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Kobayashi gets a bit of breathing space in second and leaves Massa with the Renaults.
Schumacher, Sutil, Glock, Barrichello and Buemi are all straight into the pits for intermediate tyres.
Massa attacks Kobayashi down the outside, but the Sauber holds the Ferrari off.
The Red Bull crosses the restart line with a good gap over Kobayashi.
The safety car comes into the pitlane and we are racing once again.
Now he accelerates and gets the race back underway at long last.
Vettel backs the pack up on the approach to the Turn 10 hairpin once again.
Button predicts over the radio that everyone will soon be in for intermediates as the racing line clears.
D'Ambrosio pits and takes on intermediate tyres. He rejoins still in 23rd place.
The safety car will pit at the end of this lap.
Still no sign of the race resuming as the field completes lap 33.
Also, with the rate that the water is being cleared off the track, they will quickly be in for intermediates.
With sunshine over the circuit and spray decreasing, the restart surely cannot be far away.
The leaders weave impatiently to keep tyre temperature up as they head into lap 32.
Ironically the sun makes a brief appearance as di Resta rounds Turn 6 and continues in sixth.
The leaders complete another lap with no sign of the safety car coming in.
Kovalainen brings the Lotus into the pits and is immediately pushed back into the garage.
He is told to come into the pits next time by.
The safety car stays out into lap 30.
Kovalainen reports on the Lotus team radio that he has hardly any drive.
Kovalainen is touring slowly on the circuit with a problem.
A calm Massa reports that visibility is "okay" over the radio.
The safety car remains in control of the field and begins another tour.
Lap 28 is completed with the safety car still heading Vettel and Kobayashi.
Webber, Alonso and Button will be keen to make rapid progress from seventh, eighth and 10th.
How will Kobayashi handle taking the restart with a shot at the race lead?
Glock in 15th and Liuzzi in 17th are out of position, and drivers like Maldonado, Barrichello and Buemi may need to exercise some patience early on.
So with a new set of wets we expect fun and games down the field when the safety car comes in.
The first lap after the restart is completed, as the safety car stays out.
The sky overhead is certainly the brightest it has been.
The fans roar as the cars leave the grid and head through the early part of the lap.
On this lap so far, the spray looks slightly lighter than at the original start.
The safety car moves away and the race is resumed.
One minute to go until the resumption and the engines begin to fire into life.
That shower, which was quite heavy, seems to have passed again.
With no further interruptions, a full distance could be possible... But it's unlikely the remaining laps will run incident-free.
There are 46 laps of the race left, and another one hour and 14 minutes until the two-hour limit is hit.
The rain is getting heavier once again as the teams continue the restart procedure.
The drivers are all back with their cars now. Felipe Massa is in the cockpit of the Ferrari with his helmet on.
Barrichello is 16th with Liuzzi 17th, Buemi 18th, Karthikeyan 19th and Maldonado 20th. Kovalainen is 21st for Lotus ahead of team-mate Trulli and D'Ambrosio is last in 23rd.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Matt Beer
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