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Raikkonen emerges as title contender with Australian GP win

Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, indicating his team has the capacity to challenge its bigger rivals for the 2013 championship. Raikkonen managed to carry off a two-stop strategy while his six nearest rivals all needed three, and took the lead for good on lap 43 of 58 in a race which had seven different leaders. The win made the Finn the 15th man in F1 history to record 20 Grand Prix wins. 'Thanks everybody, I told you that the car is good,' Raikkonen said over his team radio as he returned to pits. Fernando Alonso of Ferrari was second, while pole sitter and three-time reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel was third in a Red Bull,...
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