Mark Blundell’s company MB Partners is to manage the commercial rights of Kimi Raikkonen, in effect helping the Finn to generate more cash from personal sponsors and so on.

MB Partners will be working in “collaboration with his management and advisors,” Blundell having been a long time friend and some time on-track competitor of Steve Robertson.

Blundell said: “I have known Kimi’s management and advisors for a very long time and as such, we are working closely together on behalf of Kimi. He is without a doubt one of the best F1 drivers on the grid and combined with Ferrari are a powerful commercial proposition.”