How did Hamilton manage to overtake Verstappen so easily in Portugal?
04-05-2021 13:21 | Updated: 04-05-2021 14:18
The margins between the top were again small during the Portuguese Grand Prix. The battles for victory and also pole position came down to the smallest details. Bad exits, track limits, and Lewis Hamilton just missed Valtteri Bottas by 7 thousandths on Saturday.
High and low rake
So the greater the surprise was to see how easy it was for Hamilton to overtake Max Verstappen during the race. For the latter, it was a lot harder to keep up with a Mercedes with DRS. Gary Anderson has an explanation:
4 May, 2021
Mika Hakkinen has flung some good advice the way of Max Verstappen as the Red Bull driver squares up to Mercedes ace Lewis Hamilton, the latter beating the former at Sunday’s Portuguese Grand Prix.
Double F1 World Champion, Hakkinen reviewed the race at Autodromo do Algarve in his latest Unibet column and preferred: “To beat Lewis, Max needs to do a perfect job each weekend.
“One area of frustration for Max has been track limit penalties. He should have won in Bahrain and could have taken pole position and set fastest lap in Portugal.
“But each time he put all four wheels over the line at some point on the circuit. It is so easy to do, but you cannot afford to make small mistakes like that,” added Hakkinen.
Monaco to allow spectators at Formula One Grand Prix
04 May 2021 - 23:06
May 26, 2019 General view during the race REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
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Spectators will be able to attend the Monaco Grand Prix when the social highlight of the Formula One calendar returns on May 20-23 after missing a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Mediterranean principality said on Tuesday that grandstands would be at 40% capacity, with up to 7,500 ticket holders a day.
The sport s oldest and most glamorous street race was not held in 2020, the first time it had been absent from the calendar since 1954.
The event will not be restricted to locals but those attending from outside Monaco will have to take a test for COVID-19 no more than 72 hours in advance.
By Reuters Staff
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May 4 (Reuters) - Spectators will be able to attend the Monaco Grand Prix when the social highlight of the Formula One calendar returns on May 20-23 after missing a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Mediterranean principality said on Tuesday that grandstands would be at 40% capacity, with up to 7,500 ticket holders a day.
The sport’s oldest and most glamorous street race was not held in 2020, the first time it had been absent from the calendar since 1954.
The event will not be restricted to locals but those attending from outside Monaco will have to take a test for COVID-19 no more than 72 hours in advance.
Conclusions from the Portuguese Grand Prix
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May 3 2021
A familiar trio stepped onto the podium in Portimao as Sir Lewis Hamilton extended his World Championship lead over Max Verstappen.
Here are our conclusions from an uneventful yet compelling Portuguese Grand Prix in which Mercedes and Red Bull blew the rest away once more.
Max needs to stick to the limit
Mercedes and Red Bull are matching each other jab for jab so far this season and at Portimao, it was the World Champions who struck a counting shot in the scheduled 23-round fight for supremacy.
Valtteri Bottas and Hamilton locked out the front row and in the race, as usually happens, it was the Briton who mastered his team-mate by claiming career win No 97, with the Finn unable to offer up much in the way of excuses afterwards.