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The defending Formula One champion won his 10th pole of the season by leaving Rosberg almost half a second behind in qualifying.

Such sanctions are very rare in Formula 1 but Grosjean was a repeat offender – it was his sixth first-lap incident of the 2012 season, with another accident occurring on the second lap. We’ve had to scrimp and scrape for parts, and to get the parts on the track is a...

Romain Grosjean finished a deserving third for Lotus but only after Sebastian Vettel’s right rear tyre exploded two laps from the finish after attempting a one-stop strategy. “My goal today was to get pole position and my last two laps were the best laps I had all...

That was cut further in the closing laps, but Hamilton controlled the race from the front to take his sixth victory of the season to increase his 2015 Drivers’ Championship lead over Rosberg to 28 points.

Hamilton is looking to increase his 21-point lead over Rosberg in the drivers standings and take his sixth victory of the season.

In the Constructors’ Championship, Mercedes leads with 383 points followed by Ferrari with 236 and Williams with 151.

As expected, the new starting procedures mixed things up off the line, with Rosberg and Bottas making poor getaways from P2 and P3 on the grid, as Perez (starting P4) and Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo (P5) capitalised to chase polesitter Hamilton out of the first turn.

Romain Grosjean enjoyed the pace of his Lotus and made repeated moves through Les Combes, as he did to perfection in taking third place from Pérez on lap 19, he was often lapping the quickest outside the two leaders and finished in a well-deserved third place, his first podium...

STEVE McCLAREN thinks £14m new-boy Aleksandar Mitrovic has the “devil in him” to do some damage on the Premier League stage after making his first appearance in a Newcastle United shirt.