{"id":18913,"date":"2013-08-01T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18913"},"modified":"2013-08-01T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:21:09","slug":"lotus-ready-to-wait-for-raikkonens-call-boullier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-ready-to-wait-for-raikkonens-call-boullier\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus ready to wait for Raikkonen’s call – Boullier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Boullier has admitted Lotus is waiting for Kimi Raikkonen to make his decision about 2014.<\/p>\n

\"Eric-Boullier-2\"Earlier, it was reported Lotus is putting pressure on the Finn to come to a quick decision about whether to stay beyond this season, or switch to another team like Red Bull.<\/p>\n

The reports had suggested boss Boullier wanted him to decide by the start of August.<\/p>\n

But the Frenchman has told Russia’s Championat: “That’s not exactly what I said.\u00a0 I said that the decision may come by August, but that it was not my decision.”<\/p>\n

If Lotus does lose Raikkonen, it would actually be good news for his current teammate Romain Grosjean, whose form is notoriously up and down.<\/p>\n

Boullier said: “It’s true that a completely new driver lineup is not good.\u00a0 But the best option is to keep Kimi and Romain.<\/p>\n

“Generally, it is always important to keep at least one driver — regardless of whether the regulations are changing so much or not.<\/p>\n

“At least one,” he insisted.<\/p>\n

Boullier also commented on the fate of Lotus’ reserve driver, the reigning GP2 champion Davide Valsecchi.<\/p>\n

He said: “If our team has no place for him, I think he has shown a good level to have a chance with another team.<\/p>\n

“He has demonstrated his potential, he is fast and he deserves a chance in formula one.”<\/p>\n

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Eric Boullier has admitted Lotus is waiting for Kimi Raikkonen to make his decision about 2014. Earlier, it was reported Lotus is putting pressure on the Finn to come to a quick decision about whether to stay beyond this season, or switch to another team like Red Bull. The reports had suggested boss Boullier wanted …<\/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":[2399,251,5262,5340,152,306,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913"}],"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=18913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18914,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions\/18914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}