Kimi Räikkönen retires: his career in numbers

Kimi Räikkönen is about to leave the world of F1 after 19 seasons. A look back at his long career in numbers with a nice record for the Iceman.

342

With 5 teams for which he has driven, Iceman holds the record for the most races in F1. If everything goes well, he could reach 351 starts before ending his career. A difficult record to catch up with.

19

The veteran will leave F1 after 19 seasons in F1. It is obviously more than any other active drivers.

1

The Finn won a world title behind the wheel of a Ferrari. That year, the driver achieved six victories and 12 podiums in 17 races. He narrowly beat Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso by just one point.

21

His long career allowed Kimi to win 21 Grand Prix. His first success took place in Malaysia in 2003 with McLaren and his last in Austin in 2018 for his final season with Ferrari.

103

In addition to being world champion once, Räikkönen has climbed the podium 103 times, including 52 times with Ferrari. However, he has never been on the podium driving his Alfa Romeo.

18

This is the number of pole positions won by the Finn throughout his career. He has won the most with McLaren (11).

71

Pilots are no exception. Iceman had to retire 71 times during his career for various reasons. He is far from Andrea de Cesaris’ record of 148 retirements in 208 starts.

18 186

Since the beginning of his career in 2001, Kimi has completed 18,186 laps. Unsurprisingly, it was at Ferrari that he completed the most during 8 seasons.

5

He has driven for 5 different teams: Sauber (2001), McLaren (2002-2006), Ferrari (2006-2009 and 2014-2018), Lotus (2012-2013), and Alfa Romeo (2019-2021). Note that 2010 and 2011 were Formula 1-free seasons for the Finn.