron Dennis called him for the first time like this. Because Raikkonen attribute obviously liked, he let it stick during his time at McLaren even as a logo on the helmet. At the start of the 2008 season we also saw for the first time a large-scale tattoo with this same logo on his left forearm.

Raikkonen also applies as little talkative and are mainly media representatives often monosyllabic and extremely terse answers. This fact was indeed criticized also by his employer over again, but eventually accepted as part of his character. In public, little is known, however, that Raikkonen in an accident as a teenager forfeited a vocal cord and since then suffers from a falsetto voice, so to speak is a complex subject for him.

In the press repeated reports have surfaced about alleged " binge drinking ", on which Raikkonen said to have participated. Critical observers assumed the Finn then, he did not go with the necessary seriousness to his duties zoom. So far, however, no concrete case Raikkonen could be accused, in which he had placed by negligence or drinking spirits a better result on the line.

Together with Michael Schumacher Raikkonen holds the record for fastest laps in a season (10 ), this feat the Finns even twice. Overall, only two pilots were able to achieve more fastest laps as Raikkonen, who finished 39 third place behind Michael Schumacher (77) and Alain Prost (41).

Raikkonen holds with 27 top- 10 finishes in a row ( 2012 and 2013 season ) a record.

Räikkönen had a 2011 guest appearance in the music video for " Sorateiden sankarit " the Finnish musician Arttu Wiskari. He plays at the end of the video a rally driver, which entrains Wiskari as a hitchhiker and then builds an accident.

Statistics

Career stations

• 2003: Formula 1 (2nd place)
• 2004: Formula 1 ( 7th place)
• 2005: Formula 1 (2nd place)
• 2006: Formula 1 ( 5th place)
• 2007: Formula 1 (World Champion )
• 2008: Formula 1 ( 3rd place)
• 2009: Formula 1 ( 6th place)

• 2009: WRC
• 2010: WRC ( 10th place )
• 2011: WRC ( 10th place )
• 2012: Formula 1 ( 3rd place)
• 2013: Formula 1 ( 5th place)
• 2014: Formula 1

Statistics in Formula 1

Status: Bahrain Grand Prix, April 6, 2014

Grand Prix victories

• 2003: Malaysia ( Sepang )
• 2004: Belgium ( Spa -Francorchamps )
• 2005: Spain ( Barcelona)
• 2005: Monaco ( Monte Carlo )
• 2005: Canada ( Montréal)
• 2005: Hungary ( Mogyoród )
• 2005: Turkey ( Istanbul)

• 2005: Belgium ( Spa -Francorchamps )
• 2005: Japan ( Suzuka )
• 2007: Australia (Melbourne )
• 2007: France ( Magny -Cours )
• 2007: Great Britain ( Silverstone )
• 2007: Belgium ( Spa -Francorchamps )
• 2007 China ( Shanghai)

• 2007: Brazil ( Interlagos )
• 2008: Malaysia ( Sepang )
• 2008: Spain ( Barcelona)
• 2009: Belgium ( Spa -Francorchamps )
• 2012: Abu Dhabi ( Yas Island )
• 2013: Australia (Melbourne )

Individual results

Records in Formula 1

• Most fastest laps in a season: 10 (2005/2008)
• Most points finishes in a row: 27 (2012-2013)
• Most target arrivals in a season: 20 (2012 )
• Most third spaces: 28

Statistics in the World Rally Championship

WRC results