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Lap 31/52
Max Verstappen is no longer holding onto the purple stopwatch as it's moved down the order to Carlos Sainz, who has also helped himself to P10 since he came into the pits earlier on.
Summary
Verstappen wins with Norris 2nd and Hamilton 3rd
Huge cheers as Norris took lead from Verstappen at start
Magnussen, Ocon, Gasly out
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Lap 30/52
Third-placed Oscar Piastri takes his pit stop quickly and is back out, hoping to be on the podium, in sixth spot. Hard rubber for the Australian driver.
Postpublished at 15:48 British Summer Time 9 July 2023
Lap 29/52
Mercedes make the call to drag George Russell in for a change. It's a slow stop for the Silver Arrows and the Briton comes out on medium tyres behind the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc, with added Fernando Alonso on his tail for good measure.
Team radio - Norrispublished at 15:47 British Summer Time 9 July 2023
Norris: How are the hard tyres looking?
Engineer: The hard tyre does not look amazing - but it is our best option.
Image source, Getty Images'Nobody is really taking the fight to them, they are running a race on their own'published at 15:47 British Summer Time 9 July 2023
Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 LiveI really think as the laps go by that McLaren have really got such a great opportunity here to come second and third. Russell we are yet to see what he will do with the strategy, the rest of them, nobody is really coming back at McLaren, nobody is really taking the fight to them, they are running a race on their own.
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Lap 28/52
With pit stops and a couple of overtakes, Sergio Perez now finds himself running in eighth place.
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Andrew: Charles Leclerc stuck in a midfield no man’s land after that early pit stop. Was that another Ferrari strategy blunder?
Chris: Ferrari what a surprise! If no safety car made a mistake going to be a medium to soft or vice versa! Don’t touch that hard compound!
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Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writerIt is looking good for a McLaren two-three right now.
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Lap 27/52
Next driver to come in to the pits is Carlos Sainz, who bolts on the hard tyres and comes back to the action in 12th place.
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Lap 26/52
It's taken a few laps but Charles Leclerc has finally passed Lance Stroll, who was the driver told not to worry about the Monegasque man, not Norris. Those two engineers sound very similar.
Team radio - Norrispublished at 15:43 British Summer Time 9 July 2023
Engineer: How many laps can we do?
Norris: I am happy - it is consistent, it is not changing.
Postpublished at 15:42 British Summer Time 9 July 2023
Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 LiveThe pace of Charles Leclerc really isn't anything special, I'm just wondering we had a little bit of rain last night and we had rain the day before, we didn't see too many people run the hard compound tyres on the Friday or the Saturday morning. I'm just wondering whether they actually really working whether the rubber is getting into the surface and if he's getting any grip out there because the medium and the soft seem to be ok but the hard I'm not so sure right now.
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Lap 25/52
Lando Norris sounds a little bit annoyed on the radio with his McLaren team constantly asking him questioning. Let the man drive.
The next update for Norris is "don't worry about Leclerc, no-one is stopping yet."
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Lap 24/52
Fastest laps are being collected up by the Red Bull of Max Verstappen and his gap out in front is now six seconds.
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Lap 23/52
While George Russell has a think about how long those soft tyres can last, his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton is figuring out the best possible way to chip away at Carlos Sainz in fifth place. The Spaniard is 1.314secs ahead of the seven-time world champion.
Postpublished at 15:38 British Summer Time 9 July 2023
Harry Benjamin
BBC F1 CommentatorHas the damage already been done for Russell on the soft tyres - after not being able to get past Leclerc in the early stages of the race?
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Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 LiveRight now George Russell will be running out of tyres especially that front left would have taken a real pounding behind Charles Leclerc. Basically when you are stuck behind another car you lose a bit of the front downforce and this circuit is so front left dominant.
Postpublished at 15:37 British Summer Time 9 July 2023
Lap 22/52
George Russell has made it to lap 22 on the soft compound tyres. Will we hear 'box box' soon for the Mercedes driver?
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Lap 21/52
Max Verstappen clocks the fastest lap of the race on the medium tyres and is increasing his advantage over Lando Norris to over four seconds.
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Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 LiveWhat Ferrari might be doing then is because they were both on medium compound tyre, Charles Leclerc has gone onto the hard and will try and make a one-stop work. What Ferrari may do with Sainz is now change to a two-stop strategy and tell Carlos 'right another set of mediums and a set of softs to finish and just push like crazy'.