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Formula 1 British GP

British Grand Prix race day

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"Other cars still haven't stopped yet, so it's still plan A, maximum pace," Alonso is told.
While Raikkonen closes in on him, Leclerc has also started to catch Hulkenberg for sixth and is in DRS range.
Bottas was seven tenths quicker than Vettel last time around - the gap at the front is down to 5.0s.
Pit stop
Verstappen pits from third.
Raikkonen gets by Leclerc on the Wellington straight though, and now quickly sets off after Hulkenberg.
Raikkonen clears Hulkenberg for sixth, so he's back in the Class A pack.
Verstappen rejoins - on mediums - comfortably ahead of Raikkonen. The gap between them is seven seconds, which when you take into account Raikkonen's 10-second penalty he served at that stop, shows how much he gained with those laps on fresher tyres.
Radio Comms
Push time for Ocon: "Box this lap, Sainz has stopped behind."
Pit stop
Ricciardo pits, one lap after Verstappen.
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Sainz rejoined in 16th, behind Alonso, and has opted for the hard tyre.
Ricciardo rejoins just ahead of Raikkonen. He's also on mediums.
Pit stop
Ocon hasn't pitted this time by, by Leclerc has. He's back out on medium tyres.
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1 Vettel, 2 Bottas, 3 Hamilton, 4 Verstappen, 5 Ricciardo, 6 Raikkonen.
Crash
Leclerc is going slowly in sector one though...
Yellow flag
Leclerc trundles through the gravel and comes to a halt at Turn 3.
Radio Comms
"There's a problem," says Leclerc. "Stop the car, stop the car."
Yellow flag
It's still not clear what that issue was for Leclerc, but it doesn't look like one with any of his wheels. There's a yellow flag out while his car is recovered.
Take two for Raikkonen. After chasing Verstappen in the first stint, he's now closing in on Ricciardo, who he fell behind due to his penalty.
Pit stop
Vettel pits from the lead.
Vettel rejoins on mediums, just ahead of the yet-to-stop Hamilton. Bottas leads the race now.
Green flag
The track is now clear at Turn 3.
Crash
Raikkonen's had a trip through the run-off at the first sequence of corners.
Replays show Raikkonen had a wobble in the middle of Abbey, sending him for a high-speed trip through the run-off, which fortunately for him, isn't a gravel trap there.
Pit stop
Hulkenberg has also come in and rejoins in 10th. Like team-mate Sainz, he's taken the hard comppound tyre.
Pit stop
Bottas pits from his temporary race lead. Clean stop and he takes mediums.
Bottas rejoins third, behind Hamilton.
Vettel and Bottas are still separated by five seconds, as they were towards the end of the first stint.
Magnussen and Grosjean are seventh and eighth and best of the rest ahead of Ericsson, although all three are yet to stop.
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"Tyres are still good," Hamilton reports.
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"Remind me if I have a DRS in the first corner," says Raikkonen. That suggests his moment at Abbey might have been because he didn't manually close it before taking the corner.
Hamilton lets Bottas through for second at the end of the Wellington Straight.
Bottas is now only 3.7s off the lead, so he is getting on with it at the start of this second stint.
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1 Vettel, 2 Bottas, 3 Hamilton, 4 Verstappen, 5 Ricciardo, 6 Raikkonen.
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Verstappen is asking after Raikkonen, and once he is told the Ferrari is behind Ricciardo, he wants to know the gap as well. It's now down to 0.6s.
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"Maybe one more lap..." says Hamilton of his tyres.

By: Geoff Creighton

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