{"id":16872,"date":"2012-10-18T19:24:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T23:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16872"},"modified":"2012-10-18T19:24:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T23:24:27","slug":"raikkonen-announcement-just-publicity-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-announcement-just-publicity-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen announcement just publicity stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen did not announce his plans for the 2013 season as he turned 33 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Kimi-Raikkonen.jpg\" alt=\"Kimi-Raikkonen\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>A viral video on the internet, posted by an advertising agency that works with the 2007 world champion, announced recently that the speculation about Raikkonen&#8217;s future beyond 2012 will &#8220;come to an end&#8221; on 17 October, &#8220;when a new contract will be published&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it was all just a publicity stunt for the Lotus driver&#8217;s new personal sponsor, a Finnish clothing brand called Makia Racing.<\/p>\n<p>The entertaining video posted on Wednesday can be seen at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hk1GnB331WQ\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hk1GnB331WQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen did not announce his plans for the 2013 season as he turned 33 on Wednesday. A viral video on the internet, posted by an advertising agency that works with the 2007 world champion, announced recently that the speculation about Raikkonen&#8217;s future beyond 2012 will &#8220;come to an end&#8221; on 17 October, &#8220;when a &#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":[5262,5340,152,4071],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872"}],"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=16872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16873,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872\/revisions\/16873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}