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Stewards are looking at those incidents involving Daniel Ricciardo and Lance Stroll, and Yuki Tsunoda and Kevin Magnussen.
Meanwhile, Logan Sargeant is giving a 10-second penalty for safety car infringement.
Summary
Verstappen wins, Norris 2nd, Perez 3rd
Race disrupted by two safety cars
Stroll crashes lifting Ricciardo's car into air after during first safety car
Alpine mechanic struck by Gasly's loose rear wheel in pits
Bottas, Tsunoda and Ricciardo out
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F1 returns to China for the first time since 2019
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Lewis Hamilton, despite not being happy with his car, is up into the top 10 as he immediately gets the jump on Daniel Ricciardo, who is struggling after getting upended by Lance Stroll earlier.
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No shenanigans on the restart this time and all eyes are on Fernando Alonso. He is on softs and right behind Sergio Perez in fourth.
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Harry Benjamin
BBC F1 CommentatorThe virtual safety car which is initially what all started this with Valtteri Bottas' car was stuck in gear, so the marshals were not able to push it back to safety position.
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The safety car is in and Max Verstappen - for the third time in this race - gets to to work building his advantage out in front.
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Matthew Murnaghan: Chaos has hit the fan. Better than the 1000th race which coincidentally was in China.
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Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 LiveSo the rear diffuser on the back of Daniel Ricciardo's car will have taken an absolute hammering with going up in the air like that. The front wing of Lance Stroll's car really doing quite a bit of damage to the back of that car.
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The safety car is, finally, coming in at the end this lap.
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Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 LiveWhat's happened in the race with this second safety car actually I think hinders Fernando Alonso, can he really get to the end now on a set of softs.
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Daniel Ricciardo reports floor damage after Lance Stroll ran into the back of him.
Meanwhile, replays show a nice move executed by Fernando Alonso just before the safety car to get ahead of Carlos Sainz into fifth.
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Harry Benjamin
BBC F1 CommentatorIt's double trouble for RB because Ricciardo was the innocent victim, but issues now reporting on the floor after Stroll went straight into the back of him at the end of the hairpin.
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Yuki Tsunoda's car is being lifted off the track as the field continues to trundle behind the safety car.
That's Tsunoda and Valtteri Bottas who have retired so far.
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Andrew Priestley: That was an extremely long delay under the VSC and then full SC for such a simple looking retirement.
Jeremiah Kariuki: The VSC and the Safety Car has thrown the race dice into an exciting mode. Strategies have gone up in smoke and new ones have be devised.
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Harry Benjamin
BBC F1 CommentatorThere is damage in the RB for Yuki Tsunoda the right-rear wheel is almost off the rim as he pulls up onto the grass in Sector Two on the exit of Turns Six and Seven.
Team radio - Tsunodapublished at 08:55 British Summer Time 21 April
"I'm out."
Team radio - Strollpublished at 08:55 British Summer Time 21 April
"This idiot just slammed on the brake. Check wing damage."
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Watching replays now and the field was all bunched up before the restart and Lance Stroll clattered right into the back of Daniel Ricciardo.
Then, just have the restart, Kevin Magnussen ran into Yuki Tsunoda's car, resulting in the latter's retirement and a puncture for Magnussen.
Chaos.
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Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 LiveHow quickly can Perez make his way past Leclerc and Norris, if he's got any chance on finishing second or even challenging Verstappen, which I don't think is possible, he's got to get past Leclerc and Norris quickly.
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Yuki Tsuonoda is out of the race! He's trundling off with some damage and must of have got clipped somewhere...
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Max Verstappen cracks on with rebuilding his lead out in front. Fernando Alonso, on the softs, is right up on the back of Carlos Sainz in fifth.