2012 British Grand Prix

The 2012 British Grand Prix was the ninth race of the 2012 Formula One Season, which took place on the weekend of 6–8 July 2012 on the 2011 Arena layout of the Silverstone Circuit, the second running on this layout and 46th at Silverstone. It was the 63rd consecutive running of the British Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship, the longest such run of any event on the Formula One calendar.
Fernando Alonso of set pole position, ahead of 's Mark Webber, in a very wet qualifying session, with an extremely long red flag stoppage in Q2. Michael Schumacher also impressed to qualify in third place.
Mark Webber won the race, the final win of his career, eventual runner-up Fernando Alonso in the final stint, less than five laps from the end of the race. Webber's teammate, Sebastian Vettel, came third, while Felipe Massa finishing in fourth to secure his best finish in over one and a half years, when he finished on the podium at the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix.
As for the British drivers, Lewis Hamilton came eighth and Jenson Button scored a single point. Hamilton had managed to lead the race during the first round of pitstops, but was never in contention for a race win. Paul di Resta suffered an early puncture after Romain Grosjean clipped one of his rear wheels and was forced to retire.
==Background==
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After the , in which he won with other results going in his favour, Fernando Alonso had taken a commanding lead in the championship, 20 points ahead of his nearest rival, Mark Webber, who finished fourth in the race. The title chase would, though, had a different look to it were it not for Sebastian Vettel's alternator failure, and Pastor Maldonado crashing into Lewis Hamilton and knocking him out of the race.
 led the constructors' championship by 39 points, ahead of . had closed the gap to to just four points.
The aftermath of the race had continued onto the grid of the British Grand Prix. Jean-Éric Vergne would take a ten-place grid penalty, while Kamui Kobayashi had incurred a five-place grid penalty. Vergne caused an avoidable collision with Heikki Kovalainen, while Kobayashi did the same to Felipe Massa.
On the Wednesday before the race, test driver María de Villota crashed into a support truck at Duxford Airfield during a straightline test. She was left with life-threatening injuries, but made a strong recovery, and only lost her right eye.
 brought several updates to the race. They were not the only ones to bring a major update, Marussia and McLaren did likewise.
==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 Team 	 	FW34 	 	RS27-2012 	
19 	Bruno Senna 	Williams F1 Team 	 	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 Team 	 	FW34 	 	RS27-2012 	
23 	Dani Clos 	HRT F1 Team 	 	F112 	 	CA2012 	
==Practice Overview==
===FP1===
Three test drivers drove in Free Practice 1. Jules Bianchi replaced Nico Hülkenberg at , Valtteri Bottas replaced Bruno Senna at , and Dani Clos replaced Narain Karthikeyan at .
's Romain Grosjean set the fastest time in a very wet session, ahead of Daniel Ricciardo of . Third was the of Lewis Hamilton. Fernando Alonso and the