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Lap 33: Something Button is told with McLaren suggesting the need to move to "plan B"
Lap 33: At the back, Glock is still on the tail pipe of Karthikeyan's HRT, as they occasionally move out of the way of quicker cars coming through to lap them.
Lap 32: An move to three-stop from Grosjean or Vettel would force McLaren into a change of strategy as well...
Lap 32: Vettel's calls for a change of strategy get ever-more insistant, but the team is busy plotting where he would feed out after another stop.
Lap 32: Vergne rejoins in 20th place, behind Schumacher and Petrov.
Lap 32: Vergne pits from 17th position for his second stop.
Lap 32: Hamilton now has Grosjean now right on his tail as the pair move towards lapped traffic.
Lap 31: Vettel tells Red Bull that he "can go much faster" than Button, urging the team to "do something" on strategy.
Lap 31: Grosjean is now clocked 1.2 seconds behind Hamilton.
Lap 30: Track position is still everything here, with the typical Monaco-like difficulty of overtaking seeming to continue.
Lap 29: Button continues to hold off Vettel, while Grosjean is edging back towards Hamilton again.
Lap 29: Ricciardo is 14th in the Toro Rosso, but Perez is liking the feel of his tyres and is on the Australian's tail.
Lap 29: Massa is more than six seconds behind Senna. He is ninth with Rosberg 10th, Hulkenberg 11th, Maldonado 12th and di Resta is now 1.3s back from the Venezuelan in 13th.
Lap 28: Lots of debris building off-line on the front straight, with the tyres depositing a huge amount of rubber as they wear here.
Lap 28: Senna posts his best lap of the race so far. He continues in eighth spot and is just 2.2s behind the Alonso versus Webber fight.
Lap 27: Has Grosjean cooked his softs already? He fades to 2.4 seconds off leader Hamilton after a pair of poor laps.
Lap 27: Overtaking is proving difficult though, with the DRS zone not proving particularly useful so far.
Lap 26: Button, also on medium rubber, continues to take major pressure from Vettel on softs.
Lap 26: Down the field there are two developing scraps. Di Resta in 13th is homing in on Maldonado, while at the back Glock is about to challenge Karthikeyan.
Lap 26: McLaren strategists should be concerned by this speed from Grosjean but the Lotus man really needs to take the lead to build an advantage.
Lap 25: Grosjean is now just 0.9 seconds behind Hamilton as he enjoys the grip from his soft tyres.
Lap 25: Hamilton now has Grosjean in his mirrors and begins to respond to the Lotus pace.
Lap 24: De la Rosa pits the HRT and rejoins - just in time to get in Alonso and Webber's way.
Lap 24: Grosjean sets the fastest lap at 1m26.353s and is now clocked just 1.3 seconds behind Hamilton.
Lap 24: Ricciardo is 14th ahead of Perez 15th, Kobayashi 16th, Vergne 17th, Kovalainen 18th, Schumacher up to 19th and Petrov 20th.
Lap 23: So after all that, Senna resumed in eighth with Massa ninth, Rosberg 10th, Hulkenberg 11th, Maldonado 12th and di Resta in 13th.
Lap 23: Grosjean's pace is strong at the moment but McLaren reckon his soft tyres could run out of grip before Hamilton's harder rubber.
Lap 23: Raikkonen, fifth, is on softs and looking to close down on Vettel, followed by Alonso and Webber.
Lap 23: The only driver in the race who is yet to come in is Pedro de la Rosa. He is 22nd.
Lap 22: Perez finally makes it into the pits and takes on medium compound tyres. He rejoins in 15th.
Lap 22: Button is a further 5.3 seconds behind in third, on mediums, with Vettel all over the McLaren thanks to his soft tyres.
Lap 22: Pic has been in for his first stop of the afternoon. He rejoins outside the top 20.
Lap 22: Up front, Hamilton leads again, now on medium rubber, by 2.6 seconds from the soft-shod Grosjean.
Lap 22: So Alonso is up to seventh, with Perez eighth, Senna ninth and still ahead of Massa. Then Rosberg in 11th - he gained track position over Hulkenberg.
Lap 21: Vettel is looking very racy on his soft tyres and is all over the gearbox of Button in a battle for third.
Lap 21: Raikkonen resumes ahead of Alonso, with Webber dropping in behind the Ferrari.
Lap 21: Soft tyres for Raikkonen, while Webber opts for medium compound.
Lap 21: Raikkonen and Webber both dive in.
Lap 21: Button and Vettel follow behind, as Alonso slips past the yet-to-pit Perez.
Lap 20: Only Raikkonen, Webber, Perez, Pic and de la Rosa are yet to come in for a stop.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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