⁍ Kimi Raikkonen will make a record 323rd Formula One start at Germany’s Nuerburgring on Sunday.
⁍ The Finn, who turns 41 on Oct. 17, made his debut with Sauber in 2001 on probation.
⁍ Max Mosley, then president of the governing FIA, was a lone dissenting voice in voting against Raikkonen being granted a super-licence.
⁍ Raikkonen, who joined McLaren in 2002 and Ferrari in 2007, took his first win in Malaysia in 2003 and his last in the United States in 2018.
– On Sunday, Kimi Raikkonen will become the oldest driver in Formula One history to start a season. The 41-year-old Finn will make his 323rd start in Sunday’s German Grand Prix, breaking the record held by Rubens Barrichello, the BBC reports. “It started with I didn’t have enough experience,” Raikkonen tells Reuters. “And now I’m getting too old, so that they want to get rid of me. In the middle way it worked OK and now it’s not great for some people.”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-motor-f1-eifel/raikkonen-quips-he-has-gone-from-too-inexperienced-to-too-old-idUSKBN26T3EC