2012 European Grand Prix

The 2012 European Grand Prix (officially the 2012 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe) was the eighth race of the 2012 Formula One Season. It was held for the fifth time at the Valencia Street Circuit, Spain and was the 22nd running of the European Grand Prix as a standalone Formula One event. The race took place on 24 June 2012. It was the last F1 race to be held at Valencia before it was dropped from F1.
On Saturday, Sebastian Vettel took pole position ahead of Lewis Hamilton after a storming lap in a tight qualifying session. Vettel's time was over three tenths ahead of Hamilton.
The race was won by driver Fernando Alonso from 11th on the grid, a deserved victory after a string of overtakes earlier in the race. Second was Kimi Räikkönen for , with veteran Michael Schumacher completing the podium. This was Schumacher's first podium since his return to Formula One in . Sebastian Vettel led up until lap 33, when an alternator failure on his engine forced him to stop. Lewis Hamilton was third with two laps to go, but crashed with Pastor Maldonado. Maldonado received a 20-second penalty for his part in the crash, and lost a point as a result.
==Background==
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 arrived at Valencia with a major set of upgrades expected to greatly improve their performance after a disappointing result in Canada. Amongst other teams making minor bodywork changes were with new aerodynamic parts and with a new front wing design.
The Valencia Street Circuit remained unchanged from the 2011 event, however the double-DRS zone which was used the previous year was reduced to a single DRS zone on the long back-straight between the swing-bridge exit (turn 10) and the braking zone for the tight right-left chicane (Turn 12). This posed potential difficulties taking the left-kink (Turn 11) with the DRS activated.
Following an unsuccessful practice, driver Timo Glock was forced to withdraw from the event on doctors' advice, as he was feeling unwell. The team chose to leave the number 24 car-slot vacant for the race, rather than allowing reserve driver María de Villota to compete in the race, as de Villota lacked the Super Licence required by the FIA to race.
==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 	
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12 	Jules Bianchi 	Sahara Force India F1 Team 	 	VJM05 	 	FO 108Z 	
19 	Valtteri Bottas 	Williams F1 	 	FW34 	 	RS27-2012 	
==Practice Overview==
===FP1===
For Free Practice 1, Jules Bianchi replaced Nico Hülkenberg and Valtteri Bottas replaced Bruno Senna.
The session started relatively quietly, without much driving taking place in the first half hour, and with no incidents. Like in Canada, Jenson Button's was having issues, first with his KERS, then front locking and brake balance issues. Despite this, Button set the fourth fastest time of the session. But the quickest driver was Pastor Maldonado, who set a time only eight hundredths ahead of second-placed Sebastian Vettel, who in turn was only about one hundredth ahead of his teammate, Mark Webber. The top thirteen drivers were all within one second.
===FP2===
Unlike FP1, Free Practice 2 had some incidents. First, 25 minutes in, Michael Schumacher suffered an engine problem, he was soon back out on track. Then, just after 40 minutes into the session, Pedro de la Rosa had an accident, crashing into the barriers, and this brought out Yellow Flags for five minutes. Also unlike FP1, the drivers completed a lot of laps, with Heikki Kovalainen doing the most laps (38). Sebastian Vettel topped the timesheets after being second quickest in FP1; but surprisingly was backed up by Nico Hülkenberg and Kamui Kobayashi. The top 15 were covered by one second, tighter than in FP1; and also of note is that Vitaly Petrov's FP2 time would place 2nd in comparison to the FP1 times.
===FP3===
In an uneventful session, out-of-form Jenson Button surprising set the fastest lap time, ahead of the two 's, with Romain Grosjean ahead of Kimi Räikkönen. The s came fourth and fifth, Nico Hülkenberg beating Paul di Resta. Mark Webber only completed four laps in the hour session; all at the start, as his suffered brake problems. The only near-crashes were Pedro de la Rosa, who spun at the final corner, but kept his car out the barriers; and Sebastian Vettel, who went off at turn two with minutes to go.
