McLaren driver Fernando Alonso, on his crash with Kimi Raikkonen on lap one: "It was obviously quite scary. The start was very good. Kimi had a lot of wheel spin out of turn two. We were overtaking him and he lost the car on the left. I was on the left. I could not see anything. I looked in the mirror and saw a car under my car. I jumped quickly to see he was OK. I saw he was so was happy."

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Some 39,000 tweets on the hashtag #AustrianGP have filtered through in the last three hours but unsurprisingly it was the Alonso-Raikkonen crash on lap one that prompted a spike in social media activity.

This image has been retweeted over 1,600 times.

It's a cracker to be fair. I think this is the third time we've used it.

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The race for victory looks settled with Hamilton's five-second penalty rather scuppering that one, so the battle for third is taking on greater importance.

It's a good one too. The Williams of Massa is the incumbent at present, but the Ferrari of Vettel - who lost the position at a slow pit stop - is closing in.

The gap is 2.4sec and this could be a duel to the flag.

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Pastor Maldonado and Daniel Ricciardo have just had a nice duel for eighth place, the dice starting at the back end of lap 50 and continuing into the first turns of the next, the Lotus eventually getting the job done into turn two.

"Good job, Pastor," comes the message from the team on the radio.

At the end of the 51st lap, Ricciardo comes in for his stop, serving his five-second penalty as he does so.

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Sergio Perez of Force India takes 10th from the Sauber of Felipe Nasr.

Team to Nico Rosberg: "The debris has been dislodged - aero balance should be back to normal."

Not sure of the source of that little drama, but his lap times did not seem to suffer.

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Sean Harrison: Apart from Q3 yesterday, this has been a scruffy weekend from Hamilton.

Steve Bradley: Petty rules & penalties utterly ruining F1. Fans want to see men racing. What next? 500 lines and detentions?

Chris Miller: Wonder who Lewis will blame for his error this week?

Ben Edwards
BBC F1 commentator

"Vettel, trying to close that gap on Massa in third after his awful pit stop, is picking up some pace and was the quickest driver in the middle sector on that last lap."

Just four seconds separate them in the battle for the final podium place.

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1 Rosberg, 2 Hamilton (+6.012), 3 Massa, 4 Vettel, 5 Bottas, 6 Hulkenberg, 7 Verstappen, 8 Ricciardo, 9 Kvyat, 10 Nasr

Daniel Ricciardo is up to eighth in the Red Bull - but that position flatters him as he is the only man yet to make a stop today, 44 laps into this race.

Team to Lewis Hamilton: "Lewis, we have a penalty for crossing the white line on pit exit."

David Coulthard
BBC F1 co-commentator

"If he now wants to win the Grand Prix he need stop be five seconds further up the track than Rosberg. That seems unlikely.

"I wonder then if Mercedes, in the interest of reliability, have both of their cars turned down."

Hamilton will indeed get a penalty for crossing the line on pit exit. Five seconds will be added to his race time.

Allan McNish
BBC Radio 5 live analyst

"They are dropping like flies now."

We've lost two more cars in the last few minutes.

Carlos Sainz has lost power in the Toro Rosso and is out of his car.

Romain Grosjean, likewise, has pulled into the pits and hops out.

Six retirements. Practically unheard of these days.

Lewis Hamilton's afternoon could be about to get tougher. He's under investigation for crossing the white line at the pit exit.

Replays suggest he got a little loose coming out of the pits and just strayed over.

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Sebastian Vettel has just lost a huge amount of time in the pits with his Ferrari team encountering trouble with his right-rear at his pit stop. A sticking wheel gun.

He loses third to Massa.

David Coulthard
BBC F1 co-commentator

"Rosberg delivered the fastest lap of the Grand Prix. That was timed to perfection."

The German leads, reclaiming the lead as Hamilton left the pit lane.

Slower stop, 3.1secs stationary, he charges out of the pits but on the track Rosberg is comfortably through and back into the lead.

That wasn't even close. Rosberg did a quickest lap of the race on his new tyres - 1:11.2 - so he earned the luxury of that nice gap to his team-mate.

Rosberg has been very impressive today and this weekend.

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Will Stevens on Twitter:, external Well that's a shame! Was looking forward to that race as was going to be a good one! Hopefully more luck in Silverstone!!