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The trio held station until just before the first round of pit stops, when things quickly unravelled for Button.
Franchitti led briefly during the first round of pit stops before Larry Foyt brought out the yellow flags by crashing into the wall.
Johnson, McMurray and Tony Stewart appeared to have the strongest cars early in the race, although Stewart fell back into traffic after a jack problem during the first round of pit stops and never really made his way back into contention.
However, with no further rain, the track was drying fast and, at the first round of pit stops, both hybrids opted to switch from wet rubber to cut slicks, while the chasing Gené chose full dry tyres, and immediately took advantage, closing the gap to the leader.
Castroneves, driving a Reynard-Honda for Team Penske, led all but 2 of the 83 laps on the hilly 2.238-mile 2.238-mileircuit -- giving up the top spot to Juan Montoya during the first round of pit stops by the leaders.
Not from lap 10 onwards as that is when the first round of pit stops are set to start.
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Hamilton had started in pole position but was overhauled off the line by race-winner Sebastian Vettel and soon found the German's Red Bull team-mate Webber harrying him after the first round of pit-stops.
While McNish and team-mate Tom Kristensen fought back to make up time, Bernhard held the lead for Audi through the first rounds of pit stops, while Bourdais in the Peugeot had been suffering from lack of temperature and some pick-up on the tyres, which had relegated his car to fourth.
Webber, however, lost third place to Fernando Alonso after the second round of pit stops.
Vettel took the lead for good after the second round of pit stops to beat Hamilton by sixtenths of a second and widen his lead in the standings over Hamilton to 41 points.
Castroneves gave up the lead to Oriol Servia for 11 laps during the second round of pit stops, which occurred after Adrian Fernandez slid off the track and into a tire barrier on Lap 51.
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