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Lap 19: Pic pits the Marussia from 14th position. This is his first stop.
Lap 19: Raikkonen is now almost six seconds behind Vettel in fourth, followed by Hulkenberg.
Lap 19: Button leads strongly for McLaren and is still to make a stop. He is 14.7 seconds clear of Schumacher's Mercedes, with Vettel closing in.
Lap 19: Kobayashi is continuing to make progress through the field. He recently passed Pic to take over 13th position.
Lap 19: Hulkenberg, now down to fifth after the first stops, is told he needs to run another eight laps on his current set of hard compound tyres.
Lap 18: Massa gets a good run out of the Bus Stop and takes Rosberg for eighth position into La Source.
Lap 18: Webber has made his way past Riccardo and is now up to sixth.
Lap 18: Button is told to keep pushing and that he is on course for "target plus one" - looking likely to be a single stop this afternoon.
Lap 18: Kovalainen is now being investigated by the stewards after that unsafe release incident with Karthikeyan.
Lap 17: Riccardo is the next man to punish Rosberg's lack of speed as he pulls a great move around the outside at Blanchimont.
Lap 17: De la Rosa has been in for his second stop.
Lap 17: Karthikeyan and Kovalainen made contact, resulting in a delay for the Finn. Both are back out on the racetrack.
Lap 17: Button is clocked 24 seconds clear of Raikkonen on the road as McLaren surely ponder a one stop plan for the leader.
Lap 16: Replays show an unsafe release for Kovalainen from his stop, as Karthikeyan was pulling in for his stop directly ahead.
Lap 16: Hulkenberg gets a great drive out of the final corner and steams around the outside of Rosberg at La Source in a fine move.
Lap 16: Hulkenberg is now on the gearbox of Rosberg but can't make a move stick at the Bus Stop.
Lap 16: A massive 52 seconds in the pitlane and Kovalainen lost a lot of time in that stop. He is back underway.
Lap 16: This is a long stop at Caterham and there is trouble for Kovalainen.
Lap 16: Raikkonen is also on the DRS, breezing past Rosberg with the aid of fresh tyres.
Lap 15: Kovalainen and Karthikeyan both come in for tyres this time round.
Lap 15: Vettel is now up to fourth... make that third as he steams past Vergne on the DRS into Les Combes.
Lap 15: Massa is 12th and on the tail of Webber's Red Bull, ahead of Kovalainen 14th, Kobayashi up to 15th and Karthikeyan 16th.
Lap 15: Schumacher is up to second but is yet to stop, with Rosberg holding back the charge of Raikkonen to the benefit of his team-mate.
Lap 15: Ricciardo is ninth and has dropped to 4.5s behind Raikkonen's Lotus. Di Resta is 10th with Webber in 11th after his stop.
Lap 15: McLaren will clearly be watching the pace of Raikkonen, which is now being dented by trailing Rosberg.
Lap 14: Raikkonen has been rapid since his change of rubber and that's a leapfrog of Hulkenberg by the Finn.
Lap 14: Vettel pulls the same trick on Senna at the Bus Stop and neatly takes over fifth position, demoting the Williams driver.
Lap 14: Hulkenberg pits from second place and resumes behind Raikkonen on the road.
Lap 14: The Senna versus Vettel battle is now promoted to sixth and seventh, but the German is still unable to find a way past the Brazilian.
Lap 13: Button's lead is now 7.7 seconds over Hulkenberg, with Schumacher third and a further two seconds behind.
Lap 13: Petrov also comes into the pits from 13th and gets back out there.
Lap 13: Massa pits this time round. It's a clean stop and the Ferrari driver is back underway.
Lap 13: Riccardo is the next to head in for a first stop.
Lap 13: Vettel in eighth is still tight up the back of Senna's Williams. Massa is ninth with Rosberg 10th and Raikkonen rejoined from his stop 11th
Lap 12: It's a 3.8s stop for the Red Bull team and Webber is back out there on hard compound tyres.
Lap 12: Raikkonen switches to hard compound rubber and was clearly struggling for pace on the mediums.
Lap 12: Webber pits from ninth place in the Red Bull.
Lap 12: Raikkonen reacts with a stop in his Lotus.
Lap 12: That puts Schumacher up to third after aggressively enforcing his slipstreaming move past Raikkonen's Lotus.
Lap 12: Di Resta rejoined from his stop in 13th position.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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