Yesterday Kimi Raikkonen won USA Grand Prix in Austin beating Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton in a very tight fight. Some stats facts about this victory is below.
1. The time between this victory and previos one is more then 5 years. Previos 1st place was taken by Kimi in the year of 2013 at Australian Grand Prix.
2. It is 101st podium for Icemen. So he opened the second hundred with victory. Now he has 21 victoties, 37 - second places and 43 third places.
3. Raikkonen became the best finnish racer in histore. Now he has 21 victories, the second one is Mika Hakinnen who has 20 victories. By the way Mika has only 51 podiums - almost twice less then Kimi.
4. At the end of this season Kimi Raikkonen will leave Ferrari and will be substitueted by Charles Leclerc (Sauber) but Kimi himself will substitute Charles in Sauber. Raikkonen had signed a two-year contract with new team. It means that he has chances to break the record of total Grand Prix number. Now the leader is Rubens Barrichello who has 322 GP. Kimi now has 288.
5. The victory in USA was won at hte age of 39 years and 4 days. It means that Kimi became the 12th in the list of the oldest pilots-winners. The first place in this list belongs to Luigi Fagioli who won French Grand Prix - 1953 at the age of 53 years and 22 days.
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