SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton celebrated his 200th Formula One race in style on Sunday with a pole-to-flag Belgian Grand Prix victory for Mercedes that halved Sebastian Vettel's championship lead to seven points. "Sebastian put a great fight on but this is what I said I was coming to do so I did it," Hamilton told the crowd from the podium. Vettel finished second for Ferrari, 2.3 seconds behind, after pushing his rival all the way without being able to get close enough to make a move stick in what amounted to a two-horse race of relentless pressure. I didn't," added the German, who set a race lap record of one minute 46.577 seconds in the closing stages. That cannot happen with a top team," said Verstappen, whose orange-clad compatriots accounted for a majority of the crowd.

Source: The Star August 27, 2017 13:30 UTC