Vettel cruises to win in Belgium

Sebastian Vettel cruised to the 31st win of his Formula One career as not even Greenpeace protestors could throw a spanner in the works of the German’s Belgian Grand Prix triumph.

As the teams worked on the cars on the grid just before the start, two paragliders from the activist group initially flew over the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, trailing a banner slamming the Arctic drilling plans of race sponsors Shell.

A second group of four men who had evaded security and scaled the main grandstand overlooking the grid then unfurled a banner from the roof that read: “Arctic oil? Shell No”.