===Practice Results===
No.	Driver 	Team		FP1	FP1 		FP2	FP2 		FP3	FP3
No.	Driver 	Team		Pos	Time 		Pos	Time 		Pos	Time
1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 		2 	1:40.973		1 	1:39.334		13 	1:39.434
2 	Mark Webber 	 		3 	1:40.984		9 	1:39.901		19 	1:41.282
3 	Jenson Button 	 		4 	1:40.994		12 	1:39.990		1 	1:38.562
4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 		8 	1:41.158		14 	1:40.147		8 	1:39.178
5 	Fernando Alonso 	 		5 	1:41.065		7 	1:39.733		12 	1:39.395
6 	Felipe Massa 	 		14 	1:42.109		15 	1:40.244		9 	1:39.318
7 	Michael Schumacher	 		7 	1:41.117		4 	1:39.601		7 	1:39.141
8 	Nico Rosberg 	 		9 	1:42.182		10 	1:39.926		15 	1:39.946
9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 		10 	1:41.620		11 	1:39.945		3 	1:38.759
10 	Romain Grosjean 	 		11 	1:41.784		8 	1:39.868		2 	1:38.655
11 	Paul di Resta 	 		6 	1:41.105		6 	1:39.700		5 	1:38.892
12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 		DNP	DNP 		2 	1:39.465		4 	1:38.819
12 	Jules Bianchi 	 		15 	1:42.175		DNP	DNP 		DNP	DNP
14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 		12 	1:41.838		3 	1:39.595		11 	1:39.358
15 	Sergio Pérez 	 		13 	1:41.861		16 	1:40.511		6 	1:39.084
16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 		19 	1:42.777		18 	1:41.121		17 	1:40.134
17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 		18 	1:42.758		20 	1:41.263		16 	1:40.037
18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 		1 	1:40.890		13 	1:40.075		10 	1:39.357
19 	Bruno Senna 	 		DNP	DNP 		5 	1:39.644		14 	1:39.543
19 	Valtteri Bottas 	 		16 	1:42.299		DNP	DNP 		DNP	DNP
20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 		17 	1:42.442		19 	1:41.197		18 	1:40.681
21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 		20 	1:43.209		17 	1:40.963		20 	1:41.931
22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 		22 	1:44.996		24 	1:44.260		21 	1:42.758
23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 		23 	1:45.120		23 	1:44.201		23 	1:42.943
24 	Timo Glock 	 		24 	1:45.338		21 	1:42.424		24 	1:43.815
25 	Charles Pic 	 		21 	1:44.173		22 	1:42.958		22 	1:42.815
==Qualifying==
===Q1===
Pastor Maldonado topped the first session, which saw Mark Webber return to the track after problems with his brakes. However, his DRS was not working, and as a result he was unable to progress to Q2, despite using the softer tyres. His place in Q2 was taken by Heikki Kovalainen, who beat the time of Jean-Éric Vergne on his final lap to advance out of Q1 for the first time this season. Behind Webber, Vitaly Petrov was 20th, the two s of Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan were 21st and 22nd. Charles Pic qualified 23rd, and Timo Glock did not take part in the session.
===Q2===
The second session of qualifying was very tight. Romain Grosjean was fastest, setting a time of 1:38.489 at the end. Felipe Massa, who was 13th, posted a time of 1:38.780, under three tenths of a second slower than Grosjean. Fernando Alonso qualified 11th and Michael Schumacher qualified 12th, the two biggest scalps of Q2. Bruno Senna was 14th, with Sergio Pérez 15th. Another surprise was that 's Heikki Kovalainen beat the time of Daniel Ricciardo, to qualify 16th.
===Q3===
The third and final session was dominated by one lap from Sebastian Vettel. He beat Lewis Hamilton by 0.324 seconds, with one the best qualifying laps of his career. Behind Hamilton was Pastor Maldonado, showing some of the form he had last time he was in Spain. Fourth and fifth were teammates, Romain Grosjean and Kimi Räikkönen. Sixth was Nico Rosberg, and 's Kamui Kobayashi was seventh, another good qualifying performance from the Japanese driver. Eighth was Nico Hülkenberg, who beat 's Jenson Button. After a mistake on his fastest lap, Paul di Resta was tenth, completing a disappointing return for , considering their strong performance in the practice sessions.
===Post-qualifying===
Sebastian Vettel's pole was the 33rd of his career, putting him equal third in the all-time table with Jim Clark and Alain Prost. He was, however, still 32 poles behind Ayrton Senna, who has the second-most amount of poles (65).
The stewards gave Timo Glock special dispenation to take part in the race, but after taking medical advice, he chose not to.
