Ferrari betrayed Räikkönen again

gabeboy (66)in #news • 6 years ago

The short announcement was made today: Kimi Räikkönen has to leave Scuderia Ferrari at the end of the season.

^{Ferrari drivers are wearing black armband because of the death of the former Ferrari president.

The photo was taken by me at Hungaroring in 2018.}

Charles Leclerc will drive the second car of the Ferrari. He will be the second youngest driver ever, who had the opportunity to sit behind the wheel of an F1 Ferrari car. There is no doubt that he is unbelievably talented. Currently, he is driving at Sauber and his performance is convincing in this season. But...

I think that Ferrari betrays Kimi. Again. If you can remember, he won the championship for the red team in 2007 but he had to leave the team because of Fernando Alonso's arrival, who had failed to fulfill the dreams of Tifosi (Ferrari fans) for many years. Neither Sebastian Vettel has it done for now.

Räikkönen has done a remarkable job during the years. He never made a critical mistake and he supported his teammate because Ferrari would like to see Sebastian Vettel as the world champion of 2018. Meanwhile, Vettel has lost around 60 points on his own fault.

Rumor has it that the idea of the change came from Sergio Marchionne, the former president of Ferrari, who passed away a few weeks ago. The current presidency of the team intended to keep Räikkönen but Nicolas Todt, manager of Leclerc made it clear that he would suit the team if they broke the 'verbal contract' concluded with Marchionne. By the way, Nicolas Todt happens to be the son of the FIA president Jean Todt, who used to be the team chief of Ferrari.

It didn't even matter that the Ferrari fans organized a petition to support Kimi when they got to know the plans.