* Lap 1: On pole position for the third time in four races – and the 11th in his Formula One career – Kimi Räikkönen gets away cleanly to head Michael Schumacher towards the first chicane. Nick Heidfeld gets past Schumacher, too, but the world championship challenger retaliates at the exit of the first turn. Heidfeld loses momentum and his fast-starting team-mate Robert Kubica moves up to third. Felipe Massa and Jenson Button pass Heidfeld before the end of the lap, too, to lie fourth and fifth. Heidfeld runs sixth ahead of Fernando Alonso, Pedro de la Rosa, Giancarlo Fisichella, Rubens Barrichello, Nico Rosberg, Jarno Trulli, David Coulthard, Mark Webber, Scott Speed, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Ralf Schumacher, Christian Klien, Sakon Yamamoto, Tiago Monteiro and Christijan Albers. Takuma Sato starts late from the pits.

* Lap 2: Räikkönen extends his lead to 1.4s. Alonso scrabbles past Heidfeld at the first chicane and goes bouncing over the kerbs, almost hitting Button as he rejoins. Webber passes Coulthard for 13th. R Schumacher passes Liuzzi for 16th. Towards the tail of the field the MF1s pass Yamamoto.

* Lap 3: Albers passes team-mate Monteiro for 19th.

* Lap 5: Räikkönen laps in 1m 23.300s – the race’s fastest yet. Third-placed Kubica is keeping Massa at bay. Sato passes Yamamoto for 21st.

* Lap 7: The two leaders are 1.0s apart.

* Lap 9: Nico Rosberg, running 11th, slows dramatically and crawls to the pits. He retires.

* Lap 10: Räikkönen laps in 1m 23.167s and leads by 1.4s. Alonso, sixth, is 15.4s behind the leader.

* Lap 11: Räikkönen edges a little farther ahead: 1m 22.980s. The first two are well clear of Kubica.

* Lap 12: Räikkönen goes faster again, 1m 22.559s, to lead by 1.7s.

* Lap 14: Eighth-placed de la Rosa makes the first scheduled stop.

* Lap 15: Räikkönen peels in for fuel and tyres. M Schumacher leads.

* Lap 16: M Schumacher is 17.1s clear of Kubica, with Räikkönen down to seventh.

* Lap 17: M Schumacher pits and rejoins sixth, ahead of Räikkönen. Kubica makes history as the first Pole to lead a grand prix.

* Lap 18: De la Rosa passes Liuzzi for 15th. Yamamoto pits to retire.

* Lap 19: Massa and Albers pit.

* Lap 20: Button pits and rejoins just in front of Alonso.

* Lap 21: Heidfeld pits. Alonso passes Button. De la Rosa pulls off to retire.

* Lap 22: Kubica pits and drops to fourth. M Schumacher leads by a couple of seconds.

* Lap 24: Heidfeld is handed a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pits. Speed passes Coulthard. R Schumacher locks up massively at the first chicane.

* Lap 25: Heidfeld serves his penalty and loses three places. Sato pits.

* Lap 28: Massa runs wide onto the dirt but doesn’t lose much time. R Schumacher and Monteiro pit.

* Lap 29: Trulli and Speed pit.

* Lap 30: Barrichello, Webber and Liuzzi all stop.

* Lap 32: Coulthard refuels.

* Lap 33: Heidfeld passes Fisichella for seventh.

* Lap 35: Klien is the final driver to make his first stop.

* Lap 36: M Schumacher leads Räikkönen by 2.0s. Kubica is third from Massa, Alonso, Button, Heidfeld, Fisichella, Barrichello, Trulli and Webber. Klien is a lapped 12th, from Coulthard, Speed, R Schumacher, Liuzzi, Monteiro, Sato and Albers.

* Lap 38: Räikkönen is first to make a second scheduled stop. He rejoins just in front of the Kubica, Massa, Alonso train.

* Lap 39: M Schumacher pits. He keeps the lead. Massa peels in, too.

* Lap 40: Heidfeld and Monteiro pit.

* Lap 41: Kubica, Alonso and Button all pit. Kubica and Alonso rejoin as one, but Alonso gets ahead at the pit exit. Both resume in front of Massa.

* Lap 43: Alonso’s engine blows on the approach to the first chicane. Massa flat-spots his front right and skates wide.

* Lap 44: Massa pits for fresh tyres. Monteiro retires to the pits.

* Lap 46: M Schumacher leads Räikkönen by 6.8s. Kubica, Fisichella, Button, Barrichello, Trulli and Heidfeld complete the top eight. Massa lies ninth.

* Lap 51: Trulli is working hard to keep Heidfeld at bay. Massa is catching them both.

* Lap 53: M Schumacher wins his 90th F1 grand prix, by 8.0s from Räikkönen. He reduces Alonso’s championship lead to two points with three races to go. Kubica takes third from Fisichella, Button, Barrichello and Trulli.