00:00And it's lights out and away we go! Bottas and Hamilton both getting away well, Perez not the best start
00:06and he's already got the Ferrari alongside him and ahead as Bottas goes into Turn 1 in the lead
00:11from Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, then comes Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez, behind them
00:16Lando Norris is ahead of Esteban Ocon, also on the soft tyre for the McLaren runner and they're just
00:21finding their way around Turn 3, no contact so far, Bottas getting away well! Perez definitely
00:27struggling for grip there with the medium compound tighter coming at him, under-breaking,
00:32and that's a foul at the inside of Lando Norris, there's a big lock up there, I think it might
00:37have been his teammate Fernando Alonso. Look at that, that's a decent lead from Valtteri Bottas isn't it
00:42and Max Verstappen I think will be quite pleased to have at least just be hanging on, but Lando Norris
00:49charging around the outside of Turn 11 and the left-hander of 12 gives him the high ground. Oh go
00:55Lando, what a move from Lando Norris! Daniel Ricciardo is up in the 14th ahead of Fernando Alonso
01:02and someone's made contact and there is Kimi Raikkonen, who has lost half of his front wing
01:07going down the main straight! I wonder if we're going to need some kind of safety car for that,
01:12especially if he buries it in the gravel, he has taken the car to a service road, full safety car
01:19and up against his teammates, almost like he got such a slipstream, there's no DRS involved,
01:24so he got such a slipstream from his teammate and it looks like it caught him out.
01:29And he's got the jump then on Hamilton and Verstappen behind him, through the heat haze come 19
01:34Formula One cars, Hamilton trying to pull out of the slipstream that Max Verstappen's getting behind
01:38him, Verstappen goes into Turn 1 ahead of Hamilton, got a little bit squirrelly on the exit of Turn 1,
01:45but that was a great move by Max Verstappen, he's up into second place, Sergio Perez is now behind
01:50Lewis Hamilton ahead of Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz and Esteban Ocon. Verstappen was fine for track
01:55limits but Hamilton was even further off the track anyway, so don't imagine that's going to be a problem.
02:00There goes Lando Norris down the inside, there's a lockup from Carlos Sainz, that might give Charles
02:05Leclerc a chance to get past his teammate in a moment, but Lando Norris is up into fourth place,
02:10ahead of Sergio Perez, Sainz sixth, Leclerc seventh, ahead of Esteban Ocon who's not had the best start,
02:16he lost one place because now he's back ahead of Leclerc according to that timing screen,
02:21and there, down inside, he's going for it again as the door is firmly slammed shut by Charles Leclerc.
02:30Oh, getting all out of shape there, Max Verstappen coming out of Turn 14, that's going to give Lewis Hamilton
02:36a little bit of impetus on wonder because Hamilton is within striking distance of the Red Bull down the
02:41straight, Bottas continues to lead them, we're on lap 11 of 66, here comes Hamilton on Max Verstappen,
02:47Hamilton retakes that second place, ahead of the Red Bull and that move started all the way back
02:52at Turn 14, as Verstappen tries to fight it into Turn 4, Hamilton just stays ahead.
03:02What are we going to see now? It's Perez on Norris. Nice move.
03:08Vettel has been putting in as good a lap times as he possibly can, but can he keep Ricciardo at
03:12bay here?
03:13Ricciardo's going to go around the outside, isn't he? With DRS assistance into Turn 1 and into the points as
03:19well.
03:21We ride on board with Lewis Hamilton, but let's see how much he's going to be staring and how much
03:26he's going
03:26to be gaining down the main straight here. The gap was eight tenths of a second at the end of
03:31the last lap,
03:32it's half a second as they cross the line now. Hamilton's got DRS, he's within touching distance of his
03:37teammate, he's ahead of his teammate Lewis Hamilton goes around the outside of Valtteri Bottas and wow,
03:43what another good move that was from the world champion. So Valtteri's really gone heavily right,
03:48look, so he's pinched himself into Turn 1 and Lewis has just played the angles and steamed around the
03:55outside. Red Bull are going to pull the trigger and take the gamble with Max Verstappen and make the
04:02first pit stop of the top three runners. Valtteri is boxing, pick up the pace.
04:10It needs to be two seconds to give Valtteri a real fighting chance, that's sweet, that's not so bad,
04:15what's the time Crofty as it comes up? 3.3 seconds. Oh, I'm not sure. Bottas should stay out in
04:22front here,
04:23although Verstappen is gaining on him very, very swiftly, but it was enough of a gap that Bottas had over
04:29Verstappen to get into the pits and out ahead. Question now, Martin Brundl on colder tyres,
04:34can he stay ahead? This is his moment, look at that, sliding like crazy as Valtteri Bottas trying
04:39to get the power down and immediately then Verstappen has a run at the inside, down into Turn 5,
04:45he's got all the track position he needs, now he will just finish the job off and that all started
04:51when Bottas lit up the rear axle and Max just came up the inside of him with more confidence,
04:56more knowledge, more tyre temperature. Esteban Ocon has been closing on Carlos Sainz enjoying
05:03that resilient hard compound tyre and this is how he made the move. Here comes Fernando Alonso,
05:10he's got DRS on Daniel Ricciardo, down the main straight we go, Alonso moves past and round the
05:15outside of Ricciardo and into ninth. He does, two points. You've got Mick Schumacher closing in on
05:22Nicolas Latifi and here comes Fernando. 1-2 Tapas and he's through. As Pierre Gasly gets past Carlos Sainz
05:32and will pick up a point for doing so. There it is for Bottas then, a 1.19.8. What
05:38could Max do
05:39on the final tour? And now Verstappen's the fastest man in the first sector of anybody for the entire Grand
05:46Prix. First three Portuguese Grand Prix's won by racing knights and Sir Lewis Hamilton's been night
05:51and day ahead of the rest here in Portimao this afternoon. He wins the Portuguese Grand Prix. Max
05:59Verstappen is battling for the fastest lap of the race to add to the 18 points that he's going to
06:04pick
06:04up for second place. Hamilton will increase his lead at the top of the championship. Whatever happens on
06:10this lap for Max Verstappen. Red Bull just did not have the pace in the second half of this race
06:15to
06:15challenge Mercedes today. Verstappen comes home for second place and takes the fastest lap as well.
06:22So it's 19 points for Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas will come home to take the third place on the
06:30podium. Of course Verstappen within the red and white curb in turn 14 and yes Verstappen's time is
06:36deleted for track limits. Mercedes will get the point for a fastest lap with Valtteri Bottas. Red Bull
06:43will think right what do we now need to do to beat Mercedes and Mercedes will think what do we
06:47need to
06:48do to stay ahead of Red Bull and they haven't got much thinking time. We're off to Barcelona in just
06:54a
06:54few days. It was certainly Mercedes day here in the Algarve at the Portuguese Grand Prix.
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