Ferrari have broadened previous best on the planet Kimi Raikkonen’s agreement until the finish of the 2018 season.
In an announcement, the team said they had reestablished their “specialized and racing understanding” with the Finn, expanding his stay into a fifth back to back year. The 37-year-old was likewise with Ferrari for a long time from 2007-09.
He is fifth in the title standings, with team-mate Sebastian Vettel driving Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton by 14 focuses.
Raikkonen won Ferrari’s last drivers’ title in 2007.
Kimi Raikkonen remaining at Ferrari is nothing unexpected by any stretch of the imagination, regardless of president Sergio Marchionne calling the Finn “a slow poke” prior this season.
The choice in all likelihood implies number one driver Sebastian Vettel is additionally remaining. This has not been reported yet but rather Raikkonen has been a decent move down to the German this season – surrendering two triumph risks moderately uncomplainingly in Monaco and Hungary to help his team-mate’s title possibilities.
The two men get on well and a team would never again sign Raikkonen as a main driver – every once in a while there are looks of the zapping structure that won him such a large number of fans in the mid-2000s, yet typically he is a beat or two behind the outright pace nowadays.
In any case, he does some work for Ferrari and, with no undeniable better alternative for that help part, holding him bodes well for a team with an inalienably traditionalist way to deal with the driver showcase.
Vettel, 30, is out of agreement at Ferrari toward the finish of the year.
