{"id":22201,"date":"2014-06-08T07:53:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T11:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22201"},"modified":"2014-06-08T07:53:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T11:53:31","slug":"montreal-rumour-says-ferrari-to-axe-raikkonen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/montreal-rumour-says-ferrari-to-axe-raikkonen\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal rumour says Ferrari to axe Raikkonen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari sources have reacted swiftly to extinguish the latest big rumour as the &#8216;silly season&#8217; steps up a gear in Montreal.<\/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-2.jpg\" alt=\"Kimi-Raikkonen-2\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" \/>Swirling around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve paddock on Saturday were whispers that, having failed to match Fernando Alonso&#8217;s pace in the first third of 2014, Kimi Raikkonen could be set to be axed by Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>However, that move would be an echo of Raikkonen&#8217;s last Maranello exit, when the fabled Italian team had to pay the Finn millions to end his solid 2010 contract.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise in 2014, Raikkonen is firmly under contract not only for this year, but also 2015, when he is expected to be paid some $30 million whether he races or not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ferrari will not fire Kimi a second time,&#8221; a Ferrari source told the German magazine Sport Bild.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the amount of money it cost Ferrari to oust Raikkonen in 2009, the source added: &#8220;Ferrari doesn&#8217;t want to do that again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A driver manager also told Sport Bild: &#8220;It would cost Ferrari up to $30 million because he has a contract until 2015 with an option for another year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari sources have reacted swiftly to extinguish the latest big rumour as the &#8216;silly season&#8217; steps up a gear in Montreal. Swirling around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve paddock on Saturday were whispers that, having failed to match Fernando Alonso&#8217;s pace in the first third of 2014, Kimi Raikkonen could be set to be axed by &#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":[1317,1298,5262,93,5340,152],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201"}],"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=22201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22202,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201\/revisions\/22202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}