The Portuguese Grand Prix is a motorsports event held for several years. The first event was held on the Boavista street course in Porto on 17 June 1951. The Grand Prix was moved to Monsanto Park, Lisbon, in 1954 as aOne-off. In 1957 it became part of the Formula One world championship. The race was then discontinued and did not return until 1984, when it was held at the Autódromo do Estoril near the capital of Lisbon.
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The Portuguese Grand Prix is a motorsports event held for several years, mostly in the 1950s and then in the 1980s and 1990s. It was revived in 2020 for a one-off, with the location changing from Lisbon to Algarve. The first event was held on the Boavista street course in Porto on 17 June 1951 as a sports car race. The Grand Prix was moved to Monsanto Park, Lisbon, in 1954 as aOne-off. Sportscar events continued until 1957 when the following year it became part of the Formula One world championship. In 1958, the first Formula One race was held in Boavista, with Jack Brabham winning. The race was then discontinued and did not return until 1984, when it was held at the Autódromo do Estoril near the capital of Lisbon in 1972. In 1985, the Grand Prix were moved to 21 April and held under heavy rain, the ideal conditions for Ayrton Senna to win his first race. In 1987, Prost won his 28th Grand Prix, breaking Jackie Stewart’s 14-year-old record; and 1988 was to see controversy between Prost and his McLaren teammate Senna.
In 1989, Mansell and Senna were involved in one of the most famous sporting rivalries in Formula One history. Mansell was given the black flag after he went out of his pit lane, which was against the rules, but he did not go in and finish the race. Senna kept his foot on the track from the pit lane from his attempt to stop him, but the Brazilian nearly hit the wall separating pit lane and pit lane. In 1990, the race was won by Briton Nigel Mansell, who went out in the first corner, but was not given a black flag as he had backed into his pit position. The name was resurrected for a sportsCar sprint event in the Cascais street circuit in 1964. The following two years, it was run for Formula Three cars. In 1972, the Portuguese Grand GP was held as a European Formula Two Championship event during the 1970s. In 1984, Portugal returned to the F1 calendar, where Frenchman Alain Prost win the race but failed to win the Championship by half a point from his teammate, Austrian Niki Lauda.
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