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Summary

Charging Ricciardo wins after Red Bull make crucial pit stop call
Verstappen hits Vettel trying to overtake him - Vettel 8th
Hamilton 4th after not making safety car pit stop
Both Toro Rossos collide, Hartley out

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Team radiopublished at 08:14 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Lap 35/56
Haas race engineer: "Just confirming you are receiving this message, lapped cars may now overtake."
Kevin Magnussen: "Yeah but there's no lapped cars behind me is there?"
Race engineer: "OK. Good point."
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Rachel T: How long does it take to clear up some carbon fibre? I can tidy my whole house quicker than this.
Postpublished at 08:11 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Lap 34/56
Both Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley are still running despite that collision that brought out the safety car.
No retirements yet.
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The story so farpublished at 08:10 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
- Sebastian Vettel loses the race lead to Valtteri Bottas after the Mercedes catches out the Ferrari with the undercut
- Lewis Hamilton currently third after starting fourth
- Red Bulls take advantage of safety car to move onto softs on lap 33, putting them on quicker and fresher tyres than their rivals.
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Postpublished at 08:08 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live
This safety car is perfect for Red Bull. If Raikkonen was fuming before he'll be even angrier now. Can Verstappen get this done? We know he is always aggressive.
Postpublished at 08:08 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Lap 33/56
Red Bull really nailing the double stacking of their drivers, both Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo in and out quickly and smoothly.
Verstappen is fourth with Ricciardo sixth and they're in a great position to go on the offensive now.
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Bottas leapfrogs Vettelpublished at 08:06 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Is this the crucial moment in this race? Bottas got ahead of Vettel through the pit spot period.
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Bottas leapfrogs Vettel during pit stops
Postpublished at 08:06 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live
Raikkonen will be fuming. Ferrari have just used him to try and get Vettel back into the lead of the race.
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Safety carpublished at 08:06 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Lap 32/56
There's debris from that Toro Rosso clash so out comes the safety car.
A gimme for anyone that needs a stop and the Red Bulls are straight in for softs.
What about Valtteri Bottas with that line forming on his left rear?
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RegularJon: You have to feel for Kimi. Always gets stitched up by the team for the favoured Vettel, must be so annoying
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Postpublished at 08:04 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live
That was never a move ever. The door was never open. I can't believe Gasly is trying to justify that.
Spin!published at 08:04 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Lap 31/56
Uh oh! The Toro Rosso tangle at the hairpin. Pierre Gasly tries a move on the inside of Brandon Hartley and runs into the side of his team-mate.
"He closed the door!" fumes Gasly.
Postpublished at 08:03 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Lap 30/56
Valtteri Bottas has fended off Sebastian Vettel for now and is a second up the road.
Could there be trouble coming up for Bottas, though? Replays show some blistering on his left rear already.
Image source, Reuters
Spin!published at 08:01 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Lap 29/56
Charles Leclerc spins at the first corner but, as he was last anyway, doesn't lose any places as a result.
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Lap 28/56
Having lost those places, Kimi Raikkonen pits from third and is onto mediums. He returns in sixth, behind Daniel Ricciardo.
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Postpublished at 07:58 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live
That was a great move around the outside from Bottas. This is crunch time for Vettel.
Postpublished at 07:58 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Jack Nicholls
Radio 5 live Formula 1 commentator
That was not good from Kimi Raikkonen. He needed to do the team job for Ferrari there.
Postpublished at 07:58 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Lap 27/56
With Sebastian Vettel right on his tail it's now or never for Valtteri Bottas. He makes a half-hearted first move but gets the job done with a nice move around the outside of Turns 1 and 2.
Vettel immediately slips into second place leaving him to hussle Bottas.
Image source, Reuters
Postpublished at 07:57 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Lap 26/56
Kimi Raikkonen to play the perfect team-mate role and slow up Valtteri Bottas so Sebastian Vettel can pounce?
This will be a good test of Bottas' bottle. Will he show more aggression than he did in Bahrain?
Image source, Reuters
Postpublished at 07:55 British Summer Time 15 April 2018
Lap 25/56
Kimi Raikkonen's advantage is now down to two seconds, with Valtteri Bottas' latest time two second quicker than Raikkonen.
Bottas is going to be right on his fellow Finn's tail very, very soon.