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Perez fends off Verstappen through the infield.
Hamilton is 9.5s clear of Rosberg in the lead. Two laps - or three minutes - to go.
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Ocon told to "use overtake button every lap" as he tries to home in on Nasr's Sauber for ninth. "Let me focus!" he tells Manor.
Pretty much every non-F1 driver on Twitter is tweetpraising Verstappen right now.
Verstappen is right on Perez's tail...
Just 1.2s between Perez and Verstappen for third now.
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Verstappen sets a fastest lap of 1m25.305s as he hacks 2s out of Perez's advantage.
Vettel did manage to get off the grass with enough momentum to hang onto sixth ahead of Hulkenberg.
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Vettel says Verstappen "pushed me off the track".
Verstappen has a 2.4s gap to close to Perez to get a podium. Five and a half minutes or four laps left.
Verstappen is through into fourth, passing Sainz into the Descida do Lago.
Verstappen instantly catches Sainz for fourth.
Verstappen goes down the inside of Vettel into Juncao, the Ferrari ends up on the grass and the Red Bull takes fifth.
Verstappen gets a run on Vettel and tries to go right around the outside at the Descida do Lago but the Ferrari holds him off.
Hamilton's lead is now approaching 8s.
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Eight minutes or five laps to go. Third-placed Perez is 3.4s ahead of a nose to tail Sainz, Vettel and Verstappen.
Verstappen is through on Hulkenberg to take sixth. Vettel is 1.5s ahead of him.
Replays show Gutierrez airing his frustration in the Haas garage, and team boss Gunther Steiner grabbing him by the arm. Tensions high after Haas decided to drop Gutierrez for Magnussen next season.
Verstappen is lapping 2s quicker than the group of cars ahead - can he pass Hulkenberg, Vettel, Sainz AND Perez and get a podium?
Ricciardo goes round the outside of Nasr into the Senna S. Nice dummy sold there.
Hamilton's lead over Rosberg reaches 7s. Ten minutes or seven laps to go.
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Nasr is struggling on those old wets. He should be easy meat for Ricciardo.
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"Forecast is getting better but it's still raining in the pitlane so we think wets to the end," Force India tells Perez.
Sainz has fallen away from third-placed Perez and has got Vettel on his tail then Hulkenberg and Verstappen closing too.
Ricciardo passes Ocon into the Senna S to move up to ninth.
Verstappen's next target is Hulkenberg in sixth - the Force India 3.4s ahead.
Hamilton is lapping a second faster than Rosberg in the lead, but Rosberg has a comfortable 9s margin back to Perez in third.
Verstappen up to seventh now, past Ocon and Nasr. Ricciardo gets Kvyat for 10th. The Red Bulls are really motoring.
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Gutierrez retires with an "emergency situation," according to Haas.
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Hamilton's lead over Rosberg grows to 5s.
Ocon next for Verstappen, who almost loses it on the main straight. He's searching, but the impressive Manor rookie is holding on brilliantly.
Fifteen minutes or 10 laps of racing left, whichever mark we hit first.
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Lead order: 1 Hamilton; 2 Rosberg +4.4s; 3 Perez +11.4s; 4 Sainz +14.2s; 5 Vettel +15.5s; 6 Hulkenberg +18.4s
Hulkenberg finally breaks Nasr's resolve, driving around the outside of the Sauber at Turn 3. Verstappen passes Kvyat at Turn 4 to take ninth.
Verstappen has passed Bottas around the outside of Turn 3 and swept past Red Bull team-mate Ricciardo too. Verstappen up to 10th now.
Nasr defending for grim death from Hulkenberg in the battle for sixth.
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"Sorry guys. I could not see anything," says Alonso of that earlier spin. McLaren tells him the pace is strong and "anything can happen." That's certainly true!
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