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Lap 15: Meanwhile Hamilton is piling on the pressure, topping the first sector to end the lap just 1.2 seconds behind Vettel.
Lap 15: Raikkonen has another go at Button... and this time he makes it through at the final chicane. The Finn is up to seventh.
Lap 14: Rosberg is now up to fifth but clocked 16 seconds behind leader Vettel - pretty much what the Red Bull man needs to make a pitstop.
Lap 14: Schumacher rejoins from his stop between the Kovalainen versus Senna scrap.
Lap 14: Schumacher also pits the Mercedes this time by.
Lap 13: Di Resta gives up the fight and pits the Force India.
Lap 13: Di Resta locks up into Turn 8 with Rosberg and Grosjean right on his gearbox, but his traction out of the hairpin is keeping the train back.
Lap 13: Massa rejoins from that stop in 20th position and has a lot of work to do this afternoon.
Lap 13: The Brazilian stops at his marks, takes on a new set of soft tyres and is away.
Lap 12: Massa pits the Ferrari from 12th position.
Lap 12: Di Resta reports that he is struggling with the rear tyres as he falls almost the critical 15 seconds behind leader Vettel.
Lap 12: @Lotus_F1Team seems to be waiting for the action to start: "Close packed train means it's something of a strategy waiting game right now"
Lap 12: Alonso is also just 1.4 seconds behind Hamilton, with three seconds covering the lead trio.
Lap 12: Maldonado is through, past Kovalainen and into 17th. The Finn now has Senna to contend with.
Lap 11: Hamilton is keeping Vettel in sight up front, with his McLaren just 1.5 seconds behind the lead Red Bull.
Lap 11: The field is tightly packed between di Resta in fifth, all the way down to Hulkenberg in 14th, then a gap to Vergne and Ricciardo.
Lap 11: Di Resta leads a sizable train from fifth down to 14th, which the leaders will want to pull a stop distance clear of before heading in.
Lap 11: Maldonado in 18th is next on the heels of Kovalainen's Caterham.
Lap 10: Kovalainen has been double-shuffled by the Toro Rosso duo. Vergne is through past the Caterham into 15th and Ricciardo follows into 16th.
Lap 10: Rosberg is told to save both fuel and tyres by his team, with Grosjean behind getting closer on the latest lap.
Lap 9: Schumacher is promoted to eighth after that spin for Massa, with Button ninth, Raikkonen 10th, Kobayashi 11th and Massa 12th.
Lap 9: Button in ninth and on those soft tyres is already 15.5 seconds behind the leader, so that strategy doesn't seem to be working well so far.
Lap 8: Leading strategists will be happy to see the field spreading out already, with a quick pitstop here only costing around 15 seconds.
Lap 8: Massa reports that he can feel a vibration with the tyres. His engineer Rob Smedley advises him to stay out for now until they see how the pace compares with those around him.
Lap 7: Massa rejoined from that spin in 12th place, just behind Kobayashi and the Button versus Raikkonen battle.
Lap 7: Hamilton is now matching Vettel on pace, pegging the gap at 1.8 seconds and easing slightly away from Alonso.
Lap 7: Lewis Hamilton was one-thousandth faster than race leader Vettel on the last lap meanwhile!
Lap 7: Raikkonen in 11th is all over the back of Button's McLaren and looking to find a way past.
Lap 6: Replays show Massa lost the rear end of the Ferrari and looped it around into the path of the field. He's now down behind Kobayashi.
Lap 6: Maldonado is up a place to 18th, having just passed Senna.
Lap 6: An off for Massa at Turn 1 and he's tumbled down the order.
Lap 6: Kovalainen is 15th and has Senna, Ricciardo, Vergne, Maldonado and Petrov on his tail.
Lap 5: Immediately we start to look for a gap forming. Kovalainen is the one, falling away from 14th placed Hulkenberg and now holding up a train of cars.
Lap 5: Vettel sets a new best of 1m19.737s, pulling 1.9 seconds clear of Hamilton, who has Alonso right on his gearbox.
Lap 4: Grosjean is just behind that track position swap in eighth, while Schumacher and Button remain in ninth and 10th positions.
Lap 4: Di Resta replays the DRS move on Rosberg to take sixth, breezing past the similarly Mercedes-powered German into the final chicane.
Lap 3: Petrov did not have a good first lap and he is 20th, followed by de la Rosa, Glock, Pic and Karthikeyan.
Lap 3: Meanwhile, Vettel leads by 1.4 seconds from Hamilton as the DRS becomes available with the McLaren too far behind to get the wing activation
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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