{"id":16054,"date":"2012-05-24T03:40:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T07:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2012-05-24T03:40:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T07:40:40","slug":"raikkonen-asks-lotus-for-rally-finland-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-asks-lotus-for-rally-finland-permission\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen asks Lotus for rally Finland permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen has revealed he would like to contest August&#8217;s rally of Finland.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Kimi-Raikkonen.jpg\" alt=\"Kimi-Raikkonen\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>F1&#8217;s 2007 world champion returned from world rallying to grand prix racing this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course I wanted to do better.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m not finished.\u00a0 I want to go back, whether for my career or after I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; the 32-year-old told Motorsport News, according to the official WRC website.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Raikkonen admitted he had sidelined his rallying career for now in order to concentrate on F1.\u00a0 Before the 2011 season, Lotus&#8217; (then Renault) regular driver Robert Kubica was seriously injured in a rally crash, and is still yet to return to the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to do rally Finland this season as it fits with the calendar but you&#8217;ll have to ask the team if it fits in my contract,&#8221; Raikkonen said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen has revealed he would like to contest August&#8217;s rally of Finland. F1&#8217;s 2007 world champion returned from world rallying to grand prix racing this year. &#8220;Of course I wanted to do better.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m not finished.\u00a0 I want to go back, whether for my career or after I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; the 32-year-old told &#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":[5262,5340,152,60,3758],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054"}],"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=16054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16055,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions\/16055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}