- Valtteri Bottas finishes third, Sergio Pérez fourth
- Champion extends lead in drivers’ title race with 97th win
Lewis Hamilton won the Portuguese Grand Prix with a dominant run after a gripping fight to take the lead in the opening half of the race. The Mercedes driver beat the Red Bull of Max Verstappen into second place at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, with Valtteri Bottas in third for Mercedes. Verstappen’s teammate Sergio Pérez was in fourth, with Lando Norris another superb fifth for McLaren.
The world champion won after some intense racing to open, during which he dropped from second to third, came back to take second and then made a superb pass on Bottas to take a lead he would not relinquish. Just as he displayed here in Portugal last year, he had a pace on the circuit that simply could not be matched as he took his 97th win, three from a unique century as he attempts to seal a record eighth title.
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