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Formula 1 Singapore GP

2010 Singapore Grand Prix Race day in Singapore

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Lap 8: Trulli has made it back to the pits and has his left rear puncture attended to. He rejoins way down the field.
Lap 8: Replays show Hulkenberg making a wild move on Vitaly Petrov in a battle over 13th position. The German takes the place and Massa also takes his opportunity to demote the Russian.
Lap 9: Barrichello is seventh, but losing ground to Kubica. Schumacher is right behind him in eighth with Webber now backed up in traffic in ninth.
Lap 10: The top four are sprinting away with a pace in the 1m53s bracket on the softer tyres. Webber is now 13.2s off the lead.
Lap 11: Webber is right on the case of Schumacher for eigth but he must be worried by the pace of the leaders and hoping for another safety car.
Lap 11: Kobayashi is 10th and is now 4.6 seconds ahead of Glock, who is fighting hard to keep hold of 11th.
Lap 11: Alonso is enjoying the softer tyres out front and sets another fastest lap at 1m52.625s.
Lap 11: Glock is holding up a huge queue of cars. Sutil, Hulkenberg, Massa, Petrov, Buemi and Alguersuari are all in a Glock train.
Lap 11: Webber makes a storming move on Schumacher to grab that eighth place in a vital move to make his strategy pay off.
Lap 12: Webber repeated his move on Kobayashi at Turn 5 to grab eighth from the German after the Mercedes was also wide in the first corners.
Lap 12: Glock crosses the line and is still ahead of that pack of cars, stretching down to 17th place. Kovalainen is 18th with di Grassi 19th.
Lap 12: Vettel has been told to cool his brakes slightly, which will be a worry after Mark Webber's brake failure here last year.
Lap 13: Sutil is the first driver of that group stuck behind Glock as this battle for 11th rages. Sutil may be wary of last year when he lost patience behind Alguersuari.
Lap 13: Alonso now has a useful 2.3 second lead and is now 20.8 seconds clear of Webber.
Lap 13: Nick Heidfeld is 20th and has caught Lucas di Grassi. He should be past the Virgin soon.
Lap 13: The championship leader is harrying Barrichello but his lack of speed at this stage is letting the leaders pull out the gap they need to make a stop.
Lap 14: Hulkenberg runs wide at Turn 7, but is able to continue without any damage to his Williams. He does not lose a position.
Lap 14: Hamilton is just about hanging on in third - 6.2 seconds off the lead - with Button drifting slightly in fourth.
Lap 14: Schumacher is now ninth and 1.8 seconds behind Webber, with Kobayashi 10th. The Glock train is now a full 10 seconds behind Kobayashi.
Lap 14: Vettel sets the fastest first sector as he responds to a recent spurt of pace from Alonso.
Lap 14: Glock is continuing to hold his position in a good display of defensive driving, but others won't be so pleased with it.
Lap 15: Glock still has Sutil 12th, Hulkenberg 13th, Massa 14th, Petrov 15th, Buemi 16th and Alguersuari 17th all nose-to-tail behind him.
Lap 15: Vettel takes the fastest lap as he tells the team he is "not pushing at all".
Lap 15: Nick Heidfeld has passed Lucas di Grassi for 19th position at Turn 7. Heidfeld is now 3.4 seconds behind Kovalainen.
Lap 15: Sutil has made it! Adrian Sutil is through past Glock and up into 11th position.
Lap 16: Hulkenberg is the next man who will have a go at Glock's Virgin as the battle for 12th, as it now is, continues.
Lap 16: Alonso takes away the fastest lap again with a 1m51.709s as he and Vettel begin to pull clear of the McLaren pair.
Lap 16: Hulkenberg has a go at Glock in the opening sequence of corners and he is through. Hulkenberg takes over 12th position.
Lap 17: One by one the drivers will have a go at Glock. Massa got through behind Hulkenberg and is now 13th.
Lap 17: Webber is now 29.9 seconds off the lead and has faded to 1.2 seconds behind Barrichello with a slow lap.
Lap 17: Petrov, Buemi and Alguersuari also passed Glock and the Virgin Racing driver has dropped all the way down to 17th position.
Lap 18: With the Glock entertainment now over, Sutil is in a clear 11th behind Kobayashi, but 14.4 seconds behind the Japanese driver.
Lap 18: Hulkenberg is now 12 and running at the same pace as Sutil, with Massa 13th, Petrov 14th and Buemi 15th.
Lap 18: Michael Schumacher is behind Webber in ninth and hanging on as best he can. The gap between them is 3.6 seconds.
Lap 18: Kobayashi is just one second behind Schumacher in 10th.
Lap 18: The leaders would have been thinking of a stop at this stage, but the soft rubber is peforming well and they need to continue to keep Webber at bay.
Lap 19: Nick Heidfeld has now caught up to the back of Kovalainen's Lotus as a battle for 18th position develops.
Lap 19: The two HRT cars are predictably falling away. Klien is 21st but 14.5 seconds behind di Grassi, with Senna a further five seconds behind in 22nd.
Lap 19: Alonso takes the fastest time once again as he sets a very strong pace out front. He's told to keep going on the radio.
Lap 19: Nick Heidfeld has passed Kovalainen for 18th position.

By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton

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