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KIMI Raikkonen scored his first Formula One victory in yesterday's Malaysian Grand Prix to take the lead in the world championship.
The 23-year-old, ice cool Finn did as he promised to do in the Australian Grand Prix and scorched to victory by a cavernous 40 seconds in only his 36th race.
But this time there was no blunder in the pits or on the track, even though his pace was so hot in the sweltering 34C heat only three other drivers finished on the same lap.
Superior Ferrari tactics earned Rubens Barrichello second place and Fernando Alonso, at 21 the youngest driver ever to start from pole, was third in a Renault, despite a high fever.
Alonso is the first Spaniard to finish on the podium since Alfonso De Portago in 1956, but it was a close run thing as he called on the radio for a doctor on the slowing down lap because he feared he would be sick.
At 23 years and 157 days, Raikkonen becomes the fourth youngest winner. He...