German GP: Latest news from Hockenheim

Lap 2: Top six: Hakkinen (McLaren), Salo, David Coulthard (McLaren), Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Jordan), Rubens Barrichello (Stewart) and Eddie Irvine (Ferrari). Marc Gene goes off and loses position.

Lap 3: Barrichello takes Frentzen to move up to fourth. The Brazilian closing on Coulthard.

Lap 4: Mika Hakkinen pulling away from Mika Salo. Coulthard right behind Salo.

Lap 5: Coulthard tries to overtake Salo. Ninth-placed Damon Hill (Jordan), goes off track.
Hakkinen nearly two seconds ahead of Salo.

Lap 6: Eddie Irvine dropping back, six seconds behind Hakkinen. Barrichello slows down to cruising speed and pits.

Lap 7: Rubens Barrichello retires with mechanical trouble. Ralf Schumacher inherits sixth position.

Lap 8: Giancarlo Fisichella retires with broken front suspension.

Lap 9: Mika Hakkinen more than four seconds ahead of Salo. Coulthard loses part of his front wing after nudging Salo. The McLaren mechanics prepare to repair damaged car.

Lap 10: Coulthard pits for new nose cone. Re-joins race in 11th place.

Lap 11: Top six: Hakkinen, Salo, Frentzen, Irvine, Schumacher and Wurz. Jarno Trulli's Prost goes off with engine trouble. Hakkinen stretches lead to 5.782s.

Lap 12: Hill goes straight on at Ostkurve. He loses position to Panis and Coulthard. Johnny Herbert ahead of Panis in eighth.

Lap 13: Irvine right up behind Frentzen. Damon Hill pits and retires.

Lap 14: Coulthard (ninth) struggling to overtake Panis.

Lap 15: Zonta in pits. Coulthard outbrakes Panis at the chicane to overtake the Frenchman.

Lap 16: Alesi pits for new tyres.

Lap 17: Tora Takagi retires with a blown engine.

Lap 18: Frentzen closing on Salo. Eddie Irvine still close behind the Jordan. Coulthard swarming all over Johnny Herbert's Stewart.

Lap 19: Olivier Panis pits for new tyres. Johnny Herbert, who started 17th on the grid, takes Alex Wurz to move into sixth. Wurz remains ahead of Coulthard.

Lap 20: Coulthard overtakes Wurz to move up to seventh.

Lap 21: Pedro de la Rosa (Arrows) and Luca Badoer (Minardi) overtake Alex Zanardi (Williams).

Lap 22: Irvine getting nearer to Frentzen. The Jordan pits for tyres and fuel (10.5s).

Lap 23: Ricardo Zonta retires his BAR. Irvine in pits. He exits the pit-lane in front of Frentzen.

Lap 24: Both Johnny Herbert and Mika Hakkinen pit.
Hakkinen's mechanics have problem with fuel rig, delaying the pit-stop.

Mika Salo leads, followed by Irvine.

David Coulthard gets stop-go penalty.

Lap 25: Hakkinen overtakes Frentzen. Hill blames retirement on brake trouble.

Lap 26: Mika Hakkinen crashes into tyre barrier after spinning.

Lap 29: Eddie Irvine takes lead. Frentzen catching Salo. Ralf Schumacher in fourth place, Panis fifth, Coulthard sixth.

Lap 30: Irivne stretches lead to 1.129s.

Lap 31: Irvine 4.6s ahead of third-placed Frentzen.

Lap 32: Top six: Irvine, Salo, Frentzen, Schumacher, Coulthard and Herbert.

Lap 35: Panis takes Wurz on outside of chicane to take seventh. David Coulthard closing on Schumacher.

Lap 36: Frentzen still 4.5s behind Irvine. Schumacher catching Frentzen.

Lap 37: Panis catching Herbert. Pedro de la Rosa crashes out. Driver unharmed.

Lap 38: McLaren mechanics preparing to bring in Coulthard for 'splash and dash' fuel stop. Hebert and Panis move up to fifth and sixth. Wurz challenges Coulthard for seventh.

Lap 40: Johnny Herbert cruising and out of the race. Coulthard moves up to fifth after overtaking Panis.

Lap 41: Irvine maintains lead over Salo and Frentzen. Irvine's lead reduced to one second.

Lap 42: David Coulthard sets fastest lap (1.45.827) of the race.

Lap 43: Coulthard goes quickest again, by recording a 1.45.270.

Lap 44: Top six: Irvine, Salo, Frentzen, Schumacher, Coulthard and Panis.

Lap 45: Irvine wins German GP.