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Lap 13: Hamilton backs up the pack into Turn 14 and looks for where to gun it on the back straight.
Lap 13: De la Rosa has been handed a drive-through penalty, because his mechanics were still on the grid after the three minute signal.
Lap 13: Track conditions are wet but there is little sign of standing water now.
Lap 13: A rush to pit for intermediates seems likely at the end of the first racing lap.
Lap 13: The safety car will pit at the end of this lap.
Lap 13: Still plenty of spray around as the pack heads down the long straight with a restart imminent...
Lap 13: Rosberg advises the team that he wants to go to intermediates quickly when the gets resumes.
Lap 12: Massa reports that conditions are becoming acceptable for racing, as the safety car begins a third lap at the front of the queue.
Lap 12: Leader Hamilton is typically keen to get the racing underway again.
Lap 11: The queue comes through Turns 12 and 13 and onto the penultimate straight one more time.
Lap 11: HRT's extended rain dance festival has been rumbled. @EddStrawF1 is reporting: "De la Rosa under investigation for team personnel still on the grid later than allowed. Likely penalty"
Lap 11: Full wet tyres on all the cars for now as demanded by race control, but teams will be looking for a window to switch to intermediates.
Lap 11: Over the line they come, kicking up plenty of spray behind the safety car as we go into lap 11.
Lap 10: Hamilton leads the snake of cars from Button, Perez, Webber, Alonso, Vettel, Vergne and Massa.
Lap 10: There is an enormous amount of spray still and visibility is at a premium for the drivers.
Lap 10: Hamilton responds and leads the field through the opening complex of corners.
Lap 10: The race resumes behind the safety car.
Engines fire with a minute to the restart.
Meteo France is telling the teams that it expects no more rain once the end of this shower finally passes.
The DRS is, of course, disabled for the restart.
Rosberg is told that no more heavy rain is expected, with the team pondering when to switch to intermediate rubber.
All the drivers are back in their cars with less than five minutes to go until the resumption.
Light rain is continuing to fall around the back of the circuit.
Leader Hamilton is back on the grid and is getting ready to climb aboard his McLaren.
Rosberg climbs back into his Mercedes and is strapped in by the mechanics.
Conditions are certainly much brighter now. Schumacher has made his way from the driver shelter back to his car.
Intermediates will soon be a better race tyre if the rain stays away, likely forcing a rush to the pits.
And tent-related practicality from @Lotus_F1Team: "First question, Ezy-up - is it Ezy-down?" Probably easier if you put the ice cream down first too.
A few laps behind the safety car will allow the drivers to gauge the conditions before a return to racing speed.
Observation from AUTOSPORT's @eddstrawF1: "All cars will start on wets...so Vergne gets a free switch to wets!"
Schumacher and Massa are the latest pair of drivers to make use of the pit building ledge as a shelter.
Full wet tyres must be fitted for a safety car restart is the message from race control.
@redbullf1spy is feeling entrepreneurial: "The grid now looks like a car boot sale: Seb might be selling used CDs and Mark may have a '68 Triumph Herald radiator going cheap."
The race will resume at 17:15 local time.
Message to @Lotus_F1Team, this is not rallying! @Lotus_F1Team: "Should we try to send @RGrosjean back out in the race? (You're not supposed to, but there's a lot of spray out there...)"
It is still very wet around parts of the circuit, as the medical car comes back into the pitlane.
That Adelaide race saw Gianni Morbidelli score half a point for sixth in his one and only appearance in a Ferrari, having been drafted in after Alain Prost's abrupt sacking. Given his distaste for both rain and the 1991 Ferrari, Prost probably didn't feel like he was missing much as he watched that race from home.
The medical car is coming round to complete a checking lap, to see what kind of condition the circuit is in.
Taking the pessimistic approach, should the race return or it get too dark to resume, then this would be F1's shortest ever race, beating the 1991 Australian Grand Prix - which was abandoned after 14 laps and 24 minutes of very wet racing.
Teams will be given a 10-minute warning before the restart, with the usual grid procedures being followed to get the race going again.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang, Matt Beer
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