{"id":17566,"date":"2021-09-04T13:56:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T08:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=145784"},"modified":"2021-09-04T13:56:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T08:26:27","slug":"former-world-champion-kimi-raikkonen-to-miss-dutch-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/former-world-champion-kimi-raikkonen-to-miss-dutch-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Former World Champion Kimi Raikkonen to miss Dutch Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen will miss this weekend\u2019s Dutch Grand Prix after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier today. Alfa Romeo has confirmed that Robert Kubica will replace Kimi Raikkonen for the rest of the race weekend including today\u2019s practice 3 and qualifying followed by tomorrow\u2019s race.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Kimi Raikkonen will miss the Dutch Grand Prix after testing positive for Covid-19<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you a speedy recovery Kimi, look forward to seeing you back on track soon!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DutchGP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DutchGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nSeZvUaHu5\">pic.twitter.com\/nSeZvUaHu5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1434056512796758018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raikkonen had taken part in Fridays practices 1 and 2 at Zandvoort and had only been tested after as no other members of the Alfa Romeo team have been impacted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKimi is displaying no symptoms and is in good spirits. He has immediately entered isolation in his hotel,\u201d conformed Alfa Romeo as reported by motorsport week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe team wishes Kimi a speedy recovery,\u201d they added. <\/span>The 2007 Formula 1 World Champion was earlier in the news due to his retirement announcement that he made on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The iceman made his debut at Sauber back in 2001 after which he spent five years with McLaren before he made a career-changing move to Ferrari for 3 long seasons where he won his first and only Formula 1 World Title while beating the likes of the seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and the two-time world champion Fernando Alonso in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>This season has proven to be tough for the Finnish as he currently sits at 17th in the drivers\u2019 standings scoring just two points so far in the 2021 Formula 1 season. Kimi holds the record for the most number of F1 starts in history with 344 in which he has taken 21 wins, 103 podiums and 18 pole positions.<\/p>\n<p>It is still unclear who will replace Kimi at Alfa Romeo as the list of several driver names is linked to the vacant seat for the 2022 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Raikkonen will not be taking part in the Dutch Grand Prix after he tested positive for COVID-19 earlier today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":38310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[944,1609,402,2670,2504,1613],"class_list":["post-17566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-alfa-romeo","tag-fia","tag-formula-1","tag-kimi-raikkonen","tag-motor-racing","tag-motorsport"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}