2012 European Grand Prix | GP Racing Stats

Date	Sunday, 24 June 2012
Winner	Fernando Alonso Ferrari
Pole position	Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
Fastest lap	Nico Rosberg Mercedes
Circuit	Valencia, 57 laps
Round	8 of 20
Race numbers	The 2012 European Grand Prix was the 866th World Championship race 22nd World Championship European Grand Prix (last until 2016) 5th and last World Championship race at Valencia
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Race result

Pos		Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time	Points
1	+10	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	57	1hr 44m 16.649s	25
2	+3	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	57	+6.421s	18
3	+9	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	57	+12.639s	15
4	+15	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	57	+13.628s	12
5	+3	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	57	+19.993s	10
6		Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	57	+21.176s	8
7	+3	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	57	+22.866s	6
8	+1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	57	+24.653s	4
9	+6	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	57	+27.777s	2
10	+4	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	57	+35.961s	1
11	+6	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	57	+37.041s
12	-9	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	57	+54.630s (20.000s)
13	+7	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	57	+1m 15.871s
14	+2	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	57	+1m 34.654s
15	+8	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	57	+1m 36.551s
16	-3	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	56	+1 lap
17	+4	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	56	+1 lap
18	+4	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	56	+1 lap
19	-17	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	55	DNF
R		Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	40	DNF
R		Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	33	DNF
R		Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	33	DNF
R		Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	26	DNF
Did not start
		Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth

Notes

Pastor Maldonado received a 20-second time penalty for failing to rejoin the track in a safe manner. He originally finished P10.
Lewis Hamilton ended lap 55 in P4 before retiring on the following lap.
Sebastian Vettel ended lap 33 as the race leader before retiring on the following lap.

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
Q3
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:38.086
2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:38.410	0.324
3	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:38.475	0.389
4	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:38.505	0.419
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	1:38.513	0.427
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:38.623	0.537
7	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:38.741	0.655
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1:38.752	0.666
9	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:38.801	0.715
10	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:38.992	0.906
Q2
11	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:38.707
12	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:38.770
13	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:38.780
14	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1:39.207
15	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:39.358
16	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1:40.295
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:40.358
Q1
18	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:40.203
19	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:40.395
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1:40.457
21	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1:42.171
22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1:42.527
23	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1:42.675
24	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	–

Driver	Constructor
Jules Bianchi	Force India-Mercedes
Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault

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

Wins: 29th for Fernando Alonso; 218th for Ferrari
Podiums: 155th and last for Michael Schumacher (first podium since 2006; only podium for Mercedes), 77th for Fernando Alonso, 65th for Kimi Raikkonen; 657th for Ferrari, 23rd for Mercedes, 5th for Lotus (2012-15)
Poles: 33rd for Sebastian Vettel; 42nd for Red Bull
Fastest laps: 3rd for Nico Rosberg (first since 2009; first for Mercedes); 10th for Mercedes (16th constructor to set ten fastest laps)
Front row starts: 44th for Sebastian Vettel, 42nd for Lewis Hamilton