Kimi Räikkönen

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Kimi Räikkönen
Nationality	Finnish
Current Team	Ferrari
First Race	2001 Australian Grand Prix
Wins	17
Pole Positions	16
Championshipss	1 (2007)

Kimi "Ice Man" Räikkönen is a former Formula 1 World Champion, and has driven for two of the most famous Formula 1 teams - McLaren-Mercedes and Ferrari.

Raikkonen made his debut in 2001 for Sauber. Raikkonen had a solid year picking up nine points. In 2002 Raikkonen earned a spot at McLaren and in his second year picked up two poles and a race wins. However, during his time at McLaren Raikkonen suffered many technical diffuculties retiring in many races. Raikkonen came runner-up twice though in the championship during his years at McLaren.

Kimi signed for Ferrari for the 2007 season, and had a terrific year winning the champoinship with 110 points, and picking up 6 race wins. Raikkonen however isn't doing so great this year only picking three points so far.