2020 F1 Portuguese GP race results

From pole position, Hamilton held the lead off the startline with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen jumping past Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) into second at Turn 1, but Bottas fought back, pushing him wide at Turn 3. Verstappen then clashed with Sergio Perez, sending the Racing Point spinning down to last.

With spots of rain falling, Hamilton struggled for grip and Bottas passed him for the lead a few corners later. Bottas led the opening lap but McLaren’s charging Carlos Sainz caught and passed him for the lead, as the McLaren seemed to have no issues in firing up its soft tyres in the slippery conditions, while Mercedes toiled initially on mediums. Verstappen fell back to fifth, but soon passed Lando Norris in the second McLaren.

Bottas used DRS to reclaim the lead from Sainz at the start of Lap 6, and Hamilton followed suit a lap later as the rain stopped and Sainz began to complain of tyre graining. Verstappen and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc further demoted Sainz.

Hamilton set a sequence of fastest laps to catch Bottas and passed him using DRS at the start of Lap 20, and subsequently pulled well clear out front. Hamilton was 10 seconds clear of Bottas when he pitted for the hard tyre with 25 laps to go.

Despite some further brief rain showers, Hamilton eased his way to a record-breaking victory, finishing well clear of Bottas, Verstappen and Leclerc.

The McLaren v Racing Point constructors’ championship fight escalated as Norris and Stroll clashed at Turn 1, Lando sending Lance spinning after the latter’s bold bid to pass him around the outside. Both cars sustained wing damage and fell to the rear of the pack, with Stroll getting a 5s time penalty.

Perez saved Racing Point’s day with an amazing comeback drive from his opening lap spin, but the choice of running softs in the final stint came back to bite him in the closing laps, as Gasly passed him for fifth place with two laps to go. Sainz mirrored the move on the final lap, to grab sixth.

Perez finished seventh, ahead of the Renaults of Esteban Ocon and Daniel Ricciardo. Sebastian Vettel claimed the final point for Ferrari.

F1 Portuguese Grand Prix race results

Cla		Driver		Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Gap	Pits
1		Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	66	-		1
2		Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	66	25.592	25.592	1
3		Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	66	34.508	34.508	1
4		Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	66	1'05.312	1'05.312	1
5		Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	65	1 lap		1
6		Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	65	1 lap		1
7		Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	65	1 lap		2
8		Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	65	1 lap		1
9		Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	65	1 lap		1
10		Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	65	1 lap		1
11		Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	65	1 lap		1
12		Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	65	1 lap		2
13		Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	65	1 lap		2
14		George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	65	1 lap		1
15		Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	65	1 lap		1
16		Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	65	1 lap		1
17		Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	65	1 lap		1
18		Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	64	2 laps		1
19		Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	64	2 laps		2
	dnf	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	51			3
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F1 Portuguese Grand Prix tyre history

Cla	Driver		Chassis	Engine	1		2		3
1	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	M	45	H	26
2	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	M	44	H	25
3	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	S	27	M	43
4	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	M	39	H	32
5	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	S	32	M	37
6	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	S	31	M	39
7	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	S	5	M	44	S	23
8	Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	M	53	S	12
9	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	S	19	M	51
10	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	M	31	H	38
11	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	S	11	M	54
12	Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	S	24	M	32	S	21
13	Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	S	22	H	25	M	22
14	George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	M	36	H	29
15	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	M	28	H	37
16	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	H	31	M	34
17	Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	M	26	H	39
18	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	M	24	H	40
19	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	M	25	H	31	S	9
	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	M	18	H	16	S	17
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F1 Portuguese Grand Prix as it happened