Portuguese GP: Bottas denies Hamilton pole by 0.007s

F1’s top two teams opted for different tyre strategies for the final runs in Q3, with the Mercedes drivers returning to medium tyres with which they had dominated in Q2, and used to top qualifying at Portimao in 2020, while Verstappen stuck with the softs throughout.
But the tyre change did not work for either of the Black Arrows drivers, as Bottas’s 1m18.38s that was set on the first Q3 runs …Keep reading