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A number of cars have sustained some damage

Massa spun off at the first turn and hit the wall but managed to recover and has pitted and changed his front wing.

A number of retirements: Webber, Davidson, Vettel and Fisichella

5 retirements now; Button is out also............


Hamilton leads from Kubica and Kovalainen.......

Button retires

Race restarts

Order on lap 3: Hamilton, Kubica, Kovalainen, Rosberg, Heidfeld, Trulli, Barrichello and Raikkonen

Alonso is in 10th, Massa in 17th

Raikkonen's living up to his moniker of the Iceman.........started P15, dodged the carbon fibre festival of lap 1 and is now in 8th at the moment; Hamilton still leads

Hamilton leads Kubica by 2.6 seconds on lap 5

Hamilton currently has fast lap of the race, a 1:28.513[6]

Order lap 7: Hamilton, Kubica (+4.3), Kovalainen, Rosberg, Heidfeld, Trulli, Barrichello, Raikkonen
Alonso 10th, Massa 17th

Retirements: Webber, Button, Davidson, Vettel, Fisichella

Hamilton resets fast lap to 1:28.442[7]

Top-8 at the moment(just passing lap 8]...........
Hamilton, Kubica, Kovalainen, Rosberg, Heidfeld, Trulli, Barrichello and Raikkonen

Raikkonen is right behind Barrichello but hasn't been able to pass him for the last couple of laps

Hamilton is pushing, he now leads by 7.6 seconds

Sutil retires

6 cars have retired so far

Massa up to 15th after passing Piquet

Hamilton currently holds fast lap of the race, 1:28.111[lap 9]

Barrichello still holding off Raikkonen for 7th; I was just thinking........isn't is funny that, on the one hand, Barrichello has a Ferrari chasing him.....on the other hand, former Ferrari engineer Ross Brawn now works for Honda......

.....and again, Hamilton resets fast lap, now 1:28.007[13]

Order lap 7: Hamilton, Kubica (+9.4), Kovalainen, Rosberg, Heidfeld, Trulli, Barrichello, Raikkonen
Alonso 10th, Massa 15th

Retirements: Sutil, Webber, Button, Davidson, Vettel, Fisichella