Kimi Raikkonen has closed a key loop in the Formula 1 driver market by re-signing with Ferrari for 2016. The Maranello marque has decided to take up its option on Raikkonen who has been comprehensively out-performed by Sebastien Vettel this season. Confirmation the Finn, who supplied Ferrari with its last World F1 Championship in 2007, has ended hopes that Valtteri Bottas would leave Williams. Other drivers linked to the drive were Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg and Red Bull ace Daniel Ricciardo. “What can I say – for me, to be able to stay another year at Ferrari means that the dream goes on,” the 35-year-old Raikkonen said. “The Scuderia is my family, as I always said,...
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