♡ ˚.*ೃ WORKING FOR THE KNIFE.
❝ i start the day lying and end with the truth, that i'm working for the knife. ❞
lando norris x annika räikkönen
( set in the 2023 f1 season )
Annika Räikkönen-Accola (born July 31, 2000), known professionally as just Annika Räikkönen, is a Finnish and Swiss racing driver currently competing in Formula One with Mercedes, competing under the Finnish flag. She previously raced for Alpine in 2022.
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Born | Annika Therese Hilde Räikkönen-Accola 31 of July, 2000 (age 22) Zürich, Switzerland
Related to | Kimi Räikkönen (father), Renate Accola (mother).
Formula One World Championship Career
Nationality | Finnish 2023 Team | Mercedes Car Number | 12 Entries | 22 (21 starts) Championships | 0 Wins | 0 Podiums | 1 Career Points | 85 Pole Positions | 0 Fastest Laps | 0
First Entry | 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix Last Entry | 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2022 Position | 9th (85 pts)
Personal Life
Räikkönen was born in Zürich, Switzerland, and grew up in between Switzerland, Finland, and Spain. She is the daughter of Formula One world champion Kimi Räikkönen and Olympic silver-medalist snowboarder Renate Accola, though her parents never married. She currently has two younger half-siblings by her father, and a younger half-sister by her mother. Räikkönen holds both Finnish and Swiss citizenship, and aside from her native Finnish and German, she fluently speaks Spanish, English, and a small amount of Italian and French. She was educated for a brief part of her early childhood in Spain, and then later a Swiss boarding school, but became depressed due to the isolation from her family and was pulled out. Her hobbies include snowboarding and rock climbing.
Between December 2018 and April 2022, Räikkönen was openly dating Irish actor Ciaran Parkinson, though their relationship allegedly ended due to disagreement over her career.
In 2015, 14-year-old Räikkönen appeared in a series 22 episode of Top Gear and became the youngest driver to do a hot lap in the famous Suzuki Liana, a car that, until then, had been exclusively reserved for Formula One drivers after its retirement in the earlier seasons. She set a lap time of 1:46.8, which put her into the top three of the (non-F1 driver) Liana leaderboard.
