Raikkonen
Wins in
Belgium

It was a much needed victory for Ferrari and Raikkonen as the team secured its first win this season and Kimi clinched first after not doing so for sixteen months. Though it was surprisingly hard fought, with Fisichella on the pace not only in qualifying, but for the entire Grand Prix. In the end, Raikkonen was only able to win by less than a second, with the hard charging Fisichella only subdued by the KERS system on the Ferrari.

This is what Kimi had to say following the Belgian Grand Prix

"We were behind straight away in the first race compared to the top teams and we made a big step in Barcelona but it still has not been enough and for sure we have not brought new parts to the car for a few races as we are really putting an effort into next year.

I mean getting the win now; it's quite a long time since the last one, so it was perfect. My aim was to win at least one race and try to keep third place in the championship, so this is going to help us a lot but I needed a bit of effort today to get the win.

I knew that [Giancarlo] was faster. Probably we did a little mistake to put on the harder tyres at the first pit stop and they just did not warm up and maybe like three laps before the stop they suddenly started to work much better. I was able to push harder. I knew that if I could keep him behind at the pit stop it is pretty difficult for him to get past.

They were very fast in the middle sector, coming back to the last chicane. Sometimes they got very close but I just started to use the KERS in a slightly different way to make sure he was not going to get a run on me and it was not so difficult. I mean it is hard to overtake anyhow, so it was very easy. We won and we have KERS at every race and that’s a fact."