Kimi Räikkönen is vacationing with his family in his homeland.

      The Räikkönen family spends their winter holidays in Finland almost every year, and this season was no exception. Kimi, with his wife and children, went to a ski resort in Tahko, not far from the town of Kuopio.

      The fact is that Räikkönen is one of the shareholders of the company that owns the local hotel Panorama Lanscape. According to the Finnish press, in 2023 he invested €150,000 in the enterprise, a relatively small sum amounting to roughly a 10% stake, and the same amount was invested by another famous driver, Tommi Mäkinen, a four-time world rally champion.

      Temperatures in these parts in early January approach −20°C, and it’s even colder at night, but that doesn’t stop 10-year-old Robin Räikkönen, who is enjoying his first successes in karting, from tearing around the snowy tracks, including on a snowmobile.

      The 2007 world champion shared on his social media pages a photo, likely taken by his wife: in it he is pictured in the hotel he co-owns, admiring the view from the mountain. “Lovely place!” was the brief comment on the shot, and it’s hard not to agree with Kimi.

      The Panorama Lanscape hotel is brand new — it only opened at the end of 2023. And just a 10-minute drive from there Kimi owns another property — a very luxurious villa with a total area of 351 square meters; until recently the racer had been trying to sell it, hoping to get under one million euros, but it seems no buyers were found.