 Vettel led away at the restart , but his Ferrari teammate Räikkönen was forced to pull into the pits on lap 22 with fire coming from his airbox and subsequently retired , handing second place to Rosberg . Over the next couple of laps , Vettel was able to pull away from Rosberg on the softer tyre compound . Marcus Ericsson was handed a drive @-@ through penalty for having his team work on his car less than 15 seconds before the restart . By lap 31 , the gap between Vettel and Rosberg started to come down again , while Hamilton moved ahead of Sainz into fifth as the latter pitted . Two laps later , Verstappen was in as well , but a slow pit stop lost him time . On lap 35 , Rosberg took the lead as Vettel pitted , who also lost time due to a mistake during his stop . He emerged back on track in fourth place . Hamilton now started to pull back time on the leaders , while debutant Palmer held off the two Toro Rossos in a struggle for ninth place . 