===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 	 		14 	1:39.626		4 	1:38.530		1 	1:38.086	1
2 	4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 		5 	1:39.169		8 	1:38.616		2 	1:38.410	2
3 	18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 		1 	1:38.825		7 	1:38.570		3 	1:38.475	3
4 	10 	Romain Grosjean 	 		12 	1:39.530		1 	1:38.489		4 	1:38.505	4
5 	9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 		11 	1:39.464		5 	1:38.531		5 	1:38.513	5
6 	8 	Nico Rosberg 	 		4 	1:39.061		2 	1:38.504		6 	1:38.623	6
7 	14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 		15 	1:39.651		10 	1:38.703		7 	1:38.741	7
8 	12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 		3 	1:39.009		9 	1:38.689		8 	1:38.752	8
9 	3 	Jenson Button 	 		13 	1:39.622		6 	1:38.563		9 	1:38.801	9
10 	11 	Paul di Resta 	 		2 	1:38.858		3 	1:38.519		10 	1:38.992	10
11 	5 	Fernando Alonso 	 		8 	1:39.409		11 	1:38.707		 	 	11
12 	7 	Michael Schumacher	 		9 	1:39.447		12 	1:38.770		 	 	12
13 	6 	Felipe Massa 	 		7 	1:39.388		13 	1:38.780		 	 	13
14 	19 	Bruno Senna 	 		10 	1:39.449		14 	1:39.207		 	 	14
15 	15 	Sergio Pérez 	 		6 	1:39.353		15 	1:39.358		 	 	15
16 	20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 		17 	1:49.087		16 	1:40.295		 	 	16
17 	16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 		16 	1:39.924		17 	1:40.358		 	 	17
18 	17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 		18 	1:40.203		 	 		 	 	18
19 	2 	Mark Webber 	 		19 	1:40.395		 	 		 	 	19
20 	21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 		20 	1:40.457		 	 		 	 	20
21 	22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 		21 	1:42.171		 	 		 	 	21
22 	23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 		22 	1:42.527		 	 		 	 	22
23 	25 	Charles Pic 	 		23 	1:42.675		 	 		 	 	23
24 	24 	Timo Glock 	 		24 	no time 		 	 		 	 	24*
* Timo Glock was unable to participate in qualifying, due to a stomach bug, and though he was allowed to race, he decided against doing so.
==Race==
===Report===
At the start, Sebastian Vettel made a strong start and held onto first place. Lewis Hamilton made a poor start, but managed to hold onto second. Kimi Räikkönen made a good start, but was blocked by Pastor Maldonado, and then Romain Grosjean took Maldonado's third place. Kamui Kobayashi, meanwhile, sneaked into fourth place. Both Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa also made good starts, both making up three places. Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button did the opposite, making poor starts; Rosberg fell to 11th, and Button finished the lap 13th.
Vettel then drove away from a slow Hamilton at about two seconds a lap. Hamilton was being pressured by Grosjean. On lap 10, Charles Pic lost a bit of his front wing trying to overtake Narain Karthikeyan at turn 2, who was lucky to avoid a puncture. On lap 11, Grosjean attempted to pass Hamilton at turn 12, completing the move by turn 13. On lap 13, Alonso passed Nico Hülkenberg for 7th, and Räikkönen managed to pass Maldonado for fifth.
Hamilton then pitted, as did Räikkönen, while Alonso passed Maldonado what had become third. On lap 15, Alonso pitted. On lap 16, both Vettel and Grosjean pitted, and after Grosjean got pass Rosberg and Paul di Resta, they were in first and second again, but the gap was about 20 seconds. Hamilton had held onto third after the pit stops, with Alonso in fourth after a few overtakes. Räikkönen was fifth, ahead of Maldonado.
On lap 20, there was contact between Kobayashi and Bruno Senna at turn 8, and Senna managed to spin on the following straight, before correcting the spin with a fine piece of car control. Senna picked up a puncture in the incident and then received a drive-through penalty.
On lap 27, Jean-Éric Vergne and Heikki Kovalainen collide, after Vergne pulls an overtake on Kovalainen, but then Vergne's right rear hits Kovalainen's front left, and the safety car is brought out as damage is shrewn all over the circuit. As a result, Vergne was forced to retire his .
Under the safety car, Alonso got past Hamilton, the driver being the victim of an awful pit stop. Daniel Ricciardo found himself in fourth place, behind Alonso, but ahead of Räikkönen and Hamilton.
After the restart on lap 34, Vettel held onto his lead, while Alonso managed to get past Grosjean. Kobayashi and Massa touched, leaving Massa with a puncture and Kobayashi was forced to retire his car with terminal suspension damage. Then on the run-up to turn 10, Vettel lost drive, with an alternator failure, and had to stop his car. This, amazingly, left Alonso in the lead from 11th on the grid.
Hamilton overtook both Räikkönen and Ricciardo to take third place on lap 35. On lap 37, Schumacher overtook Ricciardo for fifth; and since the restart, Rosberg had lost seven places, to Schumacher, Webber, Maldonado, Hülkenberg, Di Resta, Button and Sergio Pérez. Webber pitted after losing places to Maldonado, Hülkenberg and Di Resta.
