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2013 Formula 1 Indian GP

Oct 24, 2013 to Oct 28, 2013
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Formula 1 Indian GP

2013 Indian Grand Prix The Indian Grand Prix

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Lap 27: Gutierrez and Vergne are the first to blink and make their second stops (excluding Button's bizarre early trip in to the pits).
Lap 27: Blimey. Straight out of Bottas' dirty air, Hulkenberg sets the fastest non-Red Bull lap. Mighty.
Lap 27: Both Mercedes right with Massa now but struggling to make progress past the Ferrari.
Lap 26: Grosjean is still bottled up behind Gutierrez in 15th, and has lost five seconds to Alonso now.
Lap 26: Perez is already six second behind Vettel in third on the road, but he does have a solid margin over Ricciardo.
Lap 26: The question there will be should Hulkenberg have conceded the position, particularly as Raikkonen was so close as well.
Lap 26: Bottas locks up as Hulkenberg attacks around the outside at Turn 4, and Hulkenberg takes to the run-off to make the pass.
Lap 25: Vettel sets the fastest lap once again, but the gap to Webber up front is still 11.7 seconds.
Lap 25: Hulkenberg and Raikkonen finally nail Bottas and the former is quick to tell his team he did not pass him off the track.
Lap 25: Alonso, meanwhile, can't live with di Resta. The Scot is 3s clear and lapping in the same high 1m31s bracket as the Ferrari behind.
Lap 24: Now Hulkenberg starts to pressure Bottas for ninth, with Raikkonen still right under his rear wing.
Lap 24: Rosberg has taken a look at Massa on the latest tour, but couldn't make it stick around Turn 4 and the order remains.
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Lap 24: Raikkonen is told he "needs to start cooling the cars on the straights where possible."
Lap 24: Massa heads the early stoppers, Vettel excepted, chased closely by Rosberg and Hamilton.
Lap 23: Perez is now a strong third for McLaren, with Ricciardo fourth and Sutil fifth after opportunistic starts on the medium rubber.
Lap 23: Grosjean is now lining up Gutierrez for 14th.
Lap 23: Alonso has ditched Gutierrez since passing him. He has 2.5s to find to get on terms with di Resta.
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Lap 23: Raikkonen requests “one turn on the front wing” at the next stop.
Lap 23: Vettel tops the final two sectors as he takes a further two tenths out of the lead gap to Webber.
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Lap 22: Hulkenberg, down in P10 now, complains: “Mechanical balance is set wrong, the rear is too loose.”
Lap 22: Bottas has held the gap back to Hulkenberg at over a second for a while now. The Sauber's mirrors are full of Raikkonen's Lotus.
Lap 22: Meanwhile, Rosberg is giving chase to Massa in the battle of those that did start on soft rubber. They are scrapping over sixth.
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Lap 22: Rosberg is told: “We think these tyres have very little degradation on them. We also think Massa is very slow.”
Lap 22: Superb move from Alonso to muscle past Gutierrez on the run to Turn 5.
Lap 21: That's a remarkable recovery from Vettel's lap two pitstop, now 11.7 seconds behind leader Webber.
Lap 21: Just two cars currently circulate in the positions they started: di Resta in 12th and Pic in 21st.
Lap 21: The McLaren is quick down the straight but Vettel eventually gets the DRS boost and takes over second place.
Lap 21: Hamilton's not been able to make any inroads on Rosberg ahead. That gaps stationary at around 2.5s.
Lap 21: Vettel's nose is planted up Perez's gearbox and this will surely happen on the back straight DRS.
Lap 20: Grosjean is handily placed to take advantage should this Gutierrez/Alonso scrap hold the latter up any longer.
Lap 20: Vettel is now right with Perez and the McLaren is not likely to be second for much longer.
Lap 20: Or not, for Alonso. The Ferrari driver dived by at Turn 1, but Gutierrez reclaimed the place at Turn 4. Canny use of DRS.
Lap 20: Vettel, with tyres four laps fresher than Webber's Q3 set, is still edging closer to the leader. The gap is clocked at 12.3 seconds.
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Lap 19: Vettel is instructed: “Default map 20, 2-0.”
Lap 19: Alonso gains 13th from Gutierrez, now his pursuit of di Resta can resume.
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Lap 19: Bianchi is told of the chasing Caterham behind him: “Pic did 34.4s on the last lap, that’s the target.”
Lap 18: With Gutierrez as an obstacle, Alonso has lost time on the Force India of di Resta he was catching for 12th.
Lap 18: Vettel is now just over a second behind Perez, who is warned of the incoming Red Bull.
Lap 18: Raikkonen closes in on the Bottas/Hulkenberg scrap and is within striking distance of the top 10.
Lap 17: Gutierrez's drive-through drops him to 13th, fractionally ahead of Alonso.

By: Geoff Creighton, Scott Mitchell, Charles Bradley

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