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Formula 1 Brazilian GP

Brazilian Grand Prix race day

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We've now reached lap 27 of the planned 71.
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Hamilton is now suggesting there's "more rain coming down".
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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"We should be going, Charlie!" says Hamilton over the radio.
Verstappen goes around the outside of Rosberg as the Mercedes goes slower through Turn 3 and has to rapidly back off.
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"More rivers in Turn 5, so getting worse," Vettel says of the conditions.
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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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Red Bull warns Verstappen there will "be an increase in race intensity in 20 minutes".
Crash
Palmer has stopped. His Renault is sat in the garage. He looks to be out of the race with some kind of problem.
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Rosberg's summary of conditions: "Still really difficult".
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Radio traffic reveals Hulkenberg had a right rear puncture. His response: "Really? Jesus."
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"Up the hill still quite bad. Big issues," reports Vettel, who was very unhappy in the worsening weather earlier.
Pit stop
Hulkenberg pits from fifth - that was surely a problem as he's swapped to another set of wets.
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"Up the hill it's still quite bad," says Vettel. "Big issues up the hill."
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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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"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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Race control informs the team the safety car will be out for 'more than one lap'.
Yellow flag
Back to 'racing', the field leaves the pits behind the safety car, all on full wets again now.
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The rest: 11 Alonso; 12 Bottas; 13 Magnussen; 14 Button; 15 Vettel; 16 Massa; 17 Gutierrez; 18 Kvyat; 19 Palmer
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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
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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Everyone must take the restart on full wets. There will be 50 laps or one hour and 23 minutes of racing to go.
Ian Parkes
Race control has decreed all cars must have extreme tyres fitted at the race resumption, so those who were on inters when the race was red flagged are now on full wets
Photo: LAT

Photo: LAT

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Marcus Ericsson says conditions were fine in the corners, but that there was too much standing water in Turn 12 and on the main straight. "We've seen three cars lose it basically going in a straight line more or less. Both inters and extreme wets it doesn't make a difference. We want to see cars racing but for some reason today they are very sensitive to the standing water."
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The race will be restarted in 10 minutes.
Ian Parkes
Continuing the half-point theme, that Daniel Ricciardo penalty has had a major impact on 10th place in the constructors' championship. Before it was implemented, with Sauber's Felipe Nasr currently 7th in the race positions, and Manor duo Esetban Ocon and Pascal Wehrlein ninth and 10th respectively, Sauber would have been ahead of Manor by half a point, not forgetting Wehrlein's 10th place in Austria earlier this year. But with the penalty, Ricciardo now drops below Ocon and Wehrlein, elevating them to eighth and ninth, and so giving Manor four points at present to Sauber's three. Those teams must be on a knife-edge right now given the multi-millions of pounds at stake for 10th in the constructors'.
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"Hero to zero in 24 hours," is Romain Grosjean's verdict on his Brazilian GP, which ended on the way to the grid. "I feel so bad for the team. I was just doing laps to the grid, not even flat out. I picked up wheelspin like an 'on/off' switch, not pushing at all. Very strange."

By: Geoff Creighton

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