Kimi Raikkonen has said he won't be in F1 next year unless he can agree a deal with McLaren.
The Finn is a free agent after this season, having agreed an early end to his contract with Ferrari.
He has been linked with moves to both McLaren and Toyota next year - but has now revealed he is only interested in the McLaren deal.
"Toyota has not even been discussed," Raikkonen told Finnish television station MTV3. "If I want to drive [F1] cars, then McLaren in the only option. I should know the situation in the next few days."
Raikkonen also said there were other options for him outside of F1 – including rallying or even a sabbatical.
"Basically I have a few different options and we will see what is the best one overall and then make my decision," he said.
When asked specifically about rallying, Raikkonen said: "It is definitely one of them, but I mean it is not just Formula 1 and rallying. There are other things I could do and we will see what happens."
Speaking about the possibility of taking a sabbatical, Raikkonen said: "I can if I want. I can do whatever I want, but like I said before, I haven't made my decision what I want to do yet."
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Re: Raikkonen: 'McLaren only option'
Now this person is furthest one from silly I've seen for a long time. I want more insightful, marvellous input like this, please, Autocar.
Superlative, superlative, superlative and bruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-rilliant! - as a certain Mr M. Walker - hint, hint - used to say in Suzuka before stopping because he either couldn't carry on, didn't want to, or James Hunt - hint, hint - had wrestled him to the ground and wrenched the microphone from his cold, waxy grip.
You see? Just sprinkling a little bit of history in there goes a long way to maintaining the thrill of my posts, but that sort of rich detail doesn't just appear out of nowhere.
Re: Raikkonen: 'McLaren only option'
I was referring simply to the points Broom Broom made, not the way he made them.
Re: Raikkonen: 'McLaren only option'
That's one thing, the other one which grabbed my attention is "considering the capability I have within myself to make people look silly as and when I choose" - anyway, I was not part of this thread, this isn't my style of conversation so I don't want to make a discussion about it.