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Formula 1
Canadian GP
2010 Canadian Grand Prix Race day in Montreal
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Lap 11: Heikki Kovalainen has taken advantage of all this chaos and runs in a scarcely believable seventh place at the moment.
Lap 11: Kubica has made a stop in his Renault, taking fresh hard rubber.
Lap 12: Nico Rosberg in 13th is up behind Petrov now. Further bad news for the Russian is that he is being investigated for a jump start.
Lap 12: The pair on the move at the moment are Alonso and Hamilton - setting a 1m20s pace while the Red Bulls, on used tyres, lap in the 1m21s.
Lap 12: Felipe Massa is down in 23rd place but lapping very quickly as Petrov gets a drive through penalty for that jump start.
Lap 13: Hamilton is right on Alonso's gearbox and is sure to be upset about losing position to the Ferrari at the stop.
Lap 13: Barrichello comes into the pits from 18th place. This is his second stop. He is having the front wing replaced and he roars back out.
Lap 13: Schumacher pits as Mercedes react to the spurt of pace from the earlier stoppers.
Lap 13: Tonio Liuzzi in 22nd has now caught the drivers from the new teams. He will quickly move up to 18th over the course of the next few laps.
Lap 14: Surely Red Bull will plan to come in shortly.
Lap 14: It's all action in Canada as Schumacher resumes in a fight with Robert Kubica and refuses to cede ground to the Pole.
Lap 14: Red Bull react with a stop for Webber.
Lap 14: Schumacher rejoins after that stop and is immediately in a fight for position with Robert Kubica. They both trip across the grass at Turn 3 but Schumacher holds his position - seventh.
Lap 15: This will be a very long stint for everyone on hard tyres as they won't want to spend many laps on the softs.
Lap 15: Buemi is yet to pit and about to take the lead as Vettel pits.
Lap 15: Petrov pits the Renault as he answers the jump start penalty. He spends a total of 14 seconds in the pitlane. He is out of the top 20.
Lap 15: Vettel had a handy lead as the Red Bull gambles on soft tyres!
Lap 15: Schumacher pits from ninth. This is the German's second stop. He takes on hard tyres and rejoins the race outside the top ten.
Lap 16: Alonso is all over Buemi as they fight for the lead.
Lap 16: Hamilton pulls a fantastic opportunistic move around the outside of Alonso into the final chicane as Buemi pits.
Lap 16: Buemi pits the Toro Rosso from the lead of the race. He rejoins in around eighth position.
Lap 17: Hamilton leads a breathless Canadian Grand Prix from Alonso and Button.
Lap 17: Vettel is now fourth ahead of team-mate Webber.
Lap 17: Nico Rosberg has passed Heikki Kovalainen for ninth position. Kovalainen pits from tenth.
Lap 18: Robert Kubica has survived that skirmish with Schumacher to run sixth ahead of Sutil in the Force India.
Lap 18: Teams will now be frantically rethinking the strategy and wondering how many more stops they should make.
Lap 18: Massa is up to 16th place in the Ferrari and is making reasonable progress. That becomes 15th as he passes the pitted Kovalainen.
Lap 18: Hamilton, Alonso and Button have the advantage of not being forced to use the soft tyre again - something Vettel will also avoid given he is out on that fragile rubber now.
Lap 19: Rosberg sets the fastest lap of the race with 1m19.431s in ninth. Behind him Hulkenberg is tenth, Alguersuari is 11th and he has Schumacher crawling all over the back of him in 12th.
Lap 20: Rosberg does it again and posts a whopping 1m19.214s. He remains ninth but just 2.5s behind Buemi.
Lap 20: Hamilton leads but Alonso is not giving up the fight in his Ferrari and is under a second behind the McLaren.
Lap 20: Onboard shots show some rear graining on Hamilton's tyres but his pace is good at the moment in the low 1m20s.
Lap 20: De La Rosa pits from 16th and Petrov is in for tyres. This is his first tyre change following that drive-through penalty.
Lap 21: The Red Bull pair have fresher tyres but are currently slower than the leading three cars.
Lap 21: The race is finally beginning to settle down a little as battles develop. Massa passes Kovalainen for 14th place.
Lap 21: Vettel finds better pace now on the softer tyres as more rubber goes down on the surface.
Lap 22: Buemi is holding on to that eighth place but has fallen to 4.9s behind Sutil. Rosberg is ninth with Hulkenberg a fine tenth.
Lap 23: Improving pace from the Red Bulls now with a 1m20.049s for Webber.
Lap 23: Alguersuari is 11th and Schumacher still isn't able to find a way past him in 12th. Liuzzi is 13th - 16 seconds behind Schumacher.
Lap 23: Alonso reckons it it "looking good" as he is told of the positions and tyre choices on the radio.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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