Kimi Räikkönen

Kimi Räikkönen is a Finnish formula one driver, born in Espoo on 1979-10-17. 2007 f1 world champion is the short version of the record; the long version, season by season, is below.

Kimi Räikkönen: Career Record And Results At A Glance

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Kimi Räikkönen Formula 1 Career Totals And Results

Nine drivers from the country have entered a Formula 1 World Championship round. Kimi Räikkönen is one of the eight whose career is complete, so the totals below are final; the ninth, Valtteri Bottas, is still racing. Three of the nine won a world championship, which is the figure that makes the group unusual rather than the number of drivers in it.

Read that row against the group table further down rather than on its own. Entries and starts differ because a driver can enter a weekend and not take the start, which is why both are given. Career points are not comparable across eras at all: the scoring system has changed several times, so a points total says as much about when a driver raced as about how well.

Kimi Räikkönen Career Results, Season By Season

Kimi Räikkönen season by season from 1995 to 2023: which team, which car, and where each campaign finished. On the rally side the columns are the individual rounds, so a blank means he did not start that event and a number means he did. Wins, podiums and championship positions are in the same table rather than summarised above it.

Early ascendance through junior categories

Kimi-Matias Räikkönen began his competitive motorsport career in karting at the age of ten. He secured multiple national karting titles in Finland. His progression continued in 1999, when he moved into junior formulae.

In 1999, Räikkönen competed in the Formula Renault Winter Series with Manor Motorsport, winning the first four races of the season. The following year, still with Manor, he dominated the British Formula Renault Championship, securing seven victories across ten races. These results, demonstrating a 57% win rate across 23 Formula Renault events, attracted the attention of Formula One teams.

Peter Sauber, team principal of Sauber, offered Räikkönen a Formula One test in September 2000. During this test, Räikkönen demonstrated impressive pace, recording a lap time half a second faster than the team's regular driver, Pedro Diniz. Following further evaluations, Sauber signed Räikkönen for the 2001 Formula One season. Despite concerns regarding his limited single-seater experience, the FIA granted him a Super Licence. He scored a championship point on his debut at the 2001 Australian Grand Prix, accumulating nine points and four points-scoring finishes by season's end, contributing to Sauber's best-ever fourth-place finish in the Constructors' Championship.

Championship success and unwavering pace

Räikkönen's strong rookie performance at Sauber led to a move to McLaren for the 2002 season. He achieved his first podium finish on his McLaren debut at the 2002 Australian Grand Prix. His maiden Grand Prix victory came at the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix. He concluded the 2003 season as runner-up in the Drivers' Championship, two points behind Michael Schumacher.

After a challenging 2004 season marked by reliability issues with the McLaren MP4-19, Räikkönen returned to contention in 2005. He secured seven Grand Prix victories but again finished as runner-up in the championship, 21 points behind Fernando Alonso. Following a winless 2006 season, Räikkönen transferred to Ferrari for 2007.

With Ferrari, Räikkönen achieved his career pinnacle by winning the 2007 Formula One World Drivers' Championship. He secured six victories that season, clinching the title by a single point over both Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton. He finished third in the 2008 championship with two victories, before leaving Formula One after the 2009 season, where he secured one victory at the Belgian Grand Prix. This period showcased Räikkönen's ability to extract maximum performance and capitalise on opportunities.

Diverse career paths and enduring records

Following his initial departure from Formula One, Räikkönen competed in the World Rally Championship from 2009 to 2011. He drove for the Citroën Junior Team in 2010 and as a privateer under the ICE 1 Racing banner in 2011, finishing tenth overall in both seasons. He took a stage win at Rallye Deutschland in 2010.

Räikkönen returned to Formula One with Lotus in 2012, securing victories at the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the 2013 Australian Grand Prix. He re-joined Ferrari in 2014, remaining with the team until the end of 2018. During this second Ferrari stint, he achieved numerous podium finishes, securing third place in the 2018 Drivers' Championship. His final Formula One victory came at the 2018 United States Grand Prix, a record 114 races after his previous win.

He concluded his Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, competing from 2019 to 2021. Räikkönen holds several notable Formula One records: the third-most fastest laps (46), the seventh-most podium finishes (103), and the third-most race starts (349). His 21 Grand Prix victories are also a record for a Finnish driver. Since his Formula One retirement, he has made one-off appearances in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2022 and 2023, and has served as team principal for Kawasaki in the Motocross World Championship since 2022.

Every Finnish Formula 1 Driver On Record

Nine Finnish drivers have raced in Formula 1, and the eight whose careers are finished fit in one table. Valtteri Bottas, the ninth, is still adding to his own line and so is not given a final total here. The Finnish F1 story is short enough to read at a glance, and the context changes how any single career in it reads.

Three of those drivers won a world championship. That is a high champion-to-driver ratio by any measure, and it is why a single Finn on the 2026 grid reads as a decline rather than as normal.

Every Driver From The Same Country Racing In 2026

11 of them are contesting a professional championship this season. This is the field a driver is measured against at home, and where his own career sits in it. The bars are 30-day story counts from our own tracking: they show how much attention a driver is getting, not how quick he is.

Teams Kimi Räikkönen Has Driven For

The teams carried on this driver's record, most recent first where the record orders them: Alfa Romeo Racing, Scuderia Ferrari, Lotus F1, Sauber Motorsport, McLaren. A team list is a blunt instrument on its own — it says nothing about which car was competitive — which is why the season-by-season results table above gives his finishing positions alongside each one.

Following Kimi Räikkönen Through The 2026 Season

Our Formula 1 desk covers every round he contests. The 2026 calendar carries each session in Helsinki time. His results land in the results archive.

Kimi Räikkönen is one of the drivers tracked on the driver index. F1 puts him in the smallest of those groups. Start there for the whole picture: one on the Formula 1 grid and six in the World Rally Championship — a ratio that would have looked absurd twenty years ago. The junior ladder is where the next ones come from.

Every driver page here is generated from the same record, so the figures are comparable across them. The method is set out in the editorial policy, and the desk that maintains these pages is the Finnish Desk.

Career fields are Wikidata claims (birth date, birthplace, teams, honours) and the results tables are the career-statistics tables from the same entity's reference article, source. Formula 1 career totals are from our own Finnish F1 dataset; 2026 finishes are the official classification via the Jolpica Ergast mirror. Checked 26 August 2026. Where a figure is absent it is because the record does not carry it.