{"id":18108,"date":"2013-04-17T07:04:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T11:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18108"},"modified":"2013-04-17T07:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T11:04:47","slug":"lotus-to-sell-stake-to-fund-raikkonen-deal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-to-sell-stake-to-fund-raikkonen-deal-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus to sell stake to fund Raikkonen deal &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus owner Genii is offering part of the Enstone based team for sale, according to a report by Cesare Mannucci in Italy&#8217;s Autosprint.<\/p>\n<p>Mannucci said the money would go towards the team retaining Kimi Raikkonen for 2014, amid reports Red Bull is making moves to sign the 2007 world champion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kimi&#8217;s position (beyond 2013) is going to be based on a bunch of things and not on what Red Bull say,&#8221; Genii&#8217;s Gerard Lopez is quoted by the Sun newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can guarantee you Kimi is not the kind of guy who is going to sign any sort of pre-contract &#8212; not with anybody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we keep giving him what he wants then I don&#8217;t see there is any reason for him to go anywhere,&#8221; added Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus, like the other customer engine teams, will also need a bigger budget for next year&#8217;s more expensive V6 engines, whilst technical director James Allison will reportedly be offered a pay-rise to prevent him from leaving for a bigger team.<\/p>\n<p>Mannucci also claimed Red Bull may be back in talks with Middle Eastern investors about selling its second formula one team, the former Minardi outfit Toro Rosso.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus owner Genii is offering part of the Enstone based team for sale, according to a report by Cesare Mannucci in Italy&#8217;s Autosprint. Mannucci said the money would go towards the team retaining Kimi Raikkonen for 2014, amid reports Red Bull is making moves to sign the 2007 world champion. &#8220;Kimi&#8217;s position (beyond 2013) is &#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":[4397,5262,5340,127,58,306],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108"}],"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=18108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18109,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108\/revisions\/18109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}