Postpublished at 10:43 British Summer Time 24 October 2020
The main talking point from after the session was whether Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll would be penalised for that second-session smash.
Not this time.
Summary
Hamilton takes pole, Bottas 2nd, Verstappen 3rd
Hamilton could break all-time race win record at Portimao
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Postpublished at 10:43 British Summer Time 24 October 2020
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Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writerA disrupted day’s running on Friday, with a dirty track in the first session, and then a second session truncated by a Pirelli tyre test and two red flags has left the teams with a lot of unknowns heading into Saturday at Portimao.
Lewis Hamilton was not happy with his car on Friday, Red Bull appeared quite close to Mercedes, and Ferrari appeared to have made a step forward with their latest upgrades. What will Saturday bring?
Second session timespublished at 10:40 British Summer Time 24 October 2020
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The second session was not the most representative session. We had a Pirelli test for the first 30 minutes, then two red flags after a fire for Pierre Gasly and that smash between Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll.
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These were the times from the first session.
Image source, F1Bottas tops Portuguese GP first practice - read the reportpublished at 10:38 British Summer Time 24 October 2020
Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer
Image source, Getty ImagesValtteri Bottas, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen carried on the trend of 2020 in leading the field in first practice at the Portuguese Grand Prix.
On F1's first visit to the undulating Autodromo do Algarve, Bottas was 0.339 seconds ahead of Hamilton. Verstappen was 0.781secs off the pace, and narrowly ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc in fourth.
Both Verstappen and Leclerc had spins early in the session as they learned the demanding new track at Portimao. Red Bull's Alexander Albon was fifth fastest, ahead of McLaren's Carlos Sainz, Racing Point's Sergio Perez and Alfa Romeo's Kimi Raikkonen.
Renault's Daniel Ricciardo and Alpha Tauri's Pierre Gasly completed the top 10, ahead of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and McLaren's Lando Norris. There were spins as well for Raikkonen, Haas driver Romain Grosjean, Alpha Tauri's Daniil Kvyat and Williams' Nicholas Latifi.
Postpublished at 10:38 British Summer Time 24 October 2020
Let's start off with a quick look back at what happened yesterday.
Hellopublished at 10:35 British Summer Time 24 October 2020
Hi there. Thanks for joining us for BBC Sport's coverage of third practice and qualifying for the Portuguese Grand Prix.
Third practice starts at 11:00 BST and qualifying then comes at 14:00 BST and as always we will have live radio commentary throughout the day.
A lively debutpublished at 10:29 British Summer Time 24 October 2020
We had a fire...
Image source, F1...a crash...
Image source, F1...and quite a few spins.
Image source, F1It was certainly a lively introduction on the first day of Formula 1 racing at Portimao in Portugal. We've got third practice and qualifying to come today so what does Saturday have in store for us?