{"id":16953,"date":"2012-11-02T07:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T11:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16953"},"modified":"2012-11-02T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T11:07:16","slug":"raikkonen-happy-with-one-year-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-happy-with-one-year-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen happy with one-year contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen has admitted he is happy to take his return to F1 one step at a time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" 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\" \/>The 2007 world champion returned to the sport in 2012 after a two-year rallying foray, and has just signed a contract extension with Lotus for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, he refused to rule out a return one day to his former teams McLaren or Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy to do year by year and see what happens,&#8221; he said in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes life more easy for me, and I don&#8217;t see a reason why I should make long-term contracts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to decide to go somewhere and do something else it&#8217;s less hassle and less problems,&#8221; added the 33-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen has admitted he is happy to take his return to F1 one step at a time. The 2007 world champion returned to the sport in 2012 after a two-year rallying foray, and has just signed a contract extension with Lotus for 2013. Earlier this week, he refused to rule out a return one &#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":[5262,5340,152,306],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953"}],"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=16953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16954,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953\/revisions\/16954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}