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Lap 39: Vergne in ninth has caught Senna, as Glock sends a move up the inside of Pic into La Source, but Pic retakes him on the exit.
Lap 39: Webber is back on the gearbox of Massa as they vault past the Marussia battle.
Lap 38: Pic and Glock have been battling mightily over the last five laps. Pic is holding on to 15th, just ahead of his team-mate.
Lap 38: The chase of eighth placed Senna is back on, but now with Vergne and Ricciardo homing in on the Williams.
Lap 38: Little change in the gaps up front as Raikkonen works to pass an in-house battle between the Marussia pair.
Lap 37: Rosberg has rejoined on medium compound tyres with just a little more than a handful of laps to go.
Lap 37: Button and Vettel will need to keep an eye on Raikkonen in the closing stages, who does have fresher rubber after his two pitstops.
Lap 37: Di Resta is through to 11th spot, as Rosberg also comes into the pits for his second stop.
Lap 37: Rosberg possibly held onto that defence for too long and it put him off line exiting Les Combes. Ricciardo was able to take advantage and grab 10th.
Lap 37: The top two look stable on pace for the moment and are surely planning a run to the finish in a one-stop plan.
Lap 36: Vergne and Rosberg are side-by-side into Les Combes. The Toro Rosso driver forces his way through into ninth spot.
Lap 36: Meanwhile up front, Button leads by 14.2 seconds over Vettel with Raikkonen a similar margin back in third.
Lap 36: Massa is the next man to make a DRS move, steaming past Webber to take over fifth place from the Red Bull.
Lap 36: Schumacher does indeed pit for a costly late change of rubber.
Lap 36: Schumacher is told the team may go to "plan B" - likely to mean switching tyres for a late two stopper.
Lap 36: Some 15s behind this chaos, Senna is eighth and now holding the gap to Rosberg at 3.0s, with Vergne, Ricciardo and di Resta all close.
Lap 35: The Mercedes is still quick at the top of the hill though and blasts back past Hulkeberg again.
Lap 35: Hulkenberg tries the outside move at La Souce and makes it stick as Schumacher is demoted to fifth.
Lap 35: Hulkenberg is now all over the gearbox of the Mercedes, with Webber right there and Massa closing fast.
Lap 35: Great move from Raikkonen there, who is now third and pulling away from Schumacher.
Lap 34: Raikkonen takes advantage of a slow Schumacher out of La Source to dive past the German before Eau Rouge.
Lap 34: Raikkonen is again lining up Schumacher, with the Lotus clearly quicker through the final part of the lap.
Lap 34: Di Resta is 12th with Kobayashi 13th, Petrov 14th, Pic 15th, Glock 16th, de la Rosa 17th and Kovalainen last on the road in 18th spot.
Lap 33: Massa now runs seventh and is closing on that four-car scrap.
Lap 33: Senna in eighth now has Rosberg just 2.2s behind him, with the Toro Rosso pair on the tail of the Mercedes' gearbox.
Lap 33: Webber has rocked up a the back of his scrap, now four cars with Schumacher, Raikkonen, Hulkenberg and Webber all fighting.
Lap 33: Replays show that Karthikeyan got his left-hand wheels on the dirt approaching the Paul Frere curve, pitching him into that spin.
Lap 33: Raikkonen was earlier told to conserve his KERS and may have a problem with the system, making him vulnerable to Schumacher's DRS.
Lap 32: Hulkenberg is the next to line up behind... Raikkonen, who falls back behind Schumacher on the straight.
Lap 32: Karthikeyan has spun off and into the tyre barriers. He pitted a couple of laps ago, but the Indian is now out of the race.
Lap 32: Raikkonen pushes home the move at the Bus Stop, taking third place.
Lap 32: Raikkonen, meanwhile, is right with Schumacher now and dices with the German around Blanchimont.
Lap 32: Senna is eighth for Williams and Rosberg (ninth) is closing him in at one second per lap. Ricciardo is 10th with team-mate Vergne in 11th spot.
Lap 31: Vettel is now clocked 14.7 seconds behind leader Button and is closing on the leader. Both appear on course for a one-stop strategy.
Lap 30: Stewards have now decided to look at that Webber incident after the race.
Lap 30: Ricciardo also pitted last time round and team-mate Vergne is in on this lap. Both drop down the order.
Lap 30: Webber is under investigation for an unsafe release into the path of Massa in the pits.
Lap 30: Karthikeyan pits from 17th in the HRT.
Lap 30: Massa has rejoined in ninth place after his second stop. He passes Senna up the hill into Les Combes and moves back up to eighth.
Lap 30: Raikkonen does have the new tyre advantage over Schumacher so may be able to close in on the German in the closing stages.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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