{"id":15928,"date":"2012-05-01T07:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T11:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15928"},"modified":"2012-05-01T07:07:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T11:07:28","slug":"grosjean-admits-he-didnt-race-raikkonen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/grosjean-admits-he-didnt-race-raikkonen\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosjean admits he &#8216;didn&#8217;t race&#8217; Raikkonen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Grosjean has admitted he didn&#8217;t try to keep his teammate Kimi Raikkonen behind him at the recent Bahrain grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Romain-Grosjean.jpg\" alt=\"Romain-Grosjean\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" \/>In the wake of Lotus&#8217; podium breakthrough, it was suggested Frenchman Grosjean was the victim of team orders.<\/p>\n<p>Team figures, including boss Eric Boullier and 2007 world champion Raikkonen who finished the race second ahead of rookie Grosjean, denied the charge, even though team orders are fully legal.<\/p>\n<p>But it emerged this week that, just before Grosjean was passed by Raikkonen, the French driver was told on the radio: &#8220;Kimi is faster than you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not hold him up,&#8221; the radio message, broadcasted for the first time by F1&#8217;s official website this week, ended.<\/p>\n<p>Onboard footage of the move also showed Raikkonen briefly waving to his teammate as he completed the easy pass, ostensibly to thank him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that if I had closed the door on Kimi, or if we had fought, then I could have lost a wing,&#8221; Grosjean said this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew that we could have a podium as a result and I didn&#8217;t want to make a mistake.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t race at my best level,&#8221; he admitted to RMC.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Grosjean has admitted he didn&#8217;t try to keep his teammate Kimi Raikkonen behind him at the recent Bahrain grand prix. In the wake of Lotus&#8217; podium breakthrough, it was suggested Frenchman Grosjean was the victim of team orders. Team figures, including boss Eric Boullier and 2007 world champion Raikkonen who finished the race second &#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":[864,251,5262,5340,152,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928"}],"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=15928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15929,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928\/revisions\/15929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}