{"id":18996,"date":"2013-08-14T07:12:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T11:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18996"},"modified":"2013-08-14T07:12:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T11:12:22","slug":"raikkonen-opts-for-ferrari-return-in-2014-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-opts-for-ferrari-return-in-2014-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen opts for Ferrari return in 2014 &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen has decided to return to Ferrari next year, the major Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat has reported this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Kimi-Raikkonen-6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Kimi-Raikkonen-6.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The Finn, whose two-year rallying sabbatical began after Ferrari ended his contract and signed Fernando Alonso for 2010, had been more strongly linked with a move from Lotus to Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Ilta-Sanomat said its report was based on the information of its &#8220;sources&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper added that Red Bull team owner Dietrich Mateschitz is keen to sign Ferrari&#8217;s current number 1 Fernando Alonso for 2014, despite the Spaniard&#8217;s long contract.<\/p>\n<p>Many in the paddock, however, see the prospect of Alonso&#8217;s pairing with reigning multiple world champion Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull as highly unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was surprised by these (media) reports,&#8221; admitted Daniel Juncadella, a young Spanish driver who is being linked with a future at the Williams team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite hard to believe,&#8221; he told Russia&#8217;s Championat.\u00a0 &#8220;Of course he would have a very good chance to become world champion again if he was at Red Bull &#8212; but we&#8217;ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen has decided to return to Ferrari next year, the major Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat has reported this week. The Finn, whose two-year rallying sabbatical began after Ferrari ended his contract and signed Fernando Alonso for 2010, had been more strongly linked with a move from Lotus to Red Bull. Ilta-Sanomat said &#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":[5262,149,93,5340,152,306,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18996"}],"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=18996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18997,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18996\/revisions\/18997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}