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2014 Spanish Grand Prix Sunday - Spanish GP
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Vettel slots into eighth, ahead of Grosjean.
Rosberg is reminded to look after the tyres so he can fight Hamilton at the end of the race.
A much better lap from Hamilton pulls his lead back up to 2.7s.
Vettel makes that final pitstop at the end of lap 51, which will give Bottas one place back.
Rosberg three tenths faster, gap down to exactly two seconds.
The Mercedes also have traffic to deal with. Hamilton is now between Magnussen and Kvyat on the road.
Perez does the same on his team-mate Hulkenberg for ninth place.
Magnussen passes Kvyat for 12th place around the outside of Turn 1.
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Rosberg does another new fastest lap on lap 41, his 1m29.236s bringing Hamilton's lead down to 2.3s.
"Nico faster in Turns 1, 2 and 3. You faster in sector three," Hamilton's engineer says, taking those demands for more info very seriously.
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New fastest lap by Rosberg, it's a massive 1m29.247s that takes six tenths out of Hamilton.
Behind the Mercedes, Ricciardo has a 7.4s cushion over Alonso, with Vettel another 2.3s back. The Ferrari and second Red Bull should pit again.
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Hamilton responds with the fastest lap yet, a 1m29.759s, but Rosberg is only 0.034s slower.
"OK Lewis, nine tenths lost to Nico, that was the traffic with Massa. Also big loss on braking for Turn 10," Hamilton is told.
Rosberg is a second faster than Hamilton on lap 48, bringing the gap down to 3.6s.
Bottas's pitstop dropped him behind both Alonso and Vettel, but strategies have yet to fully unfold there.
Rosberg trims a little from Hamilton's lead with his best lap of the race so far. They're 4.6s apart.
"How much time did we lose in the pitstop?" Hamilton asks. He's told not to worry about that now and to knuckle down.
Massa makes his third stop from 11th place.
The gap between the Mercedes is 4.8s with 21 laps to go.
Hamilton complains that he was brought in too early for that stop, but is told he was being kept on the "optimum strategy".
Ricciardo and Bottas both pit on lap 45.
Rosberg rejoins the race behind Hamilton.
Hulkenberg currently holding on to the last points-paying position. But his team-mate Perez is 0.6s behind and was a bit quicker on the last lap.
Rosberg pits just one lap after Hamilton.
Rosberg will go onto softs for the last stint while Hamilton is now on hards.
Things seemed to have stabilised for Vettel. He is still 2.4s behind Alonso.
The gap between the Mercedes is now 18.6s with Rosberg yet to make his last stop.
Raikkonen pits for hard tyres on lap 44 and drops behind Alonso.
Hamilton was told that 'three turns' were required for the change of tyre compound, but he demanded it should just be two. After some to-and-fro, Hamilton got his way.
Hamilton and his engineer argued over the radio about how many turns of front wing to go down.
Hamilton does come in at the end of lap 43. He'll take hards for the run to the flag.
Mercedes puts the tyres back in the blankets. Try again next lap...
Radio suggested Hamilton was called into the pits that time, but he stays out.
Magnussen has now pitted.
"I need updates every lap," Hamilton demands.
Alonso is 2s quicker than Raikkonen again on that lap so is now 17.5s. Unless their strategies are about to diverge, that puts the Spaniard ahead after the stops.
Massa passes Magnussen for eighth place.
In between radio tension, Hamilton keeps his lead over Rosberg at 3.7s.
Vettel is now seventh, 2.1s behind Alonso. Last lap the two were fairly even in terms of laptime.
By: Scott Mitchell, Ben Anderson, Matt Beer, Edd Straw, Andrew van Leeuwen, Dan Cross
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