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Looks like the front wing on Ricciardo's car has simply failed. And it's cut the front-right-right tyre as well.
JONATHAN NOBLE: What a shame for Ricciardo. It looks like a race with no points despite another strong weekend performance wise.
Rosberg has been chipping away at Hamilton's lead a bit of late. Gap now 10.9s. Thirteen laps left.
Things have gone from bad to worse for Ricciardo. His front wing is destroyed.
Smooth stop for Alonso.
But Alonso will fall behind Hulkenberg, who doesn't have to pit again if he can make his current hard tyres last to the end.
JONATHAN NOBLE: Teams can take no risks when it comes to releasing a car on to the track with loose wheels - as there is the chance of a big penalty when it happens.
Red Bull realised quickly that something had gone wrong, but by then Ricciardo was on his way.
Red Bull realised quickly that something had gone wrong, but by then Ricciardo was on his way.
Fourth place now in his hands, Alonso is ordered to make his final stop.
Red Bull will now be investigated for an "unsafe release".
Red Bull tightens the wheel and Ricciardo rejoins, but he is a full lap behind former adversary Alonso now.
Ricciardo spotted the problem immediately, shouting "my front's not on" down the radio.
It appears Ricciardo's left front wheel wasn't fully attached.
Disaster for Ricciardo, who is being dragged back down the pitlane by his team.
Ricciardo was sent out too early and is ordered to stop in the pitlane.
Problem with the front left tyre for Ricciardo!
Ricciardo comes in for his third and final stop. He'll take hards now.
Rosberg laps just 0.019s shy of Vettel's current fastest race lap mark with a 1m44.796s.
Magnussen makes his last stop.
Vettel tells engineer 'Rocky' not to mumble... "Speak up when you're talking"
BEN ANDERSON: Vettel's report of Rosberg losing oil or water from the back of his Mercedes might be symptomatic of a minor engine issue that could be holding Rosberg back in this race and preventing him carrying the fight to team-mate Hamilton, who is 11 seconds up the road.
Massa is closing in on Button in seventh place. Gap is currently under a second.
Rosberg is six tenths faster than Hamilton, bringing the gap down to 11.2s and getting his lead over Vettel to a safer two seconds.
Hulkenberg is lapping faster than both Ricciardo and Alonso too, but is 10.5s behind.
A possibly concerned Ricciardo asks his team what tyre Alonso is using.
"Sebastian, we have to use second gear in Turns 1, 2 and 9," asks Red Bull.
Hamilton's lead over Rosberg is 11.8s with 19 laps to go.
Alonso does his best lap of the race and takes a half-second off Ricciardo for fourth. Gap now 1.5s.
Vettel suggests over the radio that Rosberg's car is losing "either oil or water".
Gutierrez switches off in pitlane. Seems like he's not going anywhere. Could be that both Saubers are soon to be out of the race.
Alonso has stayed in touch with Ricciardo better on the hard tyres so far. The gap is 2.0s in the battle for fourth.
Mercedes tells Hamilton he needs to "take care and lose half a second" in the final sector to show he's acknowledging the yellows for Sutil's stranded car.
Rain
Hamilton reports "some very small drops of rain on my visor" out of Turn 9.
BEN ANDERSON: If the rain Raikkonen reports intensifies it will scupper Hulkenberg's gamble on a two stop strategy. He'll be praying for it to hold off I should imagine.
"Fuel is OK, just hit the beeps" is Red Bull's instruction to Ricciardo.
Hamilton's lead is up to 11.7s, and Rosberg does his best lap of the day so far to get the Vettel cushion to one second.
Raikkonen reports that it's raining a little bit at the back of the circuit.
Vettel has the gap to Rosberg down to 0.5s.
Hulkenberg pits and takes on hards. Can he get to the end on two stops?
Adrian Sutil's Sauber is parked just after the exit of the last corner.
The Red Bull is now within DRS range of the Mercedes for second.
By: Scott Mitchell, Andrew van Leeuwen, Ben Anderson, Edd Straw, Jonathan Noble, Charles Bradley, Pablo Elizalde
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