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Mechanical problem
Stroll has pulled into the Aston Martin pits and retired from the race. We'd suspect it is due to damage from his earlier clash with Tsunoda.
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"That incident is under investigation," Hamilton is told.
Breaking news
The stewards will have a look at that Verstappen/Hamilton battle.
Hamilton has a go at Verstappen into Turn 4, but both drivers end up off the road! Verstappen really forced him wide there.
Stopwatch
Hamilton's making no bones of cutting into Verstappen's lead, posting a 1m11.982s on the end of lap 46 and gets into DRS range.
Stroll, on older tyres, loses two places in quick succession to Raikkonen and Norris. The Finn is up to 12th, Norris in 13th and Stroll is 14th.
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"Is the undercut not powerful," Hamilton asks, who just stabs in a 1m12.135s.
Perez, meanwhile, dispatches Leclerc who's yet to do his second stop.
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Hamilton didn't like the tyres he'd got, but is told the wear was too high. "We've just thrown away an easy 1-2," Bottas says - neither Merc driver happy with the strategy.
Pit stop
Hamilton now stops, grabbing the hard tyre, and comes out about 2.7s behind Verstappen.
Stopwatch
Verstappen drops a 1m12.959s on those fresh tyres.
Pit stop
"Are you sure about this?" Bottas asks. "A-firm", comes the reply. Perez now comes in, also picking up fresh hards.
Pit stop
Tsunoda pits, serving his 10-second penalty from his clash with Stroll, to drop to 17th place only ahead of Latifi, Mazepin and Schumacher.
Pit stop
Bottas is next to pit, hard tyres for the Finnish driver.
Pit stop
Verstappen elects to stop in reaction to that, and takes the hard tyre - but Latifi goes out ahead of him, which will lose him a tiny bit of time.
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Hamilton's beginning to chip away at the gap to Verstappen a bit. "If we were to stop again, which tyre would you like?" Pete Bonnington asks Hamilton. "Check colour on the switch," Hamilton replies.
A combination of six F1 world titles overtake Tsunoda in one move. In a wounded AlphaTauri, Tsunoda is powerless to stop the DRS-aided Vettel and Alonso to pass him at Turn 1. Vettel is up to 10th and Alonso 11th.
Pit stop
Having pitted at the end of the first lap, Norris makes his second pitstop to take on another set of fresh hards in a stop of 3.8s, and rejoins in 17th place behind Raikkonen.
Double joy for Alpine as a lap later Ocon passes Tsunoda at the first corner to move up to 10th place.
Hamilton's a bit stuck behind Verstappen at the moment, sitting around 1.2-1.4s behind as he's not quite able to draw closer.
Alonso makes early amends by passing Russell to take 13th place.
At the end of lap 34 Alonso pits from sixth place, taking on fresh hards in a slow-ish stop of 4s, to see the Spanish driver rejoin in 14th place.
"You're three tenths quicker in the middle sector at the moment," Verstappen is told, as Hamilton is perhaps suffering in that part with the Red Bull's turbulence washing over his car.
Leclerc moves up to fifth place by passing Alonso on the start/finish straight. The Alpine driver is yet to stop in this race so it wasn't a fair fight.
Stopwatch
Bottas posts a 1m13.002s to pick up the fastest lap, as Verstappen held it for a fleeting moment.
Ricciardo has been waved by McLaren team-mate Norris to move up to ninth place and continue his chase of Gasly and the two Ferrari ahead of him.
Green flag
We're back under green-flag running, and although Hamilton sat 1.5s behind at the start of it, he's getting within DRS range of Verstappen now.
"We can't let ourselves get undercut again," Verstappen says over the radio, just as Perez got undercut by Bottas under the VSC.
Bottas takes the opportunity to stop under the VSC, collecting the hard tyre, so Mercedes found a nice, cost-effective way to get him ahead of Perez.
Safety car
Virtual Safety Car is called as Stroll's Aston Martin drops more debris from his early clash with Tsunoda.
Stopwatch
Hamilton's cut the gap down to 1.2s, doing a 1m13.162s to home in on his title rival.
Gasly, on his fresher hard tyres, gets by Norris at Turn 1 to take 10th place.
Pit stop
Perez also stopped on lap 28 for hard tyres, emerging 5s behind Ricciardo to come out fifth.
Pit stop
Plenty of pitlane action as Leclerc, Vettel and Raikkonen all dive in for fresh tyres. The running order is chopping and changing, so we'll get back to you on it when it all shakes out.
Stopwatch
Regardless, it's a 1m13.364s for Hamilton, who sets our new fastest lap.
Pit stop
Verstappen duly pits, reacting to Hamilton, and collects the hard tyre. Ricciardo ahead didn't help the Mercedes, but Hamilton's cut the gap down to Verstappen.
Pit stop
A lap later Sainz pits, Ferrari reacting to AlphaTauri's stop for Gasly, to keep the Spanish driver ahead on track.
Hamilton takes the initiative and calls in for fresh boots, taking on the hard tyre.
Pit stop
Gasly is the latest to pit, ditching his mediums for a fresh set of hard tyres, to see the AlphaTauri driver rejoin the action in 15th place behind Raikkonen.
"Starting to slide a bit more now," Verstappen says, who knows what it's like to slide around this circuit. Regardless, he's opened the gap to Hamilton a little bit.
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