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Lap 44: Vettel leads by 1.3 seconds over Button as they complete a racing lap, with Alonso dropping 2.2s further back in third.
Lap 44: Massa and Senna were side by side on the narrowest point of the circuit. Massa got his rears locked up, fishtailed twice and amazingly got the car slowed down for Turn 13.
Lap 43: Massa is on super soft tyres and looking much faster. He gets through after an amazing near miss and save from the Brazilian!
Lap 43: Massa lines up Senna on this restart lap but he cannot get the job done. This is a battle for ninth.
Lap 43: Vettel steams away again with Button and Alonso still close behind but not making any moves at the front.
Lap 43: Pic is 14th with Webber 15th and he will be looking to make up ground. Hulkenberg is 16th, Perez 17th and de la Rosa is last in 18th place.
Lap 43: The safety car comes into the pitlane and we are racing once again.
Lap 42: If there is any more chaos it might just happen - Kovalainen is one place off the points for Caterham and Glock is 13th in the Marussia.
Lap 42: Behind Raikkonen, Ricciardo is eighth with Senna ninth, Massa 10th, Kovalainen 11th, Kobayashi 12th and Glock 13th.
Lap 42: Another restart coming up, with Button unhappy at Vettel's tactics at the previous resumption.
Lap 42: The safety car will pit at the end of this lap.
Lap 41: Petrov has been pushed back to the Caterham pit and the team attempts to get the car going again.
Lap 40: The incident between Schumacher and Vergne will be investigated by the stewards after the race.
Lap 40: Petrov left his pitbox after the stop, but has ground to a halt at the end of the lane.
Lap 40: Hulkenberg, Perez, Petrov and de la Rosa are also into the pits this time round.
Lap 40: Webber reacts with a gamble to change to another set of tyres.
Lap 40: Replays show that Vergne was on the outside trying to get past a struggling Perez. The Mexican defended his line and Schumacher was caught out and smashed into the back of the Toro Rosso.
Lap 40: Vettel, Button, Alonso, di Resta, Webber, Hulkenberg, Rosberg, Grosjean, Perez and Raikkonen is the order as they pack up again.
Lap 40: Vergne and Schumacher climb out of their battered wrecks and the Frenchman walks up to Michael. Schumacher appears to apologise for the crash.
Lap 40: The safety car has been deployed.
Lap 40: Big crash as Schumacher mounts the back of Vergne's Toro Rosso and both are out immediately.
Lap 39: Vettel leads away in his Red Bull, chased by Button and Alonso.
Lap 39: Perez runs wide out of Turn 9 and that allows Rosberg through into seventh and Grosjean is also past and into eighth.
Lap 39: Webber finally makes it stick after some great dicing with Hulkenberg off the restart.
Lap 39: Webber is the man on the move after the restart as he harries Hulkenberg in a battle over fifth.
Lap 39: Schumacher looks at Vergne into Turn 1 but cannot get the job done. No position changes yet in the top 15.
Lap 39: Near incident before the restart though as Button was caught out badly by leader Vettel slowing. They race away, having avoided contact.
Lap 39: The safety car comes into the pitlane and we are racing once again.
Lap 38: Maldonado's retirement promotes Vergne to 10th, Schumacher to 11th, Raikkonen to 12th, Ricciardo up to 13th and Senna 14th.
Lap 38: The safety car will pit at the end of this lap.
Lap 37: He is pushed into the garage and it's game over for the Venezuelan with a hydraulics issue.
Lap 36: Maldonado has brought the Williams into the pits. A disappointing end to his night's work.
Lap 36: This pause will surely mean the two hour time limit will cut this race short of the 61 scheduled laps.
Lap 36: Behind the race-long Schumacher versus Raikkonen battle, Ricciardo is 14th with Senna 15th, Kovalainen 16th and Massa in 17th.
Lap 36: Conversations taking place on the Williams pitwall and we wait to see what the next move will be with Pastor Maldonado.
Lap 35: Maldonado has continued on and did not come into the pits. He remains in 10th.
Lap 35: Maldonado is informed over the team radio that there is a hydraulic issue and he needs to retire the car.
Lap 35: Lapped cars can now pass the safety car.
Lap 35: Maldonado really lost out badly in that shuffle. Behind Vergne, Schumacher is 12th and still has Raikkonen right on his gearbox.
Lap 35: Behind Webber, Perez is seventh with Rosberg eighth, Grosjean ninth, Maldonado down to 10th and Vergne 11th.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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