What is Raikkonen's secret to F1 longevity?
Shanghai - He started in Formula One in 2001, won the season championship in 2007 and has driven for the sport's biggest names in Ferrari and McLaren. His name is spread all around the F1 record books.
Ferrari dropped him after last season, going instead with 21-year-old Charles Leclerc of Monaco. Raikkonen has scored points in the first two races, finishing eighth in Australia and seventh in Bahrain. That's about as good as possible behind F1's three dominant teams - Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull.
F1 is billing the Chinese Grand Prix as its 1000th race, but this distinction requires some creative math. Raikkonen has been around so long that Mexican driver Sergio Perez, 29, joked that he recalled getting interested in the sport by watching "Kimi back then at a very young age."
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