F1: Top 5 races of Kimi Raikkonen

#4 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, 2012

The Iceman kept his cool in the heat of the desert

One of the fanciest wins of the Iceman's career came interestingly at the time of the utter domination of Sebastian Vettel in his Red Bull and ahead of arguably more powerful cars like the Ferrari of Fernando Alonso.

But while so much about the 2012-13 era was about the constant winning shenanigans of Vettel, the sight of the finger-wagging being a constant, Raikkonen's triumph in the desert heat proved to be an exciting antithesis in the dying stages of the season.

Raikkonen, who began his Abu Dhabi challenge from P4, qualifying behind the Williams of Pastor Maldonado, looked in fine touch on Sunday and quickly picked up a couple of places passing the Red Bull of Mark Webber and the McLaren of Lewis Hamilton to take P2.

He would still trail Hamilton but seemed formidably quicker in his Lotus Renault, mounting pressure continuously till Lap 15.

But the Grand Prix wasn't devoid of any accidents. Soon, upon deployment of the Safety Car following the collision between the HRT of Karthikeyan and the Mercedes of Rosberg on Lap 9, it began to seem that a change in the leadership was on the cards.

On Lap 20, Hamilton suffered a technical fault in his gearbox and was left with no option but to park his car along the track, handing the lead of an unpredictable contest into Kimi Raikkonen's hands.

From thereon, until the final lap, Raikkonen stayed supremely cool and drove a collected race albeit some 'interruptions' on the team radio, on advice he certainly didn't seem to need.

Keeping Alonso's trailing Ferrari at bay in a clear two-way fight to the checkered flag, Raikkonen proved everyone why it made sense to "Leave him alone", for knew what he was doing.