Kimi Raikkonen, driving a McLaren, won a dramatic Brazilian Grand Prix in Interlagos today to follow up his debut success in Malaysia last month.
The Finn was declared the winner of the third leg of the Formula One campaign when stewards stopped the race with 55 of the 71 laps completed.
The Interlagos circuit had been rendered unraceable after a high speed accident suffered by Fernando Alonso's Renault had left debris strewn across the track.
There was bitter disappointment in the Jordan pits as their driver Giancarlo Fisichella had initially been hailed as the winner, only for the Italian to find himself second when the official result, taken from the 53rd lap, came through.
As if in disgust at missing out on victory, his car promptly caught fire.
Alonso, whose crash occured after the race was stopped, was placed third.
In a race full of spills and thrills a clutch of casualties included Michael Schumacher. The five time world champion's low key start to the 2003 campaign showed no sign of ending when he spun off on lap 26.
The German ace's Ferrari aquaplaned on standing water that had earlier claimed the cars of Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams) and Antonio Pizzonia (Jaguar).
Mark Webber amazingly managed to somehow save himself from an identical fate when spinning at the same spot, the Australian retaining control of his Jaguar.
But by lap 44 he was lucky to escape unhurt when the front of his Jaguar disintegrated after hurtling into a crash barrier at high speed.
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello was another who was forced to retire, his Ferrari packing up just after he had taken the halfway lead from David Scot Coulthard - the ninth year in a row he has failed to finish his home Grand Prix.