{"id":4137,"date":"2010-04-04T07:38:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T11:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2010-04-04T07:38:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T11:38:57","slug":"raikkonen-not-ruling-out-2011-f1-return-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-not-ruling-out-2011-f1-return-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen not ruling out 2011 F1 return rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kimi Raikkonen has played down speculation he is eyeing a return to formula one for the 2011 season.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After a tough start to his switch to world rallying this year, the 30-year-old Finn scored his first points in this weekend&#8217;s Jordan Rally.<\/p>\n<p>But, due to his existing contractual relationship with Citroen sponsor Red Bull, recent reports have linked him with replacing Mark Webber to be Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s 2011 teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way I see it is that for now I&#8217;m a rally driver, so I&#8217;m not thinking about the past or the future, even though people keep asking me,&#8221; the 2007 world champion said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At some point I need to take a decision about what I do next, but that won&#8217;t be until the second half of the year at the earliest,&#8221; he said on the official WRC website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything is possible, but I need to know how I will get on in rallying before I take any decisions.\u00a0 For now I have only just started and so far I am really enjoying myself,&#8221; added Raikkonen.<\/p>\n<p>He insists he is not missing F1, and revealed that he was not even aware that Sepang is hosting this weekend&#8217;s third round of the championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somebody actually pointed out to me earlier that it was the Malaysian grand prix this weekend; I hadn&#8217;t even realised until it was mentioned,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen has played down speculation he is eyeing a return to formula one for the 2011 season.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,152],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137"}],"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=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}