{"id":14024,"date":"2011-10-24T07:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T11:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14024"},"modified":"2011-10-24T07:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T11:01:52","slug":"williams-goes-to-qatar-as-raikkonen-rumours-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-goes-to-qatar-as-raikkonen-rumours-intensify\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams goes to Qatar as Raikkonen rumours intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen may have now signed a contract to return to formula one with Williams in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish daily Ilta-Sanomat reveals that its source is the Monaco-domiciled former Simtek and Footwork driver Taki Inoue, a Japanese who last raced in F1 in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Inoue is apparently still well connected in formula one circles, given his efforts to advance the careers of several rising Japanese drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Ilta-Sanomat reported that the key to Raikkonen&#8217;s return to formula one was whether Williams could sign the Qatar National Bank as a major new sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian journalist Livio Oricchio wrote in O Estado de S.Paulo last Friday: &#8220;In recent days Frank Williams travelled to Arab states Qatar and Saudi Arabia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The beleaguered British team rose to the front of the grid some decades ago with Arab-linked sponsors including Saudia, TAG and Albilad.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen may have now signed a contract to return to formula one with Williams in 2012. The Finnish daily Ilta-Sanomat reveals that its source is the Monaco-domiciled former Simtek and Footwork driver Taki Inoue, a Japanese who last raced in F1 in 1995. Inoue is apparently still well connected in formula one circles, given &#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":[5262,5340,2683,152,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14024"}],"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=14024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14025,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14024\/revisions\/14025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}