Top 10: Kimi Raikkonen's Best Moments in F1 as the Iceman enters his 300th Grand Prix

#5 2005 Japanese Grand Prix

Coming from 17th to win the race was certainly one of the most complete race wins of Kimi's career

Your qualifying gets compromised because of rain. It puts you 17th on the grid behind all your rivals. And from that point, bit by bit you pick off one rival after the other and then ultimately in the dying stages you overtake the leader to win the race. That too on a track like Suzuka that is not entirely an overtaker's paradise.

Kimi in Suzuka, on that day, achieved in a race that not many could expect and not many people thought was at all possible. Overtaking and jumping the likes of Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso and in the dying stages overtaking Giancarlo Fisichella was a script that not many would have written for Kimi but there he was doing the completely improbable thing.

According to many if it wasn't for the unreliable cars that Mclaren dished out with regularity, Kimi could have won the title couple of times by now.

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