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The Unknown Kimi Raikkonen

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It’s an achievement that shows just how long he has been around and how he has consistently remained at the top of the sport throughout his career. He hates phone calls More remarkable still, there's the question of why the Sauber Formula One team got it into their heads that it would be a good idea to give a test to an unknown driver who was the veteran of a tiny number of minor car races. That he turned out to be sufficiently exceptional to get a contract with them (despite the objection of then boss of the governing body, Max Mosley, who regarded him as too dangerously inexperienced to be given the required racing licence) is in all honesty less significant than his ever getting the chance to demonstrate such ability in the first place. Just leave me alone, I know what to do,” he said in a stern reply over the radio. Turned into a printed T-shirt on the F1 store, Kimi’s final team, Alfa Romeo, but their own twist on the line at the 2021 Abu Dhabi GP, Kimi’s last race.

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In fact, he cannot even stand them when the person on the end does have something rather important to say. After being told over a call that a deal had been reached for him to drive for Ferrari in 2014, he threw his mobile into the sea. Not sure why. Maybe the thought alone of all the congratulatory texts was too much for him. He is the last Ferrari champion That came in handy one day in 2017 when the toilet on the Ferrari bus was not working correctly in Barcelona, where pre-season testing was taking place at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

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Still to this day we haven’t seen Kimi hosting one of these galas, which quite honestly is a travesty. It could become a highlight of the year! ‘I was having a sh*t’ grid walk comment Kirjan lyhyys (käytännössä vain 237 sivua) selkein miinus, Kimin elämäntarinasta olisi hyvin saanut tähän kirjaan vielä vähintään 100 sivua lisää.

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Kimi and his buddies found powder used for treating rashes onboard a rental plane. They march through the customs covered in white powder. When asked where they’re coming from, Kimi said: “Colombia” He doesn’t have a lot of time for mobile phones, mind. One ended up in the sea, while he was in the archipelago, after a call with news that his second Ferrari deal had been done. He adds: “In 90 percent of all calls, no one has got anything important to say. In the nineties, with landlines, you were bound to have something to say. For example, people might suggest going out; they didn’t ring just for the fun of it. He also says Kimi treats everyone the same whether they’re a CEO or a cleaner, and that while there’s a lot of arrogance in F1, there’s none to be found in Kimi

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One More Toy has been seen in the Monaco harbour various times since then and he has also added a smaller one to his collection called the Iceman. Former McLaren mechanic Marc Priestley, who built up a friendship with Kimi during their time at the team, spoke of how a McLaren tradition left Kimi with blue hands, and himself with a dodgy haircut. Through its gnomic brevity, Haiku articulates the profundity of simple moments or ideas. Fans delight in Raikkonen’s taciturn non-conformity, laced with succinct humour, and in his hands the Haikus open a window to his very soul, for example:

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