Race · Round 3 of 22 · 2 May 2021

2021 Portuguese Grand Prix

Sir Lewis Hamilton won for Mercedes from 2nd on the grid at Autodromo Internacional do Algarve. 1 of the starters was not classified. With this win, Sir Lewis Hamilton set a new record of 97 championship Grand Prix wins.

Dry, with cloud · High of 19 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Autodromo Internacional do AlgarvePortimao, Portugal
Winner: Sir Lewis HamiltonMercedes
Pole: Valtteri Bottas
Fastest lap: Valtteri Bottas
Entries: 2019 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W12	2	66	Finished	25
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB16B	3	66	Finished	18
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	F1 W12	1	66	Finished	16	fastest lap
4	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	RB16B	4	66	Finished	12
5	Lando Norris	McLaren	MCL35M	7	66	Finished	10
6	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	SF21	8	66	Finished	8
7	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	A521	6	66	Finished	6
8	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	A521	13	66	Finished	4
9	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	MCL35M	16	66	Finished	2
10	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT02	9	66	Finished	1
11	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	SF21	5	66	Finished	0
12	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	C41	12	65	Finished	0
13	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	AMR21	10	65	Finished	0
14	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	AMR21	17	65	Finished	0
15	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT02	14	65	Finished	0
16	George Russell	Williams	FW43B	11	65	Finished	0
17	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	VF-21	19	64	Finished	0
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	FW43B	18	64	Finished	0
19	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	VF-21	20	64	Finished	0
DNF	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	C41	15	1	Collision	0

