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As ‘new Kimi' tests F1, Raikkonen's son also on F1 road

Apr.18 As a ‘new Kimi' makes his way to Formula 1, there seems little doubt that a ‘new Raikkonen' also seems destined for the top category of motor racing. At the Red Bull Ring in Austria this week, Andrea ‘Kimi' Antonelli – a teenage protege of Toto Wolff who is in the running for Lewis Hamilton's race seat in 2025 – got his first taste of F1 machinery. The Italian, whose nickname is a tribute to 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, he was at the wheel of the title-winning 2021 Mercedes, declaring afterwards: 'I loved every second of it.' Even younger than this ‘new Kimi', however, is ‘Raikkonen junior' – 9-year-old Robin Raikkonen, the son...
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