{"id":11708,"date":"2011-03-30T06:47:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T10:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11708"},"modified":"2011-03-30T06:47:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T10:47:02","slug":"raikkonen-to-combine-rally-with-nascar-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-to-combine-rally-with-nascar-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen to combine rally with NASCAR in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the second F1 season without him kicks off, Kimi Raikkonen has revealed plans to branch into NASCAR racing this year.<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat newspaper said the 2007 world champion will combine his world rally championship foray in 2011 with America&#8217;s premier motor racing category.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old&#8217;s NASCAR adventure will begin in between rally outings with some events in the lesser truck and Nationwide categories with his own Ice1 entry.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish report said Raikkonen will &#8220;make his debut before the summer&#8221; in business with Foster Gillett, former managing partner of premier Sprint Cup team Richard Petty Motorsports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to exploring the world of NASCAR,&#8221; Raikkonen is quoted as saying.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve been following it for a long time and I know it&#8217;s a great series.\u00a0 I like the American style.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will definitely be fun and challenging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turun Sanomat said talks with a car manufacturer are well advanced.<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen&#8217;s former McLaren teammate Juan Pablo Montoya switched to NASCAR in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the second F1 season without him kicks off, Kimi Raikkonen has revealed plans to branch into NASCAR racing this year. Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat newspaper said the 2007 world champion will combine his world rally championship foray in 2011 with America&#8217;s premier motor racing category. The 31-year-old&#8217;s NASCAR adventure will begin in between rally outings &#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":[5262,5340,2964,152,12,2963],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708"}],"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=11708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11709,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions\/11709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}