Kimi Raikkonen has raced in Formula One for more than 20 years and won the 2007 Drivers' Championship with Ferrari in 2007.
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If Kimi Raikkonen decides to return to racing in the future, Alfa Romeo team principal Frederic Vasseur believes the Sauber Group will back him up. Raikkonen, who has raced in Formula One for more than 20 years and won the 2007 Drivers’ Championship with Ferrari in 2007, is no stranger to other kinds of motorsport. In 2010 and 2011, the Finn took a break from Grand Prix racing to race in the World Rally Championship as well as the NASCAR Truck Series in the United States.
In 2012, he returned to Formula One with the Lotus F1 team before being enticed back to Ferrari as Fernando Alonso’s teammate. Raikkonen’s second stint with the Italian squad did not go as well as his first, and he moved to the Alfa Romeo F1 team in 2019, after making his debut with the team in 2001 when it was known as Sauber.
Vasseur, who is also the team principal of Alfa Romeo and the CEO of Sauber, would be pleased to assist Raikkonen in finding chances in other racing series if that is something the Finn is interested in.
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“I told him that I could help if he wants to do something else, that even the [Sauber] Group would be very happy to be supportive and to find other projects,” Vasseur said, as quoted by gpfans.com ”They are now almost everywhere – Le Mans and in Formula E. He was clear in his mind by saying, ‘No, I would prefer to close this short-term, and then perhaps in six months, eight months, I would like to do something else.”
In the short term, Raikkonen has no plans to return to any sort of racing. After spending so many years on flights and in different locations across the world, he is now focusing on spending time with his family and friends and is delighted to have retired from Formula 1.
