Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen has won the Belgian grand prix with Giancarlo Fisichella of Force India, who started on pole, second. Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull was third with Brawn's Rubens Barichello seventh – but neither was able to take full advantage of Jenson Button's withdrawal from the race on lap one.
Button, alongside the reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton, was forced off after a collision that required the deployment of the safety car and resulted in four retirements. Button led his team-mate Barrichello by 18 points in the drivers' championship at the start of the race, an advantage that has now been cut to 16.
While Vettel claimed six points, moving him into third place overall, his team-mate Mark Webber failed to make up ground on Button after finishing outside the points in ninth. Webber slips to fourth, 20.5 points behind Button with five races to go.
The man to gain was Raikkonen, who claimed his fourth Belgian grand prix victory in five years to end a run of 26 races without a win for the 2007 world champion. Fisichella's podium finish gave Force India their first points in Formula One after 30 races.
Race standings
1 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1hr 23mins 50.995secs; 2 Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Force India 1:23:51.934; 3 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 1:23:54.870; 4 Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber 1:24:00.961; 5 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber 1:24:02.271; 6 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren 1:24:23.758; 7 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Brawn GP 1:24:26.456; 8 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams 1:24:27.203; 9 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 1:24:27.954; 10 Timo Glock (Ger) Toyota 1:24:32.485; 11 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India 1:24:33.631; 12 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:24:37.101; 13 Kazuki Nakajima (Jpn) Williams 1:24:45.236; 14 Luca Badoer (Ita) Ferrari 1:25:33.172
Not Classified: 15 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault 26 Laps completed; 16 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota 21 Laps completed; 17 Jenson Button (Gbr) Brawn GP 0 Laps completed; 18 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Renault 0 Laps completed; 19 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 0 Laps completed; 20 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) Scuderia Toro Rosso 0 Laps completed
Drivers' championship
1 Jenson Button (Gbr) Brawn GP 72pts; 2 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Brawn GP 56; 3 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 53; 4 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 51.5; 5 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 34; 6 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams 30.5; 7 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 27; 8 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota 22.5; 9 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 22; 10 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren 17; 11 Timo Glock (Ger) Toyota 16; 12 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault 16; 13 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber 10; 14 Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Force India 8; 15 Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber 8; 16 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Scuderia Toro Rosso 3; 17 Sebastien Bourdais (Fra) Scuderia Toro Rosso 2; (six other drivers on zero points)
File photo of Kimi Räikkönen 
Kimi Räikkönen at Spa (2007), his third consecutive win at this circuit
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen won the FIA Formula One 2009 ING Belgian Grand Prix at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium.

Kimi qualified 6th, but jumped to second after a multiple crash in the first corner involving Jenson Button (Brawn) and Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) collided with the rookies Romain Grosjean and Jaime Alguersuari and all four drivers were out of the race. When the pace car turned off the lights and the race restarted Kimi overtook the pole-sitter Giancarlo Fisichella in Eau Rouge, who drove his Force India to the second place.

Sebastian Vettel finished third for Red Bull, while his teammate Mark Webber was ninth after a drive-through penalty for unsafe release from pit-stop. BMW Sauber Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld placed 4th and 5th respectively.

Rubens Barrichello finished after Hamilton's teammate Heikki Kovalainen. Nico Rosberg closed the top eight for Williams.

Jenson Button did not score any points but still leads the championships with 72. Rubens Barrichello earned 2 points and is within 16 of Button. Sebastian Vettel is now only 3 points behind Barrichello and Mark Webber still has 51.5 points. Brawn GP tops Constructors' standings with 128 points. Red Bull Racing is 23.5 points behind with other far behind.