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Lap 17: Grosjean feeds out of the pits and is only just ahead of Hamilton.
Lap 17: Vettel resumes in a comfortable lead, with Grosjean stopping on this lap as well.
Lap 17: Hamilton has jumped past Schumacher now, with the Mercedes running long on medium tyres.
Lap 17: Pic takes track position against the HRT driver. He moves up to 22nd and Karthikeyan falls to last.
Lap 17: Up front, Vettel leads by a massive 15.2 seconds over Grosjean as he heads for the pits.
Lap 17: Karthikeyan now pits from 21st and this is the chance for Charles Pic to pass as their fight at the rear of the field continues.
Lap 16: Hulkenberg is down in 14th position after his stop and he has lost track position to Massa.
Lap 16: Alonso resumes and he is just ahead of Raikkonen on the road.
Lap 16: Di Resta is up to fourth in this phase of stops, with Rosberg fifth, Schumacher sixth, Senna seventh, Hamilton eighth and Webber ninth.
Lap 16: Alonso is the next man to stop.
Lap 16: Hamilton, now popping past Senna, has remained ahead of that pitting group on the road.
Lap 16: De la Rosa heads back out in 22nd spot, with team-mate Karthikeyan yet to come in.
Lap 15: A raft on stops of this lap. Ricciardo is the last of them to pit and he rejoins down in 18th spot, as de la Rosa comes in.
Lap 15: Mass pitstops now with Raikkonen, Kobayashi, Maldonado and Hulkenberg all in.
Lap 15: That he does as Alonso gives Maldonado the DRS treatment and gets past the Williams.
Lap 15: Petrov pits the other Caterham and rejoins in 19th place.
Lap 15: Among that spurt of action, Alonso has made his way past Hulkenberg and is told to push by the Ferrari team.
Lap 14: Hamilton resumes in 12th after a quick McLaren stop.
Lap 14: Button has passed Vergne to take over 17th position.
Lap 14: Hamilton dives in for his first stop.
Lap 14: Raikkonen battles on, squeezing his Lotus through a closing gap at Turn 13 after getting up behind Maldonado on DRS. Raikkonen now fourth.
Lap 13: Despite clear air, Grosjean has been unable to match leader Vettel on pace, falling now 12.5 seconds behind the Red Bull.
Lap 13: Perez is up to 18th after the Finn's stop and he sets the fastest lap of the race with 1m44.630s.
Lap 13: Kovalainen pits from 17th place in the Caterham.
Lap 13: Raikkonen has another go at the end of the next straight and still can't make it past the Williams of Maldonado.
Lap 13: Pic pits from last position. He will hope to get the undercut against Karthikeyan. They were still fighting for position when the Marussia driver came in.
Lap 13: Raikkonen gets on his DRS to try a move on Maldonado but the straight-line speed boost isn't enough into Turn 12...
Lap 12: Massa pits the Ferrari. He also takes on the medium tyre and drops down the field to 18th spot, just in front of Button.
Lap 12: Hamilton is down to third, now chased by Kobayashi, Maldoando and Raikkonen.
Lap 11: That releases Grosjean up to second and gives him a chance to show the Lotus race pace in clear air.
Lap 11: Button takes on medium compound tyres and rejoins in a large space between Vergne and de la Rosa.
Lap 11: Great driving from both there, with Grosjean muscling his way around the outside of Hamilton's McLaren and off into the distance.
Lap 11: Button pits the McLaren from 12th place.
Lap 11: The closest fight behind the leaders involves Bruno Senna. He is 14th and holding up a train consisting of Perez, Ricciardo and Webber.
Lap 10: DRS is the ticket for Grosjean as he storms around the outside of Hamilton at Turn 12. Great move there.
Lap 10: Vettel has eased his pace on the last couple of laps, perhaps thinking that a 10 second margin is comfortable for the moment.
Lap 9: Pic in 23rd has a go at Karthikeyan's HRT. The Indian holds the racing line and the pair make light contact, but both continue.
Lap 9: Mark Webber has made a small mistake. He ran off track and continued. As a result he has fallen back one second from 16th placed Ricciardo.
Lap 8: Jenson Button has passed Michael Schumacher. The Briton is up to 12th place and the Mercedes is already dropping away.
Lap 8: Alonso is eighth and chasing Hulkenberg, with the Spaniard likely conserving his rubber at this stage to make progress during the pitstops.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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