Mercedes driver and three time F1 World Champion, Lewis Hamilton, got the perfect start to the second half of the season after the summer break when he took a hard fought victory at the Spa Francorchamps Circuit in Belgium on Sunday afternoon.
"It's amazing to come back into the season and start on the right foot," said Lewis, but it wasn't just the victory that saw his name in the press over the course of the weekend.
During the 11th race weekend of the 2017 season, Hamilton not only set a new lap record of 1:42.563 minutes when he secured his seventh pole of the year, but more importantly, was that this particular pole position, the 68th of his career, put him level with the legendary Michael Schumacher on the all-time leaderboard.
"It's crazy to think that in 1996, when I was eleven years old, I came here to watch Michael - and now I've equalled his record," added Lewis. "I'm honoured to be up there with him now."
The matching of Schumacher's pole tally was not the only milestone that Lewis reached last weekend as he contested his 200th F1 race and to secured his 58th victory in style. It was the third time he stood on the top step of the rostrum at Spa and his fifth of the year.
Lewis has had more wins than any other driver this year, but one thing to note going into Monza this weekend is that no driver has managed to win two races in a row this season. Will Lewis be the first?
