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Lap 35: The crowd goes nuts as Alonso comes over the line in the lead at Valencia. Remarkable.
Lap 35: Trouble for Vettel ... he's stopping!
Lap 35: Massa has made contact and is dropping down the field with a puncture.
Lap 34: Hamilton begins his fightback from that pitstop blunder, passing Raikkonen...
Lap 34: Minor contact between Alonso and Grosjean there, but both seem to be able to continue.
Lap 34: Huge jostling for position down the field at the restart, but no position changes behind the frontrunners.
Lap 34: Alonso is the man on the move at the restart, barging his way around the outside of Grosjean into Turn 2. The crowd are delighted by that.
Lap 34: The safety car comes into the pitlane and we are racing once again.
Lap 33: The safety car will pit at the end of this lap.
Lap 33: Jean-Eric Vergne has confirmed to reporters in the paddock that he doesn't know what happened and in his view it was a racing accident.
Lap 33: Massa and Button are way down in 14th and 15th positions. They will want to make quick gains when the field is eventually released.
Lap 32: Behind Hamilton we have Rosberg seventh, Schumacher eighth, Webber ninth and Maldonado in 10th spot, ahead of Hulkenberg.
Lap 32: So it's Vettel from Grosjean, Alonso, Ricciardo, Raikkonen and Hamilton as preparations are made for a restart.
Lap 32: Sauber's not happy about all this safety car business... @OfficialSF1team: "this SC phase does not play in our hands - wrong time of race. keep on fighting we need to make positions on track." Don't worry chaps, as they say in the US, cautions breed cautions...
Lap 32: De la Rosa, Pic, Kovalainen, Senna and Karthikeyan all cycle through and will move round to the back of the train.
Lap 31: Good use of the returning rule, which will put Grosjean right behind Vettel for the restart.
Lap 31: Lapped cars can now pass the safety car.
Lap 31: Maldonado now lies in 10th spot with Hulkenberg 11th, di Resta 12th, Kobayashi 13th, Massa down to 14th, Button 15th and Perez 16th.
Lap 31: Sky commentator @MBrundleF1 reckons the stewards 'must penalise' Vergne for that incident with Kovalainen.
Lap 31: The Mercedes pair are up to seventh and eighth, not stopping under the rush to pit behind the safety car.
Lap 30: Ricciardo is now the only man who must pit again, so this is a strange strategy move from Toro Rosso.
Lap 30: The incident was on the approach to Turn 17. It will be investigated by the stewards after the race.
Lap 30: The incident occured when Vergne tried to pass Kovalainen and then moved over on him slightly to claim track position.
The pair made contact right rear against left front and then the debris and subsequent safety car intervention ensued.
The pair made contact right rear against left front and then the debris and subsequent safety car intervention ensued.
Lap 30: Hamilton is sixth on the road after that total meltdown in the McLaren pitstop.
Lap 30: Alonso is now third on the road, ahead of Ricciardo - who didn't stop - and Raikkonen.
Lap 29: Vettel is still clear of Grosjean and resumes in what remains the race lead.
Lap 29: Petrov, de la Rosa and Pic all come in this time round.
Lap 29: There is a huge amount of tyre debris scattered over the circuit and the marshals will have an extensive clear-up job. Vergne has retired.
Lap 29: Vettel finally makes it back on the speed limit, heading in for a change of tyres.
Lap 29: Vettel didn't make a stop here, so this could shake things up considerably.
Lap 29: Hulkenberg pits from eighth position in the Force India. He rejoins down in 11th.
Lap 29: And it's a disaster in the McLaren pit as they drop Hamilton's car without the front tyres fitted. A terrible blunder.
Lap 29: Kovalainen rejoins and is shown in 21st position.
Lap 29: Reactionary stops for Grosjean, Hamilton, Alonso and co...
Lap 29: Kovalainen and Vergne both make it back to the pitlane. Surely the Toro Rosso is too badly damage to continue.
Lap 29: That's good news for Grosjean, as he will now close right up on leader Vettel.
Lap 29: The safety car has been deployed.
Lap 29: Vergne floors it on his way back to the pitlane and his right rear is shredding to pieces. He scatters tyre debris all over the circuit.
Lap 28: Massa breaks up that scrap as he pits the Ferrari fro a second time.
Lap 28: Kovalainen is in trouble and he is touring with a flat left front tyre. He is trying to make it back to the pits. It was contact with Vergne.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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