FORMULA ONE
Hamilton marks 200th race with win in Belgium
Spa-Francochamps — 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. The Briton’s fifth success in 12 races this season came a day after he equalled Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 pole positions. "Sebastian put a great fight on but this is what I said I was coming to do, so I did it," he told the crowd from the podium. Vettel finished second for Ferrari, 2.3sec 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. "It was really intense because every lap I was waiting for Lewis to do a mistake. He didn’t," said Vettel, whose next race is Ferrari’s home Italian Grand Prix at Monza. "He was probably waiting for me to make a mistake. I didn’t," added the German, who set a race lap record of 1min 46.577sec in the closing...
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