Hello and welcome to live coverage of the Italian Grand Prix from Monza - it's McLaren on pole, but Ferrari have a fast car - plenty of drama ahead at the fastest track of the season.

Alonso goes in as well! They come out at almost the same moment, there might be a look to see if that was an unsafe release. Both rejoin just a whisker behind Massa.

Hamilton now leads Button by 6.6s - the second McLaren has a couple of seconds on Vettel, who's coming in...

Sure enough, Massa into the pits. The car should be fine, but missing out on the telemetry for the time being is a handicap.

Button ahead of Massa! Lovely move through to Curva Grande - that will do nicely for McLaren. Ferrari preparing a stop.

Problems for Ferrari - Button closing the gap to Massa, who's just reported a loss of telemetry!

Raikkonen into the pits - hard rubber for him.

No sign of the top five heading for the pits - Raikkonen has just gone 0.7seconds quicker than his previous lap now Schumacher is out of his way.

Alonso meanwhile has settled into a longer stint behind Vettel, not taking on the world champion, conserving the tyres.

New tyres for Schumacher - he defended sixth place and kept the train behind him but he also needed to stop more quickly than his rivals. Not a good sign on the Mercedes pace.

Button, meanwhile, told his pace is good and that he should 'hold'. That looks like a one-stop, perhaps?

Mercedes pit team are out - it's for Rosberg, who comes back into the race in 19th on hard tyres.

Sergio Perez just starting to make some progress with his hard compound tyres - a fastest final sector. But Hamilton has the fastest lap - 1:30.194.

First man to pit is Pastor Maldonado - he rejoins the race in 22nd place.

Webber spotted running wide, but he gets away with it and doesn't lose a place.

Schumacher doesn't appear to have the pace of his rivals. Now Raikkonen on his tail. He's asked to pick up his speed by his engineer, but that looks easier said than done.

Hamilton coasting at the front of the race, four seconds clear of Massa. The Brazilian has a narrow advantage over Button, who's clear of Vettel.

There's a bit to be decided by the teams - will it be one or two-stop strategies that dominate today? If it's the latter, they'll start to come in in the next three laps or so.

Maldonado, who started with a 10-place grid penalty, is making a move - up to 17th. Webber has also been undoing some of the self-inflicted damage, moving into the points places.

So everything settling down after a couple of hairy incidents. Vergne is unharmed, and walks away from the crash.

Yellow flags! Vergne loses the back of his Toro Rosso on the straight, and slams over the kerbs and out of the race at the first chicane. That didn't appear to be his fault, it looked mechanical.

Senna off! Went to take on di Resta for 10th, but the Scot defended stoutly and there was no room for the Brazilian.