The race is all, and the Belgian Grand Prix produced yet another victory for Lewis Hamilton,

his fifth of the season out of seven races, to take his tally to an astonishing 89 Formula One victories.

Once again, Valtteri Bottas couldn't match his teammate, but he was at least second ahead

of Max Rustappen, as those three drivers filled the podium for the fifth time.

I'm Ed Sture and joining me to review the spa weekend, a Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell.

COVID-19 restrictions still in full force, Mark.

You were our man on the ground at spa this weekend.

It looked like a very odd place to be for a Grand Prix without 100,000 fans dining on fritzer mayo.

Odd weekend? Yeah, it was a little bit. The whole place was green, and it's usually orange, as you know.

And it normally takes forever to get from one place to another, and it's really, really easy.

So whilst much more convenient than normal, it was much sadder, you know, it was very, very sort of, if melancholy place, because you always associated with such, you know, intense activity. And then the crowds getting involved and, you know, intense activity and then the crowds getting involved and,

you know, the whole, a wall, sort of, um, Stapin fans usually. So, yeah, just looking out across

and the other side of the paddock and just seeing beautiful green valleys, it just didn't seem quite right.

Yeah, it was probably the only race where that sort of seemed to show up so far massively,

should we say. I know being at Silverstone, it felt quite empty, but yeah, it's just notable on TV.

Yeah, strange. But Scott Mitchell, obviously you weren't in the right place for the race,

but it does sound like you've

had the right weather that we needed at Spa. Yeah, it's been on off pretty, pretty rainy and

stormy, especially, especially this evening, but I think it, uh, the, it sounds like the rain

struck at Spar at the wrong time. Anyway, it's been quite heavy rain on off today.

The sort that you're like, it doesn't need to be constant if it happens at a circuit

because there's enough rainfall in one of those 30 minute bursts to make sure that the track's

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