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Webber is seventh, with Alonso down to eighth and de la Rosa in ninth. Button rounds out the top 10, ahead of Rosberg 11th, Schumacher 12th, Sutil 13th, Alguersuari 14th and Glock 15th.
Vettel leads the sensational Kobayashi, with Massa third, Heidfeld up to fourth, Petrov fifth and di Resta in sixth place.
To remind you, here is the running order as we approach the resumption of the race ...
The safety car will lead the field away from the red flag line when the race resumes.
Another message flashes up to state that when the race resumes, wet tyres must be fitted.
Race control states that the race will be resumed at 15:50 local time.
Still no word on when the race might be restarted though, as we approach two hours since the action was halted.
Team personnel on the grid are now wandering around with hoods down and jackets unzipped. It's definitely getting brighter in Montreal.
Nick Heidfeld is back on the grid and standing next to his Renault, as he watches the sky to see if this latest shower comes in.
They wandered down towards Turn 2, then turned round and headed back to the pits.
The FIA stewards - including double world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, who joins them this weekend - have just returned from a track walk.
Another light shower is expected in the next five minutes. Race control will wait for it to pass through before deciding its next move.
Rubens Barrichello is another man to visit the team pitwall, as he discusses with the Williams engineers what happens next.
The radar shows that the main band of rain has now cleared Montreal. There are one or two scattered showers dotted around to the south-west, but it looks much better for the next few hours.
Michael Schumacher decides it's okay to play outside now that the rain has stopped. He walks over to the Mercedes pitwall.
The covers are slowly coming off some of the cars on the grid, as the rain eases to just a few spots.
Adrian Sutil is in the Force India garage and chatting with the engineers as another course car tours the circuit to check out the conditions.
It's certainly not coming down as heavy as when the red flag first came out, but it is continuing moderately.
Mark Webber is in the Red Bull garage, chatting to his engineer Ciaron Pilbeam and Adrian Newey, as the rain continues to fall.
Circuit course cars are again lapping the track to check out the latest conditions.
Kamui Kobayashi is one of the last to have bailed out of his race car and head for the garage.
Narain Karthikeyan is also told via the HRT team radio that the rain should stop in around 10 minutes time.
But for now, it continues to fall.
Even when the rain stops altogether, there will still be an enormous amount of heavy standing water on the racetrack.
To remind you, we will keep going with commentary until the race is concluded. At this rate, it could be when darkness descends ...
No lack of effort from the marshals either, as one hapless fellow does his best with a good old-fashioned brush.
Road sweeping vehicles are continuing to try and move the worst of the standing water off the race track.
Visibly, conditions are brightening up a little around the Montreal skyline. The rain continues to fall but it is beginning to ease off.
Latest radar images show that the rain should stop in the next 10 to 15 minutes.
The fans are getting a drenching, but they remain patient and hopeful - as we all do - that the race can be resumed.
Track sweeping vehicles are attempting to pump away as much of the water as possible, but it continues to rain heavily.
With little else to do, Renault crew members are drinking coffee and laughing in the pitlane.
He is continuing to chat with the engineers while he sits in the cockpit of the Virgin with his helmet on.
One man who is happy to remain in the car is Jerome D'Ambrosio.
While the drivers have been granted the opportunity to take five during this suspension, the team members looking after the cars on the grid aren't so lucky.
Vettel has had enough on the grid and he too heads towards the garage.
But none of the wet events at Montreal over the last 33 years had rain like we've seen this afternoon. It continues to fall heavily.
1989 and 1990 were of course the two chaotic wet races. Thierry Boutsen in particular has fond memories of the '89 event.
In 1983, the island suffered a complete power failure at the start of the race and no television pictures were possible, so the race had to be started again once power was restored, around an hour later.
We've had some incidents at the Ile Notre Dame over the years, but not a rainstorm of this magnitude.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Matt Beer
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