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Kimi Räikkönen experienced a perfect weekend at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona. The Pole Position on Saturday as well as the fastest race lap and the victory in today's race supported is ambitions for the championship title.

Kimi had a perfekt start and defended his pole position, while behind him his team mate Felipe Massa passed Fernando Alonso and replaced the Spaniard on the third place. But because of an accident the Safety-Car was deployed already in the second lap. Kimi claimed his lead once more at the restart in lap four ahead of Massa, Alonso and Hamilton.

Kimi could gradually extend his lead on Felipe Massa by more than seven seconds in the following laps. He then completed his first pitstop in lap 20 and returned to the track on the eighth position. However, already two laps later Kimi then improved on the second place behind Nick Heidfeld, after some other drivers also had absolved their own pitstop. A heavy crash of Heikki Kovalainen in lap 23 had the consequence that the Safety Car was deployed until the track was clean again in lap 29. In the meantime Nick Heidfeld also absolved his first pitstop and Kimi took over the lead again.

Kimi mastered the restart in lap 29 perfectly. He now led the field ahaed of his team mate Felipe Massa and the McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton. He was able to pull ahead from his pursuers a little and distanted Felipe Massa by almost four seconds. Kimi then completed his second pitstop in lap 47. However, he didn't have to pass on the leadership of the race, because also Hamilton and Massa absolved their own pitstop in the same lap or one lap before.

Kimi finally defended his lead up to the checkered flag and could celebrate his second season victory after Malaysia with that. Kimi's team mate Felipe Massa finished second in the race and the McLaren Mercedes driver became third.

Kimi remained first in the championship with 29 points now and has a nine point lead on Lewis Hamilton, who has 20 points on his account.

"It would be hard to do better than this! Yesterday pole, today the win, rounded off with a second place for Felipe. We are leading both championships which I'm happy about. The whole weekend went well and we managed to get the result we came here for. It was not an easy win, but what matters is the ten points, not the lead you have when you cross the line. I did not get a perfect start, but it was enough to keep the lead and then we tried to control the situation. The two Safety Car periods complicated things slightly, wiping out the lead we had built up in the first part, but we never lost the lead of the race. The car handled very well and had a great balance. We are leading the world championship, but we know we cannot let up at all: it takes nothing to drop down the order. Heikki's accident? I was very happy when the team told me he was alright and that's the most important thing."

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