Warrington's renaissance in the engage Super League shows no sign of slowing as they ripped Leeds apart with an eight-try blitz at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.

The Wolves claimed their fifth victory in their last six league games with a superb all-round showing against a Rhinos outfit that disintegrated after a good opening 10 minutes.

Star winger Henry Fa'afili was again the stellar performer with a hat-trick of tries while Rob Parker grabbed two more and Paul Rauhihi, Jon Clarke and Richie Barnett also got in on the act.

Lee Briers added six conversions to further garnish the score in Warrington's favour.

Leeds, who missed the chance to close to within four points of leaders St Helens, scored tries through Lee Smith, Rob Burrow and Danny McGuire but were outplayed by the more combative hosts.

Leeds got off to a flyer when Smith went over for the game's first try in the fourth minute.

After being awarded the put-in at a scrum 10 yards out, the ball was fired out left through the hands of McGuire, Richard Mathers and Keith Senior, who fed Smith to dive low into the corner.

Warrington fought back manfully and with Leeds looking on the ropes in the 12th minute, the visitors' prop Ryan Bailey was placed on report for the use of an elbow when he flopped on a tackle.

The respite was brief though and Wolves registered their first points of the afternoon three minutes later when Fa'afili made the most of good work by Briers and Martin Gleeson to burrow over in the corner in a carbon copy of Smith's finish.

The Wolves' incessant pressure told five minutes later when they scored a second try, Rauhihi brushing aside a flimsy tackle by Bailey and the last-gasp attempts of full-back Mathers to rampage through.

Warrington were rampant and Clarke added to Leeds' misery by coming in off his right foot to power through a tackle by replacement Shane Millard to go over in the 27th minute.

Barnett, who got on the end of a multi-phase passage of play by the hosts, and Parker, storming through a porous defence from 25 yards almost untouched, rounded off the half's scoring with further tries.

It was Warrington's turn to defend at the start of the second half and prop Logan Swann, who sized up his men to produce two crunching hits, was particularly impressive in that department.

Nevertheless, the pint-sized Burrow brought Leeds back into the game in fine style when he picked up from the play-the-ball to dart between two defenders, sprint 60 yards - rounding full-back Stuart Reardon in the process - to just make the corner.

Gareth Ellis looked as if he was about to reduce the arrears even further when he bounced off a number of tackles to go clear but Rauhihi covered back and managed to rip the ball clear of the loose-forward with the line zeroing in.

The Rhinos' chances of making a famous comeback were ended in the 65th minute thanks to Parker, who ran onto a late pass from Briers to fly over.

Fa'afili made it 14 tries for the season when he went over with 11 minutes remaining although much praise should go to Gleeson, whose superb back-handed flick left the Kiwi with a run to the line.

McGuire grabbed a consolation try for Leeds with six minutes left but it was left to Fa'afili to complete his hat-trick in the dying stages.