Lewis Hamilton, pushing the limits, gets it all wrong at a chicane and has to cut across the corner. That's more time lost on Nico.

His team tell him he is "not in safety car" distance - which basically means get a shifty on.

He's also told to be careful with the lock ups.

Tom Clarkson
BBC Radio 5 live commentator

The problem you have around this track is that although both Mercedes are on the mediums, you still have to manage it, you can't go flat out and it is difficult to cool the tyres here.

What we have seen from Lewis Hamilton is him having to back off and I think he has too much to do to generally battle Rosberg for the lead of this grand prix.

Nico Rosberg is looking very untroubled for the second week running. He has almost 11 seconds on Lewis Hamilton who is lapping about 0.3secs quicker, but that is nowhere near enough with 13 laps to go.

Fissuh Hailu: C'mon Hamilton! Hammer it please.

PhilSlocombe: Lewis needs to keep pushing to draw a mistake from Nico, probably while he is trying to cope with traffic.

Ricciardo does come in now to change tyres. He selects a set of super-softs from the rack and comes out in sixth. That restores Vettel to third and Raikkonen to fourth.

Daniil Kvyat gets a five-second penalty for speeding n the pit-lane.

Fernando Alonso may well be on Plan A, Plan B or Plan C. McLaren's Twitter account thinks it is the middle one.

Verstappen pits, allowing Raikkonen to climb up to fifth. Both Ferraris have Ricciardo still in front of them in third after their own stops.

The Australian will need to pit soon.

"Some good clean laps now."

He will be trying.

Daniil Kvyat is being investigated for speeding in the pit-lane.

I didn't think life could get any more miserable for Kvyat.

At the top of the race Rosberg leads Hamilton by 11.5 seconds.

Neither of them should need to stop again.

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Whatever the plan was, Alonso came into the pits to instigate it.

Cryptic from Fernando Alonso. His team tell him he should be going for 'Plan A', he responds and says: "I don't know what you mean. The question is to go to Plan B or Plan C."

Raikkonen is in the pits now and he's coming out among traffic. 

He's emerged behind Verstappen, who must pit again, in sixth.

Like Vettel, the Finn is on soft tyres.

Tom Clarkson
BBC Radio 5 live commentator

Lewis Hamilton is driving an absolute blinder and there is every chance he can end up on the gearbox of his team-mate but what is going to be difficult is to overtake someone in exactly the same car here.

Here he comes back out on soft tyres ahead of Verstappen in fifth.

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Vettel pits...

Bottas is told by Williams it is essential he gets past Hulkenberg and he does just that. Up to P8 and the cars immediately in front of him need to stop.

Mark Gallagher
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

Lewis Hamilton does like a challenge and he certainly got one today.