2012 Belgian Grand Prix | GP Racing Stats

Date	Sunday, 2 September 2012
Winner	Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
Pole position	Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
Fastest lap	Bruno Senna Williams-Renault
Circuit	Spa-Francorchamps, 44 laps
Round	12 of 20
Race numbers	The 2012 Belgian Grand Prix was the 870th World Championship race 57th World Championship Belgian Grand Prix 45th World Championship race at Spa-Francorchamps
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Race result

Pos		Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time	Points
1		Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	44	1hr 29m 08.530s	25
2	+8	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	44	+13.624s	18
3		Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	44	+25.334s	15
4	+7	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	44	+27.843s	12
5	+9	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	44	+29.845s	10
6	+6	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	44	+31.244s	8
7	+6	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	44	+53.374s	6
8	+7	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	44	+58.865s	4
9	+7	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	44	+1m 02.982s	2
10	-1	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	44	+1m 03.783s	1
11	+12	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	44	+1m 05.111s
12	+5	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	44	+1m 11.529s
13	-11	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	44	+1m 56.119s
14	+5	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	43	+1 lap
15	+5	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	43	+1 lap
16	+6	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	43	+1 lap
17	+1	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	43	+1 lap
18	+3	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	43	+1 lap
R		Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	29	DNF
R		Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	4	DNF
R		Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	0	DNF
R		Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	0	DNF
R		Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	0	DNF
R		Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	0	DNF

Notes

Romain Grosjean was given a one-race ban for his role in the opening lap crash.

Notes

Pastor Maldonado received a three-place grid penalty for impeding Nico Hulkenberg during qualifying.
Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg received five-place grid penalties for gearbox changes.

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
Q3
1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:47.573
2	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:47.871	0.298
3	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:47.893	0.320
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	1:48.205	0.632
5	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:48.219	0.646
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:48.313	0.740
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:48.392	0.819
8	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:48.394	0.821
9	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:48.538	0.965
10	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:48.890	1.317
Q2
11	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:48.792
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1:48.855
13	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:49.081
14	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:49.147
15	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:49.354
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:49.543
17	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1:50.088
Q1
18	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:50.181
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1:51.739
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1:51.967
21	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1:52.336
22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1:53.030
23	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1:53.493
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1:54.989

Driver	Constructor
Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault
Dani Clos	HRT-Cosworth

How the championship standings stood post-2012 Belgian Grand Prix.

Wins: 14th for Jenson Button; 179th for McLaren
Podiums: 68th for Kimi Raikkonen, 47th for Jenson Button, 40th for Sebastian Vettel (18th driver to score 40 podiums, 2nd German driver); 479th for McLaren, 72nd for Red Bull, 9th for Lotus (2012-15)
Poles: 8th and last for Jenson Button (first since 2009; only pole for McLaren); 151st for McLaren
Fastest laps: 1st and only for Bruno Senna (123rd different fastest lap setter, 9th Brazilian driver); 131st for Williams (first since 2009)
Front row starts: 22nd for Jenson Button, 1st and only for Kamui Kobayashi (146th different front row starter, 2nd Japanese driver; first Japanese front row starter since 2004)
Pole & win: 5th and last for Jenson Button (first since 2009; only win from pole for McLaren)