Lewis Hamilton says he was “a little bit nervous” he would suffer a repeat of his late tyre failure at Silverstone during ꧙the closing stages of Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix.

Hamilton cruised to his fifth win of the opening seven races as he converted pole position into victory at Spa-Francorchamps to led home another Mercedes 1-2 ahead of teamm🐟ate Valtteri B𝔍ottas.

Having switched onto the Hard compound ꧙after just 11 laps when the majority of the field pitted under the Safety Car, 💮both Mercedes drivers were forced to manage their tyres in the final laps in Belgium.

But there was no🌳 repeat of its dramatic double tyre blow-outs from the British Grand Prix as Hamilton sealed what turned out to be a comfortable♋ win.

“It wasn’t the easiest of races,” Hamilton said. “I had a lock up into Turn 5, which started 🧔to give a bit of a vibration, and then one into the last corner.

“The tyre temperatures were slowly dropping no matter how much you were pushing. As you lose rubber you start to lose temperature in🤡 the tyres so it was a bit of a struggle.

“Nonetheles𝔍s I think it was OK. I was a little bit nervous that we were 𝓡going to have a scenario like Silverstone with the left-front towards the end, so I was nursing it.

“It looked as though there was plenty of rubber on it, so maybe it was fine. Guess I worried for 🌺nothing.”

Hamilton’s only real challenge came 🌠at the start but th𝔉e Briton was able to fend off an attack from Bottas on the run up Eau Rouge and onto the Kemmel Straight.

Reflecting on the start, Hamilton said: “That start 🎀is🌳 a nightmare because it’s one of the shortest runs to Turn 1 and you saw out of Turn 1 I had a big snap getting on the gas trying to build the gap.

“Even if I didn’t have that, I would have maybe had a ca♌r length but he would have eaten that up the straight. It worked to my benefit, that snap, because it meant he was right up my chuff and I’m sure he had to lift.

“That meant when we got to the top of the hill he didn’t have enough time to sl𓆉ingshot.”

Hamilton acknowledged the 89th win of his career would not have gone down well among many F1 fans who are getting turned off amid a dominant start to the season for Mercedes🌃.

“I know it’s not always what everyone wants, to see Mercedes at the front but no matter how much succꦡess we have we just keep our heads down,” he admitted.

“When I go back into the office now, there’s no guys celebrating. They are like ‘how can we win the next race?’ It’s an incredible environment and mentalit💞y to work around.

“We are continuing t🦩o learn about ourselves and the car to improve weekend-in, weekend-out. It’s crazy to think I’m 35 going on 36 but I’m feeling better than ever. That’s a positive.”