Race Update 2
1. Graham (Red Bull)
2. Sunderland (Caterham)
3. Bomeny (Ferrari)
4. Kingshark (Red Bull)
5. Widger (McLaren)
6. Ingram (McLaren)
7. Varga (Sauber)
8. Armos (Force India)
9. Morley (Williams)
10. Robson (Mercedes)
11. Butler (Mercedes)
12. d’Hazorme (Caterham)
13. Cucamest (Toro Rosso)
14. Haddleton (Force India)
15. Nykänen (Williams)
16. Needham (Toro Rosso)
17. Kirkham (HRT)
18. Peacock (Marussia)
19. Hofman (HRT)
Ret. Franklin (Lotus)
Ret. Downton (Lotus)
Ret. Frog (Marussia)
Lap 15 – Downton’s flying out there, he’s now all over the back of his teammate. Is he within a second? Not this lap.
Lap 17 – Downton’s within a second now, jinks out to right of his teammate and is nearly up with him. Oh, he’s cut back to the left, and was that, did something fly off? Has he caught his teammate? He’s suddenly backed off. Positions remain held.
Lap 18 – Downton Pits! This is incredible, it looks like he hit his teammate and has broken his front wing. His Championship challenge is falling apart here…
Lap 19 – …and so is Franklin’s tyre! It’s de laminating, and down to the canvas, he still has half a lap left! This has been a disastrous few laps for Lotus.
Lap 20 – Downton now has to make his way back through the back-markers, behind Frog now in 19th place. They take to the double fast right hander, but Frog’s slow speed has caught Downton out! He’s launched over the back of the Marussia! A horrendous incident! The safety car is called.
Lap 21 – Franklin is back in the pits! He’s retiring, clearly there is too much damage to his Lotus. That’s both cars out in 2 laps. What a disaster.
Lap 26 – The race re-starts and Bomeny is like a cat! Straight past Kingshark who must have been asleep!