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Perez gets baulked by Russell as he attempts to lap the Williams, losing some ground to Albon that lap.
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"There will be opportunities, this is good stuff Valtteri," says Bottas' engineer Musconi. "I'll be quiet now", he adds.
Giovinazzi has been shown a black and white flag for abusing track limits which puts him in the FIA's bad books for the rest of the race. The Alfa Romeo driver needs to keep it within track limits or he risks a penalty.
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Another fastest lap for Perez, a 1m07.410s from the Racing Point driver. Albon's going to come under pressure very shortly.
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"With this pace, we can catch him on the last lap," Bottas is told. Leaving it late, then?
Perez is 2s behind Albon now, so he could be in with a shout of fourth here.
Gasly has now dropped behind both Williams drivers and is running in last place. Further up the road Grosjean is back in front of Haas team-mate Magnussen for P13.
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A look at the front - Hamilton is 5.9s clear of Verstappen, while Bottas' attempts to eat into the Red Bull's advantage has petered out.
Ricciardo's got his lines right into turn 4 so far, keeping Stroll at bay on that last tour.
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And that's a fastest lap for Perez, a 1m07.578s! A surging lap from Sergio.
Gasly on the hard tyres is struggling for pace as Raikkonen gets ahead of him for P12. AlphaTauri call in Gasly for a second pitstop which drops him down to P15.
Stroll's going after Ricciardo now, he's within half a second of the Australian driver.
Raikkonen proves that point as he charges past Magnussen for P13 at Turn 7, while further ahead of him Alfa Romeo team-mate Giovinazzi has got by Gasly for P11.
And Perez gets Ricciardo now, clearing him at Turn 4 and will now go after Albon. Having qualified way down, Perez is on a mission.
Raikkonen duly pitted for Alfa Romeo to drop back to P14 and switches on to the soft tyres, so he should be able to launch some late attacks on fresher and faster rubber.
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Stroll came back at Perez, but can't make the inroads into his team-mate. They'll have to put the battle to one side and go after Ricciardo's Renault.
Lovely battle between the pink cars, Perez hangs around the outside of turn 5 and clears Stroll for sixth. Great racing chops from the Mexican driver today.
Meantime, Stroll is just 1.2s behind fifth-placed Ricciardo, as the Racing Points will be looking to score more, erm, racing points.
Raikkonen is the only driver yet to pit so he is out of position in P9 splitting the McLaren duo. Everywhere else outside the top five drivers it is a two-by-two in team formation. Very orderly.
Hamilton is 5.3s clear of Verstappen, who's 6.6s clear of Bottas. Albon is a further 31.1s behind.
That's now dropped to 10 laps and yellow difficulty. I don't get this graphic, man. Why can't they have a numerical setting, like a toaster? We all know three is medium brown, etc...
Bottas will allegedly be in striking distance of Verstappen in 17 laps' time, which is quite a lot down on the four laps from before. It will still, once he gets there, be orange difficult according to the graphic.
Perez, who pitted from P4, fights off Sainz going around the outside at Turn 6 on his out lap to take P8 and slot in behind his Racing Point team-mate Stroll.
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Perez had stopped, and now Norris does so too.
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Bottas pumps in a 1m07.591s, catching Verstappen.
Perez and Norris, currently P4 and P5, are still yet to pit. Ricciardo's on the softs now, having started on the yellow-marked boots.
Stroll isn't hanging around on his new medium tyres as he passes both Alfa Romeo drivers on consecutive laps to move up to P8. Sainz has joined this fight after his slow stop dropped him down the order.
Stroll comes back out right in front of Grosjean but defends his position, as Sainz makes the most of the action to overtake Grosjean for P12.
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Albon pits for fresh medium tyres, rejoins P7.
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"Both sets of tyres feel softer today, feels like they're having a harder time", says Hamilton.
Bottas emerges behind Verstappen, 8.2s in arrears.
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Bottas now pits for new tyres. 2.3s is the time he's stationary for.
Sainz effectively has to undercut Ricciardo now, given the Renault was just a second behind the McLaren.
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Perez has caught up with his Racing Point team-mate Stroll and is in DRS range - but he doesn't need it as Stroll pits.
One of them, Carlos Sainz Jr, comes in for mediums - and the left rear's a bit slow on! That might help the chasing Ricciardo massively.
The tyre strategy graphic suggested the window for softs was somewhere around Lap 20 to take hard tyres. We're nearly at half distance and there's a glut of cars still on them.
Ricciardo's just a second off of Sainz here. The Renault driver will take Sainz's McLaren seat next year - can he also take his position?
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Hamilton did a 1m07.863s on his fresh tyres - that's pretty good, I suppose.
Bottas has to up his pace to clear Verstappen in the pits - but the Dutchman was faster on the previous tour by half a second.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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