* Lap 1: Starting from pole position for the 10th time in his Formula One career (but the first this season), Fernando Alonso gets away cleanly to lead from fellow front-row starter Michael Schumacher, who repels team-mate Felipe Massa. Jenson Button moves up from sixth to fourth ahead of Kimi Räikkönen, Jarno Trulli, Rubens Barrichello, Jacques Villeneuve, Nick Heidfeld, Giancarlo Fisichella, Juan Pablo Montoya, Mark Webber (up from 19th to 12th), Christian Klien, the fast-starting Takuma Sato, Ralf Schumacher, Scott Speed, Tiago Monteiro, David Coulthard, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Christijan Albers, Scott Speed, Tiago Monteiro, Nico Rosberg and Grand Prix newcomer Franck Montagny. David Coulthard and Vitantonio Liuzzi tangle at the first corner: Liuzzi presses on with a damaged nose, but later spins at Turn 10 – his right rear tyre is absent from the rim. Coulthard pits at the end of the lap. The Safety Car is deployed.

* Lap 2: Coulthard pits again.

* Lap 3: Race restarts. Alonso pulls 0.7s clear… while Coulthard pulls off to retire.

* Lap 4: Räikkönen passes Button for fourth at the chicane.

* Lap 5: Michael Schumacher laps in 1m33.903s to cut his deficit to 0.6s. Montoya passes Fisichella for 10th. Speed and Rosberg pass Sato to move up to 15th and 16th respectively.

* Lap 6: Alonso responds: 1m33.493s.

* Lap 7: Monteiro passes Sato for 17th.

* Lap 8: Alonso ups his pace again: 1m33.210s.

* Lap 9: Michael Schumacher sets another new fastest lap: 1m33.066s. He remains 0.8s adrift.

* Lap 12: Albers passes Sato for 18th.

* Lap 13: Webber pulls off to retire from 12th place.

* Lap 14: Alonso extends his lead to 1.2s – his biggest margin yet. Massa is 1.9s adrift of Michael Schumacher in third.

* Lap 16: Michael Schumacher laps in 1m32.794s and closes to within 0.6s of Alonso.

* Lap 17: Alonso pits.

* Lap 18: Michael Schumacher sets a new best time for sector one – and then heads for the pits. He rejoins fourth – a few lengths behind Alonso. Räikkönen leads by 9.1s from Button. Massa is now fifth.

* Lap 20: Barrichello pits.
 
* Lap 21: Button, Villeneuve and Klien pit.

* Lap 22: Heidfeld, Albers and Montagny pit.

* Lap 23: Räikkönen and Speed pit. Alonso and Michael Schumacher resume at the head of the field, 0.8s apart. Räikkönen resumes fourth, behind Massa.

* Lap 24: Michael Schumacher laps in an off-the-pace 1m35.095s. His deficit grows to 2.1s. Monteiro and Sato pit.

* Lap 25: Michael Schumacher is back in the 1m 33s, just a tenth off Alonso. Trulli pits.

* Lap 26: Fisichella pits.

* Lap 27: Montoya pits. He tries to ease ahead of Fisichella as he rejoins – but the Italian holds him off. Both are boxed behind ninth-placed Villeneuve.

* Lap 28: Ralf Schumacher stops.

* Lap 29: Button and Klien both pull off to retire.

* Lap 30: Montagny’s F1 debut ends amid a trail of engine smoke.

* Lap 31: Alonso leads by 0.9s as the race enters its second half.

* Lap 32: Michael Schumacher closes to within 0.6s. Rosberg runs fifth, behind Räikkönen, but has yet to make his first scheduled stop.

* Lap 33: Rosberg finally peels in. He rejoins 10th, just ahead of Trulli.

* Lap 34: Alonso posts a personal best: 1m33.197s. He leads by 0.9s. Massa, Räikkönen, Barrichello, Ralf Schumacher, Villeneuve, Fisichella, Montoya, Rosberg, Trulli, Heidfeld and Speed complete the unlapped runners. Monteiro, Albers and Sato are also still running.

* Lap 35: Alonso laps in 1m32.871s. He leads by 1.4s.

* Lap 36: Alonso posts a 1m32.722s, Michael Schumacher a 1m32.544s – the race’s fastest lap yet. The gap is 1.2s.

* Lap 37: Alonso quickens his pace to 1m32.532s… but Michael Schumacher does a 1m32.523s.

* Lap 38: Alonso pits. Michael Schumacher posts a 1m32.420s.

* Lap 39: Michael Schumacher sets a new best time for sectors one, two and three. Result: 1m32.099s.

* Lap 40: Michael Schumacher does a 1m32.167s. Massa pits.

* Lap 41: Michael Schumacher pits and rejoins comfortably ahead of Alonso. Räikkönen leads. At the back, Albers and Sato pit.

* Lap 42: Monteiro pits.

* Lap 43: Leader Räikkönen sets a personal best: 1m32.472s. Trulli and Speed pit.
 
* Lap 44: Räikkönen comes in. Schumacher leads Alonso by 7.5s. Barrichello, Ralf Schumacher, Villeneuve and Fisichella all pit. Fisichella vaults Villeneuve as they rejoin.

* Lap 45: Heidfeld pits. Sato pulls into his pit garage to retire.

* Lap 46: Michael Schumacher leads by 7.5s from Alonso. Massa, Räikkönen, Montoya, Rosberg, Barrichello, Ralf Schumacher, Fisichella and Villeneuve complete the Top 10.

* Lap 48: Montoya pits from fifth.

* Lap 49: Massa and Räikkönen are drawing gradually closer to Alonso. Barrichello, Ralf Schumacher and Fisichella are tied as one in sixth to eighth places.

* Lap 50: Rosberg pits after a short second stint and slips from fifth to eighth. He rejoins just ahead of Montoya.

* Lap 51: Michael Schumacher leads by 9.1s. Alonso is only 2.8s clear of Massa – and Räikkönen continues to close.

* Lap 53: Ralf Schumacher and Montoya both pull off to retire with technical problems. Just 13 cars are still running. The top  eight – Michael Schumacher, Alonso, Massa, Räikkönen, Barrichello, Fisichella, Rosberg and Villeneuve – are the only cars still on the lead lap.

* Lap 56: Räikkönen closes to within 1.1s of Massa… who is 1.8s adrift of Alonso.

* Lap 57: Räikkönen moves to within 0.7s of third place.

* Lap 60: Michael Schumacher wins by 3.7s from Alonso, Massa, Räikkönen, Barrichello, Fisichella, Rosberg and Villeneuve.