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Lap 16: Great stuff from Alonso though as he takes over a nett second place once the stops shake out.
Lap 16: Bottas pits the Williams from 17th place. He takes on hard tyres and loses two positions.
Lap 16: Hamilton is slow out of La Source and Alonso gets past... can that be reversed on DRS? No, but Alonso survives a mighty slide there.
Lap 16: Raikkonen heads in as well, with Button taking over a temporary lead.
Lap 16: Medium rubber for Vettel and he's away after a quick Red Bull stop.
Lap 15: Rosberg is seventh after his stop with Webber eighth, Ricciardo yet to stop in ninth and Gutierrez 10th.
Lap 15: That's cost Hamilton some time, giving Vettel a bigger lead margin as he takes to the pits.
Lap 15: Hamilton finally gets the job done on DRS, quickly followed through by Alonso.
Lap 15: Alonso resumes in sixth, just behind that scrap between Grosjean and Hamilton.
Lap 14: Alonso and Webber are the next customers in the pitlane.
Lap 14: A fired up Grosjean doesn't accept that one and retakes Hamilton up the Kemmel straight into Les Combes. This a battle for seventh now.
Lap 14: Medium rubber again for Rosberg and he's away in clear air.
Lap 13: Hamilton has rejoined in ninth after his stop. He is briefly trapped up behind Grosjean but quickly dispatches the Frenchman at the final chicane.
Lap 13: Rosberg is next to head in for a pitstop.
Lap 13: Sutil rejoins in 16th position, just behind Hulkenberg, while Maldonado comes out in 19th spot.
Lap 13: Sutil and Maldonado pit this time round, as Massa posts the fastest lap of the race so far with 1m54.244s.
Lap 12: More medium compound rubber for Hamilton, on what looks like a two-stop plan.
Lap 12: Sergio Perez has been handed a drive-through penalty for forcing (in the opinion of the stewards) Grosjean off the circuit.
Lap 12: Hamilton dives in for his first pitstop.
Lap 12: Vergne has also pitted the Toro Rosso. He takes on another set of mediums and has rejoined the race in 19th.
Lap 12: Rosberg is managing to hold off Webber for the moment, despite the effective DRS zone, with Button now catching that pair.
Lap 12: Di Resta is into the pits and takes on hard tyres. He rejoins the action down in 15th position.
Lap 11: Charles Pic has pulled into the pits and has retired from the race.
Lap 11: Massa has gained track position there and he rejoins in 17th position, with Hulkenberg now in 18th spot.
Lap 11: Meanwhile up front, Vettel holds a comfortable 4.3 second lead over Hamilton, with Alonso a further 2.8 seconds behind.
Lap 11: Hulkenberg and Massa pit together, but there is confusion as the former is slow leaving the box and they almost touch exiting the lane.
Lap 10: The question is whether Perez is judged to have forced Grosjean off the circuit as they were braking for Les Combes. We will soon find out what the stewards decide.
Lap 10: The incident involving Perez and Grosjean is being investigated by the stewards.
Lap 10: Raikkonen now moves to the inside of the Sauber driver up the Kemmel straight and he surges through and up to eighth spot.
Lap 10: There's Webber vs Rosberg but the Mercedes holds off the Red Bull this time in the very effective DRS zone at the top of the hill.
Lap 9: Hulkenberg is now under attack from Kimi Raikkonen, as a battle for eighth place develops.
Lap 9: So Perez is into the points in 10th, with Massa easily up to 11th and Grosjean resumes in 12th spot.
Lap 9: Grosjean makes a move to defend 10th from Perez but it does not work approaching Les Combes. He runs wide, losing two places.
Lap 9: Webber is beginning to close on Rosberg and it won't be long before he gets into DRS range of the Mercedes.
Lap 8: An enormous amount of brake dust already coming from the fronts of Raikkonen's Lotus. Still another 36 laps to go for the Finn.
Lap 8: Di Resta is now 2.8s behind Button (sixth) and continuing to drop back. Hulkenberg and the Lotus pair are being held up slightly.
Lap 7: Alonso, third, now sets his best lap of the race, closing to three seconds behind Hamilton.
Lap 7: Van der Garde has lost four places in the last couple of laps. He now runs in 19th spot ahead of Bianchi, Pic and Chilton.
Lap 7: Perez remains in 11th with Massa 12th, Sutil 13th, Maldonado 14th, Vergne 15th, Ricciardo 16th, Gutierrez 17th and Bottas 18th.
Lap 6: Alonso is now on the case of Rosberg's Mercedes... and is comfortably past with the aid of DRS, putting him third and Rosberg down to fourth
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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