Two Kimis were in the same F1 paddock at Monza.

Attention was on Kimi Antonelli, who crashed in FP1 before being named as Lewi🐲s Hamilton’s successor at Mercedes for 2🉐025.

But former F♉1 champion Kimi Raikk༺onen was also making a rare appearance at a grand prix.

“Yeah, I heard,” Raikkonen told F1.com abou✅⛄t the other Kimi’s big announcement.

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

“It’s great. A lot of🅷 new faces, I think, coming next year, a lot of nﷺew drivers that have been signed to F1. It’s good for the sport, 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 havꦬe simulators. When I startꦚed, there was no simulator, you jumped in and got going!

“I think it’s much easier [to move up to F1], in many wa🧔ys, now. You can do a lot of test♈ing, 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 𓆉drivers’ champion🧸ship 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 F♛ormula 1. Antonelli has been fast tracked into F2 this year, and has already been confirmed for F1 next year.

And there is also another Raikkonen racing driver on tꦯh꧋e horizon.

The family have relocated to Italy to aid his son Robin’s d꧑ream. Robin is current racing go-karts.

“Everything is going nicely. We’ll see,” Raikkonen Se♍nior s💖aid.

“If somethin♓g comes or not, who knows? But he’s having fun – that’s th🌟e main thing.”