In the uncertain autumn of 2020, as the world braced for more restrictions, 27,000 fans gathered for a piece of sporting history. Formula 1 had not visited Portugal for twenty-four long years. Its return to a new track in the Algarve was already momentous, but the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix would become the day Lewis Hamilton officially rewrote the sport's record books. It was a weekend of high drama, chaotic opening laps, and one man taking a monumental step past a legend.
For 14 years, Michael Schumacher's record of 91 Grand Prix victories was considered untouchable, a towering monument to a driver whose career was cut tragically short. But on that day, Lewis Hamilton was poised to break it.
