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Kimi won't push his kids into a motorsport career

Kimi Raikkonen says he will not assess his son Robin’s driving talent, from a motorsport career perspective, until he is 12. The 2007 World Champion could be about to enter his last half-season of Formula 1, with speculation increasing that he will retire at the end of the year. Raikkonen will turn 42 in October and has scored only a solitary point so far in this campaign, the same as his Alfa Romeo team-mate Antonio Giovinazzi. If the flying Finn does call it a day, his attention in the coming years could turn to whether his son, Robin, could follow him into F1 – like Mick Schumacher, whose father, Michael, was Raikkonen’s predecessor at Ferrari before retiring for the first time at...
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