{"id":14314,"date":"2011-11-18T07:08:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T12:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14314"},"modified":"2011-11-18T07:08:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T12:08:33","slug":"raikkonen-also-eyeing-williams-co-ownership-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-also-eyeing-williams-co-ownership-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen also eyeing Williams co-ownership &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Bild newspaper, the only missing piece in Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s return to F1 with Williams in 2012 is an official announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The German newspaper said a media statement could be forthcoming from the British team this week, which was pleasing news for his friend Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a sensationally good racer and it would be great if he is coming back,&#8221; said the back to back world champion.<\/p>\n<p>As ever in formula one, however, there is more to the story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Raikkonen case is complicated,&#8221; agreed Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Raikkonen, 32, wants to return not only as a driver but also a co-owner of Williams&#8217; Oxfordshire based team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Standing behind Raikkonen are wealthy businessmen, apparently from the Middle East,&#8221; said Auto Motor und Sport, revealing that the Raikkonen consortium is eyeing up to 20 per cent of the famous British marque.<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen co-owned a formula 3 team with his managers David and Steve Robertson between 2004 and last year.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, however, might not be interested, with the report saying Raikkonen could also be eyeing a similar deal with Renault, the Genii-owned team that next year will become Lotus.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Bild newspaper, the only missing piece in Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s return to F1 with Williams in 2012 is an official announcement. The German newspaper said a media statement could be forthcoming from the British team this week, which was pleasing news for his friend Sebastian Vettel. &#8220;He is a sensationally good racer and it &#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":[5262,5340,152,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314"}],"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=14314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14315,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314\/revisions\/14315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}