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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:39 pm
by Ed
Piquet pits from 3rd and rejoins behind Raikkonen

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:41 pm
by Ed
Order on lap 26: Massa, Hamilton, Kovalainen, Glock, Coulthard (yet to stop), Alonso, Raikkonen and Piquet.

Retirements: Vettel.

Coulthard is still out and is running the softer compound!

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:43 pm
by Ed
Massa leads Hamilton by 3.1 seconds on lap 28. Kovalainen is a further 9.6 behind

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:44 pm
by Ed
Coulthard pits from 5th

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:47 pm
by Ed
Coulthard rejoins in 13th.

Webber who was 8th has dropped to 10th and Kubica who was 5th has dropped to 9th. Both were lighter than those closest to them

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:48 pm
by Ed
Hamilton at this stage is dropping a few tenths every lap. Gap to Massa up to 4 seconds now

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:50 pm
by Ed
Bourdais pits and a small fire is extinguished. Nakajima and Barrichello have similar incidents!

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:51 pm
by Ed
Lap 34 and Heidfeld who is in 11th is the only driver yet to make a stop

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:55 pm
by Ed
Order on lap 35 (halfpoint): Massa, Hamilton, Kovalainen, Glock, Alonso, Raikkonen, Piquet and Trulli.

Retirements: Vettel

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:55 pm
by Ed
On replay, Glock's stop was long due to a refuelling problem and not a lot of fuel going in!

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:57 pm
by Ed
Hamilton closed the gap to 3.7 seconds but Massa responded and the gap now is 4.7 seconds!

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:58 pm
by Ed
Kovalainen is 16.8 seconds behind Hamilton!

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:59 pm
by Ed
A slow 1st sector from Hamilton!

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:00 pm
by Ed
Hamilton has a puncture!

Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:00 pm
by Ed
He manages to get back to the pits!