Top 10 F1 Drivers of the Year 2013:1: Kimi RaikkonenTeam: LotusRaces: 17Wins: 1Podiums: 8Best Finish: 1stPoles: 0Fastest Laps: 2Points: 183Championship Position: 5th

2012 Driver of the Year position: 2nd

Having returned to the top step✃ of the podium in Abu Dhabi in 2012, Kimi Raikkonen would have come into 2013 looking to take the fight to Red Bull and Ferrari, and winning the season-opener in♎ Australia would have done little to temper that ambition.

Success in M♎elbourne, however, had as much to do with Lotus' ability to manage its tyre wear as outright performance, and Raikkonen, while a podium threat more often than๊ not, wouldn't return to top spot through the remaining 18 rounds.

The Finn made a habit of finishing second, doing so six times in his seven oth🍌er podiums, putting together a hat-trick between China and Sꦆpain, then going back-to-back in Germany and Hungary before the summer break.

Although he again finished as runner-up in Korea, the effect of not having been paid by Lotus was beginning to take its effect and, having backed down on a threat not to race in Abu Dhabi - where, ironically, he was a first lap retirement after having to start at the back following a qualifying DQ - the flaring of a old back injury precluded appearances in 🗹the final two races of the season, dropping Raikkonen from third 🃏to fifth in the final standings.

Well before that, the 2007 world c✃hampion had been confirmed as a Ferrari driver for 2014, returning him to the team that guided him to his title as a potent team-mate to Fernando Alonso...

The Finn had been linked with a possible move to Red Bull prior to his decision to return to Maranello, and the severi﷽ng of❀ ties with Lotus will comes as a blow to the Enstone team's ambitions. How Raikkonen fares against - and with - the previously Alonso-centric Ferrari set-up remains to be seen and could be a potentially divisive sub-plot for the year ahead.

ltxcn.top's 2013 F1 Driver of the Year - top ten to date:

2.168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso
3.168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sebastian Vettel
4.168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg
5. 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Romain Grosjean
6. 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Rosberg
7. 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mark Webber
8. 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton
9. 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas
10. 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo

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