‘I will miss the silence!’: Sebastian Vettel pays tribute to retiring former F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen

Sebastian Vettel has paid tribute to his former teammate Kimi Raikkonen , who is retiring from Formula 1 at the end of the season. Raikkonen, 42, will bring his time as an F1 driver to an end after the final two races of the year, in Saudi Arabia this weekend and Abu Dhabi the following Sunday. The Fin has built a glittering career over 20 years, winning 21 races across 347 grands prix – a record number of starts – while his tally of 103 podiums is the fifth highest of all time. His career peaked when he won the world championship in 2007 for Ferrari, and he later returned to the team to partner four-time world champion Vettel between 2015-18. Speaking at a press conference ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix , Vettel hailed a driver who "hasn't changed". "I think he was a true character and I enjoyed the time I had with him as a team-mate, but to be fair I got to know him already before," Vettel said of Raikkonen. "He is probably one of the very few drivers I've met from day one until the present day that hasn't changed in the sense that… Read full this story

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