Experts evaluate his career, next season's options and willingness to return to F1.

1. How would you sum up Kimi's F1-career?

2. What do you think Kimi will do next season?

3. Do you think that Kimi will go back to the F1-circus one day?

MIKA SALO Ex F1-driver, racer

1. He is a World Champion anyway. This solution was to be expected.

2. He has always been interested in rally. And there are other genres. I heard that he wants to try out Le Mans some day.

3. He will return if he gets a winning car. But it is difficult to come back after a year.

KARI O. SOHLBER
Chairman of Motorsport Union

1. World Champion. A tough career behind him. One of the most talented drivers of all times.

2. I think that he will race in WRC and in a way prepare for the time when he will switch over to rally. If this will happen then it's a great thing for rally but a hard hit for the Finnish track-racing since it will take a few years before the younger generation will rise up to the F1-level.

3. I believe that he has made up his mind and will switch over to another genre. I find it unlikely that he would ever return to F1.

ROBERT LAPPALAINEN
Ex-racer, Karting-entrepreneur

1. I saw Kimi drive karting when he was 18 years old in 1997 and I thought 'There's a future star who won't give up under any circumstances'. And when Kimi had his Sauber F1-test I said that he is going to go to F1 with a storm and win the world championship one day. Now he is one of the most luminous stars in the genre.

2. I think it will be rally. It's clearly so close to his heart. Finns love rally and if a world class star like Kimi would enter the sport it would be a huge thing for the whole genre.

3. A year away from F1 is a long time. But F1 lives with such a pace that Kimi's return could even be possible during next season if some driver is injured or a place becomes vacant for some other reason.