Lewis Hamitlon: I want to be in position to slipstream up Eau Rouge
This is not only a race on the track, but off it was well Woolf: We are not trying to make everybody happy
Lewis Hamiltons second spot on the grid for the Belgian Grand Prix is no major disaster, especially after his recent travails in Germany and Hungary. Yet he surely will have wanted to come away with more. He was pipped to the top spot by his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, whom he trails by 11 points in the world championship, by a brake-glazing problem. Rosberg, however, had put together an immaculate, controlled run to take the top spot.
Pole would, of course, have been better for Hamilton. The British driver has been in good spirits all weekend, eager to re-open the fight for the title with his team-mate and happy that the team-orders incident that had angered him in Hungary had been properly dealt with by Mercedes.
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