{"id":19696,"date":"2013-10-29T07:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19696"},"modified":"2013-10-29T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:07:11","slug":"lotus-apologises-after-permane-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-apologises-after-permane-death-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus apologises after Permane death threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has apologised after an expletive-laden exchange on the radio with Kimi Raikkonen during the Indian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Alan-Permane-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Alan-Permane-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>When the Finn was struggling for pace but duelling with his much-faster teammate Romain Grosjean, chief engineer Alan Permane told Raikkonen in no uncertain terms: &#8220;Get out of the f***ing way!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen replied: &#8220;Don&#8217;t f***ing shout at me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Permane received death threats against himself and his family in the wake of the radio message, ostensibly from angry Raikkonen fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With hindsight,&#8221; team boss Eric Boullier said, &#8220;this radio message could have been sent in a less emotional way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that quite a few people were surprised and I can only apologise for that on behalf of the team.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t happen again,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has apologised after an expletive-laden exchange on the radio with Kimi Raikkonen during the Indian grand prix. When the Finn was struggling for pace but duelling with his much-faster teammate Romain Grosjean, chief engineer Alan Permane told Raikkonen in no uncertain terms: &#8220;Get out of the f***ing way!&#8221; Raikkonen replied: &#8220;Don&#8217;t f***ing shout at &#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":[697,251,5262,5340,2326,152,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696"}],"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=19696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19697,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696\/revisions\/19697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}