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Fernando Alonso's relationship with McLaren hits new low

Alonso, the 36-year-old two-time champion who is out of contract with McLaren at the end of the season, cut an increasingly frustrated figure throughout Sunday's race at Spa-Francorchamps.

The Spaniard was as high as seventh following an impressive opening lap, but McLaren's under-powered Honda engine left him exposed, and he soon dropped out of the points.

Alonso described the situation as "embarrassing" over the team radio before he pulled out of the race altogether on lap 27, citing an apparent engine problem.

Alonso's retirement, his seventh of a miserable year, came only moments after he had been informed that rain was not forecast for the remainder of the race, and thus ruling out the likelihood of scoring any points.

And to add further intrigue and suspicion, Honda then revealed there was not an obvious fault with Alonso's engine. "After starting brilliantly, Fernando then had a tough race overall," said Honda boss Yusuke Hasegawa.

"He radioed in with what he thought was a problem with the car, and although there was nothing showing in the data, we decided to stop the car as a precaution." Alonso has been highly critical of Honda throughout his second spell at McLaren, and claimed after qualifying in Spa that the British team would have locked out the front row if they had a more powerful engine.

He qualified 11th, while his team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne was thrown to the back of the grid following a series of engine penalties.

"For sure, it is not easy to race like this, as you cannot have any good wheel-to-wheel battles," Alonso said. "It was a difficult afternoon and we were not competitive in race trim.

"The car was too slow on the straights and it was impossible to have any battles out there, so points were also impossible.

Eventually, we had to stop due to an engine issue." McLaren's relationship with Honda is at breaking point after three seasons of disappointing results. The Woking-based team have staged talks with Renault over an engine deal for 2018.

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News Sport:Belgian Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton criticises safety car deployment on way to victory - Duration: 5:24.

Belgian Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton criticises safety car deployment on way to victory

Twenty four hours after Hamilton equalled Michael Schumacher's all-time pole position record, the Briton, celebrating his 200th race, led virtually every lap here in the Ardennes to halve the deficit to Sebastian Vettel at the summit of the championship.

But Hamilton's victory, his fifth of this see-saw campaign, came under threat with 14 laps remaining after veteran race official Charlie Whiting deployed a safety car following a collision between Force India team-mates Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon.

Debris from the Force India cars littered the entry to the high-speed Eau Rouge corner and the ensuing Kemmel Straight, and the safety car was sent out to enable marshals to clear the danger.

But Hamilton felt aggrieved that the decision would cost him victory, particularly with Vettel sporting the ultrasoft tyre – the quickest of the three compounds available this weekend – while he was on the soft, the slowest.

"Why have they got the safety car out?," a disgruntled Hamilton said over the radio. "There is literally no debris anywhere.

That's a BS [bulls***] call from the stewards." Hamilton managed to hold off Vettel for what could prove to be a crucial victory. Indeed his rival would have moved 21 points clear had he managed to win.

As it is, the gap stands at seven ahead of next week's Italian Grand Prix. "It felt a bit like NASCAR when they kept putting the safety car out for no reason," Hamilton said afterwards.

"The front wing from the Force India was clear after we slowed down, and they could have done a VSC [Virtual Safety Car] period, but I guess they wanted to see a race.

That was for sure the reason they did that. "There was hardly any debris. We did all those laps behind the safety car, and it just opened up doors. In the heat of the moment I am frustrated.

I did not have the ultrasoft tyre, and it feels weighed up against you." Hamilton spent a nerve-jangling four laps behind the safety car, and just as he did in Azerbaijan earlier this summer, and within his rights, bunched up the pack ahead of the re-start.

On that occasion in Baku, Vettel hit Hamilton in the rear, and then drove alongside his rival before banging wheels. There was no such repeat here, but Vettel knew passing Hamilton at the re-start would amount to his best chance of victory.

Vettel was within centimetres of Hamilton's Mercedes as they sped up Eau Rouge and on to the Kemmel Straight at 200mph.

Vettel then dived to Hamilton's left, but the British driver placed his car in the middle of the track and the Ferrari man was unable to find a way past at Les Combes.

It was an expert piece of defensive driving from Hamilton, which would – despite Vettel's best efforts in the closing stages – enable him to win the race and get his title charge back on track.

"It is an amazing feeling to come back into the second half of the season and start off on the right foot, given that Ferrari finished on the right foot heading into the break," said Hamilton.

"There was not a point where I was comfortable. We were both pushing every single lap and it was sprint race, and there was no room for error.

That is how racing should be." Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo completed the podium, but there was heartbreak for his team-mate Max Verstappen after his Red Bull broke down in front of an estimated 80,000 travelling Dutch supporters.

There was misery, too, for McLaren's Fernando Alonso who parked his car after 27 laps with another apparent Honda engine failure. It marked his seventh retirement of a miserable year.