After inadvertently tapping Mark Webber’s Red Bull into a spin on the second corner, Hamilton passed Button but dropped behind him again on the sixth lap after meeting stern resistance from Schumacher at the hairpin. Sebastian Vettel led easily for Red Bull from the Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, with the McLarens chasing the Mercedes duo of Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher. READ MORE: F1's Best Drives #10 – Schumacher walks on water in Spain The rain was so heavy that the event was started behind the Safety Car, and no sooner had it begun to dry out than much heavier rain fell. In the end it resulted in a sensational last-lap triumph for Jenson Button, who turned a series of disasters – including taking off team-mate Lewis Hamilton – into a sodden afternoon of reparation to McLaren. It was more like an endurance race than a Grand Prix, as the rain-spoiled 2011 Canadian GP on Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve took more than four hours to complete.
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