Ferrari have announced that Kimi Raikkonen will return to the team for the 2014 season.

Raikkonen, who will partner Fernando Alonso, is said to have agreed to a two-year deal. It is believed that Shell will be footing the bill for Raikkonen to join the team. The Finn will reportedly earn 20 million Euro per season. Another alleged condition of Raikkonen’s contract includes his current race engineer, Mark Slade, make the move to Ferrari as well.

Raikkonen’s return to Ferrari comes on the heels of months of speculation about fragile negotiations with the Lotus team. Raikkonen was believed to have asked for a closer working relationship between Lotus and the Renault factory. Reports had also been making the rounds about Lotus inability to pay Raikkonen’s wages.

The end of the first relationship between Raikkonen and Ferrari at the end of 2009 could have been handled better but Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has already been smoothing the waters. Asked about the events surrounding the end of the 2009 season and what happened with Raikkonen Montezemolo said “What happened with Kimi? We won a world championship with him.”

Attention will now turn to the relationship between Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso as they become the first Ferrari championship pairing since 1954. On a personal level Raikkonen could care less about who his teammate is. On a professional level buckle up race fans because this is going to be some ride.