F1 Tuscan GP Live Updates - race day
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By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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Status: Stopped
And here's the report from a breathless, zany and madcap Tuscan Grand Prix: 
Hamilton: "It's all a bit of a daze, like three races in one day! This track is phenomenal - all those restarts, total focus was needed at all times, it was really hard."
Bottas: "It's disappointing because it was a dream start for me. I managed to hold pole position at the safety car restart. But once I lost the lead at the second start...that's how it goes."
Albon: "Yeah, it was good! Obviously a while to get here, and it was a tough one as well, we had to work for it. I can breathe - it's good to be here!"
Hamilton looks like he's been through the wringer, but he gets to greet some fans for the first time this year.
The top three park up on the main straight - Hamilton, Bottas and Albon are your top three. We'll hear from them in a sec.
And, indeed, Russell misses out. Raikkonen is demoted to ninth place due to his penalty, which pushes Leclerc up to eighth, but Vettel keeps hold of the final points position with Russell P11.
Ricciardo comes agonisingly close and gets fourth, with Perez, Norris, Kvyat, Leclerc, Raikkonen and Vettel completing the scorers.
Now, Bottas is getting at Hamilton a bit here - just 1.3s back now. They're matching each other on this lap.
With three laps to go Russell is 6.5s behind Raikkonen so that isn't enough. He's also just outside of DRS range of Vettel. Agony in the Williams garage.
If Russell cannot get ahead of either Ferrari driver he needs to be within five seconds of Raikkonen who has that penalty set to be added to his race time. It will feel like a win if he can secure his first F1 world championship point.
Grosjean, who admittedly has a wounded Haas after the first-lap clash which feels like a lifetime ago, loses three places in as many laps as Russell drafts ahead to take P11.
Now, Albon may have a shot at closing Bottas down here - if he can close the door. He's 1.4s behind at the moment.
One lap later Vettel repeats the DRS-assisted trick on Grosjean to take 10th place. Eight laps to go.
And Albon gets third from Ricciardo! He gets a run with DRS, steams around the outside, and grabs a possible podium here. Great stuff.
DRS has been enabled and that gives Leclerc the tools to overtake Grosjean to take back a place. The Ferrari driver is up to P9.
It was a super restart for both the drivers who had been lapped with Raikkonen up to P8 and Grosjean up to P9 - ahead of both Ferrari drivers and Russell in the Williams.
Bottas steams around the outside of Ricciardo on the following lap, and drops to third. Status quo resumes again.
Raikkonen has been given a five-second time penalty for crossing the line at pity entry. He is currently P8 in the sprint to the finish.
A dreadful start for Russell who is in last place and was given a biff by Raikkonen for good measure.
Ricciardo's passed Bottas! Albon lost ground to Perez but managed to streak around the outside and reclaims fourth!
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