Kimi Raikonnen headed to NASCAR

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Could another ex-Formula 1 driver be coming to NASCAR?

Finland’s World Champion driver, Kimi Raikkonen, told a Finnish publication, Turun Sanomat, that he will be racing with a new team first in the Camping World Truck Series aiming at a full-fledged Sprint Cup program in the future.

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Oh god no......
Kimi was/is one of my favorite drivers.
Even though he no longer wants to drive F1, i still had full respect for him as a rally driver..But NASCAR? Truck series? :barf:
 
a former formula one champion into nascar eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
 
This is going to end well:

Ray Evernham, a former partner of Foster Gillett at Richard Petty Motorsports was a little bit astounded when he learned of the rumour of Kimi Raikkonen coming to NASCAR with a new team owned by Foster Gillett.

“I really don’t know why Kimi would partner with people who continually fail with sports franchises,” Evernham told Auto123.com.

“I don’t know how they could leave with so many unpaid bills and return to the sport,” Evernham added.

Evernham, the former Jeff Gordon crew chief, who founded Evernham Motorsports merged with Gillett to form GEM racing. When Petty Enterprises ran into some financial headwinds it merged with GEM to become Richard Petty Motorsports.

Gillett’s debts with his British soccer team forced a sale of the racing team’s assets back to Petty and NY investor Andrew Murstein, but, Evernham says he was not paid over $19USD million and brought a lawsuit against his former partner earlier this year in a state court in North Carolina.
 
Ca vollait pas haut en Rally malheureusement, il aurait pu devenir meilleur mais ca se fait pas en une saison.

Le nascar je trouve c'est pas une bonne idée, il devrait aller en course sur glace comme Villeneuve et Alain prost.
 
honnêtement si j'aurais était à ça place, avec l'argent que j'ai accumulé durant mes années en F1 et le talent qu'il a, je serais aller en DTM juste pour l'amour de faire des courses, mais bon ça c'est moié. my 2 cent!
 
honnêtement si j'aurais était à ça place, avec l'argent que j'ai accumulé durant mes années en F1 et le talent qu'il a, je serais aller en DTM juste pour l'amour de faire des courses, mais bon ça c'est moié. my 2 cent!

L'argent passe souvent en premier...lol
 
Canadian Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 F1 World Champion told Auto123.com: “He’s going to have fun. If the news is true, he’s doing the right thing by starting in the Truck series”.

“However, I think the driving won’t be a problem for him. His biggest challenge will be off the race track. He’ll need to open up socially. NASCAR is not a closed environment like F1 is. You need to respect the other drivers and socialise. He’s racing in different series and seems to really enjoy life. But since Kimi has not officially confirmed the news, it’s quite difficult to make comments,” Villeneuve said to Auto123.com.

http://www.auto123.com/en/racing-news/nascar/nascar-has-accepted-kimi-raikkonens-request-to-race-in-truck-series?artid=129629&utm_source=forums_mtlr&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=blog-en

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Kimi will find success but not right away. It's taken Montoya 4-5 years and he is finally a competitive driver, just with the wrong team.
 
Il avait de la misere a bien terminer ses courses en F1, j'ose meme pas l'imaginer en Nascar..lol..Malgré que Juan Pablo Montoya c'était un autre en F1 qui avait de la misere a bien finir ses courses et maintenant en Nascar il fait quand meme bien
 
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