Summary

  • Vettel wins, Hamilton out after losing power

  • Ricciardo 2nd, Raikkonen 3rd, Rosberg 4th

  • Member of crowd walks on to circuit

  • Verstappen refuses to obey team orders

  • Button and Maldonado collide - bodywork just misses Sainz

  • Massa and Hulkenberg crash

  • Hulkenberg, Massa, Hamilton, Alonso, Button out

Live Reporting

Gary Rose

  1. Safety car

    Now the real safety car is deployed and marshals armed with brooms head out to sweep up debris where Felipe Massa and Nico Hulkenberg collided.

  3. Team radio

    Engineer to Nico Rosberg: "Okay, Nico so it's looking good. We are the second car on primes. Lewis is on primes. Everyone else on options."

  4. Those towards the front of the field take the opportunity to pit, all slapping on a fresh set of supersofts except for Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, who have switched to softs.

  5. Tom Clarkson
    BBC F1 pit-lane reporter

    "Traditionally it's been when the two and three-stop strategies converge that we've had safety cars in this race."

  6. David Coulthard
    BBC F1 co-commentator

    "I don't know what Massa could have done differently. Nico Hulkenberg would have had sight of Massa."

  7. Safety car

    CONTACT! 

    Felipe Massa is coming out on to the circuit after his pitstop and Nico Hulkenberg slams straight into the side of the Williams, with the latter shunted into the barrier.

    Virtual Safety Car conditions now.

  8. Carlos Sainz is snapping and snarling on the rear of Fernando Alonso's McLaren, trying to pounce and claim P13. Alonso holds him off for now, though.

    Daniil Kvyat is the first of the front runners to make his first stop, pitting from fourth to take on another set of supersofts.

  9. Tension at Force India

  11. Jenson Button reported over team radio that he was struggling with the tyres and McLaren call in Fernando Alonso to change to soft tyres.

    The Spaniard is not the only one to head in as Carlos Sainz follows suit soon after. Alonso is back out in 13th, with Sainz behind him.

  12. Lap 10 and we have the first of our pit stops as Romain Grosjean heads in to bolt on the soft tyres - the harder of the two compounds in Singapore. He is back out in 17th.

  13. Red Bull playing the long game?

    David Coulthard
    BBC F1 co-commentator

    "Interestingly, Vettel was slower by three-tenths last time around than Ricciardo. Red Bull's hope this afternoon is that they can go longer on the tyres and two-stop while Ferrari have to three-stop."

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  15. Get involved - #bbcf1

    Malav Sutaria : Who said it is going to be cracking race..?? Vettel or Hamilton, same story at the front and no wheel to wheel racing..!!

    Stephen:  This better not become Singabore

  16. McLaren team radio

    Jenson Button

    The rears are overheating under braking.

  17. Jenson Button started in 15th, but has lost a place to Marcus Ericsson. Meanwhile, Sebastian Vettel is building his advantage at the front and is now 5.3s ahead of his former team-mate Daniel Ricciardo.

  18. Jennie Gow
    BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter

    "Lewis Hamilton team have been on the radio, telling him to maintain the gap and they will know when to pick it up. At the moment things are going to plan for him."

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  20. Lewis Hamilton is currently two seconds down the road from Daniil Kvyat but the world champion is around sixth tenths of a second quicker on his latest lap.