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Rosberg pits from fourth.
Alonso pits from second.
Barrichello is on the back of Liuzzi and will take over 19th place very shortly.
Webber makes it past Heidfeld into seventh and sets off after the Mercedes and Kobayashi.
Sutil pits to take on intermediate tyres, with many teams now getting ready to bring their cars in.
Webber looks at Heidfeld again into the final chicane but can't get through.
Button is the fastest in the middle sector of the lap. He is still 11th, but homing in on Paul di Resta.
Vettel stretches his lead to 5.1s.
Webber is now all over the back of Heidfeld for seventh.
Barrichello rejoins in 22nd place and immediately into a fight with Karthikeyan.
Alonso skips over the grass at the last chicane and continues ahead of Massa.
Barrichello pits and this will be for intermediate tyres.
There is a 4s gap between the two Ferraris in second and third, and the two Mercedes, which are chased by Kobayashi.
Button is ripping his way through the midfield and is now past Maldonado and into 11th position coming into the Casino hairpin.
Vettel's lead is up to 4.1s over Alonso.
Replays show Webber getting past Petrov into Turn 3 after a side by side run with the Russian, who went wide at Turn 1.
Webber is working very hard to pass the two Renaults for seventh and eighth.
Alonso is picking up a little pace and is a second ahead of Massa now, but 3.4s down on Vettel.
Alguersuari is making further progress. He is up to 19th, having passed Glock and Liuzzi.
Vettel is already putting a further second onto his lead after two sectors of his next lap.
Button exits the pitlane and back into the fight, but he is well down the order.
Vettel's lead is already back up to 2.5s.
Jenson Button has been handed a drive-through penalty. He immediately answers the call and comes in.
Rosberg continues to fend off Schumacher and Kobayashi.
Vettel is pulling away rapidly, as Massa follows Alonso closely.
A circumspect restart by all the drivers in the lower half of the order, but now Webber is trying to get past Petrov's Renault for eighth.
Vettel has a clear lead into the first corner.
Schumacher immediately attacks team-mate Rosberg at the restart.
The safety car peels into the pitlane and we are racing once again!
Now Vettel accelerates out of the hairpin and tries to make a break.
Vettel is backing the pack up very early this time, slowing before the Turn 10 hairpin.
Red Bull informs Vettel over the radio that Button is on intermediates.
Hamilton is standing at the side of the road at Turn 5 watching the safety car train come past.
The safety car will pit at the end of this lap.
Maldonado is 11th with Button 12th, Sutil 13th, Barrichello 14th, Buemi 15th and Trulli 16th as the umbrellas go up in the grandstand.
Button is subject to the same investigation. Drivers have to hit target times between sectors when the safety car is called.
Race control has announced that the McLaren clash is under investigation, and also that Hamilton is under investigation for a safety car period speed incident.
The squall line is just arriving over the circuit now. It wil become heavy in a few minutes.
Hamilton's damaged McLaren is now being slowly taken away by that tractor unit and escorted by the Canadian marshals.
Heidfeld is seventh with Petrov eighth, Webber ninth and di Resta has recovered to 10th position.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Matt Beer
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