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Alonso often laughed with Raikkonen about F1's 'fake world'

Fernando Alonso says he was happy to have shared so many years in Formula 1 with retiree Kimi Raikkonen, admitting to sharing with the Iceman some interesting common views on the sport. Alonso and Raikkonen both made their F1 debut in 2001 and their careers ran parallel until the Finn took a two-year break from F1 in 2010. But in 2014, two years after returning to the grid, Raikkonen was paired with Alonso at Ferrari, the two drivers going their separate ways a year later and the Spaniard later taking his own break from F1 in 2019 and 2020. "When you are in that moment and you make your debut, you don't have a clear idea what the future will bring to you," Alonso said on F1's...
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