Raikkonen writes a book of poems... and it's classic Kimi

Joas van Wingerden Thursday 4 October 2018 12:22

Raikkonen writes a book of poems... and it's classic Kimi

We didn't know we needed a collection of Haikus written by Kimi Raikkonen, but then the Japanese Grand Prix always throws up a few surprises. The Ferrari driver put together a book of poems to mark this weekend's action at Suzuka and they're as classically Kimi as you could imagine.

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Poetry, meet @kimimatiasraikkonen ???? Think you can come up with your own #F1Haiku? We'd love to hear it! . #F1 #Formula1 #JapaneseGP #KimiRaikkonen #Kimi7 #Ferrari #Haiku #NationalPoetryDay @scuderiaferrari
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Shakespeare, Runeberg, Räikkönen. Photo: @calloalbanese
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Kimi’s book of Haiku is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/8X1gl3TkjN — Will Buxton (@wbuxtonofficial) October 4, 2018

Ever the jokesters, Mercedes' media team took to Twitter to offer their own Haiku – aping something of a classic Raikkonen radio message from the Russian Grand Prix…

Kimi, do the opposite
to Hamilton please.
But I can't even see him?#JapaneseGP ???????? #NationalPoetryDay pic.twitter.com/O9RER1Cf4N — Mercedes-AMG F1 (@MercedesAMGF1) October 4, 2018

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