{"id":13079,"date":"2011-07-12T06:49:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T10:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13079"},"modified":"2011-07-12T06:49:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T10:49:32","slug":"raikkonen-to-replace-webber-at-red-bull-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-to-replace-webber-at-red-bull-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen to replace Webber at Red Bull &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is planning to pair Sebastian Vettel with his friend Kimi Raikkonen in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>That is the sensational claim of the high-circulation German newspaper Bild-Zeitung, less than two days after Mark Webber ignored team orders at the end of the British grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>2007 world champion and Finn Raikkonen, 31, left formula one at the end of 2009, and Red Bull team boss Christian Horner was quoted on Monday as saying &#8220;I believe he has put F1 behind him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bild said the plan to replace Australian Webber with Raikkonen is &#8220;top secret&#8221; but divulged the information of a source &#8220;at the highest level&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>German Vettel remains friends with Raikkonen, the pair often meeting in Switzerland to play badminton.\u00a0 Asked recently who his ideal teammate is, the reigning world champion replied: &#8220;Kimi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Ferrari and McLaren race winner had talks with Red Bull last year and has now &#8220;apparently changed his mind&#8221; about wanting to stay in rallying and NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p>And referring to Webber, Red Bull&#8217;s driver manager Helmut Marko told Bild recently: &#8220;We have other options but I don&#8217;t want to talk about them now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report also said Raikkonen told a Finnish journalist recently: &#8220;I have never said that my formula one career is over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is planning to pair Sebastian Vettel with his friend Kimi Raikkonen in 2012. That is the sensational claim of the high-circulation German newspaper Bild-Zeitung, less than two days after Mark Webber ignored team orders at the end of the British grand prix. 2007 world champion and Finn Raikkonen, 31, left formula one at &#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":[128,5262,5340,152,165,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079"}],"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=13079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13080,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions\/13080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}