Valtteri Bottas will hold the lap record at Portimao for the foreseeable future thanks to the 1:16.466 he set in Q2 for the Portuguese Grand Prix, but there's no doubt that he'd trade it for pole position given the chance. Editor's Picks Vettel admits Leclerc in 'another class' at Portuguese GP Bottas had been fastest in all three practice sessions, Q1 and Q2, but when it mattered in the final session of qualifying he was 0.288s slower than his new lap record set in Q2 and, crucially, 0.102s slower than teammate Lewis Hamilton. As a result, he will line up second on the grid on a weekend where it looked like he held the edge over Hamilton around the 4.2km lap. So what happened? Jose Sena...
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