Ashley Norris:, external This radio ban is utterly ridiculous too. What a moronic rule.

Richard:, external I watch F1 to see late braking overtakes & wheel to wheel action. Whether the driver fully understands every setting is not exciting.

Ricciardo, who started second, has clawed himself up to seventh with a slick move past Hulkenberg down the straight and some late braking into Turn One.

It is a tough day for the Ferrari mechanics, dealing with a very unhappy Kimi Raikkonen.

The latest team radio exchange - 

Raikkonen: "Is it the handling? Is it the same as the last race."

Ferrari: "I can't answer Kimi, I can't answer I'm sorry."

Raikkonen: "For sure you can say 'yes' or 'no'."

Ferrari: "I can't Kimi, I can't."

Perez has closed the gap on third-placed Raikkonen to less than two seconds. The Mexican has a podium place in his sights...

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Mercedes: "Lewis, you are the fastest car on the track, nine laps remaining."

Hamilton: "I've got power back."

James Morgan:, external Incredible persistence & ability from Hamilton to hold position & still work on settings to such an extent.

Kimi is furious because he can't receive an instruction on the radio. When is Kimi not furious?

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Turn One has proven the most fruitful for overtakes - and Verstappen goes past Massa on the inside to go into P9,

Funny race this - if you look back, there's been plenty of overtaking. But the overall excitement has not matched the numbers.

The race for third is interesting.

Raikkonen occupies P3, but as far as I can recall, has not taken his five-second penalty. Perez is 2.6 seconds behind.

That could prove tasty.

He is told: "OK Fernando, we can see the problem getting worse. We need you to box this lap."

Hamilton has managed to enter the correct combo of buttons on his steering wheel. 

Maybe he forgot his password - I do that all the time.

Well, here's a watered-down version of what Kimi Raikkonen has just been saying to his Ferrari team, after his frustration at not being able to get past a slower car.

Raikkonen: "Where is the blue flag?"

Ferrari: "We are on it, Kimi, there's nothing we can do with him."

Raikkonen: "I've been following the whole lap."

Ferrari: "We're on it, we've complained."

Has Hamilton found the right button to push?

He's set the fastest first sector. He's in P5 and 14 seconds behind Perez.

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Forget what I said about Alonso having a nibble at Nasr. The Spaniard is having issues with Gutierrez from behind.

Gutierrez goes past, Alonso regains at Turn Two but then relinquishes again moments later.

Button out-performing his McLaren team-mate.

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Turn One and it's Wehrlein who is in the run-off area.

"I have no brakes any more," he says on the radio.

The McLarens are getting a wriggle on. Jenson Button gets one over on team-mate Fernando Alonso and then slips past Nasr into P12.

Alonso will have a go too.

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Sumit Jain:, external If Hamilton spent more time doing homework with his engineers than flying off to Milan every weekend he'd know the car's technicals.

Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer

How do we interpret these messages between Hamilton and Mercedes? We don’t know if a) the car is in the wrong setting; or b) there is a setting that has a problem within it. And if it’s a) if Hamilton has not put it there - which seems to be the case - how has it ended up in the wrong setting?

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Some great exchanges between Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes mechanics. Here's some of what they said.

Hamilton: "This is ridiculous guys, I don't know. I'm looking at my fricking dash every five seconds trying to find a switch in the wrong position. I've not changed anything or done anything wrong that I'm aware of."

Mercedes: "There is nothing you are doing wrong, just a setting that is incorrect."

Hamilton: "In HTB?"

Mercedes: "I'm afraid I can't say."

Hamilton: "I might not finish this race as I'm going to try and change everything."

Mercedes: "We do not advise that Lewis."

Hamilton: "Can I make suggestions and you say if it's OK or not?"

Mercedes: "No, that's not allowed. Let's just got our heads down and focus on the job."

Rosberg's lead on Vettel has bobbed around the 18-second mark for some time now.

There are 13 laps for that to change.

They are followed by Raikkonen, Perez and Hamilton.