Formula 1 sees all-time record broken in Portimao
By Asher Fair
Lewis Hamilton’s second win of the 2021 Formula 1 season at Algarve International Circuit contributed to the breaking of an all-time record.
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton secured his second win of the 2021 Formula 1 season on Sunday at Algarve International Circuit, winning the Portuguese Grand Prix for the second consecutive season.
The seven-time world champion won the 66-lap race around the 15-turn, 2.91-mile (4.683-kilometer) road course in Portimao, Algarve, Portugal by 29.148 seconds over Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in second place after Verstappen and Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas came into the pits for new tires in the closing laps in order to make runs at recording the race’s fastest lap.
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With Verstappen and Bottas rounding out the podium places, the trio of Hamilton, Verstappen and Bottas has now been on the podium together on 15 occasions, a new all-time record.
They shared the podium two times in the 2018 season, three times in the 2019 season and eight times in the 2020 season.
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Through three races so far this season, the only race in which they did not share it was the second event at Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, where McLaren’s Lando Norris joined Verstappen and Hamilton.
They tied the all-time record with Hamilton’s win, Verstappen’s runner-up finish and Bottas’s third place finish in the season opener at Bahrain International Circuit. The record they tied, and have now broken, was also partially held by Hamilton. Hamilton, four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel and 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg finished on the podium 14 times together.
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Will the trio of Hamilton, Verstappen and Bottas extend their new record and finish on the podium together for the third time in 2021 and the 16th time overall in next weekend’s race, the Spanish Grand Prix? This race is set to be broadcast live on ESPN from Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET on Sunday, May 9. They have finished on the podium together at the track in three straight seasons, making it the only track for which that can be said.