Top 10 F1 drivers with the most race starts

#5 - Kimi Raikkonen (292)

Kimi Raikkonen will add to his already impressive tally of race starts until at least 2020

Kimi Raikkonen will be the most experienced driver on the F1 grid in 2019 after the retirement of another world champion.

The Iceman may have had a Ferrari-induced hiatus between 2010 and 2011 but he's competed in 16 full seasons of Grand Prix racing already and is contracted to Sauber until 2020. If Raikkonen sees out his contract and we have two more 21 race seasons, he will top this list with 334 race starts.

Raikkonen will go through his second stint with Sauber, after beginning his career with the Swiss outfit all the way back in 2001. Despite being very inexperienced in single-seaters, he lit up the F1 world and secured a move to McLaren for 2002. 2003 and 2005 saw Raikkonen challenge for the title with McLaren but he fell short on both occasions, but a move to Ferrari changed all that.

Despite being 17 points behind with just 20 to play for at the end of 2007, Raikkonen would become world champion that year thanks to six wins and an excellent run at the end of the season.

Kimi would never reach those heights again and would be forced out of Ferrari and the sport at the end of 2009 in favour of Alonso. Two years in rallying later and the Iceman was ready for a comeback in 2012 with Lotus, winning for the first time since his return in Abu Dhabi and winning the first race of 2013 in Australia.

Lotus would fall into financial turmoil, which saw Raikkonen leave the team for 2014 and return to Ferrari, of all teams. There was no bad blood in the relationship, though, and Raikkonen would partner Sebastian Vettel as the scarlet cars attempted to knock Mercedes off their perch.

2018 was arguably one of Raikkonen's best years, being extremely consistent and racking up 12 podiums and his first win since 2013 at the Circuit of the Americas. Raikkonen is also second on the all-time list of fastest lap setters and whatever happens during his final two years, he'll retire being a legend of the sport.