But Button was able to fend off the Ferrari only until lap 20, and Schumacher shot off to join the back of another queue.
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Vettel's teammate Mark Webber spun off on lap 46 after his brakes failed.
Melandri was neck-and-neck with Nieto on the final lap and held him off by just 0.007s in the home straight.
Button started fourth but was up to third by the start of the second lap, crucially fighting off a challenge from Lewis Hamilton's improving McLaren.
When the two men reached the wet part of the track halfway around the lap, Hamilton slid off, handing the lead back to Raikkonen, who almost immediately lost it again by sliding off himself.
We'd also caution you that when the tablet is docked inside the keyboard the weight distribution becomes lopsided -- so much so that unless you angle the display just so the whole thing might tumble backward off your lap.
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Still, the differences are as minimal in person as they are on paper -- while the Series 9 does seem slightly thicker in hand, it's really not a difference you'd notice everyday, and just like the Air, picking it up off your lap or table requires little to no muscle.
Having started from pole, Stoner slipped back at the start but soon regained the lead and seemed in command of the race when he unexpectedly slid off on the fifth lap.
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They ran a merry lap around the Yankees, who kicked off 2012 with three straight losses.
Rookie Spies again turned on the style after running off track on the second lap.
The 23-year-old set off on a blistering opening lap and never looked back, clocking six minutes, 14.60 seconds to capture his first Olympic gold.
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The incident happened on lap 40 of 58 when Vettel flew off the track after colliding with Webber in an attempt to take the lead from his team-mate.
"In the back of your mind you can always take the band off, " he says of the lap-band procedure.
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With Jamaica's men having an off-year in the one-lap event, I feel the men's 4x400m relay team have the best chance.
There's a stunning free-form pool (all 13 villas have private lap pools) and an open summer kitchen set off to one side.
My daughter was complaining that she was too hot to play soccer and kept walking off the field to sit in my lap.
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He aborted his last flying lap and finished down in ninth place, nearly half a second off Massa's time.
It wasn't an ideal start to a new chapter in his career for the 2008 world champion, with Hamilton ending the day seventh fastest after sliding off the track during what looked to be a promising lap.
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Junqueira knocked Da Matta off the top spot just one minute from the end with a lap of 1:42.151 at 142.659 mph (229.538 kph).
As the last lap is finishing on Sunday, it's packed up and it's off to the next race.
England suffered no further scares and took the applause from the Wembley crowd as they said farewell with a lap on honour in their last appearance on home turf before the big kick-off in South Africa.
That meant his main hope of holding off the Ferrari driver was to build a lead big enough before his stop on lap 10 that Raikkonen could not close it on his extra lap.
Sarazen's single hole victory over Percy Alliss came courtesy of a birdie two at the 15th, where his tee shot landed in the lap of a woman spectator and bounced back onto the green as she stood up to shake it off.
Priaulx got off to a good start in race two but lost the lead to Swiss star Menu on lap three.
Hamilton saw the title slip through his fingers at Interlagos last season when he ran off the road trying to pass his then McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso on the first lap.
Ye rounded off a sparkling day in the pool for China as she claimed the title with a breathtaking final lap of 28.93 seconds.
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