Kimi Räikkönen took the lead on lap 1 in Spa on Sunday and never looked back despite some creditable pressure from possibly Ferari bound Giancarlo Fisichella.  After winning a shock pole, Fisichella drove a good race to lock up Force India’s first points in Formula One.  Sebastien Vettel did well to get on the podium and shave six points off Jenson Button’s championship lead, while Rubens Barichello nursed home a wounded Brawn machine in seventh and claim a pair of championship points.

Button was the unlucky victim of the usual Spa stupidity in the opening laps, with rookie Romain Grosjean playing culprit in causing a first lap melee that also took out Jaime Alguersauri and Lewis Hamilton before one lap had even been properly run.  Also having a bad day were Jarno Trulli, whose first row starting spot meant little when the brakes on his Toyota failed near the halfway point and Fernando Alonso, whose Renault team had problems AGAIN with a wheel on a pit stop.

And poor, poor Luca Badoer.  Well off the pace and the last car running.  You have to feel for the guy, but honestly, he’s clearly out of his depth in a current F1 car.