{"id":11237,"date":"2011-02-25T06:47:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T11:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2011-02-25T06:47:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T11:47:21","slug":"raikkonen-insists-no-interest-in-f1-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-insists-no-interest-in-f1-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen insists &#8216;no interest&#8217; in F1 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen sounds less enthusiastic than ever about the idea of returning to formula one.<\/p>\n<p>The 2007 world champion, who switched full-time to the world rally championship when Ferrari replaced him with Fernando Alonso for last season, was considered a leading contender for a return to the grid in 2011 with Renault.<\/p>\n<p>He was again a candidate after Robert Kubica&#8217;s horror rally crash, but 31-year-old Raikkonen was already setting up his own rally entry called Ice1 before he finished a promising eighth in the opening event in Sweden earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no interest in returning to formula one,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by Gulf News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not want to talk about formula one,&#8221; added the 18-time grand prix winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rallying is where I want to be.\u00a0 And it is good to be back for another season,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen sounds less enthusiastic than ever about the idea of returning to formula one. The 2007 world champion, who switched full-time to the world rally championship when Ferrari replaced him with Fernando Alonso for last season, was considered a leading contender for a return to the grid in 2011 with Renault. He was again &#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],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237"}],"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=11237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11238,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions\/11238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}