F1: Hamilton Muscles To 97th Win In Portugal

Highlights
- Verstappen was overtaken by Hamilton after a mistake
- Bottas feel behind both Hamilton and Verstappen
- Fernando Alonso finished in P8 just behind his teammate Esteban Ocon
Lewis Hamilton put out a dominating performance to win his 97th win and open up an 8 point gap to Max Verstappen. The Mercedes driver was overtaken at the start of the race by the Red Bull driver, but after an early safety car, the defending world champion first overtook his young Dutch rival and then went about hunting down his teammate Valtteri Bottas.
At the turn of the pit stops, Verstappen gained on Bottas to overtake him, but couldn't prevent the Finnish driver to take the extra point for the fastest lap of the race. Sergio Perez in P4, was outside the podium finish. He ran long to give Verstappen a chance to catch up to Hamilton. He was tailed by Lando Norris in the McLaren who overtook a couple of cars at the start of the race.

Both Verstappen and Hamilton duelled but the Briton came out ahead
Charles Leclerc jumped to P6 in the Ferrari helped by a fast stint on the hard tyres at the turn of the pitstops followed by the Alpine pair of Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso in P6 and P7. There were certainly some encouraging signs for the Alpine which showed good pace all through the weekend.
Ricciardo in the second McLaren managed P8 elevating himself from his dismal qualifying position of P16. Pierre Gasly managed P10 after both the cars overtook Carlos Sainz at the fact end of the race who struggled with his tyres through the race. This was Saini's poorest performance but through the race, he had a disadvantage of tyres with him using the weakest combination of the soft and medium compounds.
Alfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi managed P12 while his teammate Kimi Raikkonen was the only retirement of the race in the first lap.

Both the Alpine cars were in the points for the first time in the season, scoring more than AlphaTauri
Sebastian Vettel finally managed to beat his teammate Lance Stroll with the two Aston Martin's coming P13 and P14. Yuki Tsunoda in the AlphaTauri managed P15.
George Russell couldn't sustain the momentum of his best qualifying performance for Williams and just managed P16. Mick Schumacher in the Haas managed an impressive P17 ahead of Nicholas Latifi in the faster Williams. His teammate was the last finishing car. Mazepin again limped to P15 and also accumulated a penalty for impeding Sergio Perez while being lapped.
Result
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2 Max Verstappen Red Bull 29.148s
3 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 33.530s
4 Sergio Perez Red Bull 39.735s
5 Lando Norris McLaren 51.369s
6 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 55.781s
7 Esteban Ocon Alpine 63.749s
8 Fernando Alonso Alpine 64.808s
9 Daniel Ricciardo McLaren 75.461s
10 Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 76.559s
11 Carlos Sainz Ferrari 79.060s
12 Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing 1 lap
13 Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 1 lap
14 Lance Stroll Aston Martin 1 lap
15 Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 1 lap
16 George Russell Williams 1 lap
17 Mick Schumacher Haas 1 lap
18 Nicholas Latifi Williams 2 laps
19 Nikita Mazepin Haas 2 laps
Did not finish
Kimi Raikkonen Alfa Romeo crash
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