Kimi Raikkonen's victory in Abu Dhabi had so much going for it.

It was the win that he had fumbled and lost back in Bahrain in April, when he had a look down the inside of Sebastian Vettel going into the first corner at the start of the 36th lap but backed out of when he should have hung tough.

It came in Formula One's most romantic setting, in the dusk of the multi-coloured Yas Marina. And it was a romantic result, with the historied Lotus marque for which bygone heroes Jim Clark and Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt and Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti once drove, gaining their first victory since Ayrton Senna's success in Detroit a quarter of a century ago.

Of course, Raikkonen himself saw nothing remotely romantic in it, because he isn't wired that way. "It's a long time for them, I guess," he said off-handedly. "I don't think there are any of the same people in the team any more. It's a name. It's the same team and it has been since Fernando [Alonso] was there, just a different name. It's a great name for us, good past, but you know I race for the team whatever the name is. I don't really care. Maybe it looks good in somebody's eyes but for me it really makes no difference."

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