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L42 It gets worse for Tsunoda who spins at turn one. He gets going however. Norris is now 1.5s behind Verstappen.
Norris was told to save his tyres. He only took two-tenths of a second out of Verstappen on the previous lap.
Magnussen has made an unexpected pit stop but resumed. That puts Lawson into the points!
L37 Lawson pits and comes out ahead of Tsunoda, and with a fresh set of medium compound tyres on his car might have a chance of catching the Haas drivers to fight for a point.
Verstappen: “These tyres just aren’t good. I can’t brake. I can’t attack anything.” He’s faster than Norris in the first sector but the McLaren driver is taking it and more back around the rest of the lap. Now 3.8s between them.
L35 Norris sets the fastest lap and takes a second out of Verstappen, bringing the gap between them down to 5.3s.
L33 Piastri pits, leaving just Russell, Lawson and Colapinto yet to come in. Leclerc now leads Sainz by 7.4s, Verstappen 3.7s behind him. Norris came out of the pits six seconds behind Verstappen with sixc-lap fresher tyres.
L31 Sure enough, Piastri doesn’t even make a token effort to keep Leclerc behind him at turn 12. Norris pits from the lead and the Ferrari is ahead again.
L30 Joseph to Norris: “This is likely the Germany situation but we don’t want to pull the trigger too soon if we don’t have to. Every lap is tyre delta.”
L29 Norris has 4.7s in hand over Piastri, who will have Leclerc on his tail soon. Bozzi to Leclerc: “Piastri has been told over the radio to not fight hard with you.”
L27 Leclerc pits so the McLaren, yet to pit, now lead. Alonso and Albon scrap brilliantly side-by-side through turns 16 to 18, but Gasly may not appreciate it as he’s losing a huge amount of time behind them.
L26 Verstappen complained his left tyres were starting to give up. He comes in. Whatever problem Red Bull were going to look into, he’s only stationary for 2.7 seconds.
L24 Norris is making a bid to cut Verstappen’s advantage, he’s taken a second out of his rival over the last two laps, bringing the gap down to three seconds.
Leclerc: “Don’t leave me out for too long, I don’t want to be under pressure.”
McLaren tell Norris his degradation looks good. He tells them he’s “pace zero” at the moment.
L23 Alonso’s tough afternoon gets…
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