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So, let's start again. Hamilton, Stroll, Gasly, Raikkonen, Giovinazzi, Sainz, Norris, Bottas, Latifi, Ricciardo are your top 10.
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The drivers line up on the grid, again, but in very different positions...
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This race keeps getting stranger - as there is an investigation going on with Perez and Verstappen for an incident at the first turn before the red flag.
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And we're away once more!
Stroll gets swallowed off the line, and that elevates Gasly up to second!
Big lock-up for Stroll, goes incredibly deep into Turn 4 and loses a place to Sainz!
But Stroll pulls a mega move on Sainz at the Ascari, great stuff from the Racing Point driver!
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Hamilton immediately comes in to serve his stop-go, giving Gasly the lead!
Sainz gets back ahead of Stroll, and is now ready to attack Giovinazzi.
Hamilton is back out on the track after his penalty in last place and 29 seconds behind Gasly in the lead. He's got 23 laps to make up the difference - and a lot of track positions!
It's Gasly, Raikkonen, Giovinazzi, Sainz, Stroll and Norris in the top six. Giovinazzi will have to serve his penalty in the next couple of laps.
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No further action on the first turn incident between Perez and Verstappen from earlier so it is as you were. Perez is P11 and Verstappen, after a poor start, is P14.
Verstappen is retiring from this race! He is in the pits and jumps out of his Red Bull car just three laps into the restart.
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Giovinazzi now comes in to serve his penalty, releasing Sainz.
With Giovinazzi serving his penalty and Verstappen out of the race, Hamilton is up to P15 without having to do any overtaking. He still has 14 seconds to bridge in order to catch Albon ahead of him.
Sainz is now within a second of Raikkonen now, so he should be coming to accost the Alfa Romeo driver shortly.
Raikkonen is on softs too, compared to Gasly and Sainz on mediums.
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Hamilton is on a charge as he sets consecutive fastest laps, the second a 1m22.901s. That's around 1.5 seconds faster than anyone else ahead of him.
Sainz dispatches Raikkonen at Turn 1, who is incredibly fair at the chicane and leaves room. Well driven by both.
Now, Sainz has a four-second gap to Gasly to close down, and 19 laps to do it in.
Stroll now tees up a move at Curva Grande, and manages to get around the outside of Raikkonen at Turn 4. Inch-perfect overtake, that.
After Giovinazzi pitted to serve his penalty, Bottas is currently up to P6 but isn't making much headway in catching Norris ahead of him.
Norris steams past Raikkonen now, who's a bit of a sitting duck at the moment. P4 for the second McLaren.
Sainz took 0.6s out of Gasly on that previous lap, so he's getting closer to the AlphaTauri.
Imagine walking in on this race half-way through.
Hamilton watch: He is still P15 but has a clear view of Albon's rear wing with 15 laps to go.
Bottas got Raikkonen on that previous lap, and Ricciardo charges past too at Turn 1. It's very "gimme, Kimi" out there today.
Ricciardo is the latest driver to overtake Raikkonen, with the Finn going backwards since the restart. The Renault driver is up to sixth place.
Gasly did a 1m24.0 on that previous lap, but Sainz took a little bit of time out of him. But the McLaren driver needs to step up the pace to catch him.
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Albon locks up at the first chicane and runs off the track and over the kerbs so has to give up his position to Hamilton behind him. The Mercedes driver has Russell up next.
Hamilton duly gets by Russell one lap later at the first chicane to move up to P13. 12 laps to go.
Sainz is now within three seconds of Gasly. Gasly's losing about 0.3s a lap, which might not be enough to hang on at this rate.
Another lap, another first chicane overtake. Hamilton powers by Grosjean and takes P12. He's now got a 2.7-second gap to close down to catch Latifi next up the road.
Stroll, meanwhile, lapped faster than Sainz last time around. The top 3 order could yet shuffle.
Ocon is the latest to claim an overtake on Raikkonen to move up to seventh place. It is double pain for the Finn as he loses another place, this time to Kvyat, on the start/finish straight.
Sainz has really stepped it up now - he took 0.4s out of Gasly on the previous lap, and he's still eating into the lead as he gets to within 2s.
Hamilton watch: He gets by Latifi under braking for the second chicane on lap 45 to take P11.
Bottas is throwing the kitchen sink at Norris, but still can't find a way past.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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