{"id":16640,"date":"2012-09-22T08:23:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16640"},"modified":"2012-09-22T08:23:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:23:29","slug":"raikkonen-says-2013-contract-not-guaranteed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-says-2013-contract-not-guaranteed\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen says 2013 contract not guaranteed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen has confirmed he has a contract with Lotus for 2013, but insisted that doesn&#8217;t mean he will definitely be with the Enstone based team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Kimi-Raikkonen-car.jpg\" alt=\"Kimi-Raikkonen-car\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Fending off rumours the Finn is a candidate to move to Ferrari or McLaren next year, Lotus owner Gerard Lopez recently revealed Raikkonen&#8217;s current contract includes an option for the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen confirmed that &#8220;option&#8221; to the Finnish broadcaster MTV3.<\/p>\n<p>But the 2007 world champion also insisted: &#8220;You never know what is going to happen.\u00a0 We have seen before in formula one that even if you have a contract, it doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re going to drive somewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen is undoubtedly referring to 2009, when at the end of that season Ferrari paid the 32-year-old to sit out 2010 in order to make room for Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>MTV3 said Raikkonen&#8217;s 2013 &#8216;option&#8217; expires at the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>The driver confirmed he is likely to stay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no reason to do something else,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen has confirmed he has a contract with Lotus for 2013, but insisted that doesn&#8217;t mean he will definitely be with the Enstone based team. Fending off rumours the Finn is a candidate to move to Ferrari or McLaren next year, Lotus owner Gerard Lopez recently revealed Raikkonen&#8217;s current contract includes an option for &#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":[5262,5340,58,152,60],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640"}],"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=16640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16641,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640\/revisions\/16641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}