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Lap 19: Button now leads from Raikkonen, Perez and Hamilton.
Lap 19: Vergne is in fifth for Toro Rosso with Vettel sixth, Alonso seventh, Rosberg eighth and Webber in ninth.
Lap 18: Webber posts another new fastest lap of the race and he's up to ninth, as Massa passes Petrov for 11th place at Turn 3.
Lap 18: Hamilton resumes just behind Raikkonen and Perez, who are both yet to stop.
Lap 18: Seems like Marussia is having trouble getting rookie Charles Pic to answer the phone... @Marussia_F1Team: "Radio check to Charles. Concentrating hard." The Frenchman is currently running 17th.
Lap 17: Hamilton is in the next time around for fresh tyres.
Lap 17: Webber posts the fastest lap with 1m32.355s as he charges up after his stop in 10th.
Lap 17: Vettel is back out on soft tyres and is just ahead of Alonso on the road.
Lap 17: Button resumes on the harder tyres as Vettel and Maldonado follow him in.
Lap 16: The McLaren pace has faded into the mid 1m34s and the team is ready for Button to stop.
Lap 16: Kobayashi in 13th posts the fastest lap of the race so far with 1m32.895s. He is five seconds behind Massa.
Lap 15: Meanwhile, Vettel is closing on Hamilton with the gap now down to 7.7 seconds.
Lap 15: Kovalainen pits for Caterham, releasing team-mate Petrov into 11th.
Lap 15: Webber resumes behind Alonso and Rosberg on medium rubber.
Lap 15: Rosberg is up to 10th with the recent pitstops and has seven seconds of clear space in front of him to work with.
Lap 15: Webber is suffering a lack of rear grip and heads into the pits for fresh rubber.
Lap 14: That stop for Alonso puts Webber up to fourth from Maldonado, Raikkonen and Perez.
Lap 14: Raikkonen, now free of the Japanese driver, immediately starts posting fastest sector times in sixth.
Lap 14: Kobayashi pits and that releases Raikkonen for the time being. Di Resta also comes in for some fresh rubber.
Lap 14: Alonso is down and away on the harder Pirelli compound.
Lap 14: Perez is ninth with di Resta 10th, Vergne 11th and Rosberg rejoined from that pitstop in 12th.
Lap 14: Alonso is now up to fourth and is making good use of the tyres on his Ferrari. He sets his best sector times before heading into the pits.
Lap 13: The order changes with the recent action. Maldonado is up to sixth and catching Webber, with Kobayashi seventh and Raikkonen on his tail.
Lap 13: Rosberg is the next man to pit, resuming on another set of the soft rubber.
Lap 12: It's game over for Schumacher and he climbs out of the car.
Lap 12: Now in clear air, Vettel's pace is competitive with the lead McLaren pair but he is clocked 10 seconds behind Hamilton.
Lap 12: Schumacher makes it back to the pitlane but not as far as the garage.
Lap 12: Another set of soft tyres for the Brazilian and he rejoins way behind that train of cars he was leading.
Lap 11: Schumacher tells the team he is losing gears over the radio, as Massa pits from seventh.
Lap 11: That puts Vettel up to third from Rosberg, Alonso and Webber.
Lap 11: It's a problem for Schumacher and he is coasting in the Mercedes.
Lap 11: Vettel's pressure pays off as Schumacher runs wide at Turn 1...
Lap 10: But Massa forced his way back past the Williams and now we have a mighty five-car scrap in the midfield.
Lap 10: Vettel is now clocked just half a second behind Schumacher but is now over 12 seconds behind leader Button.
Lap 9: Maldonado has had enough and surges past Massa down into Turn 3 to take over eighth place.
Lap 9: Apparently there was a good reason why Petrov struggled to get past Glock for 16th position. @MikeGascoyne: struggled to get past glock as DRS not working at the start but working now
Lap 9: Vettel is the fastest man through the middle part of the lap and is closing quickly on Schumacher's Mercedes.
Lap 9: Kobayashi and Raikkonen are also towing up to the trio as Massa starts to create a bit of a roadblock.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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