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The mechanics begin moving the equipment towards the grid as the cars work through lap 25 at slow speed, while heading towards the start-finish straight.
The race has been suspended. The cars will return to the red flag line on the start/finish straight to await a restart.
The rain is now falling very heavily as the worst of the squall line passes over the Gilles Villeneuve circuit.
Maldonado has slipped down to 20th. There is going to be chaos in the midfield when this race restart. We have HRTs and Virgins mixed in the middle of the pack with quicker cars behind.
Glock is up to 15th after yet another clever wet tyre strategy, with Barrichello 16th, Liuzzi 17th, Buemi 18th and Karthikeyan 19th.
Vettel is reiterating over the radio that he thinks it is far too wet for the race to resume in the near future.
De la Rosa is ninth in the Sauber but has yet to stop, ahead of Button 10th, Rosberg 11th, Schumacher 12th, Sutil 13th and Alguersuari 14th.
Vettel, Kobayashi, Massa, Heidfeld, Petrov, di Resta, Webber and Alonso are the current top eight.
Vettel radios his team to say the level of water from Turns 9 to 13 is "undriveable".
The field is now forming up and Vettel is back in the lead thanks to Massa's stop, with Kobayashi second.
Schumacher is into the pits and he takes on wet tyres. He rolls back into the race but is outside the top 10.
Buemi comes into the pits for wet tyres and rejoins at the back end of the top 20.
Massa pits just before he caught the safety car.
The track is now absolutely sodden again.
Webber changed his steering wheel at the pitstop due to a downshift problem.
Timo Glock did not come into the pits for tyres. He has yet to stop and is still on his original set of wets in 15th.
Massa will now lead the grand prix behind the safety car.
Webber pits as well.
Vettel will take on fresh wets. He had not been picked up by the safety car yet.
Vettel pits from the lead.
Many stops now as the teams react to the weather and the safety car. Alguersuari, Kovalainen, Barrichello, Maldonado and Trulli are all in this time round.
It seems that the safety car was sent out purely because of the intensity of the downpour.
Alonso and Button pit again to go back to wets as the safety car comes out
The drivers on intermediates are set to struggle now.
The safety car has been deployed.
Barrichello is up to 15th as the rain becomes much heavier. The squall line has hit the circuit like a switch.
Conditions are suddenly getting much worse.
Button breezes past Petrov on the back straight, but rain is falling harder.
Schumacher pits for intermediate rubber and he drops down outside the top 10.
The flying Button is charging up behind the two Renaults.
Alonso passes Heidfeld into the last corner, that will put him fifth.
Rubens Barrichello has just set 1m35.289s and is on the same pace as the leaders. He is up to 17th and passing cars every lap.
Schumacher pits from third.
Leader Vettel stays out.
Vettel leads Massa by 7s now that Alonso has pitted for intermediates.
Race control says the McLaren collision will be investigated after the grand prix.
Alonso rejoins between the Renaults, and slices ahead of Petrov.
Maldonado and Buemi come in for intermediate tyres.
Button has caught di Resta and he may leap up the order soon with pitstops for many cars now.
Both Alonso and Rosberg will take on intermediate tyres.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Matt Beer
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