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2014 Bahrain Grand Prix Sunday - Bahrain GP
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"So Nico, this will be a long stint on prime tyres," Rosberg is told.
BEN ANDERSON: "Massa only 0.7s behind Bottas, who's on older tyres. More team orders coming up?"
Now he's been passed by Button, Raikkonen is coming under threat from Vettel.
So, with everyone having stopped, here's the top 10:
1 Hamilton
2 Rosberg
3 Bottas
4 Massa
5 Hulkenberg
6 Perez
7 Alonso
8 Button
9 Raikkonen
10 Vettel
1 Hamilton
2 Rosberg
3 Bottas
4 Massa
5 Hulkenberg
6 Perez
7 Alonso
8 Button
9 Raikkonen
10 Vettel
Kobayashi fell behind Chilton thanks to staying out long before his first stop, but he's caught the Marussia again for 17th and 'backmarker lead'.
Bottas holds third ahead of Massa but has less than a second over his team-mate so that could change when the Brazilian gets to the DRS zone.
Rosberg pits, and goes onto the medium tyre. Hamilton is on the softs (and well clear in the lead).
Rosberg pits, and goes onto the medium tyre. Hamilton is on the softs (and well clear in the lead).
Sutil had managed to get his Sauber going again after that shunt with Bianchi but after several laps of limping around, he pits to retire.
Vergne retires in the Toro Rosso pit.
Amazingly, we're running two-by-two back to eighth! Mercedes, Williams, Force India and Ferrari running in formation.
Button hits the DRS and sweeps past Raikkonen into Turn 1. Now there's a four-second gap to Alonso.
Button is all over Raikkonen for eighth place after losing ground in the pit sequence.
As expected, Hamilton is flying with fresh rubber. He'll have a nice buffer when Rosberg does stop.
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"Push hard Nico, push hard," urges his engineer. "Fuel is fine."
Both Force Indias have overtaken Alonso to move into fifth and sixth.
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Fastest lap now goes to Vettel on a 1m39.312s.
Hamilton stops - he's had enough of this.
Bianchi is given a drive-through penalty for causing the Sutil crash.
Button has also stopped.
Ricciardo pits, he'd moved up to third.
Deja vu! They go at it again into Turn 1!
Rosberg throws it up the inside, they both lock up, Rosberg manages to nick it and Hamilton attacks again into Turn 4!
Rosberg hangs on but Hamilton goes again into Turn 5 and after a superb battle, retakes the lead. Sensational stuff.
Rosberg throws it up the inside, they both lock up, Rosberg manages to nick it and Hamilton attacks again into Turn 4!
Rosberg hangs on but Hamilton goes again into Turn 5 and after a superb battle, retakes the lead. Sensational stuff.
The Mercs came within a whisker of colliding as Hamilton cut back - that was a bit aggressive from the Briton, but it worked.
Rosberg had a bit of a moan on the radio afterwards.
Rosberg had a bit of a moan on the radio afterwards.
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Sure enough, Hulkenberg does a 1m39.468s. He's up to eighth and catching Alonso very rapidly.
There you go, then - no team orders, and this race is already more exciting than Malaysia.
Rosberg attacks! Attacks attacks attacks!
He dives by into Turn 1 but Hamilton cuts back to retake the lead immediately.
He dives by into Turn 1 but Hamilton cuts back to retake the lead immediately.
Hulkenberg is ahead of team-mate Perez as the Mexican rejoins and he's flying, this could be the fastest lap so far.
Button's third, and is a full pitstop behind the lead duo now.
Hulkenberg hammers past Raikkonen and Kvyat within two corners on his out-lap and is now setting the best sectors of anyone all evening.
Vettel duly pits.
Button, meanwhile, has dropped back from Perez. Vettel complains that he has "no more rear tyres".
Perez pits from third, Button stays out.
Perez pits from third, Button stays out.
Rosberg is within a second of Hamilton - is he attacking before the pitstops?
Kobayashi makes his first pitstop. Tail-end battle now his to lose after erstwhile rival Bianchi's clash with Sutil.
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Raikkonen, back in 13th after his stop, sets a new fastest lap with a 1m40.145s.
Hulkenberg pits from fifth.
Ricciardo gets on the phone to Red Bull to say that "we're losing time like this", and urges the team to make a decision.
The team responds by telling Vettel that his team-mate is quicker than him and "to let him by".
The world champion obliges - Ricciardo's up to sixth.
The team responds by telling Vettel that his team-mate is quicker than him and "to let him by".
The world champion obliges - Ricciardo's up to sixth.
The stewards are investigating Sutil and Bianchi for that tangle.
That said, Vettel does have Ricciardo for very close company.
Bianchi's radio response to his clash with Sutil was incomprehensible but sounded grumpy.
Vettel's up to sixth and lapping strongly on the medium tyre. No DRS, but is the race coming to him?
Magnussen into the pits from 10th.
Bottas's early pitstop has paid off - he's jumped team-mate Massa.
By: Scott Mitchell, Ben Anderson, Edd Straw, Matt Beer, Pablo Elizalde
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