- Valtteri Bottas finishes third, Sergio Pérez fourth
- Champion extends lead in drivers’ title race with 97th win
Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the Portuguese Grand Prix will surely silence anyone who was entertaining even fleeting doubts as to his motivation to take another Formula One world title.
Determined and relentless, the champion delivered his best performance of the season with a fightback to victory serving notice that it is not just Hamilton’s talent that must be overcome but a relentless will to win, epitomised at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve by some superlative, courageous overtaking.