On lap 41, Grosjean is forced to retire as his car had an alternator failure, similar to the one that ended Vettel's race. This left Alonso ahead of Hamilton by three seconds. Räikkönen was promoted into the final podium place, with Maldonado fourth. Schumacher pitted on the same lap as Grosjean retired, after quickly losing three places, and he emerged in front of Webber again, this time in 11th place. But more surprising was that Vitaly Petrov had made his way up to tenth place.
Petrov was overtaken by Schumacher and Webber on lap 45, who had started to carve their way through the field on fresh tyres. On lap 46, Rosberg pitted, and became the fastest driver on the track, Petrov pitted a lap later for a new front wing, after having made contact with Ricciardo. On lap 49, Schumacher and Webber got past Button, who had found his way to eight place; then the duo made their way past Pérez three laps later, then the one-stopping Di Resta the next lap. The pair had driven their way to fifth and sixth places.
Then, on lap 55, Räikkönen managed to find a way past Hamilton who then fell into the clutches of Maldonado. They ran side-by-side, but then on turn 12 of lap 56, Maldonado gets ahead, runs wide, then drives into Hamilton. Hamilton is forced to retire, while Maldonado completes the race minus a front wing; he finishes the race in tenth. On the same lap, Schumacher and Webber overtake Hülkenberg. Rosberg, in the fastest car on track with his fresh tyres, overtook Button, Pérez, Maldonado, and Di Resta. Button makes his way past both Pérez and Maldonado.
Alonso won the race, finishing six seconds ahead of Räikkönen, who in turn finished another six seconds ahead of Schumacher, who scored his first podium of his comeback. Schumacher was surprised when he heard of his third-place finish, since he was quite far down the order with only a few laps to go. Schumacher was followed by Webber. Hülkenberg came an impressive fifth, and Rosberg had managed to charge up to sixth place. He was followed by Di Resta, who was ahead of Button. Pérez scored two points for ninth. Maldonado completed the top ten. Senna was about a second behind his teammate, who in turn was a few seconds ahead of Ricciardo. The two s of Petrov and Kovalainen were 13th and 14th, and Pic was the last driver on the lead lap, in 15th place. Massa eventually came 16th, a lap down. Pedro de la Rosa and Karthikeyan came 17th and 18th. Hamilton was classified 19th.
===Post-race===
The result left Fernando Alonso in the lead of the World Championship by 20 points over Mark Webber. extended their lead in the Constructors' Championship.
Pastor Maldonado was given a twenty-second penalty for returning to the track in an unsafe manner, and as a result crashing with Lewis Hamilton. The penalty took him out of the pointscoring positions, and he was placed 12th. Bruno Senna, Maldonado's teammate, took the final point.
Jean-Éric Vergne was given a ten place grid penalty for the next race, the , for causing an avoidable collision with Heikki Kovalainen. He was also fined €25,000 for driving dangerously with a puncture.
Kamui Kobayashi was given a five place grid penalty for the , for his part in his collision with Felipe Massa.
===Results===
Pos.	No.	Driver 	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired 	Avg Speed	Grid	Pts
1 	5 	Fernando Alonso 	 	57 	1:44:16.649 	177.728 	11 	25
2 	9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	57 	+ 6.421 s 	177.545 	5 	18
3 	7 	Michael Schumacher	 	57 	+ 12.639 s 	177.369 	12 	15
4 	2 	Mark Webber 	 	57 	+ 13.628 s 	177.341 	19 	12
5 	12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	57 	+ 19.993 s 	177.161 	8 	10
6 	8 	Nico Rosberg 	 	57 	+ 21.176 s 	177.128 	6 	8
7 	11 	Paul di Resta 	 	57 	+ 22.866 s 	177.080 	10 	6
8 	3 	Jenson Button 	 	57 	+ 24.653 s 	177.030 	9 	4
9 	15 	Sergio Pérez 	 	57 	+ 27.777 s 	176.942 	15 	2
10 	19 	Bruno Senna 	 	57 	+ 35.961 s 	176.712 	14 	1
11 	16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	57 	+ 37.041 s 	176.682 	17 	
12 	18 	Pastor Maldonado* 	 	57 	+ 54.630 s 	176.749 	3 	
13 	21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 	57 	+ 1 m 15.871 s 	175.598 	20 	
14 	20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 	57 	+ 1 m 34.654 s 	175.079 	16 	
15 	25 	Charles Pic 	 	57 	+ 1 m 36.551 s 	175.027 	23 	
16 	6 	Felipe Massa 	 	56 	+ 1 lap 	174.533 	13 	
17 	22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 	56 	+ 1 lap 	174.281 	21 	
18 	23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 	56 	+ 1 lap 	174.024 	22 	
19 	4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	55 	Collision 	177.341 	2 	
Ret 	10 	Romain Grosjean 	 	40 	Alternator 	174.462 	4 	
Ret 	1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	33 	Alternator 	172.181 	1 	
Ret 	14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 	33 	Collision damage 	171.981 	7 	
Ret 	17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	26 	Collision damage/Puncture	178.776 	18 	
DNS 	24 	Timo Glock 	 	 	Illness 	 	 	
* Pastor Maldonado finished 10th but received a 20-second penalty for "rejoining the track in an unsafe manner" in his collision with Lewis Hamilton. This moved him down to 12th.
