Kimi Raikkonen in 2018: Occasions where the Finn was compromised by Ferrari

#3 The Pit blunder at Spa-Francorchamps

What went wrong for Kimi in the pits at Spa?

The Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps has resulted in Kimi Raikkonen mustering 4 epic wins out of the 20 he's managed in his career.

Perhaps that standalone statistic alone suffices to explain the importance of a track where Raikkonen has enjoyed some of his famous moments and where he's also hailed as the 'King of Spa.'

But that said, 2018 Belgian Grand Prix wasn't the best possible contest for the Iceman. This is both surprising and sad- particularly from the standpoint of his fans- who would've expected perhaps an easy podium, considering till the second practice run during the qualifying, the Finn was flying.

He had topped the second practice and looked confident to start well, if not manage a win at the end.

That said, come the race-day and bad omens would immediately truncate the little run of good form that he had enjoyed a day prior. Resulting from the opening-lap skirmish that was triggered by the Renault of Hulkenberg, colliding into Alonso, only to see other cars on the track get pushed around, the Red Bull of Ricciardo clipped the right-rear of Raikkonen's Ferrari.

It wasn't a great sight to see Kimi limp into the pits for fresh rubber, but only after having fallen back to the end of the grid. Therefore, by lap 2, he was seventeenth on the grid, after the likes of Nico, Alonso, and Leclerc had retired following the opening lap drama.

That said, while Raikkonen's race was a compromised one at the start and for no fault of his team's, at least at that point, once he was into the pits, the team did not properly check on his car.

This is now clearly established since a series of racing media outlets have gone on to cover Raikkonen's woes extensively at Belgium in the aftermath of Spa.

It's said, by the time Raikkonen first arrived into the pits, the DRS wing of his Ferrari was open. It probably had something to do with the accident on the opening lap. And that is where one wonders what might have happened had Raikkonen's wing been attended to and in the best possible manner? Surely, there would've been something better that Kimi might have been able to deliver.