{"id":18643,"date":"2013-07-01T12:54:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18643"},"modified":"2013-07-01T12:54:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:54:17","slug":"red-bull-snub-would-make-raikkonen-a-wimp-lauda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-snub-would-make-raikkonen-a-wimp-lauda\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull snub would make Raikkonen &#8216;a wimp&#8217; &#8211; Lauda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two F1 legends fundamentally disagree about Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s best next move.<\/p>\n<p>It is rumoured the 2007 world champion is the hot favourite to replace Red Bull&#8217;s Porsche-bound Mark Webber next season.<\/p>\n<p>But Sir Jackie Stewart, a triple world champion turned consultant for Lotus team owner Genii, thinks becoming Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s teammate would be a bad move for the Finn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t want to go into the garage next to another top driver who for many years has established his place within that team,&#8221; the Scot told Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat.<\/p>\n<p>Typically bluntly, however, fellow triple world champion Niki Lauda thinks 33-year-old Raikkonen should make the jump to Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Kimi doesn&#8217;t go,&#8221; the Austrian legend told German newspaper Bild, &#8220;he&#8217;s a wimp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, he might have to do a few more working days, but all that means is a few less drinking days!&#8221; Lauda added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two F1 legends fundamentally disagree about Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s best next move. It is rumoured the 2007 world champion is the hot favourite to replace Red Bull&#8217;s Porsche-bound Mark Webber next season. But Sir Jackie Stewart, a triple world champion turned consultant for Lotus team owner Genii, thinks becoming Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s teammate would be a bad &#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":[5262,5340,152,598,129,745],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643"}],"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=18643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18644,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643\/revisions\/18644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}