French Grand Prix

Ferrari's on cloud 9 as they finish 1 and 2

Kimi Raikkonen will start the French grand prix on pole position as he qualified in P1 at France.

The pole, the 16th of Raikkonen's grand prix career, left the Finn perfectly placed to repeat his 2007 victory at the circuit.



Poland's Robert Kubica, the championship leader for BMW-Sauber after his victory in Canada earlier this month, qualified seventh but will start sixth because of a 10-place penalty imposed on McLaren's Hamilton.

Hamilton, who picked up the punishment after crashing into Raikkonen in the Canadian Grand Prix pit lane, qualified third and will start 13th.

His demotion left Renault's double world champion Fernando Alonso sharing the second row with Italian Jarno Trulli in a Toyota.

McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen moved up to fifth. Kubica leads Hamilton and Massa by four points in the championship with Raikkonen a further three adrift after seven races

Still there are no hopes for Force India as they will start from the last two positions 19 and 20.

Brazilian Nelson Piquet, still without a point, will make his first top 10 start after moving up to that position following Hamilton's demotion.

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