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Lap 38: Caterham reporting a power steering failure for Petrov. How ironic...
Lap 38: A truck is on its way to go and retrieve Petrov's car, causing minor amusement as it briefly leads the safety car and the following pack.
Lap 38: Button now sees Vettel in his mirrors and asks about the Red Bull's race pace. He is told it has been similar but the team indicates there is more pace available thanks to fuel saving.
Lap 38: Worth remembering that the new Safety Car rules for this year mean that the tailenders will be waved by and allowed to unlap themselves. So no cars between the leaders...
Lap 38: Raikkonen, Vergne, Massa and Glock have all just pitted.
Lap 38: Webber and Maldonado have both been in for service.
Lap 38: Hamilton was forced to lap at the mandatory speed so there was a large gap for Vettel to drop into between the McLaren pair.
Lap 38: Alonso, Perez and Rosberg have all stayed out.
Lap 37: Vettel dives in for his stop and resumes in second place on the road.
Lap 37: Pic pits for Marussia and now we expect a raft of others to come in.
Lap 37: The car was difficult to access, so race control had little choice.
Lap 37: The safety car has been deployed.
Lap 37: Both McLarens serviced within seconds and resume on hard tyres.
Lap 37: Petrov is out of the race and has parked the Caterham next to the pitwall on the start-finish straight.
Lap 37: Alonso is eighth after that second stop and is just in front of Perez, with Rosberg 10th and Vergne 11th.
Lap 37: Button is away... as Hamilton dives in for a back-to-back tyre change.
Lap 37: Leader Button pits his McLaren.
Lap 36: Webber continues to lap rapidly at this stage and looks likely to resume ahead of Alonso after this pit phase.
Lap 36: Kovalainen has pitted for the second time. He rejoins in 17th position.
Lap 36: Vettel has closed to less than two seconds behind Hamilton, who appears to be losing pace in the latter stages of the stint on his tyres.
Lap 36: @Lotus_F1Team still not happy about the Grosjean/Maldonado interface: We suspect Maldonado may have been attempting a Melbourne spec 'hook turn' when he collected @RGrosjean - that"s not cricket!
Lap 36: Di Resta only just sneaked out in front of Massa mind you and the pair are separated by 1.1s.
Lap 35: The Scot rejoins after that stop in 12th place and leapfrogs Massa's Ferrari in the process.
Lap 35: Alonso now pits to fit another set of the harder tyres.
Lap 35: Pirelli reporting highest degradation from the top runners is at McLaren. @PaulHembery: #f1 interesting that of top runners the greater degradation is from front 2 cars. Obviously they have pace to compensate and are push push
Lap 34: Di Resta pits from ninth and that promotes Perez, Rosberg and Vergne.
Lap 34: Hamilton tells his team that the tyres are fading on his McLaren, but he is encouraged to stay out for the moment.
Lap 33: Webber sets the fastest lap at 1m31.098s as he now enjoys clear air, pulling away from Maldonado and closing on Alonso.
Lap 33: Raikkonen is into seventh place as the second round of stops begin in earnest, with Kobayashi eighth, di Resta ninth and Perez in 10th.
Lap 33: Rosberg rejoins in 11th place after his second stop.
Lap 32: Controversy over that defending neatly avoided by Rosberg as he heads out of the pits on a new set of the harder tyres.
Lap 32: Meantime, Vergne lost 10 seconds skating through the gravel on the last lap, letting Perez through.
Lap 32: As Webber tries a move at Turn 11. Rosberg runs wide and takes to the escape road. He remains ahead but now pits the Mercedes.
Lap 32: Senna pits his Williams for the second time and rejoins after a short stop.
Lap 32: Webber complains to his team that Rosberg is weaving...
Lap 31: Rosberg, Webber and Maldonado now nose-to-tail down the main straight but they are struggling to overcome the slippery Mercedes.
Lap 31: Massa rejoined in 14th position after that stop with the Caterham duo just behind him.
Lap 30: Maldonado is also closing on that pair as Williams demonstrates strong pace at Albert Park.
Lap 30: Webber is the man on the move at the moment as is now all over the gearbox of Rosberg's Mercedes in a scrap for fifth.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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