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Lap 40: Hamilton is 20.8 seconds behind leader Vettel and telling the team he is not happy with the soft tyres. Vettel could emerge ahead.
Lap 40: @alanvdm: "Rain drops on the windscreen now. Or someone in the grandstand above is sweating profusely."
Lap 40: Perez comes in and serves his drive-through penalty for that late cut when he made his pitstop a few laps ago.
Lap 39: Up front, Vettel now leads by 15.8 seconds over Webber.
Lap 39: Button comes in for his stop. He goes onto the supersoft tyre ... but Kovalainen gets to the exit before him and the Finn keeps track position.
Lap 38: Perez has been handed a drive-through penalty for a late cut across the track and into the pitlane.
Lap 38: The incident between Perez and Raikkonen at the pitlane entrance is now under investigation.
Lap 37: Hamilton now sets his best lap of the day as perhaps he finally gets the soft Pirelli up to temperature. He is now fifth, with Massa sixth.
Lap 36: Perez pits the Sauber and this benefits Hulkenberg in more ways than one.
Raikkonen was trying to slice up the inside of the Mexican, then had to almost come to a complete standstill as the Sauber chopped into the pitlane, allowing Hulkenberg through and into 12th position.
Raikkonen was trying to slice up the inside of the Mexican, then had to almost come to a complete standstill as the Sauber chopped into the pitlane, allowing Hulkenberg through and into 12th position.
Lap 36: Alonso does have his fresh boots switched on, however, and is rapidly closing on Rosberg at the moment.
Lap 36: Rosberg and Hamilton are yet to make the fresh soft rubber work, perhaps struggling to get it in the temperature range on an overcast day.
Lap 35: Schumacher took on a set of the yellow soft tyres and has a good amount of clear track ahead of him.
Lap 34: Schumacher rejoins in 10th position after that stop, just ahead of Vergne.
Lap 34: Schumacher now pits his Mercedes.
Lap 34: Schumacher is sixth and has yet to stop, with Massa seventh, di Resta eighth, Ricciardo ninth, Button 10th and Vergne in 11th place.
Lap 34: Rosberg is now third, 1.8 seconds ahead of Alonso, whose clever tyre preservation early on left him grip to jump Hamilton at the first stops
Lap 33: With some drivers staying out and gambling on the rain coming, while others have stopped, we have a jumbled order.
Lap 33: Vettel is told rain could come in five minutes, which would be ideal for Vettel as he approaches a tyre change.
Lap 32: Vettel's pace is very strong at the moment, with the world champion still finding good speed from his original set of soft tyres.
Lap 32: Webber, now second to team-mate Vettel, has missed the chicane on his latest lap. He's 11.6 seconds behind after that mistake.
Lap 32: Massa feeds out in seventh, locking up heavily on his first attempt to brake at the top of the hill.
Lap 31: Di Resta is up to eighth with Ricciardo ninth, Button 10th, Perez 11th, Vergne 12th and Pic in 13th.
Lap 31: Massa is in this time, handing the lead to soft tyre starter Vettel.
Lap 31: Massa now leads from Vettel, with both yet to stop.
Lap 30: Light spots of rain are beginning to fall as Schumacher continues to hammer round - now in clear space in seventh.
Lap 30: Alonso could clear Hamilton here... and he does. Great stuff from the Spaniard.
Lap 30: Very quick in lap from Alonso and he's away on fresh soft tyres.
Lap 30: Karthikeyan is another pit visitor. This is his first stop and he is the final runner in 19th.
Lap 30: Alonso is pushing now he is clear of Hamilton and looks to have some speed in hand thanks to wise early tyre preservation.
Lap 30: Raikkonen, Hulkenberg and Senna all come into the pits. Track position remains the same between them.
Lap 30: Alonso, Massa and Vettel are yet to stop.
Lap 29: Webber maintains an effective lead, with Rosberg failing to make an undercut on the first stop.
Lap 29: Schumacher in eighth tries yet again to get past Raikkonen at the chicane but to no avail.
Lap 29: Leader Webber makes a stop for soft tyres, as does Hamilton.
Lap 29: Meanwhile, Hamilton is under pressure as Alonso is all over the McLaren gearbox.
Lap 29: This train is great news for the leaders. Raikkonen's train from seventh onwards is now 30 seconds off Webber.
Lap 28: Raikkone's train is manna from heaven from leading strategists, backing up the midfield traffic threat and giving a huge gap to make stops.
Lap 28: Schumacher tries to make a move on Raikkonen at the chicane, but for the second time the Lotus driver is able to hold him off.
Lap 28: Kovalainen in 13th is about to catch the back of the Raikkonen train and Button is next up, with Perez on his tail.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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