So the European season rolled into Barcelona in May for the Spanish GrandPrix for the first race of the European season. This race would be memorable in more ways then one. On Saturday the massive surprise in Qualifying was Pastor Maldonado who managed to put his Williams on pole position for the race.
In the race itself Maldonado was fantastic leading the race from light's to flag and taking Williams first win in 8 years. It was also the first win for the Williams - Renault partnership. Pastor was followed home by Fernando Alonso and The ICEMAN as Kimi took his second podium in a row with a brilliant drive from fourth on the grid to finish on the podium.
The sport showed fantastic unity after the race as during the post race celebration's in the Williams garage a huge fire broke out sending smoke into the paddock. All the team's up and down the pit-lane came together and rushed to the scene with fire extinguishers and helped to evacuate the pit-lane and the Williams Garage and brought the fire under control until the fire crews at the circuit took over.
The events showed that behind all the competition the team's support each other. For the Monaco GrandPrix team's rallied around Williams and loaned them equipment so that they could go racing.
In Monaco the ICEMAN finished the in 9th place with another great drive. So far Kimi had scored points in every race except China. So following the Monaco GrandPrix F1 made the long haul trip across the Atlantic for the Canadian GrandPrix where Kimi picked up more points for the Lotus team when he finished in 8th place while team-mate Romain Grosjean picked up his second podium of the season as he finished in 2nd place behind Lewis Hamilton.
Following the Canadian GrandPrix F1 returned to Europe for the European GrnadPrix in Valencia. Sebastian Vettel dominated the race however just before the finish he retired with a alternator failure handing Fernando Alonso his first victory in Valencia much to the delight of his home crowd. Meanwhile Kimi picked up yet another podium as he finished second ahead of Michael Schumacher who took his first podium since his F1 comeback with Mercedes in 2010.
Following the European GrandPrix, F1 headed to the UK for the British GrandPrix in Silverstone, the race was won by RedBull's Mark Webber while Kimi continued his consistent run of results by finishing the race in 5th place with Grosjean in 6th place.
It was a return to the podium for Kimi and Lotus as the team's headed to Germany. The race was won by Fernando Alonso. It was a great display by Kimi who remained in third in the championship.
Following on from Germany the F1 circus headed to Budapest for the Hungarian GrandPrix. This was another fantastic race for Kimi as he came within one second of winning the race, however he finished in second just behind Lewis Hamilton. The big question on everyone's lips was with five podium's sp far this season when would Kimi and Lotus get their first win of the year?
From Hungary we headed to SPA for the Belgian GrandPrix, this was the scene of Kimi's last win in F1 with Ferrari in 2009, and is as close to a home GrandPrix for the ICEMAN as it gets as thousands of Finnish fan's flocked to SPA to support Kimi. Unfortunately he didn't win the race however he picked up yet another podium finish with third place just behind race winner Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel.
Following on from the Belgian GrandPrix, F1 headed to Monza for the Italian GrandPrix the final race of the European GrandPrix where Kimi finished a fantastic 5th place while Lewis Hamilton won the race for McLaren.
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