{"id":72806,"date":"2025-08-17T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72806\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:32:08","slug":"when-f1-champion-performed-this-start-in-beloved-circuit-set-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72806\/","title":{"rendered":"When F1 champion performed THIS start in beloved circuit set to return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s relive Kimi Raikkonen<\/a>\u2019s stunning start at the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix, at a time when there\u2019s a lot of talk about the Portimao<\/a> circuit potentially returning to the calendar in 2027.A few days ago, Lu\u00eds Montenegro, the Prime Minister of Portugal, confirmed his intention to bring the Portim\u00e3o circuit back to Formula 1 from 2027,<\/a> following its brief appearance on the calendar in 2020 after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.”We have secured the organization of the MotoGP, the royal class of motorsports worldwide, for 2025 and 2026, and I can tell you that we have everything ready to officially make the return of Formula 1<\/a> to the Algarve in 2027,” he said about it at a festival.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese Grand Prix, in addition to the 2020 edition won by Lewis Hamilton, was also held the following year, again with the seven-time world champion taking victory, before disappearing from the calendar to host only MotoGP events.<\/p>\n

\"Kimi<\/p>\n

Kimi Raikkonen in 2020<\/p>\n

When Raikkonen overtook 10 cars at the start of the 2020 Portoguese GP<\/p>\n

In addition to the double win by the former Mercedes driver, the Portim\u00e3o race is also remembered by fans for Kimi Raikk\u00f6nen\u2019s remarkable start in 2020.<\/p>\n

Starting from sixteenth on the grid, the former world champion\u2014and the last to win a title with the Maranello team\u2014made a lightning-fast getaway, overtaking several cars within just a few corners.<\/p>\n

By the end of the first lap, the Finnish driver had overtaken even more cars, starting the second lap already in sixth place, completing a total of ten overtakes.<\/p>\n

The rest of the race was relatively uneventful for him, and the former Alfa Romeo<\/a> driver finished in eleventh place, just outside the points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s relive Kimi Raikkonen\u2019s stunning start at the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix, at a time when there\u2019s a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-72806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}