Championship leader trades blows with Kimi en-route to a stunning Belgian GP win – and then feels the wrath of the stewards.

Lewis Hamilton was stripped of his victory in Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday after stewards deemed the McLaren driver to have gained an advantage by cutting a chicane during a scrap with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.

The stewards dealt Hamilton with a 25 second time penalty which was enough to gift the win to Felipe Massa.

A late gamble to switch to wet tyres coupled with an uncompromising overtaking manoeuvre in the final corner vaulted Fernando Alonso into fourth place in Spa-Francorchamps, as Renault bid to home in on their championship rivals.

Late showers put Kimi’s title hopes in the wall, and leave Lewis victorious.

Lewis Hamilton tip-toed to his ninth career victory in Spa-Francorchamps after late rain hit the track with only two laps to go, leaving the front-runners to battle to the chequered flag on dry tyres.

leader Lewis Hamilton expects McLaren to be more of a match for Ferrari at Spa-Francorchamps than they were last year.

Ferrari dominated the race with a 1-2 finish last year while McLaren were affected by the outbreak of the spy-scandal.

Lewis Hamilton struggled to get to grips with his McLaren-Mercedes at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps track last year, his explosive run-in with Fernando Alonso at Hungary still playing with his mind.

A post-race analysis back at Woking identified where he had gone wrong, and he bounced back with a stunning win in the wet at Japan.