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Formula 1 British GP

British Grand Prix race day

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Sirotkin and Stroll have been released from behind the safety car to join the back of the queue, unlapping themselves in the process.
Radio Comms
Vettel is told lapped cars can now overtake, and he responds: "Tell the safety car to slow down, then." There's something you don't hear very often from F1 drivers.
Safety car
Safety car coming in at the end of this lap.
Radio Comms
Hamilton is very worried about the tyre age comparison, Mercedes is trying to pump him up, saying "the numbers look good".
Green flag
Bottas boots the throttle on the Hangar Straight, and we are back to racing.
Hamilton is already defending from Verstappen before Club.
Crash
Yellow flag out in sector two. Looks like Sainz and Grosjean have gone off.
Raikkonen gets a run on Verstappen - who nearly puts him on the grass - and he's through for... no he isn't! Verstappen repasses him around the outside of Luffield! They battle down to Copse as well, where Verstappen hangs on around the outside to keep fourth place.
Safety car
Sainz and Grosjean are indeed the two drivers involved in an incident at Copse. The safety car is deployed once again.
Crash
Replays show Sainz got a run on Grosjean around Copse, but Grosjean had a small correction as he turned in and touched Sainz, sending both off.
Information
Lap 40/52 - order behind the safety car: 1 Bottas, 2 Vettel, 3 Hamilton, 4 Verstappen, 5 Raikkonen, 6 Ricciardo, 7 Hulkenberg, 8 Ocon, 9 Magnussen, 10 Alonso.
Radio Comms
"I was in front of him, he understeered into me for sure," says Sainz.
Information
Race control says the incident between Grosjean and Sainz will be investigated after the race.
Safety car
Safety car coming in at the end of lap 41. Let's get ready.
Bottas backs the field up again.
Green flag
Bottas goes again before Stowe, and he's got the jump on Vettel as we are back to racing.
Hamilton got very close to Vettel into Stowe, but he's already fallen back.
Vettel takes a look at Bottas into Brooklands, and Bottas slams the door in his face!
Alonso has got ahead of Magnussen on that restart for ninth, while Perez is also up to 11th ahead of Gasly.
If Vettel thought Bottas was going to be a soft touch here, he's just been shown what the score is today. But is the Mercedes fast enough on its older medium tyres to keep the Ferrari at bay for long?
Hamilton is loitering behind this Bottas/Vettel scrap, hoping to stay in range to attack.
Magnussen has got back past Alonso somewhere for ninth.
Verstappen, Raikkonen and Ricciardo are staying close to the top three.
No DRS yet, we'll get that next time around, but Vettel is again very close to Bottas.
Raikkonen passes Verstappen on the approach to Stowe for fourth!
Verstappen goes wide at Stowe after being overtaken, and now he has Ricciardo for company behind him.
Vettel is 0.3s behind Bottas, and we have DRS now.
Vettel gets DRS, Bottas forces him to the outside and holds onto the lead! This is brilliant.
Vettel tries around the outside of Luffield, Bottas holds him off again, and he defends into Copse as well. Hangar Straight is Vettel's next chance...
Hamilton and Raikkonen have caught the leaders, and Hamilton has to defend from the Finn into Stowe with a firm chop.
Eight laps to go - can Bottas hold on??
Four cars covered by 1.6 seconds at the line.

By: Geoff Creighton

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