Next season, Kimi Raikkonen will complete his eighth season with Ferrari. In world championship history, only six drivers have spent more time with a team.
Michael Schumacher (Ferrari), Jack Brabham (Brabham), Jim Clark (Lotus - although his final year in 1968 was cut tragically short), David Coulthard and Mika Hakkinen (McLaren) and Jacques Laffite (Ligier) will be the only drivers who will have longer associations.
Raikkonen is unique among those in that he was once paid an eight-figure sum not to race for Ferrari in 2010 at the end of his first stint. He is also unusual in that, similar to Laffite at Ligier, he has spent his time with Ferrari in two stints, one from 2007-09 and one ongoing from '14 that could even stretch beyond his new one-year contract.
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