Kimi Räikkönen Wife, Family, Height, House, Quick Facts

Quick Facts

Kimi Räikkönen is a Finnish Formula One driver with Scuderia Ferrari. He became an F1 Driver Champion after nine seasons of competing actively in the sports. He has often been described as a man of few words who prefers to do his talking by racing on the tracks. For this reason and for his cool disposition to things, he was nicknamed Ice-Man.

Ice-Man is a force to contend with in the world of Formula One racing, his domineering presence on the track comes with a lot of questions from fans and the general public who want to learn a lot of things about him off the track. Herein lies all there is to know about him, his family and celebrity former wife and present wife, his height, house and some quick facts about Kimi Räikkönen.

Background Information on Kimi Räikkönen

The race champion was born on 17th, October 1979 in Espoo; a suburb of the Finnish capital, Helsinki Finland. He has an elder brother known as Rami Räikkönen. His parents; Matti and Paula were respectively a road builder and an office clerk. To augment the family income, his father Matti had to sometimes work as a night taxi driver and a club bouncer. They didn’t have much but were contented with what they had in their Espoo homestead which had an open countryside ideal for Kimi and his brother to play as much as they wanted.

When Kimi Räikkönen was just three years old, he went on a motorbike tour with his elder brother on miniature motocross bikes that ran on training wheels. It was from this that he began budding his racing talent. By the age of 10, Kimi was already competing in kart races and by age 15, he started competing in Kart races outside (Monaco) of Finnland.

Being good at what he does, he won his first kart race in Norway in the year 1998 when he was 19 years old. This feat didn’t fizzle as Sauber, the Swiss Formula One team offered him a deal after he had passed a test they gave him in September 2000 at the Mugello Circuit6. Kimi Räikkönen proved that he was quicker on the steering than all other drivers by scoring a championship point at the Australian Grand Prix which was his debut. He maintained quite an impressive performance despite being a rookie. This saw Sauber finish fourth in the 2001 championship with Kimi Räikkönen as their main driver.

Räikkönen won his first Grand Prix in Malaysia in 2003 and finished second behind Michael Schumacher in points for the year. He, again, finished second in 2005 when he was with McLaren while he won the Australian Grand Prix in 2007 and ended the season with a win for Ferrari. Kimi left Formula One towards the end of the 2009 season and went back to rallying after a series of signings with McLaren and Mercedes GP all failed, including his refusal to sign with Toyota F1 which didn’t have a “race winning car” and didn’t offer him a good salary.

On the 3rd of April 2010, in the Jordan Rally, he scored his first World Rally Championship (WRC) point, later that same year, on September 18, he won his first rally race in the Rallye Vosgien 2010 in France by winning all six stages of the asphalt rally.

The talented driver formed his own rally team in 2011 called ICE 1 Racing and entered it in the 2011 World Rally Championship. Kimi finished eight in the opening round of Rally Sweden and Seventh in Rally Portugal.

The year 2012 marked his return to Formula One and he did return in style by coming tops in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in 2012 with the Lotus F1 team. He ended the season in third place.

Family – Wife

Kimi Räikkönen is a married man. He has been married twice and has two children with his current wife. His first wife was former Miss Scandinavia 2001 and Finnish model Jenni Dahlman. The two met in 2002 and got married on the 31st of July 2004. Their marriage came to an end after they got divorced in 2014, having been earlier separated in 2013. They had no child together and the reason for their divorce was not revealed.

The Finnish driver later fell in love with fitness and underwear model Minna-Mari Virtanen and on 28 January 2015, she bore him a son, Robin Räikkönen their first child. The couple and parents of one officially got married on 7th August 2016 in a ceremony in Siena, Italy. Virtanen bore their second child, a baby girl on 16 May 2017. They have continued to live happily and there have been no rumors about their marriage.

His Height

Kimi Räikkönen’s height is 175cm or 1.75m or 5 feet 7 inches and he weighs 70 kg.

House

Kimi has a house in the island suburb of Kaskisaari Helsinki, Finland. He purchased the house a few years ago for about $11.7 million and is valued at $17.8 million currently.

The luxury home covers a space totalling 526 square meters with a mesmerizing ocean front view. It spots a large living room, with a modular fashioned kitchen and classy dining room. There are 8 bedrooms in the house with a garage large enough to accommodate four cars at a time.

It doesn’t come short of the latest home gadgets for entertainment in addition to an indoor swimming pool; a fireplace in the living room, a small outdoor garden, a spa, jacuzzi and climatic control system for all round comfort and relaxation despite the harsh Finnish climate.

Quick Facts About Kimi Räikkönen

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