2003, Brazil – Raikkonen or Fisichella?
For post-race drama and confusion, the 2003 working of the Brazilian Grand Prix is true up there – provided that the win went to Jordan, then McLaren, then Jordan once more.
Scheduled to run over 71 laps, the rain-hit, incident-filled race was red-flagged after 56 of them following a few scary accidents involving Jaguar driver Mark Webber and Renault’s Fernando Alonso.
First, Webber misplaced management of his automotive by the Arquibancadas nook and slammed into the boundaries, earlier than the particles he littered over the monitor caught out the approaching Fernando Alonso, who closely impacted the partitions on each side of the monitor.
Then got here the confusion, with Jordan’s Giancarlo Fisichella – who had made only one pit cease – taking the lead shortly earlier than the race was stopped, and initially celebrating in parc ferme, just for McLaren rival Kimi Raikkonen to be awarded the win on a two-lap depend again.
That was not the top of it, although, with a post-race assessment confirming that Fisichella had moved into P1 two full laps earlier than the stoppage, that means he was the deserving winner, and resulting in an uncommon trophy handover on the following spherical in Imola.
