The ongoing speculation over who’ll be alongside Sebastian Vettel at Ferrari next year appears to suggest Kimi Raikkonen is back as favourite.
New bosses at the Scuderia are known to favour keeping the ‘Iceman’ but a contract signed by former chairman Sergio Marchionne, who tragically died in July, to promote Charles Leclerc is proving a hurdle.
After a supposed meeting in Italy to announce the 20-year-old last Thursday didn’t materialise, it is thought efforts are still underway to put off the Monegasque’s eventual promotion until 2020 by keeping him at Sauber but on the salary that he was set to earn with the Maranello squad.
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Clearly, more questions will be asked this weekend in Singapore if a decision isn’t made sooner, yet there are some who wonder if the uncertainty over his future is leading Raikkonen to not support Vettel in his championship fight.
The German lambasted Ferrari after the Italian Grand Prix claiming he had to “race three cars” before later saying he would be “happy” to do so, still it does beg the question if this is proving a distraction right when the team don’t need it.
A petition set up on Change.org calling on Ferrari to keep Raikkonen has already reached 75,000 signatures only highlighting how popular the 38-year-old is.
