These days all the talk seems to be about Lewis Hamilton being lucky to walk straight into a top team in F1.
However, there was another controversy back in 2001.
It involved a young driver who at just 21 years of age and with only 23 car races to his credit was granted an F1 Super Licence.
At the time there were many critics, not least of all FIA President, Max Mosley.
Of course Kimi went on to disprove those critics and scored a championship point in the 2001 Australian Grand Prix, his maiden Grand Prix.
Bearing in mind it was his first ever race, you have to wonder at the mindset of someone who could sleep barely 30 minutes before the most important race of his life thus far:
So even back then the Iceman was living up to his name.
However, there was another controversy back in 2001.
It involved a young driver who at just 21 years of age and with only 23 car races to his credit was granted an F1 Super Licence.
At the time there were many critics, not least of all FIA President, Max Mosley.
Of course Kimi went on to disprove those critics and scored a championship point in the 2001 Australian Grand Prix, his maiden Grand Prix.
Bearing in mind it was his first ever race, you have to wonder at the mindset of someone who could sleep barely 30 minutes before the most important race of his life thus far:
With just over 30 minutes remaining before the start, the tension was palpable, particularly leading into a race that would end four months of preparation, hype and speculation. As the engineers and mechanics controlled their nerves while preparing for their first proper test of the year, Raikkonen was nowhere to be seen. His engineer eventually found him, dozing gently in a room at the back of the garage. [SOURCE]
So even back then the Iceman was living up to his name.