Kimi Räikkönen

Probably one of the coolest drivers ever to grace F1 alongside James Hunt.

His part life-style may not have been to some teams liking in F1 but you can't deny that Kimi was probably one of the best drivers on the grid from 2003-09. He should have won more championships than he did!

Kimi won his one and only F1 Championship in 2007. Kimi won 18 races, 16 pole positions, scored 62 podiums and claimed 35 fastest laps in his time in F1.

Kimi is probably the must unluckiest driver to ever grace F1 and the amount of retirements he had no fault of his own were lots.

Kimi won his first GP in 2003 winning the Malaysian GP and he claimed his last victory in F1 at the 2009 Belguim GP.

Kimi started his F1 career in 2001 driving for Sauber, he then went on to drive for Mclaren and Ferrari before quitting the sport in 2009.

Kimi produced probably the 2 most funniest moments to happen in F1 over the last 10 years, when he said :censored: at the Brazilian GP in 2006 when Schumi first retired from F1 and the other one at the Malaysian GP where the race was red flagged and he went to the garage and got into shorts, t-shirt and flip-flops and started eating ice-cream.

Whether you liked him or not you can't deny his talent, he produced one of the comebacks of the past 10 season by starting near the back of the Japan GP in 2005 and went on to win it! Probably one of his best race wins in F1.

Did you like Kimi or Not?
 
There is a dullness in the Finnish character which is similar to the Japanese. I'm struggling to think of one Finnish F1 driver who was remotely interesting outside of the car.
 
FB Keke?

JJ Lehto was quite "interesting" as well - although I'm not sure I mean that in a complementary way:

 
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One person’s ‘interesting’ is another’s ‘waffle’. Kimi was interesting enough (to me at least) as behind the flat camera persona there was a character with an agile mind. Made me smile anyway, much more than a lot of more vocal drivers out there.
 
The Artist..... , although Keke raced under a Finnish flag he was born in Sweden, although I'm not sure if his parents were Finnish. I have to admit to having rarely heard Keke interviewed, and when he is it's usually with Nico who dominates the conversation, as what he has to say is far more important!
 
One person’s ‘interesting’ is another’s ‘waffle’. Kimi was interesting enough (to me at least) as behind the flat camera persona there was a character with an agile mind. Made me smile anyway, much more than a lot of more vocal drivers out there.
I think that, when Kimi was winning, and was putting effort in, you could excuse this sort of behaviour. Where it became wearing was when he stopped winning and started losing.
 
The Artist..... , although Keke raced under a Finnish flag he was born in Sweden, although I'm not sure if his parents were Finnish. I have to admit to having rarely heard Keke interviewed, and when he is it's usually with Nico who dominates the conversation, as what he has to say is far more important!

His parents were Finnish. At the time Keke was born it was not possible to study veterinary medicine (Keke's father was doing that) in Finland, and therefore his parents had moved to Sweden at that time.
 
Calling Kimi "an all time great and for a chunk of time the best and fastest driver" is a bit like describing the Titanic's debut voyage as 90 percent massively successful.
 
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