- Finn beats teammate by seven-thousandths of second
- Red Bulls of Verstappen and Pérez third and fourth
Valtteri Bottas took pole for Portuguese Grand Prix to deny Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton the top spot by just seven-thousandths of a second. Max Verstappen was in third for Red Bull at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, with his teammate Sergio Pérez in fourth and Carlos Sainz in fifth for Ferrari.
In a session that ebbed and flowed it had looked initially like Hamilton had what would have been his 100th pole nailed on. He was quick in Q2, a full half a second up on Bottas at the top of the time sheets. He did so on the harder, medium, tyre and looked to be absolutely hooked up to the grand challenge of Portimao with its fast and slow sectors, blind corners and swooping elevation changes through the hills of the Algarve.
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