{"id":4822,"date":"2010-04-28T06:32:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T10:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2010-04-28T06:32:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T10:32:57","slug":"raikkonen-still-not-ruling-out-f1-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-still-not-ruling-out-f1-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen still not ruling out F1 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kimi Raikkonen insists he still has not made a decision about returning to formula one in 2011.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After agreeing to end his Ferrari contract a year early late in 2009, the Finn signed on with Red Bull and Citroen and then endured a difficult and crash-laden start to his new career in the World Rally Championship.<\/p>\n<p>But early this month in Jordan, 30-year-old Raikkonen became the first driver since Carlos Reutemann to score points in both F1 and world rallying.<\/p>\n<p>And then shortly after declaring he is not missing formula one, he finished less than 7 minutes behind winner Sebastien Loeb in Turkey for fifth place.<\/p>\n<p>But when asked if his recent results make it more likely he will stick with rallying in 2011, Raikkonen told Turun Sanomat newspaper: &#8220;It has not turned in any direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no rush for me to make decisions.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll have to see what are the possibilities and what for me is the most interesting &#8212; what I enjoy the most and what it is I most want to do,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will see at a point some time later this year,&#8221; said Raikkonen.<\/p>\n<p>Famously not fond of F1&#8217;s off-track activities and pressures, and ruing the lost days of characters like James Hunt, Raikkonen&#8217;s observers agree that he seems happier in the rallying world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the F1 world could go back 20 years, it would be the same as rallying now,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;It (rallying) is still professional but in just a bit more of a relaxed style.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen insists he still has not made a decision about returning to formula one in 2011.<\/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":[53,3],"tags":[5262,5261,5340,152],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822"}],"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=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}