{"id":92957,"date":"2025-08-24T06:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92957\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:23:09","slug":"raikkonens-reaction-to-f1-skipping-him-for-champions-meet-wins-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92957\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen’s reaction to F1 skipping him for champions’ meet ‘wins the internet’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen has never been one for many words, but when he does speak, it usually leaves a mark. <\/p>\n

The 2007 World Champion has gone viral after firing off a poker face response to being left out of a recent F1<\/a> champions\u2019 gathering.Earlier this year at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Formula 1<\/a> brought together a panel of legendary title winners to reflect on how the sport has evolved over the past 75 years.<\/p>\n

The line-up featured F1 world champions Mika H\u00e4kkinen, Jackie Stewart, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Jacques Villeneuve, Mario Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi.<\/p>\n

The discussion between the seven champions was released in full on F1\u2019s official YouTube channel this week, but fans quickly pointed out some glaring absences. Among them: Ferrari\u2019s last champion, 2007 title winner, Kimi Raikkonen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

True to form, the Iceman took to social media to deliver a typically cold and humorous reaction.<\/p>\n

Raikkonen’s responds wins the internet<\/p>\n

Commenting on F1\u2019s official Instagram post about the meeting, Raikkonen simply wrote: \u201cThanks for the invite.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post, perfectly keeping the tone with Raikkonen’s famously dry humour, immediately hit home with F1 fans.<\/p>\n

His comment quickly racked up over 21,000 likes and spread across social platforms, with many joking that Kimi had once again \u201cwon the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Kimi<\/p>\n

Since retiring from Formula 1 at the end of the 2021 season, Raikkonen has largely stepped away from the spotlight, making only the occasional public appearance.<\/p>\n

Over his career, the Finn collected 21 race wins, 103 podiums, famously ended Ferrari\u2019s long wait for a Drivers\u2019 Championship in 2007, and the reputation for disliking public events, and the peripheral obligations to his racing driver duties.<\/p>\n

So, had he received the invite for the champions’ round table, would he have actually attended at all?<\/p>\n

Despite having gone into retirement nearly four years ago, Raikkonen’s hold over the F1 fandom remains intact, as all it takes is a dry and punchy one-liner to make everyone burst into laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen has never been one for many words, but when he does speak, it usually leaves a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-92957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}