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Formula 1 Belgian GP

2009 Belgian Grand Prix Race day at Spa-Francorchamps

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Lap 22: Trulli rejoins after a stop in the Toyota and continues in last place.
Lap 21: The spread of cars is amazing as the front runners pit and those down the back stay out on higher fuel. The gap between first and last is just 30 seconds ... as Trulli breaks that spread by pitting.
Lap 21: Fernando Alonso is now third on the road with a late stop nearing for the Renault. The Spaniard is ahead of Kubica, who has made his first stop.
Lap 21: Badoer now sets the fastest first sector of anyone in the grand prix. The slowest driver is currently the fastest up the hill to Les Combes.
Lap 20: Jarno Trulli still cannot get past the Ferrari of Luca Badoer. They have been running in close company since the restart as they continue their battle for 15th.
Lap 20: Mark Webber answers the drive through penalty and the Australian comes down the lane at the regulation speed limit, rejoining the action in 13th position.
Lap 20: Fisichella continues to press Raikkonen, with the Force India driver now within a second of the leader.
Lap 19: Nico Rosberg pits his Williams, resuming ahead of Sutil down in 11th.
Lap 19: The stewards announce that the incident on lap one between Jenson Button and Romain Grosjean will be investigated after the race.
Lap 19: Sebastien Buemi is still hanging on to the shirt tail of Kovalainen and run seventh. Vettel is eighth after his first stop with Heidfeld ninth and Barrichello tenth.
Lap 18: Fernando Alonso and Heikki Kovalainen now have their chance to make some headway before they come in for their first stop. Alonso is up to fourth with Kovalainen now sixth in the McLaren.
Lap 18: Fisichella remains well in touch with Raikkonen's Ferrari in what will be second place after Rosberg's stop.
Lap 17: Vettel has resumed in eighth.
Lap 17: Nico Rosberg currently leads by 1.3 seconds but has yet to stop.
Lap 17: Vettel makes his first stop from the temporary lead.
Lap 17: Race control has announced that Mark Webber has been given a drive through penalty for that unsafe release from the pitstop.
Lap 16: The stewards are immediately investigating the release of Webber into the path of Heidfeld.
Lap 16: Adrian Sutil in 12th is closing up to Rubens Barrichello. The Force India has very good pace but he has to wait ... because Barrichello takes the chance to pass Mark Webber. These three are running in 10th 11th and 12th places.
Lap 16: Replays show it was very close to contact between Heidfeld and Webber in the pits.
Lap 16: Up to the hill at Les Combes, Heidfeld surges back around the Red Bull, dropping Webber behind him again.
Lap 15: Webber is released into the path of Heidfeld and is now ahead, but that move may come to the attention of the stewards.
Lap 15: Sebastian Vettel takes over the lead of the race for Red Bull.
Lap 15: Heidfeld and Webber join the scramble to pit.
Lap 15: Kimi Raikkonen and Fisichella pit together.
Lap 15: Glock rejoined from his stop in 13th place. The German lost a lot of time in that stop as the fuel hose wouldn't connect to the car. The Toyota crew quickly switched to the second rig, but Glock lost a lot of time in that.
Lap 14: Up front, Fisichella continues to hold on to Raikkonen, with the still gap under two seconds. The Force India is due in soon.
Lap 14: Webber responds immediately with the fastest middle sector and a personal best lap.
Lap 13: Glock has re-joined in heavy traffic so this is a good opportunity for Mark Webber to put on a spurt of pace.
Lap 13: At the back Jarno Trulli is all over the back of Luca Badoer but can't find a way past the Ferrari driver.
Lap 13: Kubica resumes 9th behind Alonso.
Lap 13: Robert Kubica is the first man to make a scheduled stop, with Glock also heading in.
Lap 13: The gaps are beginning to spread out behind the top seven. Nico Rosberg in eighth has dropped four seconds behind Vettel, with Alonso running ninth and a further four seconds back.

Kovalainen is tenth, four seconds behind Alonso. The Finn still has Buemi close behind him. Barrichello is 12th and slowly catching this pair. Sutil is 13th.
Lap 11: Raikkonen pulls to a 1.8 second lead over Fisichella, with Kubica a further 1.7 seconds behind. Glock is continuing to slip away from the top three, with Mark Webber continuing to hound the Toyota.
Lap 11: Heikki Kovalainen in tenth has been facing the attention of Sebastien Buemi for several laps now. Buemi can run close to the McLaren, but will find it almost impossible to get past the Finn.
Lap 11: Luca Badoer is now coming under attack from Jarno Trulli in a fight for 15th place. Trulli was seen on the first lap running with a broken front wing. The Italian who started from the front row, pitted at the end of the first lap and rejoined at the back.
Lap 10: Sutil now goes one better and passes the heavy Nakajima going up the Kemmel straight. Sutil takes over 13th place.
Lap 9: We have a fight going on at the rear of the field. Adrian Sutil passes Luca Badoer for 14th place but uses the extra run off at the exit of Pouhon to get the job done. The stewards may want to take a look at that move.
Lap 9: Raikkonen shaves a fraction off the fastest lap but Fisichella is not letting him get away, trailing by only 1.6 seconds at this stage.
Lap 8: The gaps continue to build between the points runners, with the closest now Webber a second behind Glock for fourth. The Red Bull has a few laps of fuel to jump the Toyota at the first stop.
Lap 8: Meanwhile, Jenson Button has arrived back with his Brawn team and can only stand and watch as the race continues without him.

By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton

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