Hungarian Grand Prix race day

16:53

16:25 Verstappen has been off the road at Turn 11 with a snap of oversteer. He's been pushing on, and is now 6.7s behind Bottas, who is closing back up to Hamilton.

16:24 Ferrari - for its (drivers') world championship hopes - seems to have decided that it wants to gamble on Hamilton not being able to get close enough to pass, and therefore Raikkonen is going to be left stuck in between the title rivals.

16:23 Raikkonen locks up into Turn 1, trying to put more pressure on Vettel.

16:16 Bottas is told to stay close to Hamilton (he's 3.7s back) so the team can switch the cars back if they need to.

16:16 Hulkenberg is right up with Magnussen for 11th as he tries to recover from that slow pitstop, and has much fresher tyres.

16:16 2.5 seconds cover the top three - Vettel, Raikkonen, Hamilton.

16:15

16:15 Vettel matches Hamilton's 1m21.6s that time around. Raikkonen is now just 1.0s behind his team-mate, and 1.3s ahead of Hamilton.

16:14 "Vettel has been told to push - stay with him," Raikkonen is assured.

16:08 "This radio sucks - my last tyres were perfect, I could have kept going," says Hamilton, who says he has pace. Mercedes says "we are managing it", and Hamilton offers to let Bottas back through if he is allowed to attack the Ferraris.

16:07 Alonso and Sainz have both made it past Palmer and his worn tyres into seventh and eighth.

16:07 Battle brewing in the midfield with Kvyat now on super-softs and rapidly catching soft-shod Magnussen for 13th.

16:06 Lap 43/70:
1 Vettel; 2 Raikkonen +1.5s; 3 Bottas + 2.9s; 4 Hamilton +4.3s

16:06 Vandoorne makes his pitstop. He rejoins behind both Force Indias in 12th so has lost a place through that long-run strategy.

16:05

16:05 Verstappen pits, and serves his 10-second penalty. He rejoins a lonely fifth, 17 seconds behind Hamilton.

16:05 Di Resta has caught Wehrlein for 17th. Wehrlein has already made a second pitstop, but Ericsson ahead has not and should drop behind both.

16:05 Raikkonen is 1.8s adrift of Vettel now, seemingly trying to protect his tyres by not getting too close. The problem is he has a lot of silver in his mirrors now.

16:04 On his fresh softs, Alonso has caught Palmer and his very old super-softs for eighth.

16:04

15:41 While Vettel deals with that problem, Raikkonen is now inside two seconds for the first time since Vettel blasted clear after the restart.

15:41 Hulkenberg has closed to within DRS range of 10th-placed Ocon.

15:41 "Check the steering, it's hanging to the left," says Vettel. "It's getting worse."

15:40 "Ideally we'd like to close the gap to the cars ahead - we just need to keep the tyres in shape," Bottas is told. "That's a tricky combo," he points out. Mercedes adds that it is looking at extending the stint compared to the original target.

15:40

15:40 The gap between Sainz in sixth and Alonso in seventh has come down to 1.6s.

15:40 Di Resta is running 16th, 8.9s behind team-mate Stroll ahead, and 3s clear of the Saubers.

15:39

15:39 Raikkonen is making gentle progress, Bottas less so. He's still six seconds behind his fellow Finn, yet to be close enough to be of concern to the Ferrari pit wall.

15:39 Hulkenberg has got the gap to 10th-placed Ocon down to 1.1s and is half a second per lap faster right now.

15:38 "We have more pace than Palmer, we can do it," Haas tells Magnussen, who is 5.9s behind the Renault in 13th.

15:38 Grosjean now pulls over and parks. Haas will be at risk of a penalty for an unsafe release as the car had that cross-threaded wheelnut.

15:37 Haas asks Grosjean if he can feel anything loose.

15:37

15:37 Grosjean is now told to slow as Haas says he has a crossed wheelnut.

15:36 With Palmer having let him through, Hulkenberg is now closing in on Ocon for 10th.

15:28 The gap between Vettel and Raikkonen has stabilised at three seconds, which the leader will surely be comfortable with.

15:28 That Alonso/Sainz incident is now "under investigation" by the stewards.

15:27 A replay shows the Alonso/Sainz incident - they made contact as Alonso tried the outside at the restart, rubbing wheels and sending Alonso wide.