Slade and Räikkönen had their first meeting in six years

Kimi Raikkonen came to Barcelona in the afternoon and had a long meeting about the test schedule with his race engineer Mark Slade, who started in the team at the beginning of March. Slade worked with Räikkönen last time in McLaren in 2006. Finnish driver is in the next Wednesday in popular British Top Gear

Kimi Raikkonen hungry for podium finishes in 2012

KIMI Raikkonen expects to pick up right where he left off when he returns to Formula One, despite two seasons away from the sport. The Finnish driver won the 2007 championship title when driving for Ferrari but quit in 2009 and switched to rally. He will return to F1 this year with the Lotus Renault

Kimi: We won’t say ‘Oh f*** we’ll give up

Kimi Raikkonen has vowed that Lotus will not get despondent if they don’t make a positive start to the season. The Enstone squad made a big impact at the beginning of the 2011 campaign when they claimed two podium finishes, but they went through a major slump mid-season and eventually finished a distant fifth in

Lotus bosses say team atmosphere will bring out Kimi Raikkonen’s best

Lotus will bring the very best out of Kimi Raikkonen, reckon team bosses Eric Boullier and Gerard Lopez, who believe the 2007 world champion is a much more dedicated team player than his past reputation suggested. Raikkonen has impressed Lotus since joining the team for his Formula 1 comeback after two years in rallying, and

24MAS Launches Kimi Räikkönen IceOne Racing for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

24MAS today announced the release of its new racing title Kimi Räikkönen IceOne Racing for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, featuring the former Formula One World Champion, Kimi ICEMAN Räikkönen. Available for download for free on iTunes today, the game takes players through Kimi’s racing career from carts through to rally, with four unique race

Kimi Raikkonen has fewer worries after comeback test at Valencia last month

Kimi Raikkonen says he has fewer concerns about adapting to 2012-spec Formula 1 after two years away from the sport following his two-day test at Valencia a couple of weeks ago. The 2007 world champion, speaking at the launch of the new Lotus E20 at Jerez, said that while Pirelli’s tyres were always going to

Lotus impressed by Raikkonen

Lotus has been impressed by the speed at which Kimi Raikkonen has adapted to his new car after just two full days of testing in Jerez. Raikkonen is returning to the sport this season after two years in rallying and had his first real taste of his new car last week at Jerez. Raikkonen set

Exclusive Q&A with Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen

After two days back in the cockpit, two things are clear – Formula One has missed Kimi Raikkonen and Kimi Raikkonen has missed Formula One. Yes, the niggles which drove him to rallying two years ago are still there, but – for now – the 2012-spec ‘Iceman’ seems suitably chilled. Another thing that hasn’t changed

Kimi Raikkonen pleased with early findings after first comeback test

Kimi Raikkonen says he has the answers he was looking for from his first experience of the new Lotus E20 after completing 180 laps during two days’ testing at Jerez. The Finn did not match his pace from the opening day of the test, where he hit the headlines by going quickest of all. But

Raikkonen to reunite with former McLaren engineer

Kimi Raikkonen will have a familiar race engineer for his return to Formula 1 this year. Finnish reports in Turun Sanomat and the television broadcaster MTV3 claim that the 2007 world champion will work with Mark Slade. Slade, recently at Mercedes GP working alongside Michael Schumacher, was Raikkonen’s race engineer at McLaren years ago. Slade