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"Hamilton did not pit and is staying out - we are now within his safety car window," Red Bull tells Verstappen. "So let's look after the left rear tyre. Are you were please, mate."
So Hamilton's lead is 13.1s but he hasn't made his pitstop and everyone behind him has.
Magnussen didn't pit either, that briefly put him ahead of Vettel but the Ferrari instantly repasses the Haas.
Ocon, Sainz, Sirotkin, Gasly, Leclerc and Alonso all pitted under the VSC.
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But the VSC is ending.
Hamilton is staying out, surely he'll come in next time around?
Pit stop
Grosjean pits too.
Pit stop
Verstappen, Raikkonen, Ricciardo and Vettel dive into the pits under this VSC.
Bottas has still got his helmet on as he trudges away down the grass.
Yellow flag
A virtual safety car is called so Bottas's car can be retrieved.
The lastest chapter of the Gasly-Sirotkin battle now has the Toro Rosso driver back ahead and into P12.
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So now Hamilton leads by 7.7s over Verstappen and 12.4s over Raikkonen.
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"My gearbox is gone," Bottas tells Mercedes. "We've lost hydraulic pressure so just pull off where you can," he's told.
Bottas pulls over and parks on the approach to Turn 4, what absolute heartbreak for the polesitter.
Crash
But now Bottas slows!
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"We've asked Lewis to increase the pace just so you can create a gap to Verstappen," Mercedes tells Bottas. "There is more pace," he agrees.
While Hulkenberg's engine was stealing all the focus, Leclerc - who of course normally gets no attention anyway - has passed Ericsson for 15th.
Raikkonen now holds fastest lap, and that's given him a little breathing space over Ricciardo for fourth.
Hulkenberg's spectacular retirement drops the Germand out of ninth, and promotes Ocon and Sainz.
Yellow flag
Big old-fashioned engine incident for Hulkenberg there, he stops at Turn 1 with his car on fire.
Crash
Hulkenberg's engine has let go!
Meanwhile, Sirotkin has since re-passed Gasly for 14th.
The Turn 3 thing with Verstappen and Raikkonen doesn't look like anything of note to us, but there was a tiny brush between them - enough to make the Ferrari slide - when Verstappen got past further around the lap.
Next up for Leclerc is his Sauber team-mate Marcus Ericsson.
Leclerc passes Hartley for 17th.
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The stewards have "noted" an incident at Turn 3 between Raikkonen and Verstappen, which will have been on lap one.
Sainz and Ocon are being investigated by the stewards - presumably for the clash on the run to Turn 3 on lap one - as are Gasly and Vandoorne.
And Gasly now passes Sirotkin for 14th place.
Every time Ricciardo looks like he's getting close enough to Raikkonen to try something, the Ferrari pulls away on a straight.
Gasly is pressuring Sirotkin for P14 - the Toro Rosso driver is just 0.4s behind the Williams driver.
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Another fastest lap from Hamilton, a 1m08.972s.
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Lead gaps: 1 Hamilton; 2 Bottas +2.6s; 3 Verstappen +5.1s; 4 Raikkonen +7.7s; 5 Ricciardo +8.5s; 6 Vettel +10.4s
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"I drove over the debris in Turn 3," Raikkonen tells Ferrari.
Leclerc has passed Alonso for P18 - dizzying heights for two of the most talked-about drivers in F1 this season.
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Sainz is told by Renault that "everyone from 10-20 is on supersofts, except for Stroll on ultrasoft and Ericsson on soft".
Ricciardo has caught Raikkonen for fourth place.
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"Is everything alright? Feels like there's a bit of rear locking," reports Verstappen. Red Bull advises a brake balance change.
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Hamilton's lead over Bottas is already 2.5s on lap six of 71, thanks to a fastest lap of 1m09.051s.
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Raikkonen had a great run at Hamilton into both Turn 1 and Turn 3, but went so wide at the hairpin and only just held off Verstappen there with a bit of a squeeze. As they both lost momentum, that gave Bottas his great run down the outside.
By: Geoff Creighton
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