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Lap 15: Senna has just passed Glock and he is up to 15th spot.
Lap 15: McLaren are ready with hard tyres in the pits for Button.
Lap 15: Webber passes de la Rosa and takes over 17th position.
Lap 15: Raikkonen and Hulkenberg also head in.
Lap 15: Button resumes in clear air, eighth on the road and behind Maldonado.
Lap 15: Di Resta pits from 13th place in the Force India - that group being trapped up behind Kovalainen's Caterham.
Lap 15: Di Resta rejoins in 19th position after his stop.
Lap 16: Kobayashi reacts to Button's stop and resumes just ahead of the McLaren.
Lap 16: Raikkonen rejoined in 11th place after his stop, but quickly dispatches Vergne to take over 10th.
Lap 16: Hulkenberg is down in 13th place after his first stop of the afternoon.
Lap 16: Vettel continues for the moment, with his lead now 11.2 seconds over Massa.
Lap 16: Perez is in for a stop this time.
Lap 16: Raikkonen then blasts his way past Kovalainen's Caterham entering Spoon to take over ninth spot.
Lap 16: Hard compound as well for Perez, with these runners eying a long middle stint.
Lap 16: Hulkenberg has passed Schumacher on the road and moves up to 12th spot.
Lap 16: Karthikeyan is in for a stop from 20th position.
Lap 17: Massa's race pace is strong at this stage, lapping slightly faster than leader Vettel on the last lap.
Lap 17: Hamilton and Maldonado are both in the pits now.
Lap 17: Riccardo is yet to stop and now has both Kobyashi and Button right on his tail.
Lap 17: Hulkenberg has passed Kovalainen and moves up into the top 10, as Senna pits from 14th.
Lap 17: Senna rejoins in 19th place after his first stop for tyres this afternoon.
Lap 18: Kobayashi makes his trademark move at the hairpin and is past the yet-to-pit Toro Rosso.
Lap 18: Button looks for the move on Ricciardo at 130R but that's not going to stick and he remains behind.
Lap 18: Vettel and Massa pit and the latter resumes ahead of Kobayashi and Button after their delay in traffic.
Lap 18: Perez in eighth posts the fastest lap of the race so far - 1m38.983s.
Lap 18: Trouble for Button as he reports a problem with the gearbox on his McLaren.
Lap 18: Schumacher also pitted on that lap and far behind him on the road, so did de la Rosa.
Lap 19: Button still has all his gears at the moment, with the team reporting that things look okay from the data back in the garage.
Lap 19: The order is shaking out again with only a few drivers left to pit. Hulkenberg is back to ninth spot with Kovalainen yet to pit in 10th.
Lap 19: So it's now Vettel leading comfortably from Massa, Kobayashi and Button.
Lap 19: Raikkonen is fifth, tailed by Hamilton and Perez.
Lap 19: Kovalainen pits from that 10th spot and Vergne is in immediately behind him for a race between the crews.
Lap 19: Hamilton might have had a chance to leap Raikkonen in that pitstop phase but replays show he was slow away.
Lap 20: Perez tries his move on Hamilton again but this time it doesn't work and he spins into the gravel at the hairpin.
Lap 20: Kovalainen held track position in that stop over Vergne. They rejoin in 16th and 19th positions.
Lap 20: Perez was wide on the grass heading down to the hairpin and failed to hold on to the wobbling Sauber.
Lap 20: It's all over for Perez, with the car stranded in the Turn 11 gravel.
Lap 20: Grosjean has passed Charles Pic and the Lotus drivers takes over 16th place.
Lap 21: Petrov pits the Caterham for the first time today. He drops towards the rear of the field.
Lap 21: Hamilton is now harrying Raikkonen as he senses the increasing opportunity to make points progress on Alonso.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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