British press fear nothing can stop fourth Sebastian Vettel title now after big Spa win

Fleet Street believe it is now a near inevitability that Sebastian Vettel will win his fourth straight world title this year, as the British press conducted their post-mortem into the German's runaway Belgian GP win.

Simon Cass concurred in the Daily Mail - 'precious little looks like stopping Vettel bringing home a fourth successive drivers' crown' - while the Daily Telegraph admitted that while the World Champion's new bleach-blond hairdo may have raised a playful laugh or two over the weekend in the paddock, no one was certainly laughing at him on the track. 'It was Vettel's 31st career victory, drawing him level with Nigel Mansell in the all-time list at just 26 years of age, and took him one step closer to what will surely now be a fourth consecutive world title, a sequence as bright as the highlights in his hair which were the object of so much derision over the weekend,' Tom Cary reported. 'Vettel is likely to have the last laugh. Certainly Lewis Hamilton, who could only finish third here despite starting from pole, was not mocking his rival.' As well as acknowledgment that Vettel, now more than ever, appears to be on inexorable course to further cementing his place in F1's history books, there was also disappointment that all the excitement created by Saturday's frenetic qualifying session had fallen somewhat flat come race day. 'After one of the most dramatic qualifying days for years this race had promised much. But the rain that shook up the field on Saturday failed to materialise as promised,' the Daily Mirror's Byron Young reflected. 'And it was pretty mundane fare thereafter.' Not that the dominant race winner would have seen it quite that way, of course. 'The way Vettel got stuck into the podium champagne - unusually for him - he felt he had tied up his fourth title on the spin,' was the Guardian correspondent Paul Weaver's sobering verdict for Sebastian's increasingly distant rivals.