Kimi Raikkonen has revealed the races and cars that he would remember fondly after leaving from Formula One.

Kimi Raikkonen has pondered on his two decades of Formula One racing to select some of the finest.

At the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the Finn announced his retirement from Formula One, just three months after his debut in Australia in 2001.

Raikkonen was asked by the Beyond the Grid podcast to choose his favorite triumph. He is known for his quiet, no-nonsense attitude to racing and interviews.

“I think the most important obviously was the wins that came with the championship [in 2007] because, as an end result, they were more important,” he said, matter-of-factly.

“They’re all different; some came quite easily or some came much more difficult. The first one [Malaysia 2003] is nice because [I had] never done it.

“The last win [USA 2018] was very, very nice, because it took a while again.”

Raikkonen seems to decide on his most famous triumph when he stormed to victory in Japan in 2005 when he was trying to identify one specific race.

“I don’t know. It’s impossible to say what was nice,” he commented.

“I mean, 2005 in Suzuka was a hard-fought win and it came on the last lap. Does it make it better than others? I don’t know.”

Which were his favourite cars?

Raikkonen was asked to pick his favorite car after a career spent driving for big teams like McLaren and Ferrari.

He chose the car that cemented his position as the quickest man in Formula 1 at the time.

“Probably that 2005 McLaren,” he said, having claimed five pole positions and seven wins, while challenging Renault’s Fernando Alonso for the title.

“I mean, 2003 was also good, but it wasn’t fast enough. 2006 was good, but the engine wasn’t probably where it should have been. The 2007 Ferrari was good, the Lotus… [in 2012].

“They were good cars. It doesn’t always mean that the end result needs to be the win or something. They might be a great car but, for whatever reason, it’s not still fast enough, or some more things happen over the year.

“But it’s been a lot of good cars, a lot of average cars and some bad cars… some cars that never even made it to race (referencing the 2003 McLaren MP4/18).”

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