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Pit stop
Here we go - Hamilton comes in for his second stop. Fresh hard tyres to see out the race with a nice, swift stop.
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"Verstappen is six seconds inside our window," Hamilton is told.
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Stroll duly pits on lap 35 to allow Tsunoda to move up to P10. Raikkonen remains in DRS range right behind him.
Raikkonen on a bit of a charge this afternoon as he fills the mirrors of Tsunoda in a fight for ninth when the Aston Martin drivers pit. He did win here in 2018, let's not forget.
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Bottas stops from fifth place, returning to the circuit in seventh ahead of Norris.
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Leclerc comes in from third now, lifting Perez up to third as the Red Bull driver clocks a 1m39.566s.
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Into the bulk of the second pitstop cycle now as Russell and Raikkonen make their stops on lap 32.
McLaren double-stacks, covering off Sainz with Ricciardo - but Norris's attempts to get closer to his ex-team-mate was scuppered with a slightly slow stop.
Perez also pits for second time, putting on a fresh set of hard tyres after going double-medium to begin with.
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Sainz pits for a second time, but it's a little bit glacial for the Ferrari tyre as the rear-right is slow on. Ricciardo gets the call to pit now as a result.
"Target plus six," Hamilton is told. He's going a fair bit longer than Verstappen, in that case.
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Alonso pits on lap 29 and comes out 1.5s ahead of Giovinazzi. Is Part III of their mighty battle incoming?
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Verstappen comes in for his second stop, bolting on new hard tyres to relinquish the lead to Hamilton for the time being.
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"Life for this set of tyres better than expected," Leclerc is told, as we pass half-distance.
Green flag
The Virtual Safety Car period is quickly over and we have green flag racing once again.
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Giovinazzi, who was quickly coming under pressure from Vettel, has been given a breather by being pitted for a second time. The Italian comes out on hard tyres in P15 on lap 28.
Safety car
We have a Virtual Safety Car period as a marshal picks up debris from the track.
Right behind the epic new Drive to Survive-style Alonso vs Giovinazzi rivalry, Vettel pulls off a super move on Russell around the outside of Turns 16-17-18 for P13.
At the end of lap 26, Hamilton chopped another 0.6s out of Verstappen's lead - but the Dutchman has now stepped up the pace.
In fifth place, Ricciardo is trying to keep Sainz at bay. The gap between the pair is 1.5s, as Ferrari and McLaren fight for every point on offer.
A lap later Alonso gives it another go at Turn 12 and this time it is the Alfa Romeo driver who goes off the track to keep the position. So it is roles reversed as the Italian is forced to give 11th place to his rival.
Hamilton was a full second faster than Verstappen on that previous lap now - the gap stands at 3.4s. It's hotting up once more.
Alonso is instructed to give the place back to Giovinazzi or face a five-second penalty. Alonso obeys at Turn 15 to see the Italian driver through before restarting their battle for 11th place.
Alpine's Alan Permane gets a bit sassy with FIA race director Michael Masi over the FIA/team radio, using the Raikkonen overtake as defence that it is OK "to overtake off the track" for Alonso's pass on Giovinazzi.
Hamilton's making hay once more, cutting the gap down to 4.7s on the last lap as Verstappen had an iffy lap. Tyre management, or is degradation beginning to bite?
Alonso dives up the inside of Giovinazzi under braking for Turn 12 and goes wide off the track but cuts back ahead of the Italian to keep the position. The stewards have duly noted that, but it looked fairly clear Alonso gained a place off the track.
Hamilton's brought the gap down again to 5.6s, but the two front-runners matched each other on that previous lap - so not too much progress as it stands.
Bottas is on the move! After a couple of laps stuck behind Tsunoda he gets by with a switchback move to claim eighth place. He is now 14 seconds behind Norris in front of him, so it could be a long afternoon for the Finn.
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And there's Stroll into the pits a lap later, as he returns to the action in P15 behind team-mate Vettel. The earlier flashpoint between Alonso and Raikkonen has been deemed not worthy of a stewards investigation.
Hamilton's brought the gap at the front down to 6s now, slowly chipping away at Verstappen. But it's advantage Red Bull - and significantly so at the moment.
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Vettel has pitted on lap 18 and comes back out in P14 behind Russell. Just Stroll yet to pit now.
That elderly statesman battle between Alonso and Raikkonen at Turn 1 has been noted by the stewards. Raikkonen still has the position for now.
Alonso and Raikkonen go wheel-to-wheel around Turn 1 and rub bodywork in a fight for 13th place. The Finn goes around the outside of Alonso who has been quick on the radio to say he overtook him off the track.
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Bottas now makes a stop from fifth, swapping his mediums for the hard compound. That's dropped him to 11th - leaving him a position worse off than before the pit phase began.
Mechanical problem
"There's a problem, a problem at the back," Gasly says over his team radio. The AlphaTauri driver confirms it is a suspension issue, something rather major has broken by the looks of it, which means his race is over.
It's a 6.5s lead for Verstappen after that pit phase, as Red Bull conducts the undercut nicely.
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Hamilton now comes in, so he'll presumably come out behind Verstappen.
The Aston Martin pair and Bottas are going long on the first stint, with everyone else, bar Hamilton in the lead, having pitted.
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"We should force Hamilton to go long with Checo," Verstappen says. Bit late, as Perez gets the call to pit - as the Red Bull driver gets another set of mediums.
Ricciardo and Sainz elect to stop, swapping their respective mediums and softs for the hard tyre. Sainz remains ahead of Norris, who was a bit held up by an Aston Martin.
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