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Max Verstappen makes it eight wins in a row after winning the Belgian Grand Prix.

He now has a 125 point gap at the top of the driver's championship.

My name is Harry Benjamin and this is The Checker Flag Podcast.

It was indeed Verstappen who once again won.

He had to start from sixth on the grid, though, but really it was a matter of when, not

if he was going to take the lead, calling all the action for the Belgian Grand Prix alongside.

Myself was the former McLaren mechanic, Mark Presley and the former Williams F1 driver,

Jack Aiken.

Mark, let's start with Max Superior, Superfluous, writing on the wall, fantastic.

Superlatives, yeah, well done, yeah, it was exactly

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