F1 Emilia Romagna GP Live Commentary and Updates - Race day
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Sainz overtakes Stroll at the restart and then also gets ahead of Gasly to go from P8 to P6 in the space of half a lap.
All-out war in the F1 midfield! Gasly-Norris-Sainz-Stroll are trading places. They all struggle for drive at the final corner, but Norris gets the run on them all to move up to seventh just behind Gasly.
The next time around Norris repeats the trick and clearly can find super drive out of the final corner. The McLaren driver is up to sixth, with Gasly struggling on the full wet tyres.
Sainz follows his former team-mate through to overtake Gasly for seventh place. The AlphaTauri driver is now fending off pressure from both Stroll and Bottas.
Gasly is quickly becoming the cork in the F1 midfield bottle. Stroll, after briefly getting ahead while running over the gravel at the first chicane, gets the move done on lap 12 to take P8.
Gasly's last lap was 10 seconds slower than the leaders, which, around Imola, is a lot. Bottas and Russell have also got ahead of Gasly now.
Ocon and Vettel, who both pitted under the safety car to get rid of the full wets for inters, are now the next up to fight Gasly who is still so slow on the wet tyres.
Sainz, still in seventh place, has had his second off-track moment into the gravel, but the Ferrari driver avoids any major drama and gets going again.
Gasly, somewhat belatedly, pits to bin off his wets for inters. He has come out in P18 and a long, long way back.
The Gasly-shaped block from earlier has stretched out the F1 midfield – mostly due to the varying success rate of each driver getting past the AlphaTauri man before he pitted.
The closest battle on the track currently is Stroll being chased by Bottas for eighth place, with the Finn relatively anonymous in this race so far. The pair are split by just over one second.
Behind Bottas, Russell is holding on to 10th place and potentially his first point for Williams. Raikkonen had briefly closed up to within one second of the Brit but has now dropped off again.
On lap 22, Vettel is the first to gamble for the dry tyres. He didn't have much to lose in fairness running outside of the points.
Ah, any joy for Vettel will be short-lived even if he finds gains on these tyres. He's just been slapped with a 10-second time penalty after his wheels were not fitted at the five-minute signal before the race.
Vettel takes his penalty almost immediately which drops him to P17 and a lap down. It has been a tough day for the German so far.
The only drivers on dry tyres are Vettel, Schumacher and Mazepin who are all running at the back of the field and going slower than the rest.
Tsunoda joins the dry tyre gang as he pits to take a fresh set of mediums on lap 27.
Dry tyres all around! The entire field has gone for mediums, apart from Alonso.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge, Haydn Cobb, Megan White
