Kimi Raikkonen has revealed he is undecided on where his future lies. The Finnish driver quit F1 at the end 2009 after enduring a less than successful season with Ferrari where he finished 6th.
He took the decision to enter the World Rally Championship where he is only now getting up to speed and settling into the sport, but he didn’t rule out a return to F1 next year or later in his career.
“It has not turned in any direction,” he told Finland’s Turun Sanomat when asked if he will stay with WRC or return to F1. “There is no rush for me to make decisions. We’ll have to see what are the possibilities and what for me is the most interesting, what I enjoy the most and what it is I most want to do.”
Raikkonen has always been seen as a cool character, often referred to as the ‘ice-man’, even more so when he climbed out of his car in Malaysia and grabbed a coke and magnum ice cream from the freezer, unsure of whether the race would restart after it was red flagged.
It’s thought part of the reason he no longer enjoyed F1, was because of the off-track politics which have increasingly taken place this decade.
He admitted if F1 were to return to the 90’s he’d be much happier to return.
“If F1 could go back 20 years, it would be the same as rallying now,” he said. “It [rallying] is still professional but in just a bit more of a relaxed style.”
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