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2009 German Grand Prix Race day at the Nurburgring
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Lap 50: Nick Heidfeld pits from seventh, as does Nelson Piquet from ninth position. This promotes Nakajima into eighth place and the final points position for the time being.
Lap 49: The Brawn duo continue to run in formation and are weaving on the straights to try and warm the harder tyres.
Lap 49: Adrian Sutil comes into the pits from 11th in the Force india. He rejoins after his third stop of the day down the order.
Lap 48: Fernando Alonso is now in the pits, taking the harder tyre for his run to the finish.
Lap 48: Timo Glock did eventually come into the pits. Before the single stop he was in a straight race with Kazuki Nakajima. Williams have been great with their strategy this afternoon, and Nakajima emerged well ahead of Glock - so much so that Nakajima is in tenth place and has a chance of scoring a point.
Lap 47: Felipe Massa makes his final pit visit, taking the harder tyre. He is out in seventh, behind Vettel and Alonso - who is lapping quickly ahead of his last stop.
Lap 47: Robert Kubica comes into the pits from ninth place in the BMW. He rejoins outside the top ten.
Lap 47: Jenson Button is fifth but struggling for heat in his harder tyres. He is right on the case of team-mate Barrichello.
Lap 46: Vettel takes the softer tyres for his run to the flag.
Lap 46: Vettel is the next man in for a final stop.
Lap 46: Despite the clouds beginning to roll in, there is no risk of rain for the next 25 minutes. Lewis Hamilton radioed the team in the hope that a shower would hit the track a few minutes ago as we said, but all the radars available both on the pitwall, and to us, indicate that there is no imminent rain.
Lap 45: Webber gets a clean stop for another set of the harder tyres and resumes in second behind Vettel but ahead of Massa.
Lap 45: Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica have swapped places. This allows Nick through into eighth place. He is clearly the quicker of the two drivers at the moment.
Lap 44: Mark Webber pits his Red Bull from the lead.
Lap 43: At the lower end of the points, Fernando Alonso has been closing on Heikki Kovalainen. The Finn pits, handing seventh place to the Renault driver.
Lap 43: Mark Webber has eased his pace in recent laps but still has a comfortable lead over the battle between Vettel and Massa over second.
Nico Rosberg continues in a strong fourth, with Barrichello fifth, Button sixth and Alonso seventh. All have one more stop to make.
Nico Rosberg continues in a strong fourth, with Barrichello fifth, Button sixth and Alonso seventh. All have one more stop to make.
Lap 41: Hamilton comes into the pits and rejoins still in last place after a total pitlane time of 24 seconds.
Lap 39: Glock is ninth in the Toyota and still to come in for a stop. Kubica is now tenth with Heidfeld 11th, Buemi 12th, Piquet 13th, Nakajima 14th, Sutil 15th and Fisichella 16th.
Jarno Trulli and Lewis Hamilton continue to bring up the rear after early problems in the race. Lewis reports on the team radio that he thinks there could be some rain coming.
Jarno Trulli and Lewis Hamilton continue to bring up the rear after early problems in the race. Lewis reports on the team radio that he thinks there could be some rain coming.
Lap 39: Felipe Massa is on for a podium this afternoon and is looking to see if he can take second away from Vettel at the final stop. Massa stopped much later at the first round and seems to be making the softer tyres work in this stint.
Lap 38: Timo Glock and Fernando Alonso are enjoyed a spirited battle for ninth place behind Fisichella. Fisichella comes into the pits for the second time and he's back out after a total pitlane time of 24.2 seconds - exactly the same time as his first stop.
Lap 38: Felipe Massa is third, followed by Rosberg, Barrichello, Button, Kovalainen and Alonso.
Lap 37: Mark Webber sets the fastest lap at 1m43.425s as he leads by almost 20 seconds from team-mate Vettel.
Lap 37: Kimi brings the Ferrari into the pits and straight into the garage. Raikkonen is out of the race.
Lap 37: Replays of Barrichello's stop show they were forced to switch to the backup fuel rig, which didn't deliver enough fuel to reach the flag.
Lap 36: Raikkonen is falling down the field and clearly has a technical problem.
Lap 36: The day goes from bad to worse for Barrichello, who is told on the radio they didn't get enough fuel in the car to go to the end.
Lap 35: Jenson Button is harrying Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari and is easily past the Finn, who may have a problem.
Lap 35: With the stops almost finished for the one-stoppers this afternoon, Giancarlo Fisichella is up to ninth place and is two seconds behind Kovalainen and chasing after him.
Lap 34: Barrichello takes the harder tyre after a disastrous second stint on the soft.
It was a lengthy fuel fill for Rubens and he looks to be going to the finish.
It was a lengthy fuel fill for Rubens and he looks to be going to the finish.
Lap 34: Barrichello pits from the lead, handing the advantage to Mark Webber.
Lap 34: Kazuki Nakajima pits for the first time from 11th place, having made it just over half-distance on that set of tyres. He was in a close fight with Timo Glock, who has yet to stop.
Lap 33: Unsurprisingly Button opts for the hard tyre and he goes back out in seventh. The championship leader needs to get a move on as he needs to make a final stop along with the rest of the pack.
Lap 33: The race stewards have announced that the Turn 1 incident between Kimi Raikkonen and Adrian Sutil will be investigated after the race.
Lap 33: Mark Webber is now just 1.2 seconds behind Barrichello as Button pits for his second stop.
Lap 32: The super soft rear tyres on leader Barrichello look past their best as Webber continues to home in on the leader.
Lap 32: That's a great result for Rosberg and good work by the Williams team, as he was ninth before the first pit stops. He is well ahead of the Fisichella-Alonso-Kubica group that he was previously battling with.
Lap 32: That has released Mark Webber into second and he is strongly on course for victory this afternoon, despite that drive-through penalty.
Lap 31: Nico Rosberg pits the Williams from second, taking hard tyres and slotting in between the Ferrari pair in sixth.
Lap 31: Sutil rejoins well down the field but with apparently no other damage than the front wing, which has been replaced.
Lap 30: Heikki Kovalainen in eighth has got Nakajima, Fisichella, Glock and Alonso right behind him as Sutil comes back into the pits for a new front wing after that incident with Kimi Raikkonen.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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