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Formula 1 British GP

British Grand Prix race day

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Hulkenberg asks for an update on the chasing pack: "OK, so you've got Ocon, then Alonso, then Magnussen all together."

"I guess everyone's fighting for position," says Hulkenberg.
Pit stop
Ricciardo comes in for a second stop.
Stroll is the only man still yet to have pitted, but is on 28-lap old mediums in 17th and ahead only of team-mate Sirotkin.
Sainz might be unhappy he's been jumped by Magnussen, but he's catching a nice midfield pack - headed by team-mate Hulkenberg. Between them sit Ocon, Alonso and Magnussen.
Stopwatch
Fastest lap for Hamilton - 1m31.682s. The five cars ahead of him are all doing low-1m33s.
Radio Comms
Sainz isn't happy about who he's chasing out on track: "Oh man, we are racing Magnussen, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Radio Comms
Hamilton is told he is "currently P6, but it's all to play for".
1 Vettel2 Bottas +2.9,3 Verstappen +13.3,4 Ricciardo +15.0,5 Raikkonen + 16.5,6 Hamilton +27.3
Pit stop
Grosjean is in next time by, so he's made it halfway through the race before needing to pit. He rejoins in 15th.
An onboard shot with Vettel suggests he's managing that front-left tyre wear that Mercedes mentioned to Bottas earlier - he has a breathe of the throttle through Abbey to reduce the stress on the outside-front.
Pit stop
Magnuseen pits from seventh and rejoins 11th, behind Alonso. They're both on mediums, but the Haas man has 12-lap fresher tyres.
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1 Vettel, 2 Bottas, 3 Verstappen, 4 Ricciardo, 5 Raikkonen, 6 Hamilton, 7 Grosjean, 8 Hulkenberg, 9 Ocon, 10 Alonso.
Only a 3.5-second stop for Hamilton, which by modern F1 standards is slightly pedestrian. He rejoins sixth, 12 seconds behind Raikkonen.
Pit stop
Hamilton pits.
Pit stop
Ericsson pits from ninth, rejoining on mediums ahead of Vandoorne in 15th.
Vettel is responding to Bottas's pace now, holding the gap at 3.4s on lap 26.
Radio Comms
"Vettel ran out of front-left tyre," Bottas is told. In other words, put the pressure on.
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"Maybe one more lap..." says Hamilton of his tyres.
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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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1 Vettel, 2 Bottas, 3 Hamilton, 4 Verstappen, 5 Ricciardo, 6 Raikkonen.
Bottas is now only 3.7s off the lead, so he is getting on with it at the start of this second stint.
Hamilton lets Bottas through for second at the end of the Wellington Straight.
Radio Comms
"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.
Radio Comms
"Tyres are still good," Hamilton reports.
Magnussen and Grosjean are seventh and eighth and best of the rest ahead of Ericsson, although all three are yet to stop.
Vettel and Bottas are still separated by five seconds, as they were towards the end of the first stint.
Bottas rejoins third, behind Hamilton.
Pit stop
Bottas pits from his temporary race lead. Clean stop and he takes mediums.
Pit stop
Hulkenberg has also come in and rejoins in 10th. Like team-mate Sainz, he's taken the hard comppound tyre.
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.
Crash
Raikkonen's had a trip through the run-off at the first sequence of corners.
Green flag
The track is now clear at Turn 3.
Vettel rejoins on mediums, just ahead of the yet-to-stop Hamilton. Bottas leads the race now.
Pit stop
Vettel pits from the lead.

By: Geoff Creighton

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