2012 Canadian Grand Prix

The 2012 Canadian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2012) was a Formula One race that took place on June 10th, 2012 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal, Canada.
Sebastian Vettel took pole position, but finished fourth. Lewis Hamilton won the race, ahead of Romain Grosjean and Sergio Pérez.
==Background==
After complaints from , , and during the weekend that the design of the floor of the car is illegal,"Monaco GP: Rival teams say Red Bull car design is illegal". BBC SPORT Formula 1. 28th May 2012. Red Bull were forced to alter the design of the floor of the car after FIA technical head Charlie Whiting informed all the teams that "fully enclosed holes may not be located" in that area of the car."Red Bull must change 'illegal' holes in cars' floors". BBC SPORT Formula 1. 2nd June 2012.
The DRS zones were changed from 2011. In 2011, the DRS zone was 650 metres along the main straight, followed by a secondary zone on the start/finish straight. In 2012, however, the DRS zone down the main straight has been shortened to 600 metres, with no secondary zone. This was done because overtaking was considered to be too easy in 2011.
In the championship race, 's Fernando Alonso leads 's second-placed Sebastian Vettel and third-placed Mark Webber by three points. Vettel is ahead of Webber on second places.
In the constructors' championship, lead by 38 points.
==Entry list==
The full entry list for the is shown below:
No.	Driver 	Entrant 	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Model 	Tyre
1 	Sebastian Vettel 	Red Bull Racing 	 	RB8 	 	RS27-2012	
2 	Mark Webber 	Red Bull Racing 	 	RB8 	 	RS27-2012	
3 	Jenson Button 	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 	 	MP4-27 	 	FO 108Z 	
4 	Lewis Hamilton 	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 	 	MP4-27 	 	FO 108Z 	
5 	Fernando Alonso 	Scuderia Ferrari 	 	F2012 	 	056 	
6 	Felipe Massa 	Scuderia Ferrari 	 	F2012 	 	056 	
7 	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	 	W03 	 	FO 108Z 	
8 	Nico Rosberg 	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	 	W03 	 	FO 108Z 	
9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	Lotus F1 Team 	 	E20 	 	RS27-2012	
10 	Romain Grosjean 	Lotus F1 Team 	 	E20 	 	RS27-2012	
11 	Paul di Resta 	Sahara Force India F1 Team 	 	VJM05 	 	FO 108Z 	
12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	Sahara Force India F1 Team 	 	VJM05 	 	FO 108Z 	
14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	Sauber F1 Team 	 	C31 	 	056 	
15 	Sergio Pérez 	Sauber F1 Team 	 	C31 	 	056 	
16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	Scuderia Toro Rosso 	 	STR7 	 	056 	
17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	Scuderia Toro Rosso 	 	STR7 	 	056 	
18 	Pastor Maldonado 	Williams F1 	 	FW34 	 	RS27-2012	
19 	Bruno Senna 	Williams F1 	 	FW34 	 	RS27-2012	
20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	Caterham F1 Team 	 	CT01 	 	RS27-2012	
21 	Vitaly Petrov 	Caterham F1 Team 	 	CT01 	 	RS27-2012	
22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	HRT F1 Team 	 	F112 	 	CA2012 	
23 	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT F1 Team 	 	F112 	 	CA2012 	
24 	Timo Glock 	Marussia F1 Team 	 	MR01 	 	CA2012 	
25 	Charles Pic 	Marussia F1 Team 	 	MR01 	 	CA2012 	
==Practice Overview==
===Free Practice 1 (Friday)===
Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in FP1, over a tenth of a second quicker than second-fastest Sebastian Vettel, who only set his fastest with a few minutes remaining. He and Bruno Senna were investigated by the stewards, as Vettel held up Senna before the last chicane, but no action was taken. Heikki Kovalainen crashed 50 minutes into the session at turn 9, which stopped the session for ten minutes. Jenson Button's car had an oil leak in the morning, and have had to change the seal on his car's gearbox, although he was able to do some running in the practice session.
