Fleet Street reckons it was religious experience for all as the heavens opened up at Spa, the Lord gave to Lewis Hamilton and Seb Vettel took away from Jenson Button.
'The Lord apparently had a busy day. He orchestrated the sporadic rain that enlivened the Belgian Grand Prix. And he drew thanks from the victorious Lewis Hamilton for saving him from a potentially ruinous collision.
'Nothing, though, rescued Hamilton's McLaren team-mate Jenson Button from Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, whose callow error ended the British driver's involvement in the race and pushed them both to the periphery of the title fray. The Lord giveth; Vettel taketh away.' - Jonathan McEvoy, Daily Mail
'Sebastian Vettel will become world champion one of these years but not as long as he drives the way he did in the Belgian grand prix today. This was a performance seething with the sort of uncontrolled emotion that can undermine a great talent.
'In terms of sheer ability Vettel ranks with Hamilton and Fernando Alonso as the best of the current generation but he is currently being outperformed by the more mature man in the other Red Bull. Until the 23-year-old learns to focus his gifts at all times the brilliant will continue to be mixed with the best forgotten and he will have to wait to become Formula One's second German world champion.' - Richard Williams, The Guardian
'He said he wanted to carve his name alongside those of previous greats by winning the Belgian Grand Prix, one of only two classic races still to elude him.
'And with Sunday's victory at a chaotic, rain-soaked Spa-Francorchamps, Lewis Hamilton not only joined the likes of Jim Clark, Juan Manuel Fangio and his all-time hero, Ayrton Senna - multiple winners all of this famously unpredictable waffle-fight in the Ardennes - he also reclaimed the lead of a riveting drivers' championship.
'After shimmying sideways on to the podium to celebrate in the gathering gloom he thanked his team, his mechanics and his God for a win that was only once in serious doubt from the moment he overtook Red Bull's Mark Webber off the start line.
'That moment came when, with nine laps left and a 13-second lead, he skidded off the track at Rivage, across the gravel trap and within a whisker of the barrier.
'"The Lord had his hand over me at that point," he remarked.
'He works in mysterious ways. Hamilton's unconfined joy was in stark contrast to the despair felt by his McLaren team-mate Jenson Button, who was shunted out of the race through no fault of his own by Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel.
'Button now trails Hamilton by 35 points in the standings, leading to suggestions that, with just six races to go, the team may now start to favour their lead man.' - Tom Cary, Telegraph
'There was thunder, rain, spectacular crashes, safety cars and penalty drive-throughs at today's Belgian grand prix and Lewis Hamilton emerged from the chaos to resume the leadership of the Formula One world championship.
'He could have been some exotic creature coming out of a rainforest, for that is what the densely forested hills of the Ardennes have resembled this weekend. There were so many hazards strewn across the slippery track that he might have wondered whether he was on some fairground simulator, but fortunately for him they were mostly in his rear-view mirror and he was able to record his third win of the season and overtake the second-placed Mark Webber at the top of the table; he now leads the Australian by three points with six races to go.
'But while Webber was content to finish second after a start which was so ponderous it looked as though he had engaged reverse gear, it was a desperately disappointing afternoon for Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso, who did not finish, and for Webber's Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who finished out of the points in 15th place.' - Paul Weaver, The Guardian
'Lewis Hamilton made it a hat-trick as he roared to a crucial victory in rain-lashed, chaotic Belgian Grand Prix.
'If the champion's crown is lifted from Jenson Button's head and placed n Hamilton's at the end of the season this could prove to be the race that made the difference.
'The reigning champion was rammed out of the race by rival Sebastian Vettel.
'The German cannoned into him while battling for second.
'With a string of cock-ups to his credit already this season the German skidded into the McLaren from behind at the end of lap 17, wrecking both their races.
'While Button's mangled car was beyond repair and he climbed from the cockpit the Red Bull racer limped into the pits for a new front wing and briefly back into contention before yet another mistake destroyed his race.
'Spa was at its capricious best as rain came and went and wrought mayhem on the field.
'The safety car was forced out twice, the first time after just a single lap and the last time after the conditions were too much for even race legends such as Fernando Alonso who capped a miserable day with a spectacular spinning crash.
'As in Japan and China and that memorable day at Silverstone there was one man better than the rest: Hamilton.' - Byron Young, The Mirror
'Lewis Hamilton has always maintained a commendably even strain over the post-race penalty that cost him victory at Spa two years ago, but everything in his body language this weekend spoke volumes about his determination to avenge himself. And he did that with a controlled display of driving aggression yesterday as he won a dramatic Belgian Grand Prix by 1.5sec from title rival Mark Webber.
'It was an afternoon when it was all too easy to make mistakes, as Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso showed, one of Vettel's misjudgements costing Jenson Button dearly. Hamilton himself made one agonising error but just got away with it to score a crucial victory that lifted him back into the lead of the world championship.' - David Tremayne, The Independent
