Kimi Räikkönen, the 2007 Formula One world champion and a current competitor in the World Rally Championship, appears set to follow fellow ex-F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya into NASCAR competition this year.
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I bet Tups is a good buddy of Kimi and can probably get a job working as his crew chief!
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Of course I know him. This is such a small country that Kimi is living almost next door. Häkkinen and Rosberg live further down the street.Rope-Pusher wrote:I bet Tups is a good buddy of Kimi and can probably get a job working as his crew chief!
edit: I still wish he would return to F1. Kovalainen might be a good driver, but Lotus just isn't fast enough...
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I bet when you were younger you would all go trick-or-treating together and, after the last igloo shut off their porch light, compare who got the most pieces of whale blubber.Tups wrote:Of course I know him. This is such a small country that Kimi is living almost next door. Häkkinen and Rosberg live further down the street.Rope-Pusher wrote:I bet Tups is a good buddy of Kimi and can probably get a job working as his crew chief!
edit: I still wish he would return to F1. Kovalainen might be a good driver, but Lotus just isn't fast enough...
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Tups, Maybe your countryman MadFinn would be better as crew chief for a race truck, right?
Sprint Car star Kyle Busch announced Saturday morning at Martinsville Speedway that his truck series team has signed ex-Formula One World Driving Champion Kimi Raikkonen to a limited schedule of Camping World Truck Series races this season.
Raikkonen is expected to debut in the May 20 race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in a Toyota Tundra owned and prepared by Kyle Busch Motorsports.
Raikkonen, the 2007 F1 champion, won 18 grands prix in his nine-year career and had 44 other podium finishes. He's currently racing for ICE1 in the World Rally Championship series. He will be the second ex-F1 champion to try NASCAR in recent years, after 1997 champion Jacques Villeneuve did 15 combined Camping World, Nationwide and Cup races between 2007 and last year.
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Sprint Car star Kyle Busch announced Saturday morning at Martinsville Speedway that his truck series team has signed ex-Formula One World Driving Champion Kimi Raikkonen to a limited schedule of Camping World Truck Series races this season.
Raikkonen is expected to debut in the May 20 race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in a Toyota Tundra owned and prepared by Kyle Busch Motorsports.
Raikkonen, the 2007 F1 champion, won 18 grands prix in his nine-year career and had 44 other podium finishes. He's currently racing for ICE1 in the World Rally Championship series. He will be the second ex-F1 champion to try NASCAR in recent years, after 1997 champion Jacques Villeneuve did 15 combined Camping World, Nationwide and Cup races between 2007 and last year.
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