===Free Practice 2 (Friday)===
As in FP1, Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets, this time ahead of Fernando Alonso. Also similar to FP1, there was an accident about fifty minutes into the session, as Bruno Senna crashed his into the Wall of Champions (the right-hand wall of the start/finish line), bringing out a red flag. Fifteen minutes later, the session was restarted. Jenson Button managed to get his some distance in his McLaren MP4-27 after his car underwent more repairs, although his lap times were not ideal, and he was ninth-fastest in the session.
===Free Practice 3 (Saturday)===
In a relatively uneventful session, Sebastian Vettel came top, but the top seven cars were within just four tenths of a second. Fernando Alonso set the second best time, and Lewis Hamilton came in third-fastest. The only incidents involved Nico Rosberg after about five minutes, with a fuel connector issue; and Jean-Éric Vergne after roughly fifteen minutes, when he crashed at turn two. Both incidents brought out yellow flags, and neither driver set a time during the session.
===Practice Results===
No.	Driver 	Team		FP1	FP1 		FP2	FP2 		FP3	FP3
No.	Driver 	Team		Pos	Time 		Pos	Time 		Pos	Time
1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 		2 	1:15.682		4 	1:15.531		1 	1:14.442
2 	Mark Webber 	 		5 	1:15.897		12 	1:15.907		4 	1:14.724
3 	Jenson Button 	 		10 	1:16.347		9 	1:15.812		15 	1:15.327
4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 		1 	1:15.564		1 	1:15.239		3 	1:14.712
5 	Fernando Alonso 	 		4 	1:15.842		2 	1:15.313		2 	1:14.448
6 	Felipe Massa 	 		12 	1:16.619		3 	1:15.410		6 	1:14.767
7 	Michael Schumacher	 		9 	1:16.264		7 	1:15.697		7 	1:14.796
8 	Nico Rosberg 	 		3 	1:15.782		10 	1:15.878		24 	no time
9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 		15 	1:17.014		15 	1:16.562		9 	1:14.977
10 	Romain Grosjean 	 		14 	1:16.890		14 	1:16.360		8 	1:14.873
11 	Paul di Resta 	 		11 	1:16.460		5 	1:15.544		11 	1:15.067
12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 		6 	1:15.986		8 	1:15.799		10 	1:14.992
14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 		7 	1:16.000		6 	1:15.651		13 	1:15.126
15 	Sergio Pérez 	 		8 	1:16.249		11 	1:15.898		12 	1:15.112
16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 		17 	1:17.580		20 	1:17.716		16 	1:15.498
17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 		16 	1:17.352		19 	1:17.124		23 	no time
18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 		13 	1:16.859		13 	1:15.987		5 	1:14.755
19 	Bruno Senna 	 		21 	1:18.762		17 	1:17.022		14 	1:15.327
20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 		19 	1:18.177		16 	1:16.981		18 	1:16.545
21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 		18 	1:17.935		18 	1:17.075		17 	1:16.268
22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 		20 	1:18.182		21 	1:18.908		19 	1:17.705
23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 		22 	1:19.354		23 	1:19.378		21 	1:18.189
24 	Timo Glock 	 		23 	1:20.004		22 	1:19.084		20 	1:17.974
25 	Charles Pic 	 		24 	1:20.067		24 	1:19.902		22 	1:18.684
==Qualifying==
===Q1===
Sebastian Vettel was fastest in the first qualifying session. The s of Heikki Kovalainen and Vitaly Petrov came 18th and 19th, Jean-Éric Vergne was the unlucky non-new team driver out of Q1, in 20th, 's Pedro de la Rosa (21st) beat the s of Timo Glock (22nd) and Charles Pic (23rd). Narain Karthikeyan in the other HRT came 24th and last.
