SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium -- Britain's Damon Hill registered his second straight Formula One victory Sunday and clinched the constructors' world championship for his Williams Renault team when he won the Belgian Grand Prix.
The 32-year-old Londoner, who received the checkered flag for his maiden career win in the Hungarian Grand Prix Aug. 15, finished the 44- lap, 190.682 mile race in first place ahead of Germany's Michael Schumacher in a Benetton Ford and Williams' No. 1 pilot and championship leader Alain Prost of France.
Ayrton Senna of Brazil finished fourth in a McLaren Ford to remain second in the drivers' title but is now just five points ahead of Hill. Prost leads the standings after 12 of 16 races with 81 points, leading Senna (53), Hill (48) and Schumacher (42).
The next race on the calendar is the Italian Grand Prix atMonza Sept. 12.
Hill's victory, coming in just his 14th career start, ensured Williams the constructor's crown for the second successive year. The British manufacturer has a 69-point lead over nearest rival Benetton.
Prost, 38, led the race through the first 31 laps after a brilliant start from the pole position. Senna, who had started fifth on the grid, rocketed away to be second but was no match for the superior Williams' and quickly conceded second position to Hill.
The Briton, whose late father Graham was world champion in 1962 and 1968, began to make up ground on the Frenchman and eventually inherited the lead when Prost suffered a lengthy pit stop on lap 31 when he stopped for fresh rubber.
Schumacher also went through while Prost's team swapped tires but was unable to catch Hill. The three drivers traded fastest laps in a hectic finish with Prost taking the honors by setting a lap record of 1:51.095 at an average speed of 140.428 mph.
'It was really good news for me when I came round the hairpin at La Source and saw Alain just coming out of the pits. I pushed extra hard then to get some cars between us,' Hill said. 'To win two races in a row like this is just fantastic.'
Fifth place went to British Lotus pilot Johnny Herbert while Schumacher's teammate Italian Riccardo Patrese claimed sixth.
