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...
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