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Lap 74: Button is slow away, as Vettel leads Alonso up the hill.
Lap 74: The safety car comes into the pitlane and we are racing once again.
Lap 73: The safety car leads the field through the Swimming Pool section and towards Rascasse, as we wait for the restart.
Lap 73: Button is on the harder tyres, having used all his options already.
Lap 73: The safety car will come in at the end of this lap.
Lap 73: Vettel was warned during the red flag about the usual restart rules, with passing allowed at the safety car line.
Lap 73: The mechanics clear the grid as the safety car leads the pack down the hill to the hairpin.
Lap 73: The safety car moves away and Vettel follows on, with Alonso and Button in tow behind him.
Super soft rubber has been bolted on Vettel and Alonso's cars.
The engines fire again.
The cars will resume behind the safety car in a similar fashion to the start of a formation lap.
Sutil is one lap down in eighth. Behind him will be Heidfeld ninth, Barrichello 10th and Buemi in 11th.
There are three minutes to the restart, meaning the tyres must now be fitted.
Regulations do say that "any such work must not impede the resumption of the race," which could be a concern for McLaren as they finish work on Hamilton's car.
Vettel will lead, with Alonso second, Button third, Kobayashi fourth, Webber fifth, Maldonado sixth and Hamilton in seventh.
The race will restart in five minutes time.
A fresh rear wing is now in place on Hamilton's car, with the work supervised by FIA technical delegate Jo Bauer.
The crash site is clear and the ambulance has left the scene with Petrov on board.
Renault boss Eric Boullier tells the BBC that Petrov is complaining of some pain in his legs but that may just be bruising.
A fresh front wing is being rushed to the grid by Hamilton's mechanics.
Race control states that the race will restart at 16:04 local time.
Work continues to replace Hamilton's rear wing. He will resume in seventh if the team can finish repairs before the restart.
Meantime, there are two other course cars and an enormous number of marshals and staff at the crash site.
Petrov has been taken to the ambulance and it will shortly leave the scene.
Vettel will be very happy to see fresh rubber being fitted to his Red Bull at the front of the grid.
Petrov is now out of the Renault and the marshals are slowly pushing the car away.
The race will of course resume behind the safety car once the medical teams have finished working with Petrov at the Swimming Pool.
Cars can be attended to under this suspended condition, with McLaren rushing to fix Hamilton's broken rear wing.
Petrov was right behind Alguersuari when the Toro Rosso driver hit the kerb and bounced out towards the barrier. He had nowhere to go and joined the Spaniard in the Armco.
The mechanics are now rushing to attend to the cars as they form up on the grid.
An ambulance is now on the scene at the Swimming Pool and medics are attending to Petrov.
Lap 71: The race has been suspended. The cars will return to the red flag line on the start/finish straight to await a restart.
Lap 71: All this happened as the three-way fight for the lead was coming up to the back of the snake - a bizarre train of cars in the late stages of the race.
Lap 71: Kobayashi is fourth, from Webber, Maldonado and the damaged Hamilton.
Lap 71: Maldonado was attempting to pass Sutil into Tabac. Sutil hit the wall at Tabac and slowed. Hamilton took advantage to pass Petrov, who had backed off - the Russian then running wide himself and crashing in the middle of the Swimming Pool, to avoid Alguersuari who had hopped the kerb, triggering the incident.
Lap 70: All this is good news for Vettel, with the battle called off for now, letting him save his little remaining rubber.
Lap 70: Hamilton crosses the line and has continued.
Lap 70: The marshals go to work recovering the cars of Petrov and Alguersuari. We think Lewis Hamilton may also have damage from that incident.
Lap 69: Vettel leads from Alonso and Button as they form up behind the pace car, emerging unscathed from that dramatic shunt.
Lap 69: Alguersuari was caught up the the action and he also hit the barrier. The Spaniard is out.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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