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Kimi
Raikkonen has confirmed he is in talks with McLaren about
re-joining the British team, where he already drove from 2002 to
2006.
"It
wouldn't make sense to change to any other Formula One team,"
said the Finn, who has agreed to leave Ferrari one year early to
make way for Fernando Alonso.
The
30-year-old, a winner of 18 grands prix and the 2007 world
champion, slammed Toyota chief John Howett for declaring
repeatedly on recent occasions that talks about the 2010 season
were taking place.
"With
Toyota there was nothing, although they said that we negotiated,"
Raikkonen told the Finnish Turun Sanomat. "We didn't
speak with them; that was only what they said," he added.
Elaborating on why he is not interested in joining the Cologne
based team, he said: "It is not cool to drive bad cars."
It
is believed McLaren is hesitating over Raikkonen's pay demands,
and the veteran of 156 grands prix confirms that the delay has
nothing to do with a reluctance to team up with team favourite
Lewis Hamilton.
"Hamilton
does not have anything to do with my decision. It doesn't matter
to me who drives the other car," he insisted.
Raikkonen,
who has admitted that rallying would be an alternative to F1, also
played down reports he might just take a sabbatical in 2010.
"Next year I will definitely drive something," he said.
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