Lewis Hamilton has won the Belgian Grand Prix and takes the lead at the top of the driver’s championship in an incredible race where as expected, weather conditions caused the main issue for the teams. Mark Webber finished 2nd after a race where numerous big name title contenders failed to score points.

The GP got off to a crazy start with Mark Webber falling back to 6th place when the anti-stall kicked in off the line and rain began to fall. Hamilton was promoted into the lead with Kubica 2nd and Button 3rd.

On lap two it was carnage at the Bus Stop Chicane as nearly all of the field ran wide on the slippery track. Rubens Barrichello spun, and collided with Fernando Alonso bringing out the safety car, as the Spaniard’s weekend went from bad to worse. Sadly Barrichello had to retire on his 300th Grand Prix, but Alonso managed to crawl back to the pits and continue.

Robert Kubica soon fell down to 4th in the tricky conditions as he ran wide and was passed by Jenson Button and then Sebastian Vettel as the race for 2nd place began to heat up, with the young German having the aero advantage over Button who had minor front wing damage to his MP4-25.

The track was evidently still damp on lap 17 when Vettel dropped his Red Bull under braking and smacked Button in the sidepod, wiping the Brit who was completely minding his own business out. Vettel managed to jump across into the pits and continued. However, he didn’t get away completely scot-free as he was given a drive-thru penalty for causing a collision.

Things got even worse for Vettel when he received a left-rear puncture after colliding with Liuzzi, meaning he had to crawl along the long Spa lap back to the pits as any hope he had of scoring points went out of the window.

With nine laps to go rain began to fall, and not wanting to jump to intermediate tyres too early, McLaren didn’t bring Lewis Hamilton in straight away and they had a scare when he ran wide onto the gravel! He managed to keep the wheels spinning and his run of fastest laps meant he had a big enough advantage to stay in the lead.

Unsurprisingly, Hamilton then came in on the next lap for intermediate tyres. Kubica in 2nd and Webber in 3rd followed suit, but disastrously for Renault’s Pole, he overshot his pit box letting Webber through into 2nd place in the dying laps.

With just six laps of the race remaining another championship contender went out of the race when Fernando Alonso lost it at Malmedy and struck the wall, leaving his F10 stuck in the middle of the road, forcing the second safety car of the race.

It was tense moments in the wet for McLaren as they waited to see if their man Lewis Hamilton could hold on until the chequered flag, but he could ahead of Mark Webber and Robert Kubica.

Felipe Massa took 4th after a quiet but consistent race in the Ferrari, with Adrian Sutil showing Force India’s speed at Spa with 5th. After a fascinating inter-team battle between Rosberg and Schumacher, it was the former who took 6th ahead of the latter in 7th. Kobayashi took 8th, Petrov 9th and Alguersuari 10th.