Summary

  • Hamilton becomes five-time F1 title winner - equalling great Fangio

  • Hamilton 4th, Verstappen wins

  • Alonso, Sainz, Perez, Ricciardo out

Live Reporting

Niamh Lewis

  1. Team radio - to Ricciardo

    Lap 61/71

    "Just remember the longer you keep him (Vettel) there, the more you're going to struggle.

    "Vettel does not have DRS, the gap is 1.4."

  2. 'Absolutely cruising'

    Jack Nicholls
    Radio 5 live Formula 1 commentator

    Lewis Hamilton is absolutely cruising, this is just get to the end of the grand prix and win the world championship.

    Lewis HamiltonReuters

  3. No further action, on the Ocon and Gasly incident earlier.

  4. What has happened so far?

    • Lewis Hamilton is on course to win the world title
    • Max Verstappen is leading after overtaking pole-sitter Daniel Ricciardo on the opening lap.
    • Ricciardo is second, Sebastian Vettel third, Kimi Raikkonen fourth.
    • Hamilton, who only needs to come seventh, is in fifth after going off the track when being overtaken by Ricciardo.
    • Fernando Alonso was the first man out after hitting some debris after Nico Hulkenberg hit Esteban Ocon. Carlos Sainz then has to retire with a mechanical failure on lap 30.
    • Home favourite Sergio Perez retires on lap 40 from seventh place.
    Max VerstappenGetty Images

  5. Team radio to Ricciardo

    Lap 58/71

    Red Bull: "Nice job, let's open that gap."

  6. Lap 57/71

    Ricciardo has been wearing the same red boots for 45 laps... how he is still going smoothly I don't know. He's still in second, eight seconds behind Maxy.

  7. Get Involved

    #bbcf1

    Kristine Kirby: I don't want to see a race decided by tyres so bad that BOTH Silver Arrow drivers have to go take a trip through the GRASS!!!!

    Charles Bell: Hamilton has scored 346 points this year and yet the final five seem to be the most elusive.

  8. "Lift and coast". Hamilton is just coasting through the corners. He's in fifth, so if he stays there the world title is still his.

  9. Team radio - Gasly

    "He pushed me off the track."

    That was Ocon who pushed him off.

    Pierre GaslyGetty Images

  10. For those Stoffel fans on Twitter, he's P9, and taking one for the McLaren team.

  11. Team radio - Hamilton

    Lap 53/71

    Lewis Hamilton: "Something is definitely not right when I have fresh tyres and I can't match their times."

    Lewis HamiltonGetty Images

  12. As I said earlier, keep a lid on your Vettel hateage.

    He's doing much better than his rival right now.

  13. Get Involved

    #bbcf1

    Josephine Duncan: This race is making me feel so tense!! Come on Hamilton!!

    Ben Edwards: I have never known Lewis Hamilton to have problems with tyres

  14. 'Driver error'

    Lap 53/71

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    Bottas stopped long, that means he went past where he should've stopped (in the pits) and that cost him time and the mechanics have to switch positions. That is a fundamental driver error.

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  16. What has happened so far?

    Lap 50/71

    • Lewis Hamilton is on course to win the world title
    • Max Verstappen is leading after overtaking pole-sitter Daniel Ricciardo on the opening lap.
    • Ricciardo is second, Sebastian Vettel third, Kimi Raikkonen fourth.
    • Hamilton, who only needs to come seventh, is in fifth after going off the track when being overtaken by Ricciardo.
    • Fernando Alonso was the first man out after hitting some debris after Nico Hulkenberg hit Esteban Ocon. Carlos Sainz then has to retire with a mechanical failure on lap 30.
    • Home favourite Sergio Perez retires on lap 40 from seventh place.

  17. It's in team order right now, on that Ricciardo-Hamilton overtake, he attacked Vettel too. But him and Kimi are the only two in the top six yet to make a second pit stop.

    1. Verstappen
    2. Ricciardo
    3. Vettel
    4. Raikkonen
    5. Hamilton
    6. Bottas
    Sebastian VettelGetty Images

  18. Verstappen pits, he's still on supersofts and he comes out ahead.

  19. Get Involved

    #bbcf1

    Javel: I don't get why Hamilton's tyres are so bad & why he only has used ones to change to? But everyone else will manage fine till the end?

    tweetSPORT: The only thing that'll change this title race is if HAM's tyre does the same as 'our Nige' in 86

    Ben: Hamilton goes WAY outside just then. Lucky to return without major time loss, or a puncture.

  20. 'Unravelling'

    Lap 49/71

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    Hamilton's race is unravelling, he went to the inside to defend against Daniel Ricciardo and just locked the left front, he does not need to be bouncing across the grass.

    HamiltonGetty Images