Raikkonen wins in F1

By The Associated Press

Sunday, March 17, 2013

MELBOURNE, Australia — Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen won Formula One’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, serving notice his team could challenge its bigger rivals for the 2013 championship.

The Finn took the lead for good on lap 43 of 58 in a race that had seven different leaders. Fernando Alonso of Ferrari was second, while pole sitter and three-time reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel was third.

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa was fourth, ahead of Lewis Hamilton in his first race for Mercedes and Mark Webber of Red Bull.

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