RACE DEBRIEF
THE BELGIAN GP IN 3 KEY MOMENTS
1 A single Lewis lap destroys the ‘opposition
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Lewis Hamilton picked up at Spa where he left off in Spain. After the closing stint of the previous race at Barcelona, Hamilton spoke of reaching a special mental space that helped him crush chief pursuers Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas.
Once Mercedes finally dialled in its lower downforce set-up and turned up its fresh engines for qualifying, Lewis was unstoppable again at Spa. Spurred on by devasting news of the death of actor Chadwick Boseman, to whom Lewis dedicated his achievements in Belgium, Hamilton secured the 93rd pole position of his career with a mesmerising new track record lap in Q3 that his team boss Toto Wolff called “extra-terrestrial”.
