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Lap 30: Jenson Button leads by 2.4 seconds from Vettel and is continuing to pull away from the Red Bull.
Button does however have the worry of being forced to used the fragile super soft tyre for his final stint.
Button does however have the worry of being forced to used the fragile super soft tyre for his final stint.
Lap 29: Behind Barrichello, Sebastien Buemi is doing well in eighth. He is facing the attention of Nico Rosberg but hanging on. Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso are catching these two slowly, with Glock (12th) having recovered and coming back to Alonso's Renault.
Lap 27: The leaders begin to string out again, with the best battle at the front shaping up to be between Raikkonen, Trulli and Barrichello for fifth.
Lap 26: Timo Glock has not been able to hold off Hamilton and Alonso. The pair of them attack Glock hard on the first lap of this restart and they forcefully makes their way into 10th and 11th places respectively.
Lap 26: Button as a lead of over a second as they race past the recovery of Piquet's Renault down in Turn 1.
Lap 25: Piquet tries to make a move on Nico Rosberg for sixth going into Turn 1, but the pair make slight contact and Piquet skates off into the gravel. The Brazilian is out.
Lap 25: Button holds on to the lead from Vettel, Massa, Kubica and Raikkonen.
Lap 25: The safety car comes into the pitlane and we are racing once again.
Lap 24: The interest on this restart will be if Vettel and Massa can stay with Jenson Button, but further down the field we are ready for fireworks between Glock, Hamilton and Alonso as they will be disputing 11th place.
Lap 24: With cold, hard tyres and a closely bunched field, there could be a lot of action after this restart.
Lap 24: The safety car will pit at the end of this lap.
Lap 23: Lewis Hamilton tells his team on the radio that he is having huge trouble keeping any kind of temperature in his tyres.
Lap 23: Timo Glock will restart from 11th, and he will have Lewis Hamilton (12th) on his tail, and Fernando Alonso right behind Hamilton.
Lap 23: The cars go round for another lap behind the safety car.
Lap 22: Behind Raikkonen in fifth, Nico Rosberg is sixth, Piquet seventh, Trulli eighth, Buemi ninth and Rubens Barrichello rounds out the top ten.
Lap 22: Sebastien Bourdais comes into the pits for the second time this afternoon, and rejoins after a total pitlane time of 22.8 seconds.
Lap 22: Lapped cars can now pass the safety car.
Lap 22: Nick Heidfeld has pitted for a second time from 16th place, which allows Adrian Sutil through into that position.
Lap 21: The incident is being cleared following Nakajima's crash. Replays showed that the Japanese driver came through Turn 4 and ran up, over the exit kerb. As the Williams bumped back onto the track from the kerb, Kazuki lost control of the rear of the car, and was sent spinning across the track, into the wall.
Lap 21: Vettel will be second, Massa third, Kubica fourth and Raikkonen fifth at the restart.
Lap 21: The pack is being shuffled to allow Jenson Button to form up behind the big Mercedes.
Lap 20: The deployment of the safety car was a long time coming, as race control spent some time monitoring the Turn 4 recovery.
Giancarlo Fisichella has missed his pitbox, turning into the Force India mechanics too late, and nudging into the waiting tyres.
Giancarlo Fisichella has missed his pitbox, turning into the Force India mechanics too late, and nudging into the waiting tyres.
Lap 20: Several cars take the opportunity to make their first stops. The pits are no longer closed under safety car.
Lap 20: The safety car has been deployed.
Lap 20: Button pits his Brawn GP from the lead.
Lap 19: The front wing has been ripped off after contact with the Turn 4 wall. There is debris scattered over the racetrack.
Lap 19: Nakajima has crashed the Williams at Turn 4.
Lap 18: Way down the field, Nick Heidfeld in 17th has been caught by Adrian Sutil in the Force India. Both had problems early in the race, but Sutil is the faster of the two at the moment.
The gap between them is just 0.5 seconds.
The gap between them is just 0.5 seconds.
Lap 18: It's another fastest lap for Jenson Button as he approaches the first stop.
Lap 18: Rosberg's stop was slow with a left front wheel fumble. He resumes 12th, just ahead of Raikkonen, who takes the place in to Turn 3.
Lap 17: The battle shaping up between Fisichela, Alonso and Glock for eighth place is the closest on the circuit at this time. Currently, this is the fight for the final point-scoring position.
Lap 17: Vettel pits his Red Bull. He takes more of the harder tyres. Nico Rosberg also pits the Williams from third.
Lap 16: Nico Rosberg is up to third, but is almost half a minute behind the leader.
Lap 16: Behind the Brawn GP cars, Williams FW31s and Sebastian Vettel, Nelson Piquet is sixth in the first of the Renaults.
Sebastien Buemi - on his debut, is in seventh place so far and on course to possibly score some points. Fisichella is eighth and has Fernando Alonso and Timo Glock close behind him.
Sebastien Buemi - on his debut, is in seventh place so far and on course to possibly score some points. Fisichella is eighth and has Fernando Alonso and Timo Glock close behind him.
Lap 15: Jenson Button continues to lead from Vettel with a comfortable and stable gap of 4.3 seconds.
Lap 14: The super soft rubber is clearly a challenge at this stage. The cars that have not yet used a set of that compound will have to do so at the end of the race, although track conditions may be more suitable at that point.
Lap 13: Robert Kubica pits the BMW, taking the harder tyre and rejoining behind Massa in 12th.
Lap 13: Lewis Hamilton is no sooner in the points, than out of them. The McLaren driver brings his car into the pits to ditch the super-soft tyres, and get onto the preferred harder rubber.
Lap 13: After the early stops, Button leads by 4.8 seconds from Vettel. Behind them, Kubica, Rosberg and Heidfeld are involved in a sensational scrap over third.
Lap 12: Rosberg and Kubica now battle in some sensational racing at Albert Park. Rubens Barrichello is now on the tail of this group as Massa stops to get rid of those soft tyres.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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