The 41-yജear-old Finn announce𓃲d on Wednesday that he would be leaving at the end of the current campaign, bringing to a close a 20-year spell in the sport.

Raikkonen, who won the 2007 title with Ferrari,ꦑ revealed he made🐓 the decision over the winter and said it was an easy call.

Speaking about his career ahead of this weekend’s Dutch Grand Pri♎x, the Alfa Romeo driver said there is nothing he would change about his F1 tenure🐷.

“I’ve been𒈔 a long time here but, in the end, luckily Formula 1 has never been my life,” Raikkonen said.

“In a way, it takes a lot of time froไm my life, but it has never been, let’s say, the main thing in my life. I’ve always livᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚed my life on the outside and do normal things. But on the other hand, it’s fun.

“I had a good run, I’m happy with what I🉐 achieved,” he continued. “Obviously you want to win but it’s not easy to win.

"I wanted to win a championship, I got close quite a few tim💜es and then managed 🌟to win it with Ferrari, So I’m especially happy to have won it with them.

“But, as for the rest - strength or not s🍌trength - I don’t care,🌄 I had fun and I did it my way.

“I wouldn’t change any single thing even if I could. Otherwise, maybe I wouldn’t be sitting൩ here if I changed anyth☂ing. No complaints, I cannot really complain.”

Asked if he considered retiring from F1 earlier in his career, the Finn joked: “The first plan was to always to be retired before I turned 30, but that didn’t w✃ork out!

“I can tell you▨ for sure there were many, many years in which I was so close to stopping. It could have been in the middle of the year or at any day of the week!  

"It happened to be now, a long time after what was in my first plan. Obviously I was away for a couple of years, so, like I s🀅aid before, without that for sure I wouldn’t be here today.

“I know 🎐how it is, obviously I was doiಞng rallying at that time, it’s just quite nice to be putting it out, let’s put it this way.”

Raikkonen revealed he has n🌟o plans for the future other than spending time with his family, explaining he no longer wants to ﷽be tied down to a schedule.

“No, [I have] no plans,” he said.♈ “I mean, I don’t want to have some schedule, for a long time.

“Obviously I’ve been 18 or 19 years in Formula 1 since I started, I did those two years in rallying and there was always a schedule, a “what is coming next on this date, on that date” and I don’t want ཧthat.

“That’s for sure one of the big reasons why I also to do something 🎀else. The life doesn’t go because of the racing, whatever it is outside Formula 1, there are other schedules, the family, the kids schoo🌺ls and kindergarten and that stuff.

“But also I don’t want the family life to be dicta💙ted by ar⛦e the races, the test or whenever you fly to the next work.

“I’m not in൲ a rush, I haven’t even thought about it yet. I’ve known this situation for quite a while, so there’s always opportunities to do this or to do that, but right now I’m not🍬 even interested in thinking about it.”

Asked if he expected to race 🧔competitively on a sporadic basis in the future, Raikkonen said: “If I would know right now, I would tell you, but like I said, I have zero plans.

“I’m not really planning to make any plans for right now. So like I said, I want to enjoy🍃 the time without the schedule. The schedule can be our family’s sched🍌ule, and I’m happy with that.

“I’m looking forward to it. Who knows,꧋ maybe there will be some racing, maybe not. I really don’t know.”