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Massa still improves again, bringing his Williams up to fifth.
Hamilton's had a lock-up at the end of the backstraight, as has Massa. Both still made the apex though.
Hamilton asks how everyone else is doing on the softs, and is told "from what we're seeing, everyone is slower on lap three".
Alonso's lap vaults him up to third place, 1.104s off the pace.
Bottas returns to the top 10 in ninth, just ahead of Williams team-mate Massa.
Kvyat moves the Toro Rosso up to fourth, two tenths behind Ricciardo's Red Bull ahead.
Ferrari hasn't yet done a proper soft-tyre time, but Alonso is now set to improve from his current 14th place.
Just before Hamilton set that time, Force India had told Perez that the Mexican appeared to be the only driver able to go quicker on a second flying lap on the soft tyres.
Maldonado has spun at the penultimate corner. He ends up parked just off the track, but quickly gets going again.
Maldonado lost the rear in the middle of the corner, having run slightly wide in the previous long right-hander and picked up a bit of dirt on his tyres.
Maldonado lost the rear in the middle of the corner, having run slightly wide in the previous long right-hander and picked up a bit of dirt on his tyres.
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Hamiton does indeed sneak ahead of Rosberg for first place, by just 0.003s.
Rosberg improves his middle sector time, but not the lap overall. Will Hamilton beat him now?
Both Mercedes are now improving again after cool-down laps.
Despite that error, Massa moves his Williams up to seventh place, which knocks team-mate Bottas out of the top 10.
Massa has a lock-up at the end of the backstraight.
Bottas goes up to 10th, which ends Sauber's little spell in the top 10.
Those laps from Rosberg and Hamilton mean Mercedes is over a second clear of the rest once more.
Hamilton returns to second, ending the lap 0.053s down on Rosberg overall.
Rosberg will feel there is more time to come after that lap, as he missed a couple of apexes and lit up the rear tyres out of one of the slower corners.
Hamilton loses a bit of time to Rosberg in the middle of the lap.
Everyone is finding about a second on the soft tyres so far.
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Rosberg completes his soft lap and goes 1.3s clear of Ricciardo on a 1m39.088s.
Hamilton's soft lap is faster than Rosberg in sector one, as Rosberg now does a new best in sector two.
Vettel has now done five laps, but still none of them very fast. He remains at the back, 4.4s off the pace now.
Rosberg commences his flying lap on softs with a new 'purple' time in sector one.
The Toro Rossos of Vergne and Kvyat quickly demote the Sauber as they now take sixth and seventh.
Sutil jumps to sixth in his soft-shod Sauber, just ahead of team-mate Gutierrez.
Ricciardo's softs take him up to second place, splitting the Mercedes and 0.312s down on Rosberg.
Magnussen got a frightening snap from the rear through the long right-hander of Turns 16-17-18 as he pushes on those soft tyres.
Hulkenberg puts the other Force India fourth on softs, a tenth and a half behind Magnussen ahead.
Perez goes sixth with his soft tyres, just behind Button.
Vettel remains at the bottom of the order, but has at least done a time now - 4.7s off the pace.
Gutierrez uses softs to go fourth for Sauber.
Magnussen stays third, but now 0.563s off Rosberg and within 0.026s of Hamilton.
Magnussen is the first to start a flying lap on the softer tyres. He's currently third, 1.5s off the pace.
Vettel has made it out of the pits after a long delay at the start of the session.
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Grosjean has a dramatic high-speed spin through the Becketts-esque first section. The car stepped out of shape when he hit a kerb, and then snapped back in the other direction to send him off the track sideways.
"Are you sure things are working properly?" he asks on the radio.
"Are you sure things are working properly?" he asks on the radio.
Bottas moves up from 11th to eighth, demoting Kvyat, Maldonado and Massa.
Maldonado was on a better lap but lost time in the final sector and stays ninth, 0.017s behind Kvyat ahead of him.
Massa finds a bit of time in the first sector but less so elsewhere and stays behind Maldonado in 10th.
By: Pablo Elizalde, Jamie Klein, Ben Anderson, AUTOSPORT staff, Glenn Freeman, Matt Beer
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