F1DB layout portimao-1 · 4.653 km · 15 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sir Lewis Hamilton	2	1	66
Max Verstappen	3	2	66
Valtteri Bottas	1	3	66
Sergio Perez	4	4	66
Lando Norris	7	5	66
Charles Leclerc	8	6	66
Esteban Ocon	6	7	66
Fernando Alonso	13	8	66
Daniel Ricciardo	16	9	66
Pierre Gasly	9	10	66
Carlos Sainz	5	11	66
Antonio Giovinazzi	12	12	65
Sebastian Vettel	10	13	65
Lance Stroll	17	14	65
Yuki Tsunoda	14	15	65
George Russell	11	16	65
Mick Schumacher	19	17	64
Nicholas Latifi	18	18	64
Nikita Mazepin	20	19	64
Kimi Raikkonen	15	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:18.722	1:18.458	1:18.348	—	0 m	—
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:18.857	1:17.968	1:18.355	+0.007	0 m	+0.007
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:19.485	1:18.650	1:18.746	+0.398	24 m	+0.391
4	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:19.337	1:18.845	1:18.890	+0.542	32 m	+0.144
5	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:19.309	1:18.813	1:19.039	+0.691	41 m	+0.149
6	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:19.092	1:18.586	1:19.042	+0.694	41 m	+0.003
7	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:18.794	1:18.481	1:19.116	+0.768	46 m	+0.074
8	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:19.373	1:18.769	1:19.306	+0.958	57 m	+0.190
9	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:19.464	1:19.052	1:19.475	+1.127	67 m	+0.169
10	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:19.403	1:18.970	1:19.659	+1.311	78 m	+0.184
11	George Russell	Williams	63	1:19.797	1:19.109	—	—	68 m	—
12	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:19.410	1:19.216	—	—	74 m	—
13	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:19.728	1:19.456	—	—	89 m	—
14	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:19.684	1:19.463	—	—	89 m	—
15	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:19.748	1:19.812	—	—	110 m	—
16	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:19.839	—	—	—	66 m	—
17	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:19.913	—	—	—	70 m	—
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:20.285	—	—	—	92 m	—
19	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:20.452	—	—	—	102 m	—
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:20.912	—	—	—	129 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	66	3	2, 3, 37	22.4, 22.2, 26.9
Max Verstappen	2	66	4	2, 3, 35, 64	22.7, 22.1, 26.7, 26.3
Valtteri Bottas	3	66	4	2, 3, 36, 63	21.4, 22.1, 26.9, 26.6
Sergio Perez	4	66	3	2, 3, 51	21.9, 22.1, 26.6
Lando Norris	5	66	3	2, 3, 22	21.4, 22.6, 27.0
Charles Leclerc	6	66	3	2, 3, 25	21.3, 22.6, 27.1
Esteban Ocon	7	66	3	2, 3, 22	21.3, 22.2, 27.0
Fernando Alonso	8	66	3	2, 3, 40	21.5, 21.6, 26.4
Daniel Ricciardo	9	66	3	2, 3, 41	22.0, 22.4, 28.6
Pierre Gasly	10	66	3	2, 3, 24	21.4, 22.3, 26.2
Carlos Sainz	11	66	3	2, 3, 21	22.0, 22.2, 25.9
Antonio Giovinazzi	12	65	3	2, 3, 22	22.5, 22.7, 26.7
Sebastian Vettel	13	65	3	2, 3, 22	21.4, 21.8, 26.6
Lance Stroll	14	65	3	2, 3, 39	22.3, 22.2, 26.0
Yuki Tsunoda	15	65	3	2, 3, 21	22.3, 22.5, 26.2
George Russell	16	65	3	2, 3, 28	23.5, 22.8, 26.8
Mick Schumacher	17	64	3	2, 3, 32	22.0, 21.5, 27.2
Nicholas Latifi	18	64	3	2, 3, 24	22.0, 21.7, 26.6
Nikita Mazepin	19	64	4	2, 3, 31, 43	21.4, 21.4, 27.2, 27.0
Kimi Raikkonen	DNF	1	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Valtteri Bottas · Sir Lewis Hamilton	1 · 2	3 · 1	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Max Verstappen	2 · 3	1 · 2	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Valtteri Bottas · Max Verstappen	1 · 3	3 · 2	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Max Verstappen · Sergio Perez	3 · 4	2 · 4	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Valtteri Bottas · Sergio Perez	1 · 4	3 · 4	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Lando Norris	4 · 7	4 · 5	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Carlos Sainz	4 · 5	4 · 11	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Lando Norris	6 · 7	7 · 5	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Lando Norris · Charles Leclerc	7 · 8	5 · 6	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Charles Leclerc	6 · 8	7 · 6	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Charles Leclerc · Pierre Gasly	8 · 9	6 · 10	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Esteban Ocon	5 · 6	11 · 7	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Esteban Ocon · Fernando Alonso	6 · 13	7 · 8	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Antonio Giovinazzi · Fernando Alonso	12 · 13	12 · 8	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Daniel Ricciardo	13 · 16	8 · 9	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Yuki Tsunoda	13 · 14	8 · 15	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Daniel Ricciardo	9 · 16	10 · 9	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Lance Stroll	16 · 17	9 · 14	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Pierre Gasly	5 · 9	11 · 10	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Pierre Gasly · Sebastian Vettel	9 · 10	10 · 13	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Antonio Giovinazzi	5 · 12	11 · 12	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Antonio Giovinazzi	10 · 12	13 · 12	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
George Russell · Antonio Giovinazzi	11 · 12	16 · 12	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Lance Stroll	10 · 17	13 · 14	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · George Russell	10 · 11	13 · 16	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Yuki Tsunoda · Lance Stroll	14 · 17	15 · 14	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · Nicholas Latifi	17 · 18	14 · 18	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
George Russell · Yuki Tsunoda	11 · 14	16 · 15	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
George Russell · Mick Schumacher	11 · 19	16 · 17	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Nicholas Latifi · Mick Schumacher	18 · 19	18 · 17	2 · 2	Same lap	Swapped places
Mick Schumacher · Nikita Mazepin	19 · 20	17 · 19	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order
Nicholas Latifi · Nikita Mazepin	18 · 20	18 · 19	2 · 2	Same lap	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:19.648	—	0 m	—	31
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:19.673	+0.025	1 m	+0.025	23
3	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:19.846	+0.198	12 m	+0.173	22
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:19.884	+0.236	14 m	+0.038	27
5	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:19.967	+0.319	19 m	+0.083	32
6	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:20.444	+0.796	47 m	+0.477	31
7	George Russell	Williams	63	1:20.529	+0.881	51 m	+0.085	29
8	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:20.635	+0.987	58 m	+0.106	26
9	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:20.680	+1.032	60 m	+0.045	27
10	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:20.800	+1.152	67 m	+0.120	27
11	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:20.894	+1.246	73 m	+0.094	29
12	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:20.995	+1.347	79 m	+0.101	31
13	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:21.090	+1.442	84 m	+0.095	28
14	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:21.303	+1.655	97 m	+0.213	31
15	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:21.381	+1.733	101 m	+0.078	25
16	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:21.405	+1.757	103 m	+0.024	31
17	Callum Ilott (never started a Grand Prix)	Sauber	98	1:21.806	+2.158	126 m	+0.401	21
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:21.939	+2.291	134 m	+0.133	29
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:22.293	+2.645	155 m	+0.354	29
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:24.224	+4.576	267 m	+1.931	29

