I’ve just noticed a rare milestone that Formula 1 is about to hit. Or rather a Formula 1 driver is about to hit. And the pique of my interest is likely related to that I am someone who, sadly, joined the quadragenarian club recently. In next month’s Mexican Grand Prix Kimi Raikkonen will participate in an F1 race as a 40-year-old. Something that feels incongruous in what has long struck as a youth-obsessed modern-day F1. And, in matter of fact terms, Raikkonen is an outlier, as the next oldest current F1 pilot is Robert Kubica who is over five years Raikkonen’s junior. Heck, next season as things stand the next-oldest F1 pilot will be the ever youthful and trendy Lewis...
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