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World champion Kimi Raikkonen won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday to stretch Ferrari's winning streak to three and make it the clear Formula One leader.
The Finnish driver moved Ferrari clear atop the drivers' and the constructors' standings with his second Spanish GP won in four years. Raikkonen's 17th career victory moved him nine points clear of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton while Ferrari took a 12-point lead as a team.
Ferrari's second straight 1-2 sweep was so dominant that it had the whole team fired up - especially 'The Ice Man', as Raikkonen is known because of his even-tempered manner.
"We are leading both championships, which I am happy about. The whole weekend went well," Raikkonen said after holding off Massa to clinch a 3.228-second victory and become the eighth straight wire-to-wire winner at Barcelona.
Team principal Stefano Domenicali was visibly pumped up when the team lined up for the traditional post-race winning photo in pit lane. Raikkonen, who was second to teammate Felipe Massa at Bahrain three weeks ago, was smiling from the moment he clinched his 55th podium - to match countryman and two-time world champion Mika Hakkinen.
The slyest of grins crossed his face as he nearly let the bubbly fly with Spain's King Juan Carlos passing to exit the prize-giving ceremony.
Ferrari's one-point effort at the season-opening Australian GP in Melbourne - its worst start for 16 years - is now a distant memory after such a commanding performance.
"We didn't need to push," said Raikkonen, who started the winning streak with a victory at the Malaysian GP. "If we wanted to push, we could go much faster, for sure, but there's no point in risking anything or using the engine more than you need to."
And it only gets better for the Italians. The Turkish GP is the next race on the schedule, a track where Massa comes in as two-time defending winner. Raikkonen was second last year after winning there in a McLaren two years ago.
"Our car should be quite strong in Turkey," Raikkonen, who has 29 points, said.
Hamilton returned to the podium after a two-race absence, stretching to his win at Melbourne. But the McLaren driver's 12th podium from 21 races was barely celebrated with teammate Heikki Kovalainen spending the night in hospital after a violent crash.
A likely wheel rim failure caused the Finnish driver's front left tyre to explode and his car to fly into the side wall at 241 kmph. It took at least 10 minutes for the track's medical team to remove Kovalainen from the wrecked car, which was missing half of its front.
Kovalainen was shaken but medical scans showed no injuries. It won't be known for a few days if the Finn will be available for Istanbul on May 11.
"(Heikki) is safe and well," McLaren team principal Ron Dennis said. "He has no broken bones and CT scans performed at the hospital confirm that he has no head injuries, and the team is optimistic that he will make a full recovery over the next few days."
Hamilton overcame a career-worst 13th-place finish at Bahrain to get back into the points. The Briton is convinced McLaren has the car to compete with Ferrari.
Robert Kubica of BMW Sauber was nearly six seconds back in fourth and Red Bull driver Mark Webber rounded out the top five. Kubica is third with 19 points, one more than Massa.
Jenson Button of Honda was sixth, followed by Kazuki Nakajima of Williams and Jarno Trulli of Toyota in the final positions to earn points.
Ferrari leads the constructors' with 47 points. BMW Sauber, which had its worst race of the season after Nick Heidfeld finished ninth, is next with 35, one better than McLaren.
In all, nine drivers retired due to mechanical problems or accidents. That stopped the Ferraris from pulling away with the field bunched back together on several occasions.
Two-time champion Fernando Alonso of Renault, who started second, retired with engine problems after 34 laps.
"The motor broke, I think," said Alonso, who won his home race here two years ago. "It's tough because we're here in Spain. But I think in the next race we can do a better performance."
Alonso almost didn't make the start after running off the track while working his tyres on the formation lap.
The Spaniard had to attack from the start to have any chance of victory in front of 132,000 spectators. But Massa moved past Alonso on the straight leading into the first corner to leave Ferrari in control to the finish line.
