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Lap 51: Raikkonen continues to draw closer to Hamilton, now clocked just 1.3 off the lead.
Lap 50: Overtaking is proving extremely difficult today, but Hamilton's tyres could fade significantly in the closing laps.
Lap 50: Ricciardo has also been into the pits for a third stop this afternoon. He rejoins in 16th, 12 seconds clear of team-mate Vergne.
Lap 50: Hamilton has some understeer in his McLaren, with Raikkonen now clocked 2.6 seconds behind.
Lap 49: Both cars continued and di Resta appears to have suffered no damage in that contact. He is still able to lap at a reasonable pace and is 1.5s behind the Williams driver.
Lap 49: Hamilton is warned of Raikkonen catching towards the finish and the Finn is making significant inroads into the lead McLaren.
Lap 49: Maldonado plays bumper cars with di Resta at Turn 12. He nerfs the Scot out of the way, barging through into 12th.
Lap 49: Button is down to seventh and right behind Alonso after the change of strategy for McLaren dropped him down from third.
Lap 48: Perez comes in for his second stop from 14th place.
Lap 48: Hamilton's lead is cut to 3.5 seconds by Raikkonen's continuing progress.
Lap 48: Vergne pits one more time from 16th position. A three stop strategy here and the Toro Rosso driver may lose out.
Lap 48: Webber is now fifth in his Red Bull but on soft tyres, which may run out of grip by the end.
Lap 48: Kobayashi is 17th and Schumacher is unable to make any inroads into the Japanese driver whatsoever. Kovalainen is 19th with Petrov 20th.
Lap 47: Hamilton will have to go further than Raikkonen on this final set of tyres, meaning the Lotus could put the pressure on at the end.
Lap 47: Hamilton is clocked 4.4 seconds clear of Raikkonen, Grosjean and Vettel.
Lap 47: Force India did a good job for di Resta, getting him track position over Maldonado, who is down to 14th. Ricciardo is 15th with Vergne 16th.
Lap 47: Replays of Button's stop show a bit of a fumble on the left front, with his costly move to a three stopper continuing to go awry.
Lap 46: That puts Raikkonen ahead of Grosjean and Vettel on the road after putting the manners on his younger team-mate.
Lap 46: Perez is 11th but he is yet to stop for a second time. Hulkenberg is up next, then team-mate di Resta in 13th.
Lap 46: Side-by-side from the Lotus pair and Raikkonen barges past!
Lap 46: So Senna is back into eighth and continues to hover around two seconds back from Alonso. Massa maintained ninth and Rosberg holds 10th.
Lap 46: Button is also in for another stop.
Lap 45: Raikkonen will resume behind Hamilton but it is close with his team-mate...
Lap 45: Raikkonen is in for his final change of tyres.
Lap 45: Glock has also jumped de la Rosa in the pitstop phase and moves into 22nd spot.
Lap 45: Raikkonen is told he "really needs to push" ahead of an imminet final stop.
Lap 45: Marussia can claim a small victory over HRT, as Glock emerges from his stop some 12 seconds in front of Karthikeyan.
Lap 45: Hamilton has paused Raikkonen's spurt at a gap of 14 seconds but the Lotus is now putting Grosjean and Vettel under danger for a nett second
Lap 44: Alonso has resumed on medium compound, clear of Senna on the road.
Lap 44: Massa follows his team-mate down the pitlane.
Lap 44: De la Rosa pits from 22nd position.
Lap 44: Alonso is the next man in for a change of tyres.
Lap 44: Massa moves up to seventh, but he is yet to come in for his second stop. Webber is closing quickly in ninth.
Lap 43: Hamilton is being forced to push here by Raikkonen's pace at the end of the Finn's soft tyre stint.
Lap 43: Senna is in for a stop, finally releasing Button.
Lap 43: Glock pits and the fight for last will shake out in just a moment.
Lap 43: Raikkonen eases out to a 14.1 second lead over Hamilton as the McLaren man is told of the intention to run to the end.
Lap 43: Ricciardo in 15th posts his best lap of the race so far. In doing so, he edges away from team-mate Vergne.
Lap 42: Meanwhile, Raikkonen leads ahead of his final stop and is setting rapid times despite used rubber.
Lap 42: Maldonado pits from 10th, handing that place back to Rosberg.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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