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Lap 20: Vettel now leads ahead of his first stop, with Button up to second in his McLaren.
Lap 20: Alonso has resumed in clear air, behind Button on the road.
Lap 19: Hamilton has passed Karthikeyan and is up to 21st position. His next target is de la Rosa, who is two seconds ahead.
Lap 19: Perhaps that was an indicator that Alonso's tyres were finished as he pits for a switch to medium compound.
Lap 19: Leader Alonso has been wide entering the stadium complex but continues to lead Vettel by around two seconds.
Lap 18: Further down the field, Kovalainen quickly passes Pic on the run to Turn 6 as he makes up positions after his first stop.
Lap 18: Perez now heads in for a stop in his Sauber.
Lap 18: Behind those yet to stop, Schumacher is seventh with Raikkonen eighth, Hulkenberg ninth, Maldonado 10th and Webber is 11th.
Lap 17: Alonso, Vettel, Button, Perez, Kobayashi and Ricciardo are the top six and all yet to stop.
Lap 16: Schumacher dives through in a fine move at Turn 8, with Raikkonen slipping past Hulkenberg as well.
Lap 16: Massa has now moved ahead of the rejoined Kovalainen and also Pic. He is up to 16th position.
Lap 16: Hulkenberg is now seventh, chased hard by Schumacher and Raikkonen.
Lap 15: More soft tyres for Schumacher and he resumes... just behind Hulkenberg, with Force India's earlier stop paying off there.
Lap 15: Petrov pits the Caterham from 13th place. He drops down the order.
Lap 15: Hamilton remains in 22nd spot. He is 9.9s behind Narain Karthikeyan.
Lap 15: Schumacher is in for his first stop.
Lap 15: Massa is now up to 18th position, having passed de la Rosa and Glock in short order.
Lap 14: Kovalainen pits from 14th position in the Caterham.
Lap 14: Maldonado takes the harder tyres and heads back out just ahead of Webber, who ran wide at Turn 1 and failed to leap the Williams.
Lap 14: Maldonado is the next man to pit, heading for service at Williams.
Lap 13: Hulkenberg, Webber and Rosberg all head into the pits.
Lap 13: Alonso sets the fastest lap at a 1m22.214s, matched within a tenth by both Vettel and Button.
Lap 12: Raikkonen is in for that change of tyres.
Lap 12: Raikkonen is told that Lotus intend to stick to the pre-race plan, with another set of soft tyres at the first stop.
Lap 11: Button sends it on the DRS and is neatly past Schumacher's Mercedes at the hairpin.
Lap 11: Button is right with Schumacher now and should be in place for a DRS move on this lap.
Lap 11: Glock is 17th ahead of Vergne, de la Rosa and then the recovering drivers. Massa is 20th, Karthikeyan 21st and Hamilton 22nd.
Lap 11: Hulkenberg now has Maldonado on his gearbox, with Webber and Raikkonen closing quickly as well.
Lap 10: Button is closing rapidly on third-place man Schumacher.
Lap 10: Rosberg is up and profited well from the early race chaos. He is 12th with Ricciardo 13th, Petrov 14th, Kovalainen 15th and Pic 16th.
Lap 10: Behind the top eight, di Resta is ninth after that wonderful scrap with Raikkonen, Perez is 10th with Kobayashi 11th.
Lap 9: Button now sets off in pursuit of Schumacher, who runs third at the moment but slower than the lead duo.
Lap 9: Button has been eying a move on Hulkenberg for several laps and finally uses DRS to get his McLaren alongside and past at the hairpin.
Lap 8: Vergne has been in for an early first stop, possibly with signs of a slow puncture showing to the team.
Lap 6: Replays of the start show the contact was between Massa and Ricciardo, with the Ferrari's front wing smashed on the Toro Rosso.
Lap 6: That puts Raikkonen up to eight and di Resta down to ninth.
Lap 6: Just ahead, a furious battle between di Resta and Raikkonen, with the Lotus man finally coming out on top after a great scrap.
Lap 5: Perez is eying Ricciardo's 10th and makes the move stick at the hairpin.
Lap 5: Alonso leads by 0.7 seconds from Vettel, Schumacher, Hulkenberg, Button, Maldonado, Webber, di Resta, Raikkonen and Ricciardo.
Lap 5: Hamilton is sent out of the McLaren pits on a fresh set of tyres.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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