If the mark of champions is winning when you don't play as well as you can then this was very much a champion's performance.
An Ashley Barnes penalty means the Clarets get back to winning ways after their midweek draw at home to Watford and they're now 11 points clear of second-placed Sheffield United.
A sixth straight league win at the Riverside for Middlesbrough.
Two more for Chuba Akpom as QPR are now ten games without a win.
Boro are really gathering some momentum in the race for promotion. Sheffield United are only four points ahead of them now.