Kimi has the right formula to become F1 legend

KIMI RAIKKONEN’S chase of the Formula One World Championship was as awe-inspiring as anything I’ve seen in nearly 40 years as a fan of motor racing.

Kimi has the right formula to become F1 legend

My boyhood hero was the late, great Jim Clark, who was so tragically and inexplicably killed in a minor Formula 2 race at Hockenheim in April 1968. Clark was a driver's driver in that he'd race anything, anywhere, anytime. He won two World Championships, an Indianapolis 500 and 25 Grands Prix in the course of what would only be a six-year career at the pinnacle of his sport.

He was notable more for letting his driving do the talking than his flamboyance out of the cockpit. A Scottish farmer's son, he might have been considered dour by some, but in fact the man was almost crippled by shyness and detested the goldfish bowl syndrome his success generated.

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