Lewis Hamilton beat Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg to take a dominant win at the Belgian Grand Prix to extend his championship lead. Rosberg finished 2.0 seconds behind the Briton, in a dry race despite teams anxiously studying weather maps for approaching rain in the final stages, to complete Mercedes’ seventh one-two in 11 races. The world champion converted pole position into a lead on the first lap and was in control throughout, taking his sixth win and extending his lead to 28 points.

France’s Romain Grosjean took an emotional third place for Lotus after Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, in his 150th race and the team’s 900th, suffered a right rear tyre blowout on the penultimate lap. Hamilton has now won six races this season, and 39 in his Formula One career.

Lewis Hamilton

• Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the Mercedes AMG team.
• He is the 2008 and 2014 Formula One World Champion.
• He has more race victories than any other British driver in the history of Formula One and is currently 5th on the all-time wins list, with 39 wins.
• He is the first driver of black African heritage to win a major race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in any discipline.