Ryan Newman had the only dash this time around, running across the track and away from his car after it blew a right-front tire for the second time in 140 laps.
And so I think that one of the challenges we had two years ago was we had to move so fast, we were in such emergency mode, that it was very difficult for us to spend a lot of time doing victory laps and advertising exactly what we were doing, because we had to move on to the next thing.
Raikkonen's flop followed a "miscalculation" from Ferrari who believed he was safe with his time after running for just five laps.
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Lewis Hamilton continued his preparations for next week's Spanish GP at the same venue by completing 102 laps, setting the seventh best time of 1:20.591.
By the time he had cleared Kovalainen and Kubica five laps later, Raikkonen was five seconds ahead, a lead he was able to maintain comfortably to the second round of stops.
Kubica lost a lot of time behind Timo Glock's Toyota between laps 38 and 42, but he was more than able to pull out the advantage he needed in the seven laps before his final stop.
However, the Australian, who missed the team's winter test in Spain last December, got back in the cockpit and comfortably completed 83 laps in Jerez, clocking a best time of one minute, 21.321 seconds.
Only laps later he was unable to brake in time and had to go off the track into the gravel.
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"We know our championship keeps alive maybe thanks to the first laps, " Alonso, a two-time world champion from Spain, said after the race.
With the two-hour time limit coming up, the race looked set to finish two laps short of the scheduled 61 as the drivers finally got the go-ahead to continue racing.
With only three laps before his own stop, Vettel had nowhere near enough time to try to erode Button's advantage.
The second Superbike race was stopped after three laps because of heavy rain - Martin was leading at the time and was awarded the win.
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The Brazilian clocked an unofficial fastest time of one minute and 12.574 seconds as he completed 102 laps, autosport.com reported, with veteran Spaniard De La Rosa posting 1:12.784.
By the end of the first lap he was already two seconds up on the leading time and went on to clock a series of sub-30 seconds laps as he moved with grace and power across the ice.
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The race was stopped after 32 laps and abandoned 40 minutes later when the allotted two-hour time limit ended, by which time it was also almost dark.
But two laps later Rossi got his nose back in front for the last time, leaving Biaggi to settle for second - his best finish of the season so far.
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"It was a shame I made the small mistake with about nine laps to go but I managed to compose myself and when the time was right I made the attack, " said Smith afterwards.
Edwards got a good push from defending Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski on the restart with two laps left and pulled away from there, winning for the first time since Las Vegas in 2011.
Or - if it happens in the last five laps of the race - for 25 seconds to be added to his race time.
With the Freeride I have trekked across the Alps from Chamonix to Zermatt, spending more time going up than down, and I have spent seven-hour days doing downhill laps using Snowbird's 125-person tram in Utah--all on one set of skis.
Recognising the potential danger of that situation, governing body the FIA has said that all laps in qualifying must be completed within a specified percentage of a driver's fastest time.
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