F1 French GP Live Commentary and Updates - Race day
Minute-by-minute Formula 1 updates from the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard

By: Jake Boxall-Legge, Haydn Cobb, Tom Howard
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With three laps to go a Ricciardo-Gasly-Alonso train is forming so the action is building up everywhere. Further back, Russell gets ahead of Tsunoda to take 12th place.
Stroll is up into the points having got by Sainz for P10. A double points haul for Aston Martin is on the cards.
Vettel is up to ninth place having overtaken Sainz, but he now has around eight seconds to find to catch Alonso ahead of him with seven laps to go.
The Aston Martin strategy is coming alive, as expected, as Stroll moves up to P11 ahead of Tsunoda to slot in directly behind team-mate Vettel. Both drivers are around one second per lap faster than those ahead.
Leclerc becomes the second driver to go for the two-stop strategy (after Verstappen) and drops down to P16 as a result.
A lap later Alonso finds overtaking Sainz much easier than Gasly did, as he charges by under braking at Turn 1 for P8. This race isn't going to plan for either Ferrari drivers, it must be said.
Stroll, who is overtaken with ease by Norris, finally pits for the first time in this race on lap 35. That just leaves his team-mate Vettel yet to visit the pitlane in this race.
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