===Q2===
Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time in the second qualifying session. 11th-placed Kamui Kobayashi was beaten into Q2 by Jenson Button by a margin of 0.008 seconds. Kimi Räikkönen came 12th, Nico Hülkenberg was 13th, followed by 14th place Sergio Pérez. team-mates Bruno Senna and Pastor Maldonado came 16th and 17th. Maldonado crashed at the end of the session.
===Q3===
Sebastian Vettel set pole position over Lewis Hamilton, beating him by three-tenths of a second. driver Fernando Alonso qualified third. Vettel's team-mate Mark Webber came in fourth. Fifth was Nico Rosberg, just ahead of Felipe Massa. Romain Grosjean, the sole in the top 10, qualified seventh, ahead of the only Force India in the Q3, Paul di Resta. Ninth was Michael Schumacher, and a long way back in tenth was driver Jenson Button.
===Post-Qualifying===
Pastor Maldonado had his gearbox changed, which resulted in a five-place grid penalty.
===Qualifying Results===
Pos.	No.	Driver 	Team		Q1 	Q1 		Q2 	Q2 		Q3 	Q3 	Grid
Pos.	No.	Driver 	Team		Pos	Time 		Pos	Time 		Pos	Time 	Grid
1 	1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 		1 	1:14.661		1 	1:14.187		1 	1:13.784	1
2 	4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 		3 	1:14.891		3 	1:14.371		2 	1:14.087	2
3 	5 	Fernando Alonso 	 		5 	1:14.916		2 	1:14.314		3 	1:14.151	3
4 	2 	Mark Webber 	 		6 	1:14.956		4 	1:14.479		4 	1:14.346	4
5 	8 	Nico Rosberg 	 		11 	1:15.098		6 	1:14.568		5 	1:14.411	5
6 	6 	Felipe Massa 	 		15 	1:15.194		9 	1:14.641		6 	1:14.465	6
7 	10 	Romain Grosjean 	 		14 	1:15.163		7 	1:14.627		7 	1:14.645	7
8 	11 	Paul di Resta 	 		10 	1:15.019		8 	1:14.639		8 	1:14.705	8
9 	7 	Michael Schumacher	 		4 	1:14.892		5 	1:14.480		9 	1:14.812	9
10 	3 	Jenson Button 	 		2 	1:14.799		10 	1:14.680		10 	1:15.182	10
11 	14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 		12 	1:15.101		11 	1:14.688		 	 	11
12 	9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 		9 	1:14.995		12 	1:14.734		 	 	12
13 	12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 		13 	1:15.106		13 	1:14.748		 	 	13
14 	16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 		17 	1:15.552		14 	1:15.078		 	 	14
15 	15 	Sergio Pérez 	 		16 	1:15.326		15 	1:15.156		 	 	15
16 	19 	Bruno Senna 	 		8 	1:14.995		16 	1:15.170		 	 	16
17 	18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 		7 	1:14.979		17 	1:15.231		 	 	22*
18 	20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 		18 	1:16.263		 	 		 	 	17
19 	21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 		19 	1:16.482		 	 		 	 	18
20 	17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 		20 	1:16.602		 	 		 	 	19
21 	22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 		21 	1:17.492		 	 		 	 	20
22 	24 	Timo Glock 	 		22 	1:17.901		 	 		 	 	21
23 	25 	Charles Pic 	 		23 	1:18.255		 	 		 	 	23
24 	23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 		24 	1:18.330		 	 		 	 	24
===Grid===
* Pastor Maldonado was demoted five places on the grid for a gearbox change.
==Race==
===Report===
The race started without incident, with Sebastian Vettel holding his lead from pole. The first round of pit stops started on lap 13 with Felipe Massa coming in. When the three leaders, Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso pit in that order, the come out with Alonso in front, Hamilton behind and Vettel in third of the leaders. Hamilton overtakes Alonso, and inherits the lead when Romain Grosjean pitted. Hamilton then set a string of fastest laps to stretch his lead to four seconds in fifteen laps.
