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Very strange proceedings so far. When the drivers feel the track is fine the FIA decides it's not safe enough to race on; but while things were on a knife edge earlier there seemed a greater desire to keep things moving. Go figure.
Hamilton has a chunky set of headphones on and is striding down the pitlane during a race he'd very much like to get on with leading now.
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Race will be restarted in just over 10 minutes, says race control. Let's try again.
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McLaren racing director Eric Boullier reckons better drainage is needed for any future wet Brazilian GPs. "We can't play with safety," is his assessment. He also says "don't trust" what you hear the drivers say on the radio. Vested interests at play depending on your point of view...
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Rosberg gets belted back into his car. Nearly time to give this another go.
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"It's dangerous," is Jolyon Palmer's verdict. "Kimi was lucky he crashed on the inside. Three people in the wall at high speed and we've only done 20 laps, so it's tricky." Palmer says aquaplaning and visibility are big problems. "I couldn't see just past my own steering wheel," which is why he ended up crashing into Kvyat earlier.
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Force India telling Hulkenberg a time-limited race is predicted now, with rain expected to remain this heavy or worse for the next 50 minutes.
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Yellow flag
The race resumes once again, nearly two hours after we began and it's lap 29.
Regarding that Ricciardo time penalty earlier, the stewards claim they did take "Into consideration the limited visibility of the light panel indicating the pit entry was closed, the very short time the driver may have had to see it, as well as the few second the team had to react to the message sent on the official messaging system".
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Race control makes clear that the safety car will be out for more than one lap.
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Order: 1 Hamilton; 2 Rosberg; 3 Verstappen; 4 Perez; 5 Sainz; 6 Nasr; 7 Ricciardo; 8 Ocon; 9 Wehrlein; 10 Alonso
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11 Bottas; 12 Magnussen; 13 Button; 14 Vettel; 15 Hulkenberg; 16 Massa; 17 Gutierrez; 18 Kvyat
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"Any initial thoughts on the track?" Red Bull asks Ricciardo. "Seems to be similar," he replies.
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The race clock says 55 minutes, so if there's not another stoppage this has to end in an hour and five minutes.
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Alternatively if there are further red flags and restarts, the limit is 6.10pm local time under the relatively new four-hour rule.
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Safety car in this lap, says race control.
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"The track is no different," says Hamilton.
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"I'm ready to race," declares Verstappen.
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Hamilton begins the backing up process ready for the restart.
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Back to racing, with Verstappen having a bit of a look at Rosberg for second.
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"You are joking! That's crazy!" Wehrlein reckons this race should not re-start.
Verstappen goes right around the outside of Rosberg into second around the long Turn 3.
Ricciardo is rapidly past Nasr into sixth.
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"Verstappen is now the car behind," Hamilton is informed.
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"Get in there Maxy!" is the radio message from Red Bull to its flying teenager.
Verstappen quickly pulls a gap over Rosberg, who has Perez quite close behind him.
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"Verstappen passed Nico around the outside of Turn 3," Mercedes tells Hamilton.
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