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Why Portimão and Imola prove Raikkonen still deserves his F1 seat

The prime years of Kimi Raikkonen's career may be behind him but the 2007 world champion has shown over the past two races exactly why he will remain at Alfa Romeo for next season. A start in Portimão to rival Ayrton Senna's Donington Park 'lap of the Gods' in the 1993 European Grand Prix was followed a week later by a 'driver-of-the-day' performance that has shown the Iceman still has - as Ross Brawn described in his weekly F1 column - "that Finnish fire in his belly". Article continues under video Raikkonen just missed out on claiming a point in Portugal where he finished 11th, but in Imola, he secured a superb ninth ahead of team-mate Antonio Giovinazzi That result followed...
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