{"id":10162,"date":"2010-12-16T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10162"},"modified":"2010-12-16T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T12:07:00","slug":"raikkonen-set-for-rally-team-switch-and-nascar-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-set-for-rally-team-switch-and-nascar-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen set for rally team switch and NASCAR races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far from returning to F1, Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s next move in the world of premier motor sport could be some races in the American NASCAR series.<\/p>\n<p>That is the claim of the Ilta-Sanomat newspaper in Finland, reporting that formula one&#8217;s champion of 2007 is set to switch world rally teams from Citroen to Ford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Funding for the project is coming especially from the United States, and Raikkonen may be offered the chance to drive some NASCAR races,&#8221; read the report.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly another possibility for Raikkonen is a berth alongside Ken Block at the Californian&#8217;s world rally team that is sponsored by the Monster energy drink.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kimi would be a dream teammate,&#8221; Block said earlier in 2011, adding that a necessary budget for the extra car is the crucial factor.<\/p>\n<p>Ilta-Sanomat cited sources within Citroen that said talks with Raikkonen about continuing in his Red Bull-funded seat have &#8220;failed to progress&#8221;.<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from returning to F1, Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s next move in the world of premier motor sport could be some races in the American NASCAR series. That is the claim of the Ilta-Sanomat newspaper in Finland, reporting that formula one&#8217;s champion of 2007 is set to switch world rally teams from Citroen to Ford. &#8220;Funding for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,2586,152,12],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10163,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162\/revisions\/10163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}