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Pit stop
Ricciardo's tyres cry enough as he outbrakes himself and loses a place to Sainz. Rather than endure another lap Renault opts to pit him for fresh intermediates which sees him drop to ninth and behind Leclerc.
Vettel comes in, calling enough on that particular set. New inters for him and Sainz too.
Vettel's stop was rather slow there, as Albon has a spin out of turn 4 and falls behind Hamilton.
You can see Albon's rear-right - there's absolutely no tread left on that tyre. He pits for fresh tyres.
Albon rejoins behind Verstappen and Vettel now. Meanwhile, Hamilton's just reeled in the Racing Points.
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Sainz, on fresh inters, sets a new fastest lap of 1m40.208s. He's up to eighth place.
Stroll comes in to pit from the lead for fresh inters - but the Racing Points are a little late to the party and he drops behind Verstappen.
Magnussen is the second retirement of this race. It looks like an issue during his pitstop as he pulls up immediately after taking new intermediates - it looks like one of the wheels wasn't fully on the car.
And it's Hamilton on Perez! The Mercedes driver gets DRS, gets the run into 12 and takes the lead!
Radio Comms
"They're graining already," Stroll reports. He's fallen a couple of seconds behind Verstappen now.
Vettel gets ahead of Stroll! Stroll tries to get back ahead into Turn 12, but goes off-line and lets Leclerc trickle through too!
Stroll is sinking quickly in this race as he loses another place to Albon and is already defending from Sainz. From race leader to fighting for seventh place in the space of about 15 laps.
Leclerc now clears Vettel! He gets the run down the back straight and steams past his team-mate for fourth! Meanwhile, Albon clears Stroll too, taking sixth.
"It's getting darker, is there more rain?" Hamilton enquires. "There is a risk of it," comes the reply.
Bottas is potentially having the worst F1 race of his career as he spins again! By our count it that makes it at least four offs, possibly five, for the Finn, who is now 13th.
Elsewhere Grosjean and Latifi have tripped over each other which looks to have put the Williams driver out of the race as he pits with damage.
Leclerc's taken huge bites out of Verstappen here, and eases past with DRS. The Dutchman pits for new tyres, but it's another set of inters.
Sainz comes from a very long way back, and steams past Albon to claim fifth place on the back straight.
Hamilton finally laps Bottas, who really made a meal of those blue flags. How Hamilton has so much grip on these tyres is...it defies physics.
Bottas, who is still in the title fight with Hamilton at least until the end of the race, is lapped by his Mercedes team-mate who is leading. It rather sums up the Finn's day.
Pit stop
Bottas is pitted out of sympathy by Mercedes as he takes fresh inters and comes out in 15th place.
Leclerc's closing in on Perez, who's also managing to hang onto these tyres. Perhaps Stroll's protestations about switching to fresh inters were right.
Stopwatch
With 10 laps to go Verstappen is the fastest driver on track having set a new fastest lap of 1m39.706s. The Dutch driver is seventh, just behind his Red Bull team-mate Albon, but looks set for a late race charge.
Ricciardo, defending from future team-mate Norris, goes off line and spins around on his own accord to hand over ninth place to Norris. Further back Grosjean spun at Turn 12, it is has been a terrible race for Haas with its drivers in 17th and 18th.
Perez and Hamilton look to be lapping at about the same rate now - Perez was fractionally faster than the Mercedes driver.
Leclerc, meanwhile, had an off at what looked to be Turn 4 to take some of the pressure of Perez.
Some synchronised spinning as Raikkonen, about to be lapped, goes round at Turn 4 which forces Albon to ease off and directly behind him Verstappen suffers a spin identical to Raikkonen's. All of them get going again without too much fuss.
Hamilton asks about the chance of his tyres deciding to explode - he seems happy to stick with them. Mercedes gives him the all-clear.
Radio Comms
"Heavy rain expected for the last lap of the race", Vettel is told. The plot thickens.
That spin didn't hold back Verstappen for long as he gets ahead of team-mate Albon under braking at Turn 12 to take sixth place. Five laps to go.
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Radio Comms
"4 laps to go," Bottas is told over his team radio. "I wish it was less," is his response.
We've got three laps remaining; Hamilton has 23s over Perez, who is keeping a 5s buffer to Leclerc. Vettel, meanwhile, has opened up the gap to the chasing Sainz behind him.
The fastest driver on track is Norris and he has Stroll in eighth place in his sights with two laps to go.
"We expect rain to it at turn 8 first", Bono tells Hamilton. They're bringing him in for a "safety stop" to cover that.
Or at least, Mercedes say they are. Hamilton overrules it, so no safety stop there.
Ah, Stroll rather gives up his position as he goes wide at Turn 1 which allows Norris to storm ahead to take eighth place.
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It's the final lap - will there be rain?
Checkered flag
No rain, but the reign continues: Lewis Hamilton wins and secures his seventh world title!
Sergio Perez ONLY JUST keeps second place! Leclerc passes Perez, locks up into turn 12, and lets Perez and Vettel trickle though to complete the podium!
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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