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Kimi at 40: Celebrating an F1 icon

"I'm happy to be more close to the end part than the beginning," Kimi Raikkonen told Sky F1 as he moved towards another F1 milestone. While racing well into their 40s and even early 50s used to be the norm for Formula 1 drivers, the sport is getting younger and younger and in 2019, only half of the grid are aged 25 or below. Four of them even made their debuts as teenagers. But Raikkonen, 40 today, has always done things a little bit differently. Did you know? Presuming Raikkonen completes his second season at Alfa Romeo, he will break Rubens Barichello's race starts record (321) at the 2020 Austrian GP. Just like when Raikkonen stood out when he arrived in F1 in 2001 as a...
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