Hamilton wins with a spectacular Alonso who finished eighth

Lewis Hamilton wants to remain the king of Formula 1. The seven-time world champion had a near-perfect race to beat Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas at the Portuguese Grand Prix and become strong at the head of the World Championship. Spectacular end of the race for Fernando Alonso, who made a great comeback to finish eighth with Carlos Sainz as the last victim after a beautiful battle between the two. Alpine confirms his improvement in the third weekend of the season with the seventh place of Esteban Ocon and the eighth of Alonso. His lack of experience with the car matters little: Fernando always makes us enjoy ourselves. And more when the Alpine responds. The Asturian rider signs his best position so far this season after a great comeback in which he beat Carlos Sainz, who suffered a lot in the last laps in Portimao and finished in eleventh position. The Portuguese Grand Prix hosted third Formula 1 season race after Valtteri Bottas’ surprising pole position in qualifying. Behind him were Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, the two big favorites for the title. Both promised to star in the third round of the World Cup in Portimao with Bottas as a guest and a great squire of his teammate, while Spaniards Carlos Sainz and Fernando Alonso faced the race with quite different sensations. The Ferrari man – the best rookie of the season so far – had achieved a very exciting fifth place in the standings, his best position in red to date. While Carlos surpassed his teammate Leclerc, Fernando Alonso presented the other side of the coin: 13th on Saturday and far from Esteban Ocon who came out of sixth.Portimao was testing the improvements of the Alpine and the excitement of an exciting start to the season. Carlos Sainz’s great startThe red of the traffic light of the Algarve International Circuit disappeared in a start with very little movement in the first positions. The first three remained exactly the same, with Valtteri Bottas holding on in the first position. For his part, Carlos Sainz placed fourth after a magnificent start in which he went by like a rocket to Checo Pérez. The cross was carried out by Fernando Alonso, who lost positions in the middle of the grid. The Asturian pilot witnessed the accident of Kimi Raikkonen with his teammate Giovinazzi. A rookie mistake by good old Kimi that caused the safety car to go out. In the relaunch of the race, more things happened than at the start: Valtteri Bottas acted with great intelligence, expecting a lot and surprising even Hamilton himself, who was overtaken by Verstappen in the first of his battles this Sunday in Portimao. For its part, the relaunch did not favor anything to a Carlos Sainz who lost two positions until he was right in front of Charles Leclerc. Hamilton’s party The fight to win the third race of the World Cup with Bottas defending himself from Verstappen’s attacks was precious. Meanwhile, Hamilton attended with popcorn in hand to the battle between the first two biding his time. And it came. The seven-time world champion flew over the asphalt of Portimao, overtaking Verstappen on lap 11 in a spectacular duel between two giant drivers. When it looked like he would wait for team orders to pass Bottas, he passed him in 20th in an outrageous overtaking form. 🙌 AN ANIMAL IS LOOSE! 🙌 Don’t look for Bottas stickers.Hamilton has ripped them all off. BRUTAL # PortugalDAZNF1 🇵🇹 pic.twitter.com/zJZTA0H6OQ – DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) May 2, 2021 The race was very expensive for Hamilton. Valtteri Bottas acted as a faithful squire stopping the Verstappen beast and letting the world champion fly in the first position. Bottas’ shield lasted until lap 37, when an error in the Finn’s pit lane exit caused Mad Max to overtake in the DRS zone after the undercut attempt. However, Verstappen’s pace was never enough to hunt down a Hamilton flying to victory in the Portuguese Grand Prix. Spaniards duel for eighth place Face and cross for the Spanish drivers on the final stretch of the Portuguese Grand Prix: Carlos Sainz suffered until he dropped into eighth position after giving up position to Leclerc and succumbing to the speed of Esteban Ocon’s Alpine. For his part, Fernando Alonso improved and took advantage of Alpine’s good pace to position himself just behind the Ferrari driver after brilliantly overtaking Ricciardo. ✈️ LIKE AN AIRPLANE! 🔥 What speed! What a way to launch to the end of the straight! @alo_oficial giving us a SHOW with his comeback 💪 # PortugalDAZNF1 🇵🇹 pic.twitter.com/oiVDrl1NAO – DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) May 2, 2021 The last laps of Portimao gave us a nice duel between Carlos Sainz and Fernando Alonso. The winner was Alpine, who made us enjoy the Portuguese Grand Prix as before. The Spaniard stayed very close to his teammate Ocon on a great weekend for the French team. For his part, Carlos Sainz fell to eleventh position. Nothing moved in the first positions:Lewis Hamilton took the race, with Verstappen second and Bottas’s Mercedes completing the podium.