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2014 Spanish Grand Prix Sunday - Spanish GP
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Up front, Rosberg responds to Hamilton and the gap is 3.3s.
Could be a problem for the Lotus? Grosjean's pace has definitely slowed in this stint and Alonso is now on him.
Vergne is about to retire from the race. The team informs him there is a problem with the exhaust and he needs to box and garage.
Raikkonen tries again on the next lap and this time makes it past Grosjean without drama for fifth.
Behind the top eight, things currently look like this:
9 Vettel
10 Hulkenberg
11 Perez
12 Button
13 Kvyat
14 Magnussen
15 Vergne
16 Gutierrez
17 Maldonado
18 Sutil
19 Kobayashi
20 Chilton
21 Bianchi
22 Ericcsson
9 Vettel
10 Hulkenberg
11 Perez
12 Button
13 Kvyat
14 Magnussen
15 Vergne
16 Gutierrez
17 Maldonado
18 Sutil
19 Kobayashi
20 Chilton
21 Bianchi
22 Ericcsson
The Grosjean/Raikkonen near-miss came out of the blue, with Raikkonen rapidly gaining and launching an attack down the outside.
And while Hamilton is told his target is to pull 4s clear of Rosberg, Rosberg is told he has to get within 2s of Hamilton in this stint.
Raikkonen attacks Grosjean into Turn 1 and briefly gets fifth place but can't hold it.
Hamilton's engineer tells him he needs another four seconds of advantage over Rosberg to make the strategy work.
Here's the top part of the field with the first stops done:
1 Hamilton; 2 Rosberg +3.7s; 3 Ricciardo +20.7s; 4 Bottas +33.0s; 5 Grosjean +36.0s; 6 Raikkonen +37.3s; 7 Alonso +39.2s; 8 Massa +40.6s.
1 Hamilton; 2 Rosberg +3.7s; 3 Ricciardo +20.7s; 4 Bottas +33.0s; 5 Grosjean +36.0s; 6 Raikkonen +37.3s; 7 Alonso +39.2s; 8 Massa +40.6s.
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Hamilton sets a new fastest lap of 1m30.804s, pulling his lead out to 3.7s.
Ricciardo in third place is now 12.3s ahead of Bottas. But is the Williams going to be able to get away with one pitstop less?
Jules Bianchi now in the pitlane. He pits from 16th place.
Rosberg rejoins a couple of seconds behind Hamilton, but this is looking intriguing.
Rosberg pits, he ran two laps longer than Hamilton. And he chooses a different strategy, taking hards now, unlike his team-mate.
Stopping early has helped Vettel jump to ninth, clearing Hulkenberg, Perez and Button along the way.
Bottas rejoins ahead of Grosjean's Lotus, which had been closing in.
Bottas comes into the pits from third at the end of lap 20. He'll definitely lose third to Ricciardo, who had closed to just 12s behind since his pitstop.
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Hamilton responds with a new fastest lap tough, getting the gap back down to 20.1s.
Rosberg is still faster than the fresh-tyred Hamilton on this lap too. Is staying out longer going to pay off for the German?
Kvyat and Perez have joined the list of cars to have stopped. And now Magnussen does the same.
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Rosberg sets a new fastest lap of 1m31.667s as he tries to make a break now he has clear air.
Hamilton is the first Mercedes to pit, coming in at the end of lap 18.
Although Alonso had fresh tyres, he also had a lot of traffic to deal with on his out-lap.
Despite pitting earlier, Alonso didn't manage to jump Raikkonen in the pits, the Finn emerging just ahead still.
Button now pits from ninth.
Raikkonen pits, two laps later than team-mate Alonso had.
Even while he's dodging between cars, Ricciardo is about two seconds per lap quicker than Bottas on his new tyres
The gap between the Mercedes has come back down as the pitstops approach, with Rosberg now just 1.6s behind Hamilton starting lap 18.
Ricciardo is storming back through the yet-to-pit traffic, with a move on Kvyat into Turn 1 bringing him up to seventh.
Vergne is the next to pit.
Alonso is the first of the Ferraris to come in, so is trying to leapfrog Raikkonen.
Sure enough, Ricciardo is flying on his new tyres.
Maldonado is in the pits as well. Will need to stay still for five extra seconds.
Grosjean and Massa head for the pits from fifth and eighth places.
Expect a hard-charging out-lap from Ricciardo now to try to jump Bottas.
The Red Bull man sticks with the medium tyre, unlike team-mate Vettel.
Ricciardo dives into the pits at the end of lap 14.
Magnussen has gone past Gutierrez. The Dane is now 13th, behind Button.
The gap between the Mercedes is pretty stable, the currently 2.6s.
By: Scott Mitchell, Ben Anderson, Matt Beer, Edd Straw, Andrew van Leeuwen, Dan Cross
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