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Raikkonen has closed right in on Ricciardo for second and brought Hamilton with him.
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"I want to say something, but..." Hamilton ranted on the radio when he realised how far down he now was. But he held his tongue and just said: "Leave me to it, Bono".
Magnussen rejoins ninth, so failing to pit under VSC has cost him places to Ocon and Sainz.
Hamilton is within 0.6s of Raikkonen - DRS range...
Pit stop
Magnussen does pit now.
Leclerc mugs Stroll with a dive at the inside of Turn 3 and steals P14.
Perez rejoins 11th, which means if Magnussen pits from sixth soon he has a chance of staying in the points in 10th.
Leclerc attacks Stroll at Turn 4 with a late dive - but Stroll holds on around the outside of the next corner!
Pit stop
Perez pits from seventh, elevating Grosjean.
Hamilton does his best lap of the race so far and closes to within 1.1s of Raikkonen for third.
Leclerc is pressring Stroll for P14.
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"Am I fourth now?" Hamilton asks. "Yeah, entirely on us," replies his engineer.
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Lead order now: 1 Verstappen; 2 Ricciardo +4.1s; 3 Raikkonen +5.6s; 4 Hamilton +7.3s; 5 Vettel +9.0s
Hamilton's stop has reprieved Alonso from getting lapped - for now.
Vettel was closing in over the last few laps, it looks like Mercedes focused on the title and decided it had to get Hamilton out ahead of Vettel at all costs.
Sainz gets a reprimand from the stewards for the lap one clash with Ocon - there haven't been any replays of that incident, but the pair did seem to get very close on the run up the hill heading to Turn 3.
Hamilton rejoins fourth, just ahead of Vettel.
Hamilton is down to fourth at least...
Verstappen moves into the race lead!
Hamilton is set to drop to fourth or fifth with this stop.
Pit stop
Hamilton pits!
At the 25-lap mark, McLaren is in real danger of having both cars lapped already as Alonso is already 1m06s behind Hamilton.
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"If you look at your dash you'll see the left rear's a little bit on the warm side," Red Bull tells Ricciardo, adding "this tyre can take it, but just watch the left rear."
Perez rose to seventh by not pitting under the VSC. Grosjean is 1.8s behind him in eighth on fresh tyres and in line to move back up to sixth.
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"It's likely Hamilton's going to go long and then attack at the end," Red Bull tells Ricciardo.
Stroll is now under a second behind Hartley, which makes it a three-car scrap for 12th with Ericsson.
Magnussen is also yet to pit in sixth place, and could fall outside the top 10 when he does.
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Lead order: 1 Hamilton; 2 Verstappen +13.0s; 3 Ricciardo +16.4s; 4 Raikkonen +17.9s; 5 Vettel +22.3s
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"I haven't got much time left... I've got no time left in the tyres," Hamilton says. Mercedes strategist James Vowles replies him "it's my mistake. Do what you can."
Hartley is closing in on Ericsson in P12, the Toro Rosso driver is just over one second behind.
Hamilton and Verstappen are lapping at the same pace, both 1m08.4s. So the gap remains 13s - 7s under what Hamilton needs to make his pitstop.
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Race control confirms it won't take any action over Raikkonen and Verstappen's lap one brush.
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Ricciardo celebrates with a new fastest race lap of 1m08.201s.
Raikkonen had gone too fast into Turn 3 again, got a slide on and then tried to defend to the inside towards Turn 4 but the DRS-enabled Ricciardo was already flying past.
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"Good move mate," Red Bull tells Ricciardo.
Easy for Ricciardo in the end, he sweeps past Raikkonen down the outside into Turn 4 and has third place.
Raikkonen goes wide at Turn 3 again and Ricciardo attacks.
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"You're quicker than Hamilton in sector one, nice job," Ferrari tells Vettel in fifth. Vettel lost ground queuing behind Raikkonen in the pits and then repassing Magnussen but he's within 23s of the lead.
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Order: 1 Hamilton; 2 Verstappen +13.2s; 3 Raikkonen +16.4s; 4 Ricciardo +16.9s; 5 Vettel +22.8s; 6 Magnussen +26.0s; 7 Perez +28.0s; 8 Grosjean +31.5s
Ericsson is just 0.7s behind Sirotkin, who is up to 11th - that's the closest fight in the field right now.
By: Geoff Creighton
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