Iceman Keeps His Cool In Budapest Boiler
[I]Kimi Raikkonen scored a brilliant against-the-odds victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix on a day when world championship leader Fernando Alonso came away empty-handed.[/I]
A flying start saw him through into second place by the end of the opening lap, and from there he immediately became a contender for the win.
By half-distance team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya, running the optimum two-stop strategy, was his only remaining competition.
After the Colombian was felled by a broken driveshaft shortly thereafter, Raikkonen was able to stroke it home to his fourth win of the season.
An hour and a half earlier, Michael Schumacher got away cleanly from pole position but all hell broke loose when the field arrived at the first corner.
Rubens Barrichello damaged his Ferrari’s nosecone against the back of Jarno Trulli’s Toyota and Christian Klien’s Red Bull Racing car was tipped into a spectacular (but mercifully low-speed) roll by Jacques Villeneuve’s Sauber.
Two other developments had huge ramifications for both the race and the world championship.
Alonso, attempting to make up for his relatively poor sixth-place starting position, had a peek down the inside of a locked-up Ralf Schumacher and hit the Toyota just hard enough to damage his front wing, which parted company from the Renault a few corners later.
Like Barrichello, Alonso had no choice but to pit for a new nosecone and plummeted to the tail end of the field.
The standing as the Iceman closes the gap with 6 races to go. Anything is still possible.
01 F.ALONSO 87
02 K.RAIKKONEN 61
03 M.SCHUMACHER 55
04 J.TRULLI 36
05 JP.MONTOYA 34
06 R.SCHUMACHER 32
07 R.BARRICHELLO 31
08 G.FISICHELLA 30
Credits: Oneshift News Team
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