{"id":9249,"date":"2010-10-27T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2010-10-27T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T20:47:32","slug":"raikkonen-close-to-staying-in-rally-with-citroen-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-close-to-staying-in-rally-with-citroen-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen close to staying in rally with Citroen &#8211; boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen is reportedly close to deciding to stay in the world rally championship with Red Bull and Citroen next year.<\/p>\n<p>After F1&#8217;s world champion of 2007 quelled speculation he is looking to return to formula one next year with Renault, Citroen&#8217;s competition boss has now revealed that talks between Raikkonen and his sponsor Red Bull are well advanced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know the negotiations are progressing well for Kimi to stay in the Citroen junior team,&#8221; Olivier Quesnel reportedly told Autosprint magazine in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know when something will be officially announced,&#8221; he acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>It had been rumoured that energy drink Red Bull&#8217;s enthusiasm for the Citroen junior team project had waned.<\/p>\n<p>More rumours had linked Raikkonen, 31, with a move to Ford, with funding from the Monster energy drink.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen is reportedly close to deciding to stay in the world rally championship with Red Bull and Citroen next year. After F1&#8217;s world champion of 2007 quelled speculation he is looking to return to formula one next year with Renault, Citroen&#8217;s competition boss has now revealed that talks between Raikkonen and his sponsor Red &#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":[5262,5340,152,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249"}],"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=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9250,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions\/9250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}