2020 Portuguese Grand Prix Results

F1 Race Event: Portuguese Grand Prix
Race Track: Portimão Circuit

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, Portugal GP 2020. Lewis Hamilton

Weather: dry 25.4°C
Tarmac: dry  20.5°C
Humidity : 67.9%
Wind : 3.8 m/s NW
Pressure: 1007.8 bar

Lewis Hamilton won his 92nd F1 race at the 2020 Portuguese F1 GP today. He started from pole position and won the race on the Algarve circuit for the first time. It was his 8th race win of the 2020 F1 season and the 112th victory for the Mercedes team.

The start of the first ever Formula 1 race on the Portimao circuit was quite different than we have seen before in the 2020 F1 season. In turn 1 Valtteri Bottas had lost P2 to Max Verstappen but Bottas took back P2 from Verstappen in turn 2. The following corners Verstappen and Sergio Perez collided, both could go on. Verstappen did lost a few places and Perez drove towards the pits to switch from soft to medium tyres. Carlos Sainz had a great first lap in the McLaren and even took the lead for 5 laps.

Kimi Raikkonen who started from P16 had passed 10 cars in the first lap and drove around on P6. He got passed by Charles Leclerc in the Ferrari in lap 8. In lap 6 Sainz who was still driving in the lead got overtaken by Bottas, one lap later he lost P2 to Lewis Hamilton and again one lap later the Spanish driver lost P3 to Verstappen.

In lap 14 Verstappen was telling his team that his left front tyres was dead. In lap 16 Hamilton also told his team on the radio his left front was getting bad. Pierre Gasly was driving a very strong race in the AlphaTauri. The French driver who started from P9 was having a great pace and was driving on P6.

In lap 19 Hamilton passed Bottas for the lead on the start-finish straight with DRS. In the same lap Lando Norris and Lance Stroll collided in turn 1. Both had to go to the pits for a new frontwing. In lap 21 Sainz told his team on the radio it started to rain again.

Max Verstappen driving the RB16 locking up during the F1 Grand Prix of Portugal at Autodromo Internacional do Algarve on October 25, 2020 in Portimao, Portugal.

Verstappen pitted for medium tyres in lap 24 and returned to the track as sixth. At that time Stroll got the news he received a 5s penalty for causing a collision with Norris. In lap 31 Stroll received again a 5s penalty because he didn't respect the track limits enough.

Halfway the race in lap 33 Bottas told his team he had a warning on his dash that told him to cool the car. The unique layout of the Algarve track delivered a lot of entertaining battles we didn't saw before this season. Leclerc pitted in lap 36 to switch from medium to hard tyres to try to get onto the podium.

In lap 41 race leader Hamilton did his pitstop to get new hard tyres. He returned to the Portimao track on P2. One lap later his team mate Bottas did the same. Lance Stroll was the first driver to retire his car in this race. In lap 54 he drove into the Racing Point garage. A few moments later Daniil Kvyat received a 5s penalty for exceeding track limits.

In the end of the race a great battle for 5th was evolving between Gasly, Perez and Sainz.

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Classification 2020 Portuguese GP

P	No	Driver	Team	Time	Laps	Grid	Pts
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	01:29:56.828	66	1	26
2	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	01:30:22.420	66	2	18
3	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	01:30:31.336	66	3	15
4	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	01:31:02.140	66	4	12
5	10	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	01:30:13.864	65	9	10
6	55	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	01:30:15.280	65	7	8
7	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point	01:30:16.886	65	5	6
8	31	Esteban Ocon	Renault	01:30:18.457	65	11	4
9	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	01:30:19.151	65	10	2
10	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	01:30:20.291	65	15	1
11	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo	01:30:26.810	65	16	0
12	23	Alex Albon	Red Bull	01:30:33.049	65	6	0
13	4	Lando Norris	McLaren	01:30:47.438	65	8	0
14	63	George Russell	Williams	01:30:55.041	65	14	0
15	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	01:31:07.621	65	17	0
16	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	01:31:10.875	65	19	0
17	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas	01:31:13.472	65	18	0
18	6	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	01:30:01.078	65	20	0
19	26	Daniil Kvyat	AlphaTauri	01:30:28.169	65	13	0
DNF	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	Collision damage	51	12	0

Notes: Car 8 - 5 second time penalty - Track limits

Fastest lap: 1:18.750 min by Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W11 on lap 63 @212.708 km/h

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