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Formula 1 Brazilian GP

Brazilian Grand Prix race day

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Good chance for those drivers (Hamilton, Ocon), who were unhappy with rain pouring into their visors during that first part of the race to get their helmets modified for the restart.
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Restart order: 1 Hamilton; 2 Rosberg; 3 Verstappen; 4 Hulkenberg; 5 Perez; 6 Sainz; 7 Nasr; 8 Ricciardo; 9 Ocon; 10 Wehrlein
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The rest: 11 Alonso; 12 Bottas; 13 Magnussen; 14 Button; 15 Vettel; 16 Massa; 17 Gutierrez; 18 Kvyat; 19 Palmer
Yellow flag
Back to 'racing', the field leaves the pits behind the safety car, all on full wets again now.
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Race control informs the team the safety car will be out for 'more than one lap'.
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"Visibility is very, very poor - more than when we stopped," reports Ocon. Button has some flashing lights in his car he wants to get rid of. McLaren gives him some instructions to turn off the Christmas tree lights.
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"Heavy rain coming soon, we expect 50 minutes of this," Force India tells Perez. That doesn't sound great.
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"Up the hill it's still quite bad," says Vettel. "Big issues up the hill."
Pit stop
Hulkenberg pits from fifth - that was surely a problem as he's swapped to another set of wets.
Radio Comms
"Up the hill still quite bad. Big issues," reports Vettel, who was very unhappy in the worsening weather earlier.
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Radio traffic reveals Hulkenberg had a right rear puncture. His response: "Really? Jesus."
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Rosberg's summary of conditions: "Still really difficult".
Crash
Palmer has stopped. His Renault is sat in the garage. He looks to be out of the race with some kind of problem.
Radio Comms
Red Bull warns Verstappen there will "be an increase in race intensity in 20 minutes".
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Palmer's car was damaged in an incident with Kvyat prior to the stoppage. Ran out of time to fix it before the restart.
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"More rivers in Turn 5, so getting worse," Vettel says of the conditions.
Verstappen goes around the outside of Rosberg as the Mercedes goes slower through Turn 3 and has to rapidly back off.
Radio Comms
"We should be going, Charlie!" says Hamilton over the radio.
Replays show Palmer tanking into Kvyat in the spray and breaking his front-right suspension. "It was a big one guys!" reckoned Kvyat, who is still running in 18th and last of the remaining runners.
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Hamilton is now suggesting there's "more rain coming down".
We've now reached lap 27 of the planned 71.
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"I think we can definitely race now," Verstappen declares. Red Bull reminds him not to pass anyone behind the safety car, even by accident.
Red flag
The race is now being red flagged again, prompting mass thumbs down from the crowd.
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"It's very bad," Nasr says. "The main straight is undriveable."
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"The track is fine," replies an incredulous Hamilton when told of the latest stoppage.
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"It's not even that wet now, I don't know why we're stopping," says Hamilton.

By: Geoff Creighton

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