Here's Jolyon Palmer leaving his Renault after retiring.

Mercedes are busy on the team radio today. In their latest message to Lewis Hamilton, they say: "Make you sure you keep these tyres in good shape. We can get you behind Nico with strategy."

And Hamilton has gobbled Bottas up for dinner.

The world champion comes out of the final turn at Parabolica and has the outside line going into the home straight and uses the power of the Mercedes to float beyond the Williams.

Hamilton into fourth.

Before thinking about the Ferraris, Hamilton has Bottas to get past. He's giving it a good go but strong defence from the fourh-placed Williams.

That's Jolyon Palmer that F1 tweet refers to.

And the Briton has in fact come back in again and will retire.

It's a waiting game for Lewis Hamilton now. His soft tyres will last longer than the super-softs of Raikkonen and Vettel and when they swing into the pits, he can slip into second.

Mercedes tell Lewis Hamilton: "OK, good job in looking after the tyres. We need to avoid the locks and be in good shape in five laps' time."

Jenson Button, without a care in the world, sweeps past Esteban Gutierrez and Marcus Ericsson to climb to P16.

Kimi Raikkonen, after reporting some vibrations, is told to hold off to cool the car down.

His response is along the lines of: "Why on earth would I care to do that, good sir?"

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Felipe Nasr's race is over after taking damage to his car floor. Palmer is back out with a new front wing.

"I am getting vibrations under braking," Kimi Raikkonen, in third, tells his Ferrari team.

Lewis Hamilton is told: "Three cars ahead are on super soft tyres. They will be quick for a couple of laps and then degrade."

Jolyon Palmer lost his front wing in that collision with Felipe Nasr.

Benedict Salido: Waiting for comments saying Nico cannot get ahead of Hamilton when wheel to wheel and through pit stops only.

Nigel Hoskins: What you doing Lewis? Poor start. Got a race on our hands now. 50 laps to catch Rosberg. 

Denislov Lietnev: Why does Hamilton always make life hard for himself in the championship battle!

Watching a replay of Mercedes boss Toto Wolff's response to that start - you don't need to be a lip-reader to know he wasn't happy.

Such an odd start from Hamilton. He just went in slow motion at lights out and dropped to fifth and, with Ricciardo on the inside going in to the first turn, he was immediately down to sixth.

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Hamilton is now all over he back of Bottas as he tries to crawl back up the order and get into third.

Golfer Ian Poulter is cheering on the Ferraris today.