What is going on with Kimi Raikkonen?
We do not generally report on the private lives of the Formula 1 team drivers (nor for that matter the team principal) however the recent adventures of Kimi Raikkonen took over the launch of the McLaren-Mercedes yesterday and thus one has to ask whether or not this is going to have any effect on the driver or on the McLaren team. In November Raikkonen was photographed on the island of Gran Canaria, obviously rather worse for drink. He later apologised for his behaviour. One would have thought that this would be the end of the matter and that drivers in the modern era would learn from their mistakes and be a little more discreet about their activities but last weekend a British newspaper alleged another series of saucy revelations about Kimi getting drunk and wild in a lap-dancing club called For Your Eyes Only in London’s swanky Mayfair district. “I’m aware of the coverage,” said McLaren’s Martin Whitmarsh, “and it’s not welcome. We have to establish the truth. The perception is extrem