===Fastest Laps===
Pos.	No.	Driver 	Constructor	Lap	Time 	Gap 	Avg Speed	Race
1 	8 	Nico Rosberg 	 	54 	1:42.163	 	190.954 	6
2 	2 	Mark Webber 	 	40 	1:42.717	0.554	189.924 	4
3 	7 	Michael Schumacher	 	43 	1:43.099	0.936	189.220 	3
4 	15 	Sergio Pérez 	 	43 	1:43.526	1.363	188.440 	9
5 	5 	Fernando Alonso 	 	40 	1:43.666	1.503	188.185 	1
6 	16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	44 	1:43.674	1.511	188.171 	11
7 	9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	43 	1:43.686	1.523	188.149 	2
8 	10 	Romain Grosjean 	 	38 	1:43.764	1.601	188.007 	Ret
9 	4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	43 	1:44.007	1.844	187.568 	19
10 	18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 	43 	1:44.064	1.901	187.465 	12
11 	11 	Paul di Resta 	 	45 	1:44.101	1.938	187.399 	7
12 	19 	Bruno Senna 	 	44 	1:44.111	1.948	187.381 	10
13 	12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	40 	1:44.226	2.063	187.174 	5
14 	21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 	54 	1:44.253	2.090	187.126 	13
15 	6 	Felipe Massa 	 	36 	1:44.431	2.268	186.807 	16
16 	1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	18 	1:44.555	2.392	186.505 	Ret
17 	3 	Jenson Button 	 	48 	1:44.806	2.643	186.138 	8
18 	14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 	22 	1:45.082	2.919	185.649 	Ret
19 	20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 	40 	1:45.294	3.131	185.274 	14
20 	17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	22 	1:45.491	3.328	184.930 	Ret
21 	23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 	42 	1:46.388	4.225	183.370 	18
22 	25 	Charles Pic 	 	43 	1:46.701	4.538	182.832 	15
23 	22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 	36 	1:46.799	4.636	182.665 	17
===Laps in the Lead===
====By Lap====
Stint	Driver 	Laps 	Total	Distance
1 	Sebastian Vettel	1 – 33 	33 	178.827 km
2 	Fernando Alonso 	34 – 57	24 	130.056 km
====Totals====
Pos.	Driver 	Laps	Distance
1 	Sebastian Vettel	33 	178.827 km
2 	Fernando Alonso 	24 	130.056 km
==Milestones==
* 's 850th Grand Prix.
* Sergio Pérez's 25th start (26 entries).
* This was the first time for the 2013 season that there had been a multiple winner (Alonso).
* Michael Schumacher's last ever podium finish.
==Standings after race==
Drivers' World Championship	Drivers' World Championship	Drivers' World Championship
Pos. 	Driver 	Pts
1 	Fernando Alonso 	111
2 	Mark Webber 	91
3 	Lewis Hamilton 	88
4 	Sebastian Vettel 	85
5 	Nico Rosberg 	75
6 	Kimi Räikkönen 	73
7 	Romain Grosjean 	53
8 	Jenson Button 	45
9 	Sergio Pérez 	39
10 	Pastor Maldonado 	29
11 	Paul di Resta 	27
12 	Kamui Kobayashi 	21
13 	Michael Schumacher 	17
14 	Nico Hülkenberg 	17
15 	Bruno Senna 	16
16 	Felipe Massa 	11
17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	4
18 	Daniel Ricciardo 	2
19 	Heikki Kovalainen 	0
20 	Vitaly Petrov 	0
21 	Timo Glock 	0
22 	Charles Pic 	0
23 	Narain Karthikeyan 	0
24 	Pedro de la Rosa 	0
Constructors' World Championship	Constructors' World Championship	Constructors' World Championship
Pos. 	Team 	Pts
1 	 	176
2 	 	137
3 	 	126
4 	 	122
5 	 	92
6 	 	60
7 	 	45
8 	 	44
9 	 	6
10 	 	0
11 	 	0
12 	 	0
==See Also==
==External links==
* On Manipe F1
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