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Unpaid Raikkonen threatens to boycott Lotus

Eric Boullier has confirmed that Lotus is still behind in its payments to Kimi Raikkonen. The Finnish driver, who sat out Thursday's proceedings in Abu Dhabi, revealed when he finally arrived in the Persian Gulf that he almost didn't make the trip from Switzerland, and he could sit out the last two races of 2013. "For sure (I could)," the 2007 world champion, who is returning to Ferrari in 2014, answered when asked about not racing in Austin and Brazil. "I enjoy racing, I enjoy driving -- but a big part of it is business. Sometimes when that is not dealt with like it should, we end up in an unfortunate situation." The current impasse was clearly triggered by the recent...
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