{"id":10309,"date":"2011-01-04T07:11:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T12:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2011-01-04T07:11:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T12:11:52","slug":"raikkonen-considers-career-after-fathers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-considers-career-after-fathers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen considers career after father&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen has ceased talks about his plans for the 2011 season following the death of his father Matti.<\/p>\n<p>The major Finnish newspaper Iltalehti reports that the grief-stricken 31-year-old, who was reportedly considering switching teams for the next world rally championship, may even call time on his racing career.<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen was reportedly very close with his father, a road builder, who supported his sons&#8217; careers from an early age and died suddenly at the age of 56 two days before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the death of Matti Raikkonen, all the plans (of Kimi Raikkonen) are on ice,&#8221; confirmed the Finn&#8217;s rally co-driver Kaj Lindstrom.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Let&#8217;s hope he stays in rallying.\u00a0 The chances of success are much better in the second year than the first, because you don&#8217;t have to be learning all sorts of things all of the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen has ceased talks about his plans for the 2011 season following the death of his father Matti. The major Finnish newspaper Iltalehti reports that the grief-stricken 31-year-old, who was reportedly considering switching teams for the next world rally championship, may even call time on his racing career. Raikkonen was reportedly very close with &#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":[5262,5340,152,2629],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309"}],"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=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10310,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions\/10310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}