F1 pole positions
Polesitters
- First pole position (drivers)
- Pastor Maldonado (first Venezuelan polesitter)
- Nico Rosberg
- Last pole position (drivers)
- Fernando Alonso
- Jenson Button
- Pastor Maldonado
- First pole position (constructors)
- No constructor took their first pole position in 2012
- Last pole position (constructors)
- No constructor took their last pole position in 2012
- First pole position since…
- 1955 for Mercedes
- 2009 for Jenson Button
- 2010 for Fernando Alonso, Ferrari and Williams
- Last pole position until…
- 2014 for Williams
- 2015 for Ferrari
- 2021 for McLaren
- First pole position by a…
- Spanish driver since 2010