{"id":21902,"date":"2014-05-12T07:09:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21902"},"modified":"2014-05-12T07:09:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T11:09:07","slug":"angry-raikkonen-had-long-ferrari-talks-after-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/angry-raikkonen-had-long-ferrari-talks-after-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Raikkonen had &#8216;long&#8217; Ferrari talks after Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after the chequered flag in Spain, Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s &#8220;long talks&#8221; with Ferrari officials were dragging on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-drivers\/Kimi-Raikkonen-5.jpg\" alt=\"Kimi-Raikkonen-5\" width=\"398\" height=\"265\" \/>That is the claim of the Finnish broadcaster MTV3, reporting that the Finn was unhappy with his treatment by the Italian team in Sunday&#8217;s Spanish grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen answered &#8220;no&#8221; when asked if he now feels like the number two driver at Maranello, because Fernando Alonso received first call for pit service despite running behind the normally ice-cool 2007 world champion in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>He was, however, furious.<\/p>\n<p>In a television interview for Britain&#8217;s Sky, the 34-year-old answered &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; when he was asked who made the decision to pit Alonso first &#8212; an advantageous tactic usually reserved for a team&#8217;s leading driver.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he wanted to pit before Alonso, Raikkonen mumbled, shrugged, and stormed off.<\/p>\n<p>Later, having been beaten in the race by Alonso, he played down the strategy incident, according to Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was not much between the two,&#8221; said Raikkonen.\u00a0 &#8220;In the end it makes no difference.\u00a0 It was a very disappointing result for Ferrari.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But on the slowing down lap after the chequered flag, Raikkonen is reported to have angrily asked on the radio: &#8216;Exactly who made this (pitstop) decision?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after the chequered flag in Spain, Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s &#8220;long talks&#8221; with Ferrari officials were dragging on. That is the claim of the Finnish broadcaster MTV3, reporting that the Finn was unhappy with his treatment by the Italian team in Sunday&#8217;s Spanish grand prix. Raikkonen answered &#8220;no&#8221; when asked if he now feels like the &#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":[5262,93,5340,152,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21902"}],"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=21902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21903,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21902\/revisions\/21903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}