2012 Spanish Grand Prix | GP Racing Stats

Date	Sunday, 13 May 2012
Winner	Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault
Pole position	Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault
Fastest lap	Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault
Circuit	Catalunya, 66 laps
Round	5 of 20
Race numbers	The 2012 Spanish Grand Prix was the 863rd World Championship race 42nd World Championship Spanish Grand Prix 22nd World Championship race at Catalunya
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Race result

Pos		Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time	Points
1		Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	66	1hr 39m 09.145s	25
2		Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	66	+3.195s	18
3	+1	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	66	+3.884s	15
4	-1	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	66	+14.799s	12
5	+4	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	66	+1m 04.641s	10
6	+1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	66	+1m 07.576s	8
7	-1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	66	+1m 17.919s	6
8	+16	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	66	+1m 18.140s	4
9	+1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	66	+1m 25.246s	2
10	+3	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	65	+1 lap	1
11		Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	65	+1 lap
12	+2	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	65	+1 lap
13	+2	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	65	+1 lap
14	-2	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	65	+1 lap
15	+1	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	65	+1 lap
16	+3	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	65	+1 lap
17	+1	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	65	+1 lap
18	+3	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	64	+2 laps
19	+3	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	63	+3 laps
R		Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	37	DNF
R		Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	35	DNF
R		Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	22	DNF
R		Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	12	DNF
R		Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	12	DNF

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
Q3
DQ	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:21.707
1	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:22.285
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:22.302	0.017
3	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:22.424	0.139
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	1:22.487	0.202
5	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:22.533	0.248
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:23.005	0.720
7	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	–
8	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	–
9	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	–
Q2
10	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:22.944
11	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:22.977
12	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:23.125
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1:23.177
14	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:23.265
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:23.442
16	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:23.444
Q1
17	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1:24.981
18	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1:25.277
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1:25.507
20	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1:26.582
21	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1:27.032
22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1:27.555
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1:31.122

Notes

Lewis Hamilton was excluded from qualifying and demoted to the back of the grid after failing to have enough fuel to make it back to the pits after qualifying.

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

Wins: 1st and only for Pastor Maldonado (104th different winner, 1st Venezuelan driver); 114th for Williams (first since 2004)
Podiums: 75th for Fernando Alonso, 64th for Kimi Raikkonen, 1st and only for Pastor Maldonado (201st different podium finisher, 1st Venezuelan driver); 655th for Ferrari, 297th for Williams (first since 2008), 3rd for Lotus (2012-15)
Poles: 1st and only for Pastor Maldonado (96th different polesitter, 1st Venezuelan driver); 127th for Williams
Fastest laps: 1st for Romain Grosjean (121st different fastest lap setter, 15th French driver; first French driver to set a fastest lap since 1996 and last until 2019); 2nd for Lotus (2012-15)
Front row starts: 35th for Fernando Alonso, 1st for Pastor Maldonado (144th different front row starter, 1st Venezuelan driver)
Pole & win: 1st and only for Pastor Maldonado (59th different driver to win from pole, 1st Venezuelan driver)