* Pre-race: Seventh-placed starter Takuma Sato stops coming onto the grid.
The race begins without him, although his car remains on the track.

* Lap 1: After qualifying on pole position for the fourth time this season - and the seventh in his Formula One career - world championship leader Fernando Alonso is fastest off the line, but Juan Pablo Montoya scorches through from third on the grid, passes Jenson Button before Copse and streaks into the lead at Maggotts. Button settles into third from Rubens Barrichello, Giancarlo Fisichella, Jarno Trulli, Michael Schumacher, Kimi Räikkönen (who started 12th after picking up a 10-position grid penalty in the wake of an unscheduled engine swap), Ralf Schumacher, Jacques Villeneuve, Mark Webber, Christian Klien, Nick Heidfeld, David Coulthard, Felipe Massa, Narain Karthikeyan, Tiago Monteiro (who started last after opting not to complete a qualifying lap following his Friday engine failure), Christijan Albers and Patrick Friesacher. The Safety Car is deployed before the end of the lap, however, to allow Sato's car to be retrieved safely.

* Lap 2: Sato joins in, a lap in arrears.

* Lap 3: Race restarts and Montoya immediately edges away from Alonso and opens up a 1.3s advantage.

* Lap 4: Alonso laps in 1m 22.651s - the race's briskest yet - and cuts his arrears to 1,2s.

* Lap 5: Alonso goes around in 1m 22.545s: the gap is 1.0s. Sixth-placed Trulli is being cast adrift from the top five. Räikkönen is all over Michael Schumacher.

* Lap 6: Räikkönen lunges at Michael Schumacher into Becketts but slides wide.

* Lap 9: Klien runs onto the grass at Stowe and loses 12th place to Heidfeld.

* Lap 11: Karthikeyan pulls off to retire. Klien refuels.

* Lap 14: Alonso laps in 1m 22.143s and gets within 0.9s of the leader.

* Lap 15: Montoya responds: 1m 22.091s…

* Lap 16: …and 1m 21.918s. Albers refuels.

* Lap 17: Barrichello (and, farther back, Friesacher) come in.

* Lap 18: Alonso laps in 1m 21.840s: the gap is 0.7s.

* Lap 19: Villeneuve, Heidfeld and Coulthard all pit.

* Lap 20: Button, Trulli and Webber peel into the pit lane.

* Lap 21: Ralf Schumacher pits.

* Lap 22: Leader Montoya and Monteiro come in. Fisichella laps in 1m 21.509s.

* Lap 23: Alonso pits. Fisichella sets a new fastest lap: 1m 21.344s.
Villeneuve passes Coulthard at Abbey and Klien follows him through as the Scot runs wide.

* Lap 24: Alonso rejoins wheel to wheel with Montoya, but the Colombian edges ahead as they approach Maggotts. Michael Schumacher and Massa pit.

* Lap 25: Fisichella pits.

* Lap 26: Räikkönen passes Alonso for second on the road, delays the Spaniard for a couple of seconds and then heads for the pits.

* Lap 27: With every driver bar Sato having pitted, Montoya leads Alonso, Fisichella, Button, Barrichello, Räikkönen, Michael Schumacher, Trulli, Ralf Schumacher, Webber, Massa, Heidfeld, Villeneuve, Klien, Coulthard, Monteiro, Albers, Friesacher and Sato.

* Lap 28: Montoya leads by 3.0s - and he's pulling away.

* Lap 31: Sato passes Friesacher.

* Lap 32: Barrichello makes his second stop. Sato makes his first.

* Lap 35: Montoya loses time behind soon-to-be-lapped Heidfeld, Klien and Villeneuve.

* Lap 37: Räikkönen laps in 1m 21.303s.

* Lap 38: Villeneuve, Klien and Albers pit.

* Lap 39: Räikkönen does a 1m 21.204s. He's taking one second per lap out of Button. Monteiro pits.

* Lap 40: Montoya goes faster: 1m 20.732s… Lap 41: …and 1m 20.700s. Heidfeld pits.

* Lap 42: Trulli pits.

* Lap 43: Button and Webber come in,.

* Lap 44: Montoya pits.

* Lap 45: Alonso loses about 1,.8s behind Trulli. Räikkönen and Barrichello - again - come in.

* Lap 46: Fisichella and Michael Schumacher pit. Fisichella stalls before rejoining.

* Lap 47: Final stops for Ralf Schumacher, Massa and Coulthard.

* Lap 49: With about 19s in hand, Alonso comes in.

* Lap 50: Montoya sweeps ahead as Alonso rejoins. They end the lap 1.8s apart. Räikkönen, Fisichella, Button, Michael Schumacher, Barrichello, Ralf Schumacher and Trulli are on the same lap. Massa, Webber, Heidfeld, Coulthard, Villeneuve, Klien, Sato, Monteiro and Albers aren't.

* Lap 52: Alonso cuts the deficit to 0.9s.

* Lap 53: Alonso appears to throttle off and settle for second.

* Lap 60: Montoya scores the fifth win of his F1 career - and his first for McLaren - by 2.7s from Alonso. Räikkönen saves his best - 1m 20.502s - until last. Fisichella takes fourth from home favourite Button, Michael Schumacher, Barrichello, Ralf Schumacher and Trulli. Massa is a lapped 10th ahead of Webber, Heidfeld, Coulthard, Villeneuve, Klien, Sato, Monteiro, Albers and Friesacher.