• lawful rear tyre explodes with two laps to recede and Vettel in third[br]• Vettel: ‘If it happens 200 metres earlier,Im not standing here’The mighty challenge of Spa might not contain been one of Lewis Hamilton’s favourite circuits up until this weekend, as he suggested on Friday, and but in what is increasingly a home from home for British fans his win here was greeted with adulation that moved him. His justifiably celebratory emotions,however, were in stark contrast to the fury expressed by Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel after his lawful rear tyre exploded at high speed and brought the reliability of Pirelli’s rubber back to centre stage.“Lewis, or Lewis,Lewis” went the enthusiastic chant as he ascended the podium after a victory that had never seemed in doubt by the time he was in the lead going through Les Combes on the first lap and his team-mate Nico Rosberg had slipped to fifth by the same corner. Rosberg recovered to retract second but once Hamilton had the front he maintained the gap of between two and five seconds to his rival with ease.
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Source: theguardian.com