Hamilton seeks record 92nd win on F1's return to Portugal

Well, I cannot see how Williams in their present set-up will benefit in any way from having won races in the past at Portimao. Miracles do happen though.

The biggest news will be all the driver changes for next year, I suspect. There is a lot of movement behind the scenes.

The cars are so close this year, thousandths of a second apart, and party mode has been banned from the qualifying sessions, so nothing is guaranteed re Mercedes and Lewis for points or records this weekend. I am sure the focus of the whole Mercedes team will be solely on doing their best; Lady Luck as always will inevitably play her part.

Hoping the weather holds for them. Portugal can have very changeable weather coming off the Atlantic, even in the course of one day.

A new and slippery surface on a roller-coaster course makes for thrills and spills. Blue skies dotted with large black clouds rolling over. Gusty winds. Many cars spinning out into the gravel runoffs, fires, collisions, all in the first two free practice sessions.

Bottas seems to have got the hang of the track best of the lot so far.