Kiܫmi Raikko💖nen says his motivation is as high as ever as he prepares to mark 20 years since making his Formula 1 debut. 

The 41-year-old Finn will partner Antonio Giovinazzi for a third successive season at Alfa Romeo as the team looks to move further up the grid in 2021 with its upgraded C41 challenger that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:broke cover on Monday morning at a launch event in Poland.

Ra🐓ikkonen, who made his F1 debut with the Hinwil-based squad when it was previously known as Sauber in 2001, heads into the new campaign as the most experienced grand prix driver of all-time, having racked up 329 starts and counting across his 18 seasons in the sport so far.

“We're excited for the year but it🙈's very unknown because we haven't tried the car, there's obviously rule changes,” said Raikkonen.

“Where are we going to be? We don't know, but in a few weeks’ time, obviously we’ll see from testing how things are running and how the car is feeling and roughly in one month’s 🐭time, in the first race, everybody will see where everybody is.

“It's going to be not many days before the first race, so we have to do a good💝 three days [of testin🍷g], laps and learn a lot from the car and see what we get.”

Asked what motivates him to continue as he enters his third decade of racing in F1, Raikkonen replied: “Time goes quickly. Obviously it's quite a long time ago but then I was a couple of years out of F1 in the middle of it, so it doesn't feel like 20 🌟years.

“Obviously the racing and the driving [is what still excites me]. I've never been a big fan of all the rest… but I enjoy the racing and the challenge to try to improve things and getting bette🍎r.”

Meanwhile, Raikkonen’s teammate Giovinazzi is aiming to make another st🉐ep in 2021 after retaining his seat at Alfa Romeo for what will be his third full season in F1.

“Of course I feel much more ready 💮this season compared to 2019,” the Italian explained.

“Still, I think I need to do another step to what I did alr𝓡eady from the first season to the second season. This is my targ♏et as a driver for this season, and to try to improve in some points where I was struggling more last year.

“This is what [I’ve been꧃ doing] during the winter and what I will do during this season.”