Raikkonen ‘will fight as long as possible’

KIMI RAIKKONEN is still clinging on to his dream of winning the world championship despite seeing his masterful victory in the Belgian Grand Prix count for little in the title chase.

The Finn braved tricky conditions on a damp Spa-Francorchamps to take his sixth win of the season but McLaren team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya’s late crash took the shine off his victory and put Fernando Alonso within a whisker of the title.

Montoya was running second when backmarker Antonio Pizzonia punted him off four laps from the end, lifting Alonso to second and leaving the Spaniard’s championship lead at a healthy 25 points with three races left.