Narain Karthikeyan was the first retirement, who retired his car with braking issues a few corners after spinning in turn 1. Karthikeyan's team-mate, Pedro de la Rosa retired a laps later, also with brake issues. On lap 45, Michael Schumacher's DRS jammed open, forcing him to retire. About the same time, 's Jean-Éric Vergne was handed a drive-thorugh penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
On lap 50, Hamilton pitted, and emerged in third place, ahead of fourth-placed Mark Webber, just as Hamilton was coming up to lap his team-mate, Jenson Button. Hamilton then started to set a string of fastest laps. Timo Glock retired on lap 60, with brake issues, like the HRTs. Eventually, on lap 62, Hamilton catches Vettel and takes second place with the aid of DRS. Vettel pits on lap 63, and falls to fifth. Hamilton overtook Alonso with DRS on lap 64. On lap 66, Grosjean, on the same strategy as Alonso, speeds past with ease. Sergio Pérez passed Alonso, who was finishing the race about four seconds slower than his rivals. Alonso was passed by Vettel at the hairpin on lap 69, not even needing the DRS.
Hamilton won the race to become the seventh winner in seven races. Second was Grosjean, and Pérez completed the podium. Vettel came fourth. Alonso came in fifth, only 0.4 seconds ahead of Rosberg. Webber was seventh, Räikkönen eighth, Kobayashi ninth and Massa tenth. Button came in 16th, a lap down on his team-mate.
===Post-Race===
The win propelled Lewis Hamilton into the lead of the world championship, on 88 points, but by just two points over Fernando Alonso on 86 and three ahead of Sebastian Vettel on 85.
 still lead the constructors' championship, but with their lead reduced to 31 points ahead of , and took third place back off as passed the 100 point mark.
===Results===
Pos.	No.	Driver 	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired 	Avg Speed	Grid	Pts
1 	4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	70 	1:32:29.586 	198.028 	2 	25
2 	10 	Romain Grosjean 	 	70 	+ 2.513 s 	197.938 	7 	18
3 	15 	Sergio Pérez 	 	70 	+ 5.260 s 	197.840 	15 	15
4 	1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	70 	+ 7.295 s 	197.768 	1 	12
5 	5 	Fernando Alonso 	 	70 	+ 13.411 s 	197.550 	3 	10
6 	8 	Nico Rosberg 	 	70 	+ 13.842 s 	197.535 	5 	8
7 	2 	Mark Webber 	 	70 	+ 15.085 s 	197.491 	4 	6
8 	9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	70 	+ 15.567 s 	197.474 	12 	4
9 	14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 	70 	+ 24.432 s 	197.160 	11 	2
10 	6 	Felipe Massa 	 	70 	+ 25.272 s 	197.130 	6 	1
11 	11 	Paul di Resta 	 	70 	+ 37.693 s 	196.692 	8 	
12 	12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	70 	+ 46.236 s 	196.392 	13 	
13 	18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 	70 	+ 47.052 	196.363 	22 	
14 	16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	70 	+ 1 m 4.475 s	195.753 	14 	
15 	17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	69 	+ 1 lap 	194.671 	19 	
16 	3 	Jenson Button 	 	69 	+ 1 lap 	194.490 	10 	
17 	19 	Bruno Senna 	 	69 	+ 1 lap 	194.440 	16 	
18 	20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 	69 	+ 1 lap 	193.984 	17 	
19 	21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 	69 	+ 1 lap 	193.825 	18 	
20 	25 	Charles Pic 	 	67 	+ 3 laps 	189.426 	23 	
Ret 	24 	Timo Glock 	 	56 	Brakes 	188.421 	21 	
Ret 	7 	Michael Schumacher	 	43 	Rear Wing 	193.646 	9 	
Ret 	22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 	24 	Hydraulics 	189.402 	20 	
