Bottas emerges in ninth and if his form the last time he pitted is anything to go by he should gobble up Hulkenberg in no time.

Perez makes the most of his fresh tyres too and slips past Fernando Alonso.

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Listen again to BBC Radio 5 live commentary as a frustrated Fernando Alonso is held up by a faulty traffic light in the pits.

It sounds like this: "Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep."

Sergio Perez is the first of the mid-field to trigger the next series of pit-stops and Valtteri Bottas follows suit.

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BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

Nico Rosberg has been gifted this race on a plate by Lewis Hamilton. It is such a shame for Hamilton, but a great opportunity for Rosberg.

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That traffic has bunched up the top four a tad.

There are 10 seconds between Rosberg and Hamilton, with Vettel and Raikkonen in between.

Race leader Nico Rosberg is told: "Get through the traffic as quickly as possible. Lewis is pushing."

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BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

They were risking a catastrophic failure. It is probably something in the power unit that would have been really costly. It was a tremendous performance for Wehrlein in qualifying and that will be very disappointing for Manor.

That was an urgent sounding message to Pascal Wehrlein and he does as he is told by pulling over, with a bit of smoke coming out of the car.

That's him out of the race.

"Stop the car and switch off when safe!" Manor tell Wehrlein.

"Stop immediately?"

"Stop immediately!"

There could be a fun battle between Bottas and Ricciardo for fifth. Bottas has the position at the moment but Ricciardo is eyeing a move.

Lewis Hamilton is eager to know what tyres the Ferraris are on.

He is told: "Both Ferarris have taken super soft again so they will have to stop."

It's medium tyres for Hamilton. He comes out in fourth, with both Ferraris getting the jump on him.

Vettel and Raikkonen are both on super-soft tyres though and will need another stop, while Hamilton should be able to go until the end on his mediums.

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And now it's Hamilton in the pits...

It's clean. He takes medium tyres to see him through until the end and emerges in second, with leader Hamilton still to pit.

And in comes Rosberg...

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Renault's Jolyon Palmer has been talking to BBC Radio 5 live and is not too impressed after his early collision with Sauber's Felipe Nasr, which caused the Briton's race to end prematurely.

"I had a good start but Nasr ran me off the road and we crashed, I can't explain why he did that," says Palmer.

"It was either go in the gravel or stay on the track and risk contact. We crashed a couple of times as team-mates in GP 2. He seems to be racing fairly, but we need to have racing room and he left me nothing.

"This weekend I out qualified my team-mate, I was driving well, and yesterday was good for me personally. I'm driving well and it didn't show here but it will in the future."

Rosberg is told to do two more laps on his current tyres by the Mercedes team.

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Is Hamilton closing the gap on leader Rosberg?

Yes.

Dramatically?

No.

The gap is around 12 seconds.

Fernando Alonso is channeling that anger on the track and he's gone past Carlos Sainz on the straight to take P12.

Bottas has not been putting boots on caterpillars since coming out of the pits. He's back up to fifth in no time, but Ricciardo is not far behind.