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Lap 38: Schumacher leads but is yet to stop, from Button, Alonso and Vettel.
Lap 38: Sutil, Barrichello and Kovalainen all come in for a stop.
Lap 38: Alonso resumes from his stop and he has pipped Vettel out of the pits!
Lap 38: Hamilton makes the DRS work as he flies past Massa into Turn 1 on the DRS.
Lap 38: Webber comes through past Adrian Sutil and takes fifth place.
Lap 38: Alonso and Perez make stops.
Lap 37: Webber is boxed up behind the Force India of Sutil and sends a fine move into 130R to rectify the situation.
Lap 37: Alonso is the current leader but is yet to make his final stop.
Lap 37: Red Bull confirm to Vettel that the plan is to run to the end on this set of the harder rubber.
Lap 37: Webber has passed Rosberg on track since his stop to take over eighth place.
Lap 37: Quickly down and away for Button and he resumes comfortably ahead of Vettel on the road.
Lap 36: Button and Massa head into the pits.
Lap 36: Vettel sets the fastest first sector time, surely forcing McLaren to pit Button for fresh tyres.
Lap 36: Vettel quickly recovers and he passes Adrian Sutil into Turn 1 to take over eighth position.
Lap 35: Hamilton pits his McLaren.
Lap 35: But Kobayashi is embroiled in a big battle of his own. He is struggling for pace in 13th and has the Williams drivers right behind him.
Lap 35: McLaren and Ferrari will be keen to see how the Red Bull drivers fare on their prime tyres as they plan final stops.
Lap 35: No repairs to the front wing - damaged in earlier contact with Schumacher - for Webber as he resumes on fresh rubber.
Lap 35: The local television director is focusing attention on Kobayashi while there is more important action happening elsewhere.
Lap 34: Webber is the next man in the pits for his change to the harder tyres.
Lap 34: Now that they have cleared Petrov, Rosberg has zoomed up to the back of Sutil and they are fighting for 10th.
Lap 34: Red Bull will hope to run to the flag on that rubber, but resumes in heavy traffic.
Lap 34: Perez is doing a brilliant job in eighth. While the others that have made one stop are struggling, he is in fact pulling away from di Resta and looks comfortable for the moment.
Lap 34: Vettel pits for the third time, taking the harder rubber.
Lap 33: Alonso is marginally quicker than Vettel on that last tour, with the gap now two seconds between the pair.
Lap 33: Lotus played what looked to be a clever strategy against its competition, but it has unfortunately backfired with the introduction of the safety car.
Lap 33: Kovalainen is dropping away from that midfield battle now that the majority have made the same amount of stops.
Lap 32: Hamilton's pace is better now and he is drawing up to the scrap between Alonso, Webber and Massa.
Lap 32: Kobayashi is just dropping away slightly from what was the Petrov train. The Japanese is 13th and holding up Barrichello, Alguersuari and Maldonado.
Lap 31: Sutil is now bolting away from the Renault and Rosberg is next to have a go at the hairpin. He makes it though, demoting Petrov to 12th.
Lap 31: Button continues to set the pace, pulling 2.2 seconds clear of Vettel's Red Bull.
Lap 31: Webber clearly has a faster car than Alonso overall, but the Ferarri is quick on the straights and DRS is not helping at the moment.
Lap 31: Sutil makes a great move round the outside of Petrov into Turn 1 and he takes over 10th position.
Lap 31: Sutil, Rosberg, Kobayashi and Barrichello are all queueing up to have a go at 10th placed Petrov, as he struggles on with older tyres.
Lap 30: Perez holds onto eighth but has made just one stop compared to di Resta's two. Petrov is 10th and holding up a train of cars.
Lap 30: Webber is right on the tail of Alonso after the restart and will hope to make progress ahead of the next stop.
Lap 29: Maldonado has also passed Senna on that restart lap and is up to 16th.
Lap 29: Button leads by 1.2 seconds from Vettel after setting the fastest lap.
Lap 29: Hamilton reports understeer, suggesting to the team something may have been broken in that collision.
Lap 28: Maldonado made the move stick and he takes the place over Kovalainen.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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