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2010 Monaco Grand Prix Race day in Monaco
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Lap 20: It's a tight pit exit but Massa resumes ahead of Alguersuari and Hamilton.
Lap 20: Massa is in for his stop and is followed down the pitlane by Barrichello, Schumacher and Liuzzi.
Lap 19: Barrichello in fifth continues to hold up the pair of Mercedes drivers.
Lap 19: McLaren brought Hamilton in early to cover off the threat from Alonso. Both drivers can now run to the end of the race.
Lap 18: The McLaren resumes 15th, just ahead of Alonso.
Lap 18: Alonso is some eight seconds behind the Kobayashi-Alguersuari fight but is already eating into the gap.
Lap 18: Hamilton is the first of the leaders to stop and he is away on hard rubber.
Lap 17: Alonso is now 16th and his next rival is Jaime Alguerasuari. The Toro Rosso driver is fighting hard with Kobayashi for 14th place.
Lap 17: Webber's pace is excellent at this stage while others show the first signs of having used the best of their tyres.
Lap 17: Webber clocks the fastest lap at a 1m17.784s, stretching the gap by another second.
Lap 17: Alonso pulls the same move at the chicane but this time takes Kovalainen round the outside and outbrakes him into the left-right.
Lap 16: Alonso has caught Kovalainen already and could be through into 16th before the end of the next lap.
Lap 15: Webber has pulled to a lead of over five seconds after a couple of poor laps from team-mate Vettel.
Lap 15: But Alonso uses the Ferrari power to drill the Virgin up the inside on the approach to the chicane. He is now 17th with Kovalainen next on his hit list.
Lap 14: Glock protects the inside on the run to the Mirabeau just as his team-mate Di Grassi did earlier.
Lap 14: Jenson Button tells reporters that the team left a bung in the sidepod on his lap to the grid and that may have cooked the engine.
Lap 14: Alonso is now on the back of Timo Glock as he bids to wrest 17th place from the German.
Lap 13: Liuzzi is continuing in ninth with Sutil tenth, Buemi 11th, Petrov 12th, de la Rosa 13th, Kobayashi 14th, Alguersuari 15th and Kovalainen 16th.
Lap 13: The pace is solid up front with no sign of degradation from the super-soft rubber at this stage, with that safety car helping the leaders run longer.
Lap 12: Alonso is advised on the team radio to try and stay calm ... and now he passes Trulli for 18th place. Timo Glock is three seconds up the road in 17th.
Lap 11: Kubica in third is tailing Vettel but is unable to find a way through.
Lap 11: Webber is making a break for it out front and is an impressive 2.4s up on Vettel at the end of lap 10.
Lap 11: Alonso is finally through, up the inside of di Grassi at the chicane. He is 19th and will now tear after Jarno Trulli.
Lap 11: While Alonso gets frustrated, further up the road Alguersuari is all over the back of Kobayashi in a fight for 14th place.
Lap 10: Surely the pressure will tell and Alonso will be able to make it through in the near future. Meantime, the pair are already 20 seconds behind leader Mark Webber.
Lap 10: Schumacher is right on the tail of his former team-mate, with Rosberg and the Force India pair forming a train behind.
Lap 9: Webber further extends the gap by a couple of tenths while Barrichello is falling away from the top five.
Lap 9: This is like Bernoldi versus Coulthard all over again. Alonso is still unable to nail the Virgin on the start-finish straight and could spend a few laps behind di Grassi here.
Lap 8: Alonso is all over the back of the Virgin racer, but Di Grassi protects the inside going into the Mirabeau and holds the Ferrari off!
Lap 8: Webber sets the fastest lap as he pulls to a 1.4 second lead over team-mate Vettel.
Lap 7: Alonso's next target will be Lucas di Grassi who is 19th in the Virgin. Trulli is 18th and Glock 17th.
Lap 7: Fernando Alonso is through and past Chandhok up to 20th place over the line.
Lap 7: Webber leads strongly from Vettel, Kubica, Massa and Hamilton.
Lap 7: The safety car comes into the pitlane and we are racing once again.
Lap 6: The safety car will come in at the end of this lap.
Lap 6: This is good news for the front runners on their super soft tyres, with these sedate laps not taking life out of the rubber.
Lap 6: Down the field there was little change to the grid positions on the opening lap. Liuzzi runs in ninth with Force India team-mate Sutil tenth.
Lap 5: Barrichello did well off the start and is now sixth in his Williams.
Lap 4: Leader Mark Webber tells race director Charlie Whiting that there is a lot of debris still in the tunnel after Hulkenberg's Williams clattered along the barriers.
Lap 4: With two drivers out of the race and Senna having pitted, Alonso is up to 21st position.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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