Hello and welcome to our LIVE commentary of the German Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton starts on pole position from Sebastian Vettel.

And Sebastian Vettel wins the German Grand Prix, his first. A great race from the German. Raikkonen is second, within touching distance and Grosjean is third ahead of Fernando Alonso. Hamilton pips Button for fifth. Thanks for joining us.

Into the final lap and this is anybody’s! Raikkonen only a second behind! A slide by Kimi and it looks like Vettel will hold him off…

Raikkonen now just 1.2 seconds behind and he may have DRS. Still a big ask and he will have to wait until the final lap! Button and Hamilton scrapping for sixth. What a race.

This is really exciting now. Vettel leads by just 1.6 seconds and Alonso is all over the back of Grosjean. What a finish!!

Four laps to go and Vettel’s lead is 2.1 seconds. Alonso all over the back of Grosjean now..

And Grosjean has to yield to Raikkonen. So it’s Vettel by 2.5 seconds from Raikkonen.

Raikkonen is in the DRS zone but he’s being held up by traffic. Alonso now catching the Lotuses rapidly!

Vettel's race engineer: “Good job Sebastian, be patient. The others will have to go through that as well.”

Vettel will have to work for his maiden grand prix victory in Germany as Raikkonen looks good on these softs. He’s 3.1 seconds behind.

The team order has gone out and Grosjean has been told to let Raikkonen past so he can set about Vettel.

Alonso’s tyres immediately coming to him and he dials in two blistering sectors and a new fastest lap.

So the leaders have all made their final stops. Vettel leads from Grosjean by 1.5 seconds. Raikkonen 3.9 seconds behind the leader. Alonso fourth with Perez and Button fifth and sixth.

Raikkonen is in for soft tyres! So this is good for Vettel.

Surely Raikkonen must try to go to the end of the race on this set now.

Button pits and that releases Vettel. More good news for the Red Bull man chasing his first German Grand Prix victory.

Still Raikkonen stays out but the relative gap is 15.1 seconds. It needs to be over a second more to come out ahead of Vettel when he stops.

Grosjean follows suit and takes Hamilton as the Mercedes pits.

Vettel makes the move on Hamilton and is up to P4. Raikkonen’s lead is 15.2 which won’t be enough when he pits.

Raikkonen stays out again as Vettel sets a new fastest lap. Vettel currently P5, 14.8 seconds behind.

Raikkonen staying out, hoping to dial in another quick lap…