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2014 Spanish Grand Prix Sunday - Spanish GP
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"Just letting you get through the traffic," is the very reasonable reply from Hamilton's engineer.
Hamilton's engineer updates him on the gap to Rosberg. Hamilton replies "where have you been for the last couple of laps, man?"
The gap between the Ferraris is now 19.3s with Raikkonen yet to come in.
Alonso does his best lap of the race and takes 1.7s out of Raikkonen as he tries to make sure he does jump his team-mate in this pit sequence.
Vettel now through on Magnussen. He's flying through the field.
A little way past half-distance, best non-Mercedes man Ricciardo is 32.5s off leader Hamilton.
Kobayashi has officially retired from the race.
Vettel takes 11th from Massa. Not surprising given the speed difference between the two since Vettel's second stop.
Alonso's making progress after his stop, passing the yet-to-pit Magnussen for ninth into Turn 1, running a little wide but still holding it.
Rosberg has now got Hamilton's advantage down to 3.7s.
Alonso is the first Ferrari to pit again, rejoining just ahead of Massa.
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Vettel sets the fastest lap of the race with a 1m29.774s.
Kobayashi, meanwhile, has had a little off. He's now pitted, suggesting it could be a problem.
Vettel pits and takes on the medium tyre. He re-joins in 14th.
Grosjean pits from seventh at the end of lap 34.
Bottas is told that he's on course as far as staying ahead of the Ferraris is concerned.
Still not much to choose between Hamilton and Rosberg, they're 4.3s apart.
Red Bull asks Ricciardo how the tyres are doing. He replies that the fronts are still pretty good, but he's watching the left rear.
The Ferraris are still fifth and sixth, 1.2s apart. Grosjean has fallen 6.5s adrift of them now.
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Rosberg heeds that instruction and sets the race's fastest lap, a 1m30.763s. Gap still 4.1s, though.
"Same laptime as Lewis, so with the tyres that's three tenths quicker than him," Rosberg is told. He's reminded to get the gap down to 2s.
BEN ANDERSON: "Vettel is having a strong race so far. Pitting out of sequence was a smart move, and he has made use of the track space to leapfrog himself well into the top 10. Looks as though the pace on the harder tyre is holding up well at this stage too."
Massa is now in clear air and lapping significantly quicker than those around him. Last lap he was 1.7s faster than Magnussen, who is in 13th.
Hamilton is told his rear tyres are "cool" and his engineer isn't sure if they're over-protecting them. Hamilton reiterates he has oversteer.
Bottas took 0.7s out of Ricciardo in their cagey, long-game battle for third on that lap. They're now 10.8s apart and on different strategies.
Rosberg does his best lap yet but Hamilton is a bit quicker again, making the gap 4.5s.
Massa has re-joined in 14th place.
Despite those rear-end worries, Hamilton pulls further away, increasing his lead to 4.3s.
Hamilton remains unhappy. "My rear end's everywhere," he says.
Massa makes his second pitstop from eighth place on lap 28.
Ricciardo takes Red Bull's hint and does his best lap of the race, though Bottas does the same and is only a tenth and a half adrift. The Red Bull and Williams are 11.8s apart.
Hamilton adds 0.9s to his lead on lap 28, pulling out to 3.7s ahead of Rosberg.
Hamilton asks Mercedes if it can help him a bit as he has too much oversteer on this stint.
Red Bull tells Ricciardo that Bottas has picked up his pace slightly and reminds him that tyres will be "no problem". That sounds like "push on a bit, Dan."
Rosberg's engineer suggests he just looks after his tyres and keeps the gap stable for the next 10 or so laps so he can attack later.
A new personal best lap of the race for Rosberg brings him to within 2.9s of Hamilton on lap 26.
Vettel is currently slowly closing in on Massa and eighth place. Gap is 0.7s, Vettel was about two-tenths faster last time around.
Raikkonen was able to pull out 2.4s over Alonso while his team-mate was behind Grosjean.
Alonso flies past Grosjean on the outside line into Turn 1 with some DRS help. The local hero is up to sixth, earning some cheers.
Grosjean locks up into Turn 10 and runs wide, before pulling across and managing to resist Alonso.
By: Scott Mitchell, Ben Anderson, Matt Beer, Edd Straw, Andrew van Leeuwen, Dan Cross
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