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Lap 3: Raikkonen forces the issue and Perez has to run wide, dropping down the order.
Lap 4: Replays show that Alonso's left rear touched lightly against Raikkonen's right front as they took the line for the first corner.
Lap 4: So it's Vettel from Kobayashi, Button, Massa and Raikkonen as they race around a lap.
Lap 4: Hamilton is ahead of Perez now in sixth and needs to progress to take advantage of Alonso's costly elimination.
Lap 4: Grosjean then went on the attack at Turn 2 and nudged into Webber, sending the Australian into a spin. Both required a visit to the pits.
Lap 4: Vettel leads by 1.9 seconds at the end of the first full racing lap with Button now harrying Kobayashi, tailed by Massa and Raikkonen.
Lap 5: Unbelievable position changes from this. Maldonado is ninth with Ricciardo up to 10th and Kovalainen an amazing 11th.
Lap 5: Perez is getting a look at his future seat and is right behind Hamilton's car as he looks to recover from that first corner scrape.
Lap 5: Vergne is 12th and di Resta lost out, dropping to 13th, ahead of Glock 14th, Schumacher 15th, de la Rosa 16th and Petrov 17th.
Lap 6: Karthikeyan is 18th with the recovering drivers coming up behind him. Grosjean is 19th with Senna 20th, Pic 21st and Webber 22nd.
Lap 6: Hulkenberg got up to eighth amid the early carnage and is right with the Hamilton/Perez scrap.
Lap 6: Kovalainen holds onto 11th for this lap but has a huge queue of cars all over the back of him.
Lap 6: DRS is now enabled, with Perez drawing closer to Hamilton as they flash across the line.
Lap 6: Vettel now leads by three seconds from home hero Kobayashi.
Lap 6: Grosjean and Senna have both passed Karthikeyan's HRT. The Indian drops down to 20th place.
Lap 7: Perez goes for wild dive down the inside of Hamilton's McLaren and amazingly makes it stick.
Lap 7: Schumacher has also passed Glock and takes over 14th position.
Lap 7: Great move from Perez there at the hairpin and Hamilton has no response.
Lap 7: Romain Grosjean has been given a 10 second stop-go penalty for causing a collision.
Lap 8: He is down in 18th place, trying to recover, but this will dent his progress further after that lap one incident.
Lap 8: Vettel sets the fastest lap as he pulls 4.1 seconds clear up front.
Lap 8: Grosjean answers the call and comes into the pits.
Lap 9: Grosjean gets away after what seems like an eternity. He drops to the rear of the field.
Lap 9: Webber has passed Pic and moves up to 20th position, after Grosjean's penalty.
Lap 9: Button is now 1.5 seconds behind Kobayashi's Sauber, with both drivers likely to run quite long in this first stint.
Lap 9: Kovalainen is doing a fabulous job to hold onto 11th. He has Vergne and di Resta on his tail.
Lap 9: Hamilton has now fallen 2.4 seconds behind Perez as he continues to struggle for pace after getting his setup wrong on Saturday.
Lap 10: Maldonado in ninth is dropping away from Hulkenberg's Force India. Ricciardo is close to him in 10th, then Kovalainen is 5.6s back.
Lap 10: Vergne and di Resta are so far unable to do anything about the Caterham, with Schumacher in 14th now joining that group.
Lap 10: Glock is 15th with Senna now up to 16th, having passed de la Rosa. Petrov is 18th and Webber is up to 19th spot.
Lap 11: Vettel flashes past untroubled and over 6.2 seconds ahead and must have time to hope his alternator holds together on a warm day in Japan.
Lap 12: Webber passed Karthikeyan on the last lap to move into 19th, with Pic 21st and Grosjean 16.3s back after his penalty, in 22nd place.
Lap 12: Perez is setting a strong pace in his Sauber and is now right with Raikkonen. The Mexican could be planning a fairly long first stint.
Lap 12: "Target plus two," Perez is told, meaning Sauber think he can run longer than expected on this first set of soft tyres.
Lap 13: Maldonado continues to drop away from Hulkenberg. He is maintaining ninth but now 3.2s back from the Force India. Ricciardo is 10th.
Lap 13: Webber has passed Petrov into Spoon curve and is up to 18th position.
Lap 14: Raikkonen looks to be struggling for pace now, with Perez right with the Lotus driver.
Lap 14: Kovalainen in 11th is now some 8.2s behind Ricciardo, effectively splitting the field in half. Vergne, di Resta and Schumacher on his tail.
Lap 14: Hamilton is told he is doing a "great job" with tyres as the team look to go five laps longer than planned.
Lap 14: Senna are Rosberg are also under investigation for the incident at Turn 1.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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