{"id":22439,"date":"2014-07-03T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22439"},"modified":"2014-07-03T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:14:11","slug":"raikkonen-problems-similar-to-vettels-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-problems-similar-to-vettels-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen problems similar to Vettel&#8217;s &#8211; manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Champions Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel are suffering from similar problems in 2014.<\/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-6.jpg\" alt=\"Kimi-Raikkonen-6\" width=\"439\" height=\"292\" \/>That is the claim of Raikkonen&#8217;s manager Steve Robertson, amid speculation that due to his struggles, the Finnish driver could be losing the support of Ferrari and beginning to cast eyes at a new project &#8212; world rallycross.<\/p>\n<p>But also notably struggling in 2014 is Sebastian Vettel, the reigning quadruple world champion who has been humbled by Red Bull newcomer Daniel Ricciardo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is true that Kimi and Sebastian seem to have a similar problem with their cars,&#8221; Robertson told Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new generation of F1 car has significantly reduced downforce at the front end, which has affected the driving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can only hope that Ferrari is able to resolve it as soon as possible, giving Kimi a car the way he wants it to be,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, 34-year-old Raikkonen was at the team&#8217;s Maranello factory on Wednesday, but the focus was not just on improving this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was also time for Kimi to acquaint himself with the 2015 car,&#8221; the Italian team said on its official website.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champions Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel are suffering from similar problems in 2014. That is the claim of Raikkonen&#8217;s manager Steve Robertson, amid speculation that due to his struggles, the Finnish driver could be losing the support of Ferrari and beginning to cast eyes at a new project &#8212; world rallycross. But also notably struggling &#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":[5262,149,93,5340,152,164,2198],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439"}],"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=22439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22440,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439\/revisions\/22440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}