{"id":21423,"date":"2014-03-30T07:47:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T11:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21423"},"modified":"2014-03-30T07:47:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T11:47:46","slug":"raikkonen-to-retire-after-ferrari-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-to-retire-after-ferrari-stint\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen to retire after Ferrari stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen thinks Ferrari will be his last team in formula one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Kimi-Raikkonen-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-drivers\/Kimi-Raikkonen-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>&#8220;I am glad to be here again and I am sure that I will not change again,&#8221; the Finn told Germany&#8217;s Sport Bild in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen, now the oldest driver on the grid, made his debut for Sauber as a highly-inexperienced 21-year-old, going on to win races for McLaren and the title for Ferrari in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>His mid-contract split from Ferrari at the end of 2009 was partly acrimonious, as he left F1 altogether and enjoyed a two-year sabbatical with rallying and Nascar exploits.<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen returned to the grid with Lotus in 2012 and, with his pace intact and achieving highly consistent results, he was re-signed by Ferrari to be Fernando Alonso&#8217;s teammate in 2014 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>But, now 34, he told Sport Bild: &#8220;I will not drive in formula one for ever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I already said in my first time at Ferrari that this will be my last team,&#8221; Raikkonen smiled.\u00a0 &#8220;As you can see, I have kept my word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen thinks Ferrari will be his last team in formula one. &#8220;I am glad to be here again and I am sure that I will not change again,&#8221; the Finn told Germany&#8217;s Sport Bild in Malaysia. Raikkonen, now the oldest driver on the grid, made his debut for Sauber as a highly-inexperienced 21-year-old, going &#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":[5262,93,5340,152],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423"}],"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=21423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21424,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423\/revisions\/21424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}