With his win in Malaysia, Kimi Raikkonen scored his 49th podium and is aiming - like Fernando Alonso - for his 50th podium of the career. Only nine drivers in the history of Formula One have scored more than 50 podiums, and here is the all-time list:
Alonso scored his first win at the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix, his 29th race start, then had to wait another 22 races to score his second win at the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Since then, Alonso has quite frequently visited the top step of the podium and his longest winning drought is seven races, between USA and China in 2006. The last win for the Spaniard was the 2007 Italian Grand Prix, so at the moment his current drought is six races.
Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren MP4-19 Mercedes) 2004 Grand Prix of Bahrain, Manama © XPB/LAT |
2004 - Ferrari cakewalk