But atleast liking is a big step towards the idea of hiring him . So like W says , maybe we shouldnt believe the reporter . Even when Kimi was doing rally , Horner did say good things about him .
One reason why horner wouldnt want kimi at redbull is maybe the great relationship with webber .
Zitat Another report suggests Raikkonen will move to Red Bull
19 June, 2013 Kimi Raikkonen in 2010 as part of the Citroen Junior Team
The Formula 1 driver market is currently waiting for Kimi Raikkonen’s next move, which is likely to be a decision to accept an offer to drive for Red Bull next year, according to Oskari Saari, a commentator for Finnish television MTV3.
“Red Bull’s Helmut Marko said in Canada that driver decisions will be made in August, during the summer break,” Saari said.
It is strongly rumoured that Lotus’ Raikkonen, having firmly re-established his reputation in the wake of a rallying sabbatical, is now likely to move to Red Bull in 2014 to replace Mark Webber.
Saari believes Raikkonen is a better candidate than Red Bull’s youngsters at Toro Rosso, Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne.
“They’re good guys, but not quite good enough,” he insisted. ”I think the probability of Kimi going to Red Bull is very high — it would be a logical move.”
Saari also repeated speculation that Lotus might look to Williams’ Pastor Maldonado and his PDVSA sponsor millions to replace Raikkonen.
During his sabbatical from Formula 1 – in 2010 and 2011 – Raikkonen’s escapades were backed by Red Bull.
Kimi Räikkönen has stated officially that he has nothing to comment about possible Red Bull -negotiations. According to sources close to Red Bull who want to stay anonymous, Räikkönen has started preliminary negotiations with the team. The biggest obstacle is of course money, although Red Bull is willing to pay a bigger salary to Kimi than he gets from Lotus at this moment.
Red Bull has announced that Mark Webber is one of the team's options for next season, but in reality the team has known about Webber's departure for a few months already. Next year Webber will drive sportcars.
The financial situation in Lotus is on a shaky ground and the team can't necessarily afford to pay Kimi's salary. That's why Kimi wants to ensure he gets a top contract as soon as possible.
Nicole is really mad about Hakkinen ruining Kimi's move to Williams for the 2012 season. What do you guys think? How do you think things could have gone there for Kimi... I don't know much about Williams, just that it is a well established team and used to win.
I read this article " title="oi" /> I want to hear Mika to this.... But all in all I must say: I´m happy, that Kimi don´t move to Williams. He had a good year with Lotus last year " title="ii" />
maybe we should be thankful to Mika for ruining that h" title="hih" /> now seriously Williams would have been the wrong choice so I don't see what he ruined there. of course I'm bit surprised he thought that but probably Mika looked more at his own interests with Bottas. And it's also the question if Mika's opinion had so much influence to Williams' decision in the end which I doubt. Anyway it all went well with Lotus so I don't really care, it was his opinion and so Mika is just another person Kimi proved wrong " title="ii" />
ZitatParr: Hakkinen underestimated Kimi’s potential before his return to Formula One
Former CEO and chairman of Williams Grand Prix Holdings Adam Parr told about negotiations with Kimi Raikkonen, which he mentioned in his book “The Art of War: Five Years in Formula One”. Let me remind you that after the 2011 season there were a lot of speculations about the return of 2007 F1 World Champion with Williams.
“There were a lot of discussions about that among the board of Directors. And opinions of members were different. I believed in Kimi and, as you can see, I was right. And I wasn’t the only one who believed in him. But then we came to the decision that I agreed with as well. As you remember, 2011 was a horrible year for Williams. I was sure that 2012 would be massively better. I was sure that everything we were working at could help us to become more successful. But I couldn’t imagine how far we will go.
The main risk was in the fact that if we’ll give Kimi horrendous car, the whole year would be dreadful. But no matter which car we would be able to give him, if he’d do a fantastic job, would he leave Williams to another team after the end of the season? At that moment McLaren knew that Lewis Hamilton might leave, we knew that Red Bull could lose Mark Webber. So, even if Kimi would come back and do awesome job, like he did last year, could we save him more than for a year or two? It was a very difficult question for us.
There was one more moment. I went to Finland to meet people who supported Valtteri Bottas and I had pretty interesting conversation with Mika Hakkinen. Mika supports Bottas very much. He was right in something, but was wrong in another thing at the same time. He was right about Valtteri, but he was wrong about Kimi. I think now he’d say that he really underestimated Kimi ‘s ability to be back at top-level.“
To be honoust after yesterdays news of infinity racing I am quite excited and thinks Kimi will stay at lotus... But i wouldnt mind him in rbr t" title="hat" />
it does sound good but I will wait if there is also some action behind all these words from Infinity. If they can get more sponsors, especially a title sponsor then it's likely that Kimi will stay. If not.. " title="dunno" />
ZitatLotus is offering a giant contract to Räikkönen, money from the royal family
20.6.2013 - 12:14:33
Lotus-team's owner Genii Capital confirmed earlier this week that they had sold 65 % of their team to Infinity Racing -corporation. Infinity has a substantial amount of money. It's owned by both an American investment company and a company from Abu Dhabi. In the background of Infinity there is also a royal family from Brunei.
- I will say this simply. We will be number 1 after 12 months. I won't comment if the royal family comes from Brunei or not, Inifity's chairman of the board Mansoor Ijaz said in Sportspro's interview.
Ijaz didn't comment on the team's driver-schemes next season. But due to Infinity's ownership Kimi Räikkönen might still continue in the team. Lotus will in the future have completely different financial resources than they had earlier. Räikkönen enjoys it in the team and he can in the future get a salary he deserves, even 20 million euros per season.