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PORTUGAL GP History: Here Ayrton SENNA celebrated his FIRST VICTORY

Last year’s and this year’s Portuguese Grand Prix, which is actually a replacement venue for the new coronavirus pandemic, are of course not the first performances of a Formula 1 championship race in this Western European country, which also has a rich motorsport history.

Between 1984 and 1996 it was Portugal a regular stop on the Formula 1 calendar, and the lands of famous sailors and porters have organized races much earlier, as in the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, races for the Portuguese Grand Prix were already organized on street racetracks. Boavista Circuit near Porto and Circuito de Monsanto in the suburbs of Lisbon.

V eighties last century, Portugal returned to the Formula 1 championship calendar when they updated racetrack in Estoril, a seaside resort nearby Lisbon. The Portuguese venue was popular with both racers and fans, and in thirteen years it has hosted many interesting races.

Already in the first year it is right in Estoril celebrated his third world title Nikki Lauda. It's a year later Ayrton Senna in Portugal he won for the first time in his career, four years later he crashed into it Nigel Mansell, which the commissioners showed him just then black flag due to reversing in the pits.

The Briton was otherwise at Alain Prost the most successful driver in Estoril, as each of them has won three times here. Among the winners we also find, among other things Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill, David Coulthard in Jacques Villeneuve. Estoril is also the track on which the team is Minardi recorded its only lap in the race lead. This "feat" succeeded in 1989 Pierluigi Martini, when the leading racers turned into the pits.

They are also in 1996 Portuguese had the opportunity to organize a Formula 1 championship race, but had to modernize the racetrack, which they did not do, which replaced it with a race for the European Grand Prix in Spain Jerez.

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