Iceman burns it up in Spa GP

Raikkonen took out P1 in the Belgium GP, raising hopes that he is still in the race for the driver's points.

On a slippery track in rainy, Spa, there were 5 retirements with many teams experiencing difficulties predicting which tyres were best suited to the track. Montoya took a spin off the track. Michael Schumacher, Trulli, Fisichella, Sato and Coulthardt were retired. Almost able to set your watch by Sato crashing into someone, he took out Michael Schumacher's ferrari early in the race and receiving a crowning from Schumie for his carelessness and was dropped 10 places on the grid for the next GP in Sao Paolo.

Alonso took P2 and Jensen Button finally got a look in, courtesy of all the retirements and took P3.

A number of others were afforded driver's points in this leg, with Webber[who?] taking P4, Villeneuve in P5, Ralf Schumacher in P7 and Monteiro getting a P8 in the new Jordan. Even Karthikeyan threw off the wooden spoon for the day scoring a P11.

Klien scored a 9 for Redbull and Massa got P10 for Sauber.

The Minardi-Cosworths and Red Bulls suffered under tyre selection, and Montoya and Pizzonia crawled in after slippery track bingles.