He beat second-placed Nico Rosberg by two-thirds of a second.
■ Top-seeded David Ferrer became the first Spaniard in 37 years to reach the Stockholm Open final when he beat fifth-seeded Ernests Gulbis of Latvia, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1.
The American Jared Palmer, a qualifier, pulled off the day's biggest upset when he beat fifth-seeded Sjeng Schalken of the Netherlands, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2.
ARTHURS SPRINGS UPSET: Australia's Wayne Arthurs provided the first upset of the Sybase Open in San Jose, Calif., yesterday when he beat fifth-seeded Sjeng Schalken of the Netherlands, 6-4, 6-4 in the first round.
Sometimes a horse like him can run above themselves because he does have a load of ability and it hasn't quite gone to plan since he beat First Lieutenant last year.
He beat second-placed South African Richard Murray by 20 seconds, with Olympic silver medallist Javier Gomez finishing eighth.
Briton Dan Evans reached his first semi-final on the ATP Tour as he beat third seed Philipp Kohlschreiber in three sets at the Zagreb Indoors.
Raikkonen drove his Lotus aggressively and smartly to win the race on one fewer pit stop than Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, who he beat into second and third places.
A few years back, when Allex made the case for opening a factory in Cameron County, he knew whom he was trying to beat: first, the Northeasterners, then the Carolinians, then the Mexicans.
He lost out to Canadian Joel Wapnick - the contestant he beat into second place in 1993 - who put isogriv on the board, referring to a map reference line.
His professional career goes back almost 14 years, making him one of the same generation as Bradley Wiggins, whom he beat into second place in the Tour of Rhodes in his final season as an amateur.
