Raikkonen had other options

Kimi Raikkonen will join Ferrari in January as the team's new race driver. The Finn will replace Michael Schumacher and race in 2007 alongside Felipe Massa. But according to Raikkonen there were also other options.
There were many speculations throughout the seaon. Where would Raikkonen go? Would he stick with McLaren? Would he swap places with Fernando Alonso and join the RenaultF1 team or would he join Ferrari? He joined the Italian team as Schumacher's replacement. But Ferrari wasn't the Finn's only option for next year. "Of course every driver would love to join Ferrari," Raikkonen told Swiss magazine 20Minutes. "But if it wouldn't be like that I would have had other opportunities."