Kimi Raikkonen claimed his fourth Belgian GP victory in five years to end an astonishing run of 26 races without a win for the 2007 world champion.
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Red hot! Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen celebrates on the podium after winning the Belgian F1 GP at the Spa-Francorchamps yesterday |
Kimi Raikkonen claimed his fourth Belgian GP victory in five years to end an astonishing run of 26 races without a win for the 2007 world champion. It was a chaos-filled event, though, with British duo Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton crashing out on the opening lap in an accident.
Despite Button failing to score points for the first time this season, he still has a 16-point cushion over Brawn teammate Barrichello who was seventh, with Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel 19 points down after he came third.
Raikkonen was hounded all the way in his Ferrari for the majority of the race by pole-sitter Giancarlo Fisichella, who gave Force India their first points in F1.
Raikkonen said: "We haven't brought new parts for the last few races as we are looking at next year. But my aim was always still to win a race because we are aiming for third in the (constructors') championship.
"We probably weren't the fastest in terms of lap time, but we were able to keep everybody behind us.
"Hopefully we can now win more."
