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Limited edition Martyn TurnerFormula One : Ferrari's world champion Kimi Raikkonen stretched his Formula One lead to nine points with a dominant win from pole position in the Spanish Grand Prix today.
Brazilian Felipe Massa sealed Ferrari's second successive
one-two finish, and third victory-in-a-row, with McLaren's Lewis
Hamilton third to revive his title challenge after a disappointing
last race in Bahrain.
Raikkonen's 17th grand prix win left the Finn with 29 points,
nine clear of closest rival Hamilton, and catapulted Ferrari back
in front of BMW Sauber in the constructors' standings.
While Raikkonen had an uneventful afternoon in the sunshine,
his compatriot Heikki Kovalainen was flown to hospital with
concussion after his McLaren plunged across the gravel and into a
tyre wall.
Kovalainen had been leading at the time after both Ferraris
and Hamilton had made their first pitstops.
"He banged his head in the accident and has concussion. As a
precaution he is going to hospital to have more checks," McLaren
chief executive Martin Whitmarsh told reporters outside the
circuit's medical centre.
Poland's Robert Kubica was fourth for BMW Sauber with
Australian Mark Webber fifth in a Red Bull and Britain's Jenson
Button sixth for Honda's first points of the year.
Japan's Kazuki Nakajima was seventh for Williams and Italian
Jarno Trulli eighth for Toyota.
The first European race of the season ended with an entirely
predictable result, with the Circuit de Catalunya setting a record
as the track with the longest run of successive winners from pole
position.
Raikkonen, the only driver to have won twice so far this
season, was the eighth in a row to have triumphed in Barcelona from
pole.


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