Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium), Aug 30 (DPA) Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella created history by giving India their first-ever Formula One race point, finishing a sensational second in the Belgian Grand Prix, even as Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen overtook the Italian, who started from the pole, to win the race.

Fisichella, who created history for Force India, said he was bit saddened by the result.

'Actually I was quicker than Kimi. He could overtake me just because of KERS at the beginning after the safety car phase and I am a little bit sad. It is great because we finished second, but actually we could have won the race,' the Italian said.

He said they had achieved their goal of scoring points for his team Force India, partly owned by Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya.

'It is a great result for us. The target was to score points and to finish second with eight points is a great result, but I am a bit sad.'

Raikkonen give his team their first victory since last year's Brazilian GP. German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel was third.

Raikkonen needed one hour 23:50.995 seconds for the 44 laps of 7.004 kilometres each for a total distance of 308.052 km.

The safety car had to be deployed on the first lap after a multiple-car crash saw defending world champion Lewis Hamilton in a McLaren-Mercedes, championship leader Brawn GP's Jenson Button, the Toro Rosso of Jaime Alguersuari and Romain Grosjean in a Renault, withdraw.

After the safety car withdrew on the fourth lap Raikkonen's Ferrari, which was driving with the speed-accelerating KERS system, managed to straight away overtake Fisichella for the lead and the Finn admitted that he benefited from the KERS system.

'I knew that to win it, I would have to get past him and if I had not done it after the safety car phase, it would have been difficult as they had too much speed to get it after that.

'I just made sure I was close enough at the first corner and then went as close as I could after that. I had to put in a lot of effort, we were probably not the fastest.'

Raikkonen then managed to hold on to the lead after the first fuel stop.

However, Red Bull's Mark Webber, who was in third place in the championship standings ahead of the race, lost valuable ground when he was given a drive-through penalty after being released by his pit crew too early and nearly crashed into BMW-Sauber's Nick Heidfeld.

Raikkonen and Fisichella were then trading times as there was very little to chose between their speeds as Renault's Fernando Alonso had climbed up to third.