Two Kimis were in the same F1 paddock at Monza.

Attention was on💛 Kimi Antonelli, who crashed in FP1 before being named as Lewis Hamilton’s successor at Mercedes for 2025.

But former꧟ F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen was also making a rare appearance at a grand prix.

“Yeah, I heard,” Raikkonen toꦯld F1.com about the other Kimi’s big announc🗹ement.

“When 💛we came here, somebody said that they announced it!”

“It’s great. A lot of new faces, I thin🐎k, coming next year, a lot of new drivers that have been signed to F1. It’s good for the 𒅌sport, and it’s also great to have an Italian in the championship. It’s good for everybody, I think.

“I’m sure they know how to get him ready.

“Obviously, these days they have simulators. When I started, there was no simul🔥ator, you jumped in and got going!

“I think it’s much easier [to move up to F1], in many wa💞y💮s, now. You can do a lot of testing, obviously, and get ready. I wish them and all the rest all the best!”

‘The Iceman’ - 26 years older than F1’s newest Kimi - spent 19 years on the grid,🌜 in two spells.

He won the 2007 drivers’ championship♋ while with Ferrari, and he remains the Italian manufacturer’s most recent champion.

There is a similarity to Mercedes’ new Kimi.

Raikkonen also had a very limited background before his rise to Formula 1. Antonelli has been fast tracked into F2 this year, a💞nd has already been confirmed fo🔴r F1 next year.

And there is also anoth♚er Raikkonen racing driver on the hori🃏zon.

The family have relocated to Italy to aid his son Robin’s dream. Robin is current raci♔ng ဣgo-karts.

🌊“Everything is going nicely. We’ll see,” Raikkonen Senior said.

“If something comes or not, who knows? But he’s having fun – that’s the m𓄧ain thing.”