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Spanish GP
2010 Spanish Grand Prix Race day at the Circuit de Catalunya
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Lap 54: Vettel is in the pits and this will be costly.
Lap 54: Vettel and Hamilton matched each other exactly on the previous tour but the Red Bull has now been off the road ...
Lap 53: Glock is now just 0.6 seconds behind Trulli as the battle for 17th comes to the boil. Pride and bragging rights are at stake here between Lotus and Virgin.
Lap 53: Ferrari has clearly decided against that experimental second stop for Alonso. He's a mammoth 40 seconds ahead of the Schumacher, Button and Massa group.
Lap 52: Rosberg immediately sets about that gap to Liuzzi and is lapping up to two seconds per lap faster than the Force India. Rosberg is around 50 seconds off the points. He has no chance of scoring today.
Lap 51: Rosberg is finally through up the inside of Hulkenberg for 15th place. But he has now used the best of those soft tyres. Liuzzi is 11 seconds ahead.
Lap 50: Glock takes half-a-second out of Trulli on the last lap and the gap between them is now less than two seconds. Virgin could be the best of the new boys here.
Lap 50: It's status quo behind the leader with Hamilton second, two seconds clear of Vettel. Alonso is a further 3.8 seconds adrift in fourth.
Lap 49: Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock have been having a great ding-dong for the best of the new teams for many laps now. This is the battle for 17th. Trulli holds the place but Glock is just 2.4 seconds behind him.
Lap 48: Webber continues to pound out the Red Bull dominance as he extends the lead to 16.2 seconds.
Lap 47: Barrichello is holding on well to tenth place and one point after that disastrous qualifying session. He is 22 seconds ahead of Alguersuari.
Lap 47: Nico Rosberg is still climbing all over the back of Hulkenberg's Williams but is not able so far to find a way past. This is the battle for 15th.
Lap 45: Webber is on a renewed charge in his Red Bull and he pulls to 14.9 seconds clear of Hamilton with a new fastest lap.
Lap 45: Buemi climbs out of the STR5 and his day is over. He retires.
Lap 44: Schumacher, Button and Massa are right together again in sixth, seventh and eighth.
Lap 44: Sebastien Buemi pits for the fourth time in the Toro Rosso. It's a long stop and there could be problems here for the Swiss driver.
Lap 43: Vettel is told on the radio his adjustable front wing has become stuck and the young German will no longer be able to change the flap angle.
Lap 43: Alonso continues to press on with another new fastest lap. He may be preparing for another stop with his useful 30.3s gap back to Schumacher
Lap 42: Rosberg's attempt on the straight this time was thwarted by the movements of Jarno Trulli as they went by to lap him.
Lap 42: Alonso takes the fastest lap away from Webber. The Spaniard is fourth but 5.3 seconds behind Vettel.
Lap 41: Before the end of the lap Rosberg has caught the Williams. He should make a move on the other Nico very quickly.
Lap 41: Rosberg is still 16th but catching Hulkenberg very quickly on his fresh soft tyres. He is just 1.1s behind the Williams now.
Lap 41: Hamilton is asking his team if they should stop for tyres, feeling he has lost some grip in the McLaren.
Lap 40: Webber continues his dominance with a 1m25.920s fastest lap and now leads by 11.7 seconds. Hamilton is second, with the gap to Vettel in third now 2.5 seconds.
Lap 38: Nico Rosberg is immediately quicker on his soft tyres following that pitstop. His first flying lap on this set is a 1m26.398s.
Lap 38: Tonio Liuzzi sets his quickest lap of the race - 1m28.269s. He is 14th at the moment and lies seven seconds behind Kobayashi.
Lap 37: Massa has struggled for pace in recent laps - perhaps due to his front wing damage. He is seventh and has dropped 2.3 seconds behind Button.
Lap 37: Nico Rosberg comes into the pits for the second time from 15th place. He takes on soft tyres and can now run to the end, but his chances of points are almost gone.
Lap 36: Alguersuari lost just over 10 seconds in that penalty and rejoins still four-to-five seconds ahead of Petrov. Alguersuari holds on to 11th place.
Lap 36: Webber continues to press on with yet another fastest lap.
Lap 35: Alguersuari has a 15 second buffer over Petrov and in he comes to take that penalty.
Lap 35: Ferrari are considering a second stop for Alonso as he now has a massive 23 second gap behind him to the fight between Schumacher, Button and Massa.
Lap 34: Jaime Alguersuari has been handed a drive-through penalty for chopping across the front of Karun Chandhok when lapping him.
Lap 34: Hulkenberg rejoins in 16th place, with Rosberg now up to 15th in the Mercedes.
Lap 33: Hulkenberg now pits from 12th, leaving Petrov and Kobayashi to go at it with a clear track in front of them.
Lap 33: With half the race remaining, the order is Webber from Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso, Schumacher, Button, Massa, Sutil and Kubica.
Lap 33: The closest fight down the field is between Hulkenberg, Petrov and Kobayashi for 12th place. Kobayashi has a real go round the outside of Petrov but the Russia stays cool and holds off the Japanese charge for now.
Lap 33: Alonso sets his best lap of the day but remains 4.6 seconds behind Vettel in fourth.
Lap 33: Button has now slipped slightly from the back of Schumacher's Mercedes and the fizz has gone out of that particular fight.
Lap 31: Sebastien Buemi has come into the pits for the third time - keeping in mind that one of those pit visits was for the drive through penalty.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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