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing. † Drove in practice and never started a Grand Prix.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:19.837	—	0 m	—	33
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:19.980	+0.143	8 m	+0.143	26
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:20.181	+0.344	20 m	+0.201	28
4	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:20.197	+0.360	21 m	+0.016	33
5	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:20.220	+0.383	22 m	+0.023	32
6	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:20.235	+0.398	23 m	+0.015	31
7	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:20.360	+0.523	30 m	+0.125	33
8	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:20.418	+0.581	34 m	+0.058	31
9	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:20.427	+0.590	34 m	+0.009	31
10	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:20.516	+0.679	40 m	+0.089	28
11	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:20.558	+0.721	42 m	+0.042	34
12	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:20.757	+0.920	54 m	+0.199	28
13	George Russell	Williams	63	1:20.976	+1.139	66 m	+0.219	32
14	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:21.053	+1.216	71 m	+0.077	33
15	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:21.074	+1.237	72 m	+0.021	32
16	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:21.225	+1.388	81 m	+0.151	22
17	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:21.238	+1.401	82 m	+0.013	32
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:21.537	+1.700	99 m	+0.299	29
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:21.855	+2.018	118 m	+0.318	31
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:22.638	+2.801	163 m	+0.783	28

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:18.489	—	0 m	—	21
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:18.725	+0.236	14 m	+0.236	21
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:18.820	+0.331	20 m	+0.095	19
4	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:18.840	+0.351	21 m	+0.020	25
5	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:18.860	+0.371	22 m	+0.020	19
6	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:19.001	+0.512	30 m	+0.141	23
7	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:19.050	+0.561	33 m	+0.049	24
8	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:19.272	+0.783	46 m	+0.222	18
9	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:19.374	+0.885	52 m	+0.102	26
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:19.415	+0.926	55 m	+0.041	26
11	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:19.485	+0.996	59 m	+0.070	25
12	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:19.582	+1.093	65 m	+0.097	19
13	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:19.588	+1.099	65 m	+0.006	23
14	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:19.949	+1.460	87 m	+0.361	20
15	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:20.033	+1.544	92 m	+0.084	22
16	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:20.090	+1.601	95 m	+0.057	17
17	George Russell	Williams	63	1:20.127	+1.638	97 m	+0.037	18
18	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:20.214	+1.725	102 m	+0.087	21
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:20.681	+2.192	130 m	+0.467	19
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:20.690	+2.201	130 m	+0.009	20

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

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Where this comes from

Round: 3 of 2021
Grand Prix: Portuguese Grand Prix
Dates: 2 May 2021
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Mercedes
Entrant: Mercedes
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.