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Friend admits Raikkonen's retirement is looming

Aug.15 The signs are growing stronger that 2020 may turn out to be Kimi Raikkonen's eighteenth and final season in Formula 1. The 2007 world champion is now regularly among the very slowest drivers in the field, as Ferrari-powered Alfa Romeo openly struggles with its 2020 car. And Raikkonen's long-time racing driver friend Toni Vilander, who is linked with Ferrari through GT racing, is suddenly admitting that the 40-year-old's motivation is finally fading. "He has said several times that he wouldn't be in F1 unless it was something very important to him," Vilander told the Finnish broadcaster C More. "But now he is in a difficult situation. Running around at the back,...
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