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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.
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.
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"There's a problem," says Leclerc. "Stop the car, stop the car."
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Yellow flag
Leclerc trundles through the gravel and comes to a halt at Turn 3.
Crash
Leclerc is going slowly in sector one though...
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1 Vettel, 2 Bottas, 3 Hamilton, 4 Verstappen, 5 Ricciardo, 6 Raikkonen.
Pit stop
Ocon hasn't pitted this time by, by Leclerc has. He's back out on medium tyres.
Ricciardo rejoins just ahead of Raikkonen. He's also on mediums.
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Sainz rejoined in 16th, behind Alonso, and has opted for the hard tyre.
Pit stop
Ricciardo pits, one lap after Verstappen.
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Push time for Ocon: "Box this lap, Sainz has stopped behind."
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.
Raikkonen clears Hulkenberg for sixth, so he's back in the Class A pack.
Raikkonen gets by Leclerc on the Wellington straight though, and now quickly sets off after Hulkenberg.
Pit stop
Verstappen pits from third.
Bottas was seven tenths quicker than Vettel last time around - the gap at the front is down to 5.0s.
While Raikkonen closes in on him, Leclerc has also started to catch Hulkenberg for sixth and is in DRS range.
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"Other cars still haven't stopped yet, so it's still plan A, maximum pace," Alonso is told.
Raikkonen is now all over the back of Ocon, and clears the Force India into Brooklands.
Bottas is chipping away a little at Vettel's lead now, bringing it down to 5.6s. It was over six seconds a few laps ago, although Vettel has enough of a buffer to play with strategy-wise at the moment. Bottas is not yet in range where he could become a threat during the pitstops.
Stopwatch
New fastest lap of the race from Raikkonen, who sets a 1m32.270s on his new mediums.
Raikkonen does a fastest time of all in the first sector, and has passed Sainz for ninth in the process.
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Lap 15/52: 1 Vettel, 2 Bottas, 3 Verstappen, 4 Ricciardo, 5 Hamilton, 6 Hulkenberg.
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Alonso and Perez also went for mediums at their stops.
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Hamilton is told: "Other cars look to be struggling, you're doing a great job".
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Verstappen complains of "some rear instability" at the Brooklands/Luffield section of the lap, and Red Bull says it's related to a change of wind direction.
Raikkonen comes back out in 11th on mediums, but quickly passes Magnussen at the end of the Wellington straight for 10th.
Pit stop
Alonso and Perez also decide to pit.
Pit stop
Raikkonen pits, serving his 10-second penalty before taking mediums.
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Radio Comms
Raikkonen wants to be "aggressive" in his battle with the Red Bulls, and Ferrari tells him he has to think about his penalty. There's some anger on the other end of the radio from the Finn, who signs off with "I'm not allowed to think anymore".
Ferrari will be very happy with how this race is going for Vettel. He was told he was aiming for a 4s lead over Bottas and he's done 50% better than that. Things are going less well for Raikkonen, who wanted to make an early stop but had to postpone that plan because of the 10s penalty and the need to clear the traffic in his window caused by the time to be added to the stop.
So Hamilton has passed the Class B cars, and is now sixth - also known as last in Class A. He's 27 seconds behind race leader Vettel, and 12.7s behind Ricciardo in fifth. Lap 12/52, let's see how quickly he can catch the Red Bull.
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Easy again for Hamilton, who makes another move at Stowe for sixth on Hulkenberg. As catastrophic as his start was, he's made a fine job of racing back up to sixth. What can he do from here?
Vettel leads Bottas by six seconds, while Verstappen is 11.1s off the lead. All calm at the front at the moment, with Hamilton providing the excitement for the crowd further down the order.
Carbon copy for Hamilton on lap 10, as he gets past Leclerc approach Stowe. He's now seventh, and within DRS range of Hulkenberg.
While we had all that excitement over Raikkonen's penalty, he's also fallen out of DRS range of Verstappen. Even with a car advantage, you can't hang out in someone's dirty air for very long without losing performance.
By: Geoff Creighton
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