Italian Grand Prix: F1 – live!

Lap 27/53 Lance Stroll has never led a race for a complete lap. He now has a chance to win one!

Lap 27/53 Hamilton goes off on a scooter, presumably for a comfort break.

Lap 27/53 Norris is under investigation for driving unnecessarily slowly when entering the pit lane.

Lap 27/53 Hamilton is out of the car now. This is an extremely odd situation!

He’ll have to stay in the pit for that time, and we’re looking at half a minute in total. What a chance for someone!

Lap 27/53 A wheel is wheeled away, still smoking. Hopefully we’re nearly clear and good to get going again.

Lap 27/53 Eeesh! A little crane lifts Leclerc’s Ferrari out of the tyres, and for a nasty second it wobbles about out of control, but people get out of the road and we’re all ok.

Lap 27/53 Mercedes are saying there was no red light on the pit lane entry, but there’s no reason the engineers shouldn’t have known it was closed.

The tyres Leclerc hit need repairing, so need fixing.

Lap 26/53 The safety car is back, and we learn that Giovinazzi has a 10 second stop-go penalty; if Hamilton gets the same thing, he’ll go last.

Lap 25/53 At first it looked like brake failure, but Leclerc lost control of the back end of the car, and his oversteering couldn’t compensate.

Gosh that looked rough, but Leclerc, who clatters into tyres is ok and climbs out of the car.

Lap 25/53 That safety car changed everything, bunching up the field but excuse me while I interrupt myself!

Lap 24/53 The safety car goes, and things have changed.

1. Hamilton

2. Stroll

3. Gasly

4. Leclerc

5. Raikkonen

6. Giovinazzi

7. Sainz Jr

8. Norris

Lap 24/53 Stroll doesn’t pit, so he now sits second, while Gasly, who went in a while ago, is now third. He’ll be fancying this, while Sainz, who had to wait for his pit, is now eighth!

Lap 23/53 They reopen the pits and Sainz comes in, so Hamilton resumes the lead.

Lap 23/53 McLaren lead a race for the first time since Jenson Button led at Hungary in 2014. It looks like the pit lane was indeed closed when Hamilton and Giovinazzi went in; there’ll be a penalty of some sort…

Lap 22/53 They’ve closed the pit lane, on the basis that marshals are shoving Magnussen’s car off the grass verge. The question now is whether Hamilton was allowed to come in when he did – he and Giovinazzi are under investigation – or whether access had been restricted.

Lap 21/53 Hamilton uses the safety car to pit, putting on hards. He re-emerges just second, behind Sainz.

Lap 20/53 No sign of a virtual safety car … but here comes the actual safety car!

He’s on the grass verge; this might be a safety car situation.

Lap 19/53 Verstappen, in 7th, is now just 0.701s behind Bottas in 6th. He’ll fancy himself to resolve this one.

Lap 18/53 Leclerc, in 17th, pits and takes hards. Hamilton’s lead is now 12.319s. It’s a procession.

Lap 17/53 The battle for third has settled a bit; Norris is now 1.772s ahead of Perez, with the gap to Ricciardo 1.12s and the gap to Bottas 1.567s.

Lap 16/53 Hamilton’s lead is now up above 10 seconds. Once he came out of the first corner in front, the race was over, unless something mechanical went wrong.

Lap 15/53 The top 10 are all on softs, which looks a decent call. Sainz has never finished above third, so this is a huge chance for him to improve on that.

Lap 14/53 Hamilton now leads by 8.36s, and behind him, Sainz Jr leads Norris by 4.281s. The battle for third place is great news for the two drivers ahead of that.

Lap 13/53 Bottas’ car is quick on the straight, but this track doesn’t really offer much help in that aspect. It’ll take some high-class wriggling for him to redeem that dreadful start.

Lap 12/53 Norris, Perez, Ricciardo and Bottas are very close together, but no movement as yet. Norris is defending his third spot really well.

Lap 11/53 This looks a lot like it’s over. No one has anything for Hamilton, who leads by 6.639s now.

Lap 10/53 As Hamilton stacks up his lead, Perez has another go at Norris, but he’s not quite close enough.

Lap 9/53 Hamilton’s lead is nearly up to five seconds, which in second and third, Sainz and Norris look settled. But Perez is gaining on the latter, and it looks like a duel is imminent.