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Verstappen has a quick moan on the radio to enquire about the early stop. He's told it's to protect against the undercut, which is presumably straight out of "things you can say to your barber and your pit strategist".
Pit stop
There's a Mercedes stop - Hamilton comes in for fresh boots. He ditches the soft rubber and pops on mediums.
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Ocon's afternoon is over. The French driver pulls into the Renault pit to retire.
Pit stop
Gasly is the first of the midfield runners to pit with his AlphaTauri crew swapping his soft tyres for a new set of hard tyres.
Verstappen returns to the circuit ahead of Albon. Mercedes probably won't respond - both drivers are happy with tyre life at the moment.
Pit stop
Red Bull brings Verstappen in anyway, so that graphic is superfluous now.
The TV graphic suggests Bottas will be in striking distance of Verstappen in four laps, with a difficult overtaking, er, difficulty. That's based on the metric of having a finger in the air and disregarding DRS.
Radio Comms
"This is excellent stuff, Valtteri, close that gap, it will make your race." says Riccardo Musconi, Bottas' engineer.
Hamilton's now 5.5s clear of Verstappen, that's about half the top straightaway. Bottas is homing in on the Dutchman.
Gasly is going backwards in this race as he loses another place, this time to Norris, who takes the final points place in his McLaren.
Stopwatch
Hamilton punches in a 1m08.183 that last lap. Another fastest lap.
Ricciardo makes the move - meaning the order from P5 to P8 is Sainz and Dan and Ocon, Stroll. It's all your brain and body needs.
Perez, an eager spectator of Stroll's overtake on Gasly, copies the move a lap later to pass the French driver for P9. The Racing Point pair are hunting down the Renaults.
They'll have to sort it out between themselves soon, as Stroll is going to want to buy into this battle soonish.
But still, that's evidence that Ricciardo has the legs on Ocon - he just can't make the move.
Stroll, who looked at a move on Gasly the lap before, gets the overtake done around the outside at Turn 4 to promote himself to P8.
Ricciardo, after a bit of a rest, has charged right back up to Ocon - and tries to go around the outside at Turn 4! He can't quite make it work...
Perez, another driver who started further down the grid than expected following the wet qualifying shake-up, gets by Norris at Turn 4 to take P10. That puts the Mexican directly behind his Racing Point team-mate Stroll who is troubling Gasly in P8.
Albon's not really got the pace for Bottas at the minute, and he's now 10s down on the Finnish driver. Not a slight on Albon, more of a shout-out to the pace Bottas has.
Magnussen is struggling for pace on his soft tyres as Raikkonen, on medium tyres, gets past him at Turn 4 to take P15.
Stopwatch
Bottas grabbed the fastest lap, but Hamilton decides he's not happy with that and promptly does a 1m08.484s.
Raikkonen, caught up behind the Ferrari tangle on the opening lap, is now ahead of both Williams in P16. Ahead of him Grosjean has moved ahead of his Haas team-mate Magnussen to take P14 as he chases after Giovinazzi.
Verstappen did take 0.3s out of Hamilton that lap, doing a 1m08.7s run while Hamilton set a 1m09.0s.
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Hamilton's got 2.7s over Verstappen at this stage, with Bottas a further 3.9s back, and Albon 6.3 behind him.
Giovinazzi has enjoyed a strong start to his race having gone from P19 on the grid up to P13 having just overtaken Magnussen.
Sainz isn't quite letting Albon scamper away with this, presumably looking to make the difference as the Renaults are in touching distance too.
Albon steals past Sainz to grab P4, nice and easy into the site of last weekend's clash with Hamilton.
Stroll is back in front of Norris in the tussle for P9 and that fight is allowing Gasly to pull a gap in P8.
Radio Comms
"I've got quite a bit more pace at the moment, compared to the car ahead" says Ricciardo, perhaps needling his team into making a Renault switcheroo...
Albon's going after Sainz now, with DRS in hand, looking to get in the mix amongst the front-runners.
Bottas, meanwhile, clears Sainz - and the Finn's going to go after the front two.
Stopwatch
Hamilton sets a 1m08.631s to lay down the fastest-lap gauntlet early.
Leclerc is in the pits again and his race is over. Double Ferrari DNF before the start of the sixth lap. Ouch.
Sainz, meanwhile, has Bottas for company having dropped off the back of Hamilton and Verstappen.
Ocon's right on Albon's six, looking to take fifth place back.
Norris gets ahead of Stroll for P9 on the restart in the charge to Turn 3. Further back Russell has gone wide and off track which means the Williams driver is down to P18.
Green flag
We're back underway! Hamilton drops the hammer and scampers off from Verstappen.
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A strange incident between the Ferrari drivers. Leclerc pitted but he is able to continue down in last place. Raikkonen also appeared to get caught up in the incident which has put him down to P18.
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Safety car's coming in this lap.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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