Kimi Raikkonen

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Location:	India, Maharashtra, Pune
Created:	17/09/2007

About

Kimi Raikkonen - 2007 Formula 1 drivers world champion

Formula One records

* Raikkonen became the 2nd driver to win the World Championship from being third in the drivers standings before the final race.

* Raikkonen holds the joint record of 7 wins in a single season without winning the World Title (2005), shared with four time World Champion Alain Prost, who initially set the record in 1984 and matched it in 1988, and also with Michael Schumacher, in 2006.

* In the 2005 season, he also equalled Michael Schumacher's record of 10 fastest race laps in a season, set in 2004.

* He currently holds the sixth highest record for total fastest laps at 24 (jointly with Niki Lauda), thus making him the highest ranked driver still active. (Up to and including the 2007 Belgian Grand Prix)

* He is the first driver to win on his Ferrari debut since Nigel Mansell at the 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix and the first to win, set the fastest lap and Pole Position on his Ferrari debut since Juan Manuel Fangio.

* He is currently the highest paid driver in Formula One.

Fun facts

Interests, besides Formula One:

Coming from a country with much snow, he likes very much snowboarding and ice-hockey. Besides that he does some jogging and also some work-out at the gym.

Where is his residential place?

He lives with his wife in Wollerau Switzerland, but has also a house and apartment in his homeland Finland.

What is his nickname?

Iceman

Did you know this about Kimi?…

He sometimes gets to sleep right before the Formula One race and wakes up just ready to start the race! It happened e.g. in his first F1GP and he got asleep 20 minutes right before the race!
Kimi takes care about his relatives and once he invited twelve of them, including seven cousins, grandmother and four aunts, at the Hungarian GP 2001!

The Finns are popular racing drivers in F1 and Kimi is now one of total seven throughout the history.

Kimis wife:

Her name is Jenni and was born on October 27 1981.
She was a model at an age of 17 when she became Miss Åbo in a beauty contest. Two years later she won three beauty contest titles during the same year of 2000; Miss Finland, Miss Queen of the Year and Miss Scandinavia.

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