There are rumours doing the rounds about Kimi Raikkonen possibly having signed or about to sign with Williams for 2012. One wonders why he would be tempted to rejoin the F1 circuit with a team that has had it's worst season ever in 2011.
My feeling is that as he's already won a World Championship, with Ferrari in 2007, joining a top team again would be more of the same. He would be fighting probably less than half a dozen drivers week-in week-out for a place on the podium. A less than perfect car under him might end up causing a season full of frustration, being near the front but not being at the front. Similar to what Fernando Alonso has experienced at Ferrari this year.
Joining a team like Williams in their current position, things can only move forward. They are a team who know how to win races and championships. For 2012 they will have Renault engines powering them once again, there will also be some key personnel changes in the team for next season. If things gel together nicely then we could see some rapid progress back to the front half of the grid.
Kimi is probably looking at driving for Williams as a huge challenge to help haul them back to winning ways. Like Michael Schumacher helped get Ferrari back into the habit of winning in the late nineties. Admittedly Ferrari weren't in quite as bad shape, they had won races in the two previous seasons, when Schumacher joined them in 1996. Kimi's got at least a half dozen good F1 racing years ahead of him, there is no reason why he can't make this a long term project. If any of the mid-field teams have got a chance of winning in the next few years, you'd have to say it would be Williams.
My feeling is that as he's already won a World Championship, with Ferrari in 2007, joining a top team again would be more of the same. He would be fighting probably less than half a dozen drivers week-in week-out for a place on the podium. A less than perfect car under him might end up causing a season full of frustration, being near the front but not being at the front. Similar to what Fernando Alonso has experienced at Ferrari this year.
Joining a team like Williams in their current position, things can only move forward. They are a team who know how to win races and championships. For 2012 they will have Renault engines powering them once again, there will also be some key personnel changes in the team for next season. If things gel together nicely then we could see some rapid progress back to the front half of the grid.
Kimi is probably looking at driving for Williams as a huge challenge to help haul them back to winning ways. Like Michael Schumacher helped get Ferrari back into the habit of winning in the late nineties. Admittedly Ferrari weren't in quite as bad shape, they had won races in the two previous seasons, when Schumacher joined them in 1996. Kimi's got at least a half dozen good F1 racing years ahead of him, there is no reason why he can't make this a long term project. If any of the mid-field teams have got a chance of winning in the next few years, you'd have to say it would be Williams.
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