Ret 	23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 	22 	Brakes 	187.421 	24 	
===Fastest Laps===
Pos.	No.	Driver 	Constructor	Lap	Time 	Gap 	Avg Speed	Race
1 	1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	70 	1:15.752	 	207.250 	4
2 	6 	Felipe Massa 	 	69 	1:16.182	0.430	206.080 	10
3 	15 	Sergio Pérez 	 	67 	1.16.414	0.662	205.454 	3
4 	16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	70 	1:16.609	0.857	204.932 	14
5 	9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	70 	1:16.764	1.012	204.518 	8
6 	4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	59 	1:17.020	1.268	203.838 	1
7 	8 	Nico Rosberg 	 	67 	1:17.060	1.308	203.732 	6
8 	2 	Mark Webber 	 	62 	1:17.131	1.379	203.545 	7
9 	12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	62 	1:17.202	1.450	203.357 	12
10 	11 	Paul di Resta 	 	63 	1:17.219	1.467	203.313 	11
11 	10 	Romain Grosjean 	 	57 	1:17.264	1.512	203.194 	2
12 	14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 	61 	1:17.464	1.712	202.670 	9
13 	18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 	67 	1:17.489	1.737	202.604 	13
14 	19 	Bruno Senna 	 	67 	1:17.817	2.065	201.750 	17
15 	5 	Fernando Alonso 	 	42 	1:17.820	2.068	201.742 	5
16 	3 	Jenson Button 	 	63 	1:17.843	2.091	201.683 	16
17 	17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	55 	1:17.875	2.123	201.600 	15
18 	21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 	58 	1:18.093	2.341	201.037 	19
19 	20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 	62 	1:18.128	2.376	200.947 	18
20 	7 	Michael Schumacher	 	47 	1:18.433	2.681	200.166 	Ret
21 	25 	Charles Pic 	 	63 	1:20.632	4.880	194.707 	20
22 	24 	Timo Glock 	 	47 	1:21.032	5.280	193.746 	Ret
23 	22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 	23 	1:21.535	5.783	192.550 	Ret
24 	23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 	12 	1:22.044	6.292	191.356 	Ret
===Lead laps===
====Lap-by-lap====
Stint	Driver 	Laps 	Lap Count	Distance (km)
1 	Sebastian Vettel	1 – 15 	15 	65.415
2 	Lewis Hamilton 	16 	1 	4.361
3 	Fernando Alonso 	17 – 19	3 	13.083
4 	Romain Grosjean 	20 	1 	4.361
5 	Lewis Hamilton 	21 – 49	29 	126.469
6 	Fernando Alonso 	50 – 63	14 	61.054
7 	Lewis Hamilton 	64 – 70	7 	30.527
====Totals====
Pos.	Driver 	Total	Distance (km)
1 	Lewis Hamilton 	37 	161.357
2 	Fernando Alonso 	17 	74.137
3 	Sebastian Vettel	15 	65.415
4 	Romain Grosjean 	1 	4.361
==Milestones==
*Sergio Pérez's 25th Grand Prix (24 starts).
*First time in F1 history that the first 7 races have been won by 7 different drivers (Button, Alonso, Rosberg, Vettel, Maldonado, Webber & Hamilton)
==Standings after race==
Drivers' World Championship	Drivers' World Championship	Drivers' World Championship	Drivers' World Championship	
Pos. 	Driver 	Pts 	+/- 	
1 	Lewis Hamilton 	88 	3 	
2 	Fernando Alonso 	86 	1 	
3 	Sebastian Vettel 	85 	1 	
4 	Mark Webber 	79 	1 	
5 	Nico Rosberg 	67 	 	
Only top five are shown 	Only top five are shown 	Only top five are shown 	Only top five are shown 	Only top five are shown
Constructors' World Championship	Constructors' World Championship	Constructors' World Championship	Constructors' World Championship
Pos. 	Team 	Pts 	+/-
1 	 	164 	
2 	 	133 	
3 	 	108 	
4 	 	97 	
5 	 	69 	
Only top five are shown 	Only top five are shown 	Only top five are shown 	Only top five are shown
==Notes==
es:Gran Premio de Canadá de 2012
Category:Canadian Grand Prix
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