It was McLaren's flying Finn, Kimi Raikkonen, who dominated yesterday's Grand Prix race in Monaco.

On a sunny, pleasant weather, in the middle of splendour and glamour in Monaco, the “Iceman” remained untouchable throughout the race. Starting on pole, Kimi lead every lap of the race.

With Spain, two weeks ago, this is his second consecutive win of the season and the fourth victory in his career. “It is of course a special race”, he declared afterwards. A few years ago, he had been very close to victory but he couldn't get past Montoya.

It is just the same, you get ten points from this race, but this is a special place and everyone looks in a slightly different way when you win in Monaco. For sure, we will have a good party tonight, Raikkonen expressed his satisfaction in a press conference after the race.

The second and the third positions were taken with a struggle against Alonso, during the closing laps, by the Williams-BMW team — Nick Heidfeld and Mark Webber, who thus scored their best career finishes.

The result moves Raikkonen up to the second place in the championship, being now 22 points down on Alonso (who has 49 points).

With Montoya finishing the fifth, the McLaren Mercedes Team achieved an outstanding performance. Because of a four-car incident in final practice, Juan Pablo Montoya started from the back of the grid (the sixteenth), managing to get through on Monaco's difficult track. Montoya, followed by his former teammate, Ralf Schumacher — who started the eighteenth in his Toyota — made their way reaching just behind Fernando Alonso's Renault and overtaking the Ferrari pair of Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, who had nothing else to do than settle for the seventh and eighth positions.