Belgian Grand Prix: Charles Leclerc on pole ahead of Sebastian Vettel

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Charles Leclerc set a scintillating lap to beat Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel to pole position at the Belgian Grand Prix.
The 21-year-old, still seeking a first career win, was a massive 0.748 seconds clear of his four-time world champion team-mate.
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton was second quickest after the first runs but was pipped by Vettel on their last laps after the world champion failed to improve.
Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas was fourth ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
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The traffic in Belgium is terrible
Vettel grumbled about "traffic", saying: "What a mess, what a mess, what a mess," on the radio before swearing.
But in truth Leclerc was in a world of his own - Vettel had actually been 0.1secs quicker than his team-mate in the first sector of their final laps and Leclerc out-paced him by 0.4secs in the second sector and 0.2secs in the third.
And Vettel did not appear to have any more trouble with traffic than the other Ferrari.

All the top drivers were tripping over each other on their warm-up laps trying to ensure they got a slipstream, so powerful with these ultra-high-downforce, wide Formula 1 cars with their wide rear wings.
At one point Hamilton nearly crashed into his team-mate Valtteri Bottas, locking up his front wheels in the process.
Hamilton, whose team had a race against time to rebuild his car after a crash in final practice, lost out on a place on the front row to Vettel by just 0.015secs.
He said he was happy to have done so well after his earlier problems.
Hamilton said: "Ferrari have done a great job today; Charles did an exceptional job and I hope we can bring the fight to them tomorrow.

Leclerc's advantage is his biggest over Vettel this season, in which he has been increasingly impressive. This is his third pole this season, and the sixth time in a row he has out-qualified the German.
"It obviously feels amazing," he said. "It was very tricky, especially in Q3 I struggled quite a lot - the start of the lap was always very messy. But in the end I managed to do the rest of the lap OK. I did not expect to be that far ahead."
Vettel said: "Messy. I was getting into a sort of rhythm, it took a little bit longer for me to get hold of the car but Q3 felt quite messy, a lot of queuing for the last corner, and the tyres then are not there where they are meant to be, but Charles did a better job today.