By Chris Whyatt
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Kimi Raikkonen managed to keep Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella at bay to clinch Ferrari's first win of 2009 at an incident-packed Belgian Grand Prix.
World champion Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button crashed out early on, although the Brawn man's championship lead was cut by only two points to 16.
The incident saw the safety car come out, after which Raikonnen used his power-boost button to take the lead.
Red Bull's title-chasing Sebastian Vettel finished in third at Spa.
He started in eighth but posted the fastest lap of the race and now leapfrogs team-mate Mark Webber in the drivers' championship into third place behind Rubens Barrichello, who flopped over the line in seventh place with a Brawn engine that was close to blowing up.
BMW Sauber drivers Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld finished fourth and fifth respectively ahead of McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen.
Force India secured their historic first points in Formula 1 with Fisichella's second in dry, warm conditions in the Ardennes forest.
But the concertina-effect crash at the back of the chasing pack on lap one - in which Renault's Romain Grosjean appeared to tap Button causing Hamilton and Toro Rosso's Jaime Alguersuari to also hit the tyre barriers at Les Combes - handicapped the pacy Italian.
After the safety car went back in on lap five following the incident which is being investigated by race stewards, Raikkonen accelerated past Fisichella with ridiculous ease out of Eau Rouge using a quick dab of his Kers (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) button.
From that point on Fisichella pushed the Finn all the way and appeared the quicker driver - which was acknowledged by both men - but he could not get ahead of Raikkonen over the remaining 39 laps.
"We were probably not the fastest in lap times but we managed to keep everybody behind," said 2007 world champion Raikkonen. "And that's enough."
Fisichella admitted it was a "great result" for a Force India team which caused an enormous shock on Saturday by qualifying on pole, but that he felt a tinge of regret at how the race panned out.
"Actually, I was quicker than Kimi," he added. "He only took me because of Kers at the beginning and I'm a little bit sad for that."
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