Seven-time defending Formula One world champion cruised to an easy victory at the 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix – rarely being challenged for the vast majority of the race. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen finished a distant second and Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate, Valtteri Bottas, finished in the third and final podium position. Bottas was the pole-sitter entering […]
Mercedes re-established their dominance by going 1-2 in the qualifying session for tomorrow’s 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix with Valtteri Bottas eking out a slim margin over his teammate and defending seven-time Formula One world champion, Lewis Hamilton. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was third. After a brief intrusion by Verstappen, who grabbed the fastest time earlier […]
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen rained a bit on the Mercedes parade by claiming the fastest time in the third and final practice session for tomorrow’s 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix….
There was no change from the first practice session as a Mercedes was again fastest around the circuit in the second practice session for this weekend’s 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix. This time, it was the seven-time Formula One defending world champion doing the honors as Lewis Hamilton drove his Mercedes around the Portimao circuit in […]
Mercedes was fastest in the first practice session for this weekend’s 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix as Valtteri Bottas nipped Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Bottas’ Mercedes teammate, seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton, was fifth fastest, behind Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.
Formula One has officially added the Portuguese Grand Prix to the 2021 calendar as the third race of the season on May 2, 2021 at the Portimao circuit in the trendy Algarve region of Portugal. The 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix was one of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton’s 11 victories last year on his way to claiming […]
Perennial backmarker Williams announced that they have identified an undisclosed number of positive cases of Covid-19 virus accumulated from both the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix as well as the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Williams did not identify the specific members of their team who contracted the virus but did say that “several members of […]
Stop if you have heard this before – Lewis Hamilton has won a Formula One grand prix race this year. The race in question was the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix and after an initial rain-caused bit of chaos at the start, the race eventually settled down and, in the end, it was yet another 1-2 […]
Defending six-time world Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton watched and waited as his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas had the fastest times in all three practice sessions leading up to today’s qualifying session – then promptly took pole position for tomorrow’s 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix. Bottas was a close second as Mercedes once again closed out […]
It was the same old, same old in the third practice session for the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix as Valtteri Bottas and Mercedes topped the chart for the third session in a row.
As usual, it was a Mercedes that was fastest in the first practice session for this weekend’s 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix, with Valtteri Bottas doing the honors at the Autodromo do Algarve in Portimao, nipping his teammate, six-time defending world champion, Lewis Hamilton, by 0.339 seconds – both were set on the medium tires Red […]
Canadian Racing Point driver Lance Stroll missed the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix two weeks ago at the Nurburgring in Germany due to what was at that time an undisclosed illness but was suspected to be Covid-19. That suspicion was confirmed after the fact by Racing Point and Stroll. Stroll displayed a number of Covid-19 symptoms […]