Great wheel-to-wheel stuff between Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton, but it's for second, not first.

Vettel acting like a great 'wingman', something thrown at Valtteri Bottas when he has tried to block off someone to help Hamilton in the past.

Hamilton: "My rears are on fire."

Engineer: "Copy Lewis, looks like he's struggling just as much, if not more."

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Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

Leclerc still looking comfortable out front but Vettel is under pressure from both Mercedes.

"He [Hamilton] is going to walk over us."

We asked earlier if Bottas would block off the Ferraris and let his team-mate drive off into the distance?

Now we're asking the same thing but with Vettel in the role of blocker of the Mercedes, trying to help out Charles Leclerc, whose lead has jumped to nearly five seconds.

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BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator

I'll say it once more about that Haas strategy, I feel like I must be missing something because it's not like I see what you're trying to do and it hasn't worked out.

Kevin Magnussen dropping, now 16th, only the two Williams cars are behind him.

Have Ferrari botched their strategy? The Mercedes two are much quicker on track at the moment and Vettel is saying he will need another stop.

We sit and wait. An intriguing, if not overly dramatic race so far. We have 15 laps left and any of the top four will fancy their chances of getting on the top step.

Vettel: "We got to pit again, question?"

Engineer: "No pit again at the moment."

Vettel: "Tyres won't make it to the end."

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Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

Norris didn't make Q2, Sainz didn't make Q2, and Sainz didn't really make the start of the race either. Norris in the remaining McLaren is in for a good haul of points.

Norris is fifth and still on course for his best finish ever.

Now Charles Leclerc leads, Vettel is three tenths behind, Hamilton is third, three seconds off the lead.

Sebastian Vettel gets the team orders to get out of Charles Leclerc's way. Not often we hear this message, earlier in the season we heard it the other way around a lot.

"Why didn't we pit a lap earlier?"

Race engineer Pete Bonnington: "Copy that Lewis. We're looking into that"

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1. Vettel
2. Leclerc
3. Hamilton
4. Bottas
5. Norris
6. Giovinazzi
7. Ricciardo
8. Perez
9. Grosjean
10. Gasly

Giovinazzi has not stopped if you're wondering how he's gone from 18th to sixth. That's how.

Vettel is now ahead, 1.7 seconds is the gap between the Ferraris.

Have Ferrari favoured Vettel over Leclerc by pitting the German first? Vettel leads, but Leclerc has just set the fastest lap.

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"How many seconds is he ahead? He's miles ahead."

Gasly is shown the black and white flag according to race control for moving under braking.

That's for "unsportsmanlike behaviour".

In comes Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, yet to stop and who agreed a year extension with Mercedes last week, now inherits the lead.

Hamilton's stop was not as sharp as he and Mercedes would've liked and he comes out in fourth, with Bottas leading, Vettel second and Leclerc third.

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Hammer time. The Mercedes two are the only two on the softs, neither has come in. Will Bottas be used as the blocker to get in the way of Vettel and Leclerc to give Hamilton the chance to extend his lead? We've seen it before.

In comes Leclerc. This race could in effect be won and lost in the next few laps. Who's going to get their strategy right?