Button delighted to win at "special" Spa

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Jenson Button has admitted to feeling a part of Spa's illustrious history after "a very special victory".

Button's 14th career win in Formula One was a lights-to-flag romp of a Belgian Grand Prix overshadowed by a first corner pile-up at the La Source hairpin that accounted for four drivers.
Championship leader Fernando Alonso was the biggest casualty, the Spaniard failing to score a point for the first time in 24 races.
Mercifully, Alonso was fortunate to escape with his life in light of Romain Grosjean's Lotus flashing within inches of his helmet as the smash unfolded, suffering nothing more than pain in his left shoulder.
As the instigator of the incident Grosjean was later hammered by the stewards with a one-race ban that will see him sit out next Sunday's Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
Grosjean's error also took out Sauber's Sergio Perez and McLaren of Lewis Hamilton, compounding a horror week for the Briton in which he lost an aunt, Diane, on Wednesday to cancer.
It meant it was another bitter-sweet weekend for McLaren, with Button faultless, whilst Hamilton was seemingly unable to put a foot right given his Twitter folly too these past few days.
Button's latest triumph, though, and Alonso's failure to score, has at least thrust him back into title contention, however 63 points remains a considerable gap to overhaul with eight races remaining.
But there was no denying his delight at this success as he said: "This circuit is such a special circuit to most drivers with the way it flows, the history.
"So to get a win from lights to flag is very special, especially as it's not been the easiest year for me.
"And I just love Spa, I think we all do. It's really nice to win on a circuit like this.
"I remember watching Formula One back in the day here - it was a little different then - and there's so much history. It's really good to be a part of that.
"So, yeah, a very special weekend. We're going to enjoy this for a little while longer before we head to Monza and hopefully do the same."
Bizarrely, after fielding questions at the start of the weekend about supporting Hamilton in his quest for the crown, Button now finds himself just 16 points behind his fellow Briton.
Hamilton, static at 47 points off of Alonso, refused to be drawn on Grosjean's actions as the Frenchman cut across the McLaren at the start of a dramatic race.
In clipping the front-left tyre with the rear-right of his Lotus it sparked a chain of events which have cost Grosjean dear.
"I accept my mistake," said a bitterly downcast Grosjean.
"I misjudged the gap to Lewis. I thought I was in front of him.
"It was a small mistake, but a big incident. I'm very sorry, and I'm just glad nobody is hurt. That's the main thing.
"It's a very hard decision to hear. When you love racing it's hard."
From Hamilton's perspective, with the 27-year-old only incurring bruising to a leg, he just wanted to escape the circuit and head home as quickly as possible.
"This week has been the worst week," reflected Hamilton.
"This whole week has not been good news, so I'm looking forward to getting home and putting it behind me.
"I'll look to turn the negative energy from this weekend into a positive for Monza.
"It won't be easy drawing a line under it, but anything is possible. Tomorrow is a new day and I just look forward to the future."

Behind Button, reigning champion Sebastian Vettel took advantage of others misfortune to claim second from 10th in his Red Bull and move within 24 points of Alonso.
On a positive for Lotus, Kimi Raikkonen was on the podium for the sixth time this season and is now 33 points behind Alonso and one adrift of Red Bull's Mark Webber who was sixth behind Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and Felipe Massa in his Ferrari.
On the occasion of his 300th grands prix, Michael Schumacher was seventh in his Mercedes, escaping punishment from the overworked stewards for making a sudden change in direction as he entered the pits, almost swiping the nose off Vettel's car.
The errant Pastor Maldonado has been handed two five-place grid penalties for separate incidents, initially jumping the start, then losing his front wing in an incident with Marussia's Timo Glock that saw him retire on lap five.
Another incident saw Caterham fined 10,000 euros (£8,000) for an unsafe release from the pits of Heikki Kovalainen as HRT's Narain Karthikeyan ran over his nose on entry to his stop.
The Toro Rosso duo of Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo were eighth and ninth, with Force India's Paul di Resta 10th, despite running the whole race without his KERS power-boost system.