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Ericsson: Raikkonen arrival was ‘bad news' for me

Marcus Ericsson has said that the arrival of Kimi Raikkonen was the 'bad news' that would signal the end of his spell with Sauber in Formula 1. Ericsson has been relegated to a reserve driver role with the Swiss team in 2019 after a four-season spell which has currently returned just 15 World Championship points. Raikkonen was confirmed as the first part of Sauber's 2019 line-up with Charles Leclerc moving in the opposite direction to Ferrari, before another Ferrari Academy product in Antonio Giovinazzi was announced as Raikkonen's partner on Tuesday. And Ericsson said it was the former announcement that put the writing on the wall for him. 'I think when Kimi [Raikkonen] signed that was...
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