Kimi Raikkonen gave Lotus a dream start to the Formula One season on Sunday with a winning strategy carried out to perfection in the Australian Grand Prix. The 2007 world champion's victory was the second of a comeback that started last season and his second in Melbourne since his triumph with Ferrari in the year of his championship success. No one in the Lotus camp was getting carried away enough to suggest a repeat of that feat was on the cards this year, not least the famously taciturn but hugely popular Finn. Even so, the sight of Raikkonen pulling away from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and the Red Bull of triple champion Sebastian Vettel with the fastest lap of the race as the chequered...
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