Kimi Räikkönen will continue to race for Scuderia Ferrari F1 team for the 2018 racing season, the team has confirmed. It is still unclear if Sebastian Vettel will be in the next racing season’s roster just yet.
Räikkönen Started F1 racing with Sauber in 2001 and later switched to McLaren where he was the runner-up in the world championship in 2003 and 2005.
In 2007, Räikkönen entered the Ferrari team and won the world championship title. After 2009, he moved to other categories of Motorsports and returned to F1 in 2012 driving for the re-branded Lotus outfit.
With Lotus, he won two more race victories and then signed up with Ferrari once again in 2014.
Räikkönen was labelled as “a bit of a laggard” by Ferrari President Sergio Marchionne asking him to improve earlier this season before suggesting that he would be retained for next season.
Ferrari released a very brief started on Tuesday confirming that “Scuderia Ferrari has renewed its technical and racing agreement with Kimi Räikkönen. The Finnish driver will, therefore, race for the Maranello team in the 2018 Formula One World Championship.”
Sebastian Vettel is widely expected to stay with Ferrari for the next season. His current three-year contract with the team expires at the end of the 2017 racing season. Many F1 drivers are holding on to their future movement plans to consider what Vettel will do.
Will Vettel sign another multi-year contract or ask for a one year deal?
