Postpublished at 16:01 British Summer Time 25 June 2017
Bottas has closed to within 3.8s of Stroll/
Ricciardo wins from 10th on grid - Bottas 2nd, Stroll 3rd, Vettel 4th, Hamilton 5th
Hamilton forced to stop for new head rest when leading
Vettel given 10-second stop-go penalty for driving into Hamilton under safety car
Bottas snatches 2nd from Stroll on run to chequered flag
Three safety car periods after multiple collisions in chaotic race
Vettel extends championship lead to 14 points
Jamie Strickland
Bottas has closed to within 3.8s of Stroll/
Hamilton brazenly suggests to his team that Bottas should slow and back Vettel into him.
He gets short shrift, as you might expect.
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Ricciardo leads by 5.7s from Stroll, who is 6.6s ahead of Bottas.
Then it's Vettel, Hamilton, Ocon, Magnussen, Sainz, Alonso, Wehrlein.
"This is brilliant stuff. Very good job," Red Bull's race leader Ricciardo is told...
Bottas is closing in on second-placed Stroll and posting fastest laps.
yet Stroll is nine seconds up the road with seven laps remaining. I think the Canadian can hold on to this.
It's been a superb effort by Lance Stroll in just his eighth grand prix.
Ocon has been gobbled up again. He's down to sixth as Hamilton blast past in hot pursuit of a German in red.
Two seconds separate the title rivals.
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Chris Johnson: A loose headrest? If Hamilton didn't have bad luck he'd have no luck at all.
Rob Barrow: So Hamilton is allowed to break test and not get a penalty? Hmmm
Denislov Lietnev: This race has more drama than a soap opera
"Checo if your seat is broken, we will want to retire the car."
"Yes, it is pretty broken..." he replies.
"Right, then we are not happy. Cool the brakes and box box...." comes the instruction.
That's Perez's race over.
The Ferrari blasts past Ocon and now Hamilton is lining up the Force India.
Ricciardo leads by leads by five seconds from Stroll, then it's Bottas, Ocon, Vettel, Hamilton, Magnussen, Alonso, Sainz and Wehrlein rounding out the top 10.
He's needed help from myriad safety cars but this is one hell of a comeback drive by Valtteri Bottas.
He's gone from 20th and lapped to third place with a pass on Ocon's Force India.
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The Saubers have been fairly anonymous in all of this drama and they are not going to stand for any of that.
In a bid to spice up their afternoons Ericsson and Wehrlein have just collided on track as they battle for 10th.
Good to have you along, chaps.
"What a shame. We could have won this race," says McLaren's Fernando Alonso.
Yes you could.
And so could I had life worked out differently.