The pair traded fastest lap times throughout a tight first 60-🏅minute practice session at Portimao, with Bottas ultima▨tely managing a 1m19.548s to end FP1 just 0.025s clear of Verstappen’s Red Bull.

Sergio Perez made it a Red Bull 2-3 with a late improvement to finish ahead of ♔Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and championship leader Lewis Hamilton, who struggled for grip and balance on his way to finishing three-tenths off꧒ the pace in P5.

Tyre warm-up proved to be problematic in the low-grip conditions, with Verstappen reporting tyre vibrations that 🎃he said made iജt “impossible” to drive at times.

Pierre Gasly enjoyed a positive start to the weekend for AlphaTauri in sixth, while George Russell&🐠nbsp;set an impressive lap time on Soft tyres to put his Williams seventh in the ti🍨mesheets.

Lando🔴 Norris, Carlos Sainz and Esteban Ocon completed the rest of the top 10 order for McLaren, Ferrari and Alpine respectively.

There was little sign that Sebastian Vettel's early stru🐼ggles to get up to speed at Aston Martin are coming to an end, with the four-time world champion a lowly 16th and half a second slower than💫 his teammate Lance Stroll. 

Ferrari junior Cal﷽lum Ilott made his F1 practice debut for Alfa Romeo in Portugal, finishing 17th rand a re💟spectable half a second adrift of Kimi Raikkonen.

The 2020 Formula 2 runner-up managed to set a faster time than Haas rookies Mick Schumacher and Nik🧸ita Mazepin, as well as Williams driver Nikita Ma𒅌zepin.

FULL RESULTS F❀ROM OPENING PRACTICE FOR THE 2021 F1 PORTUGUESE GRAND PRIX♊.