2020 F1 Portuguese GP Friday practice results

In the first practice session, Bottas was over three tenths of a second clear of Hamilton, the Mercedes duo having a further four tenths advantage over Red Bull’s Verstappen, who suffered an early spin.

Charles Leclerc was fourth fastest for Ferrari, just lapping quicker than the second Red Bull of Alexander Albon and McLaren’s Carlos Sainz. Racing Point’s Sergio Perez was seventh fastest, ahead of an impressive Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo). Sixty-five laptimes were deleted in this session due to track limits infringements.

In FP2, the first 30 minutes was used as a Pirelli tyre test, all using a 2021 prototype hard compound. Sainz suffered an early spin, as did Perez, while Haas's Romain Grosjean took a trip through the gravel.

Bottas set the benchmark on the soft tyres at 1m17.940s, just before a red flag when Gasly’s AlphaTauri burst into flames at Turn 13. He jumped out unharmed.

After the session restarted, with a lot of cars immediately going out on track, Verstappen and Stroll collided at the 180mph Turn 1 – sending Stroll, who was going for a second fast lap, spinning into the gravel. That caused a second red flag.

Bottas stayed on top, half a second clear of Verstappen, with McLaren’s Lando Norris jumping up to third in the closing seconds. Leclerc was fourth, ahead of Sainz – another late improver – and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. Gasly was seventh, ahead of Hamilton – who didn’t get a decent soft-tyre run.

F1 Portuguese Grand Prix Free Practice 1 results

Cla	Driver		Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	35	1'18.410			215.054
2	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	35	1'18.749	0.339	0.339	214.128
3	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	32	1'19.191	0.781	0.442	212.933
4	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	33	1'19.309	0.899	0.118	212.616
5	Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	34	1'19.365	0.955	0.056	212.466
6	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	42	1'19.441	1.031	0.076	212.263
7	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	31	1'19.907	1.497	0.466	211.025
8	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	34	1'19.954	1.544	0.047	210.901
9	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	27	1'20.058	1.648	0.104	210.627
10	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	29	1'20.124	1.714	0.066	210.453
11	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	37	1'20.200	1.790	0.076	210.254
12	Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	29	1'20.207	1.797	0.007	210.236
13	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	32	1'20.278	1.868	0.071	210.050
14	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	28	1'20.846	2.436	0.568	208.574
15	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	32	1'20.954	2.544	0.108	208.296
16	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	35	1'21.009	2.599	0.055	208.154
17	Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	31	1'21.169	2.759	0.160	207.744
18	George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	31	1'21.374	2.964	0.205	207.220
19	Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	31	1'21.673	3.263	0.299	206.462
20	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	34	1'22.054	3.644	0.381	205.503
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F1 Portuguese Grand Prix Free Practice 2 results

Cla	Driver		Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	32	1'17.940			216.351
2	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	34	1'18.535	0.595	0.595	214.711
3	Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	35	1'18.743	0.803	0.208	214.144
4	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	34	1'18.838	0.898	0.095	213.886
5	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	32	1'19.113	1.173	0.275	213.143
6	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	34	1'19.175	1.235	0.062	212.976
7	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	26	1'19.178	1.238	0.003	212.968
8	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	27	1'19.308	1.368	0.130	212.619
9	Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	32	1'19.496	1.556	0.188	212.116
10	Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	37	1'19.643	1.703	0.147	211.724
11	George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	33	1'19.821	1.881	0.178	211.252
12	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	34	1'19.901	1.961	0.080	211.041
13	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	28	1'19.987	2.047	0.086	210.814
14	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	33	1'20.465	2.525	0.478	209.561
15	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	34	1'20.490	2.550	0.025	209.496
16	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	29	1'20.680	2.740	0.190	209.003
17	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	33	1'20.729	2.789	0.049	208.876
18	Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	32	1'20.867	2.927	0.138	208.520
19	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	26	1'20.983	3.043	0.116	208.221
20	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	34	1'21.396	3.456	0.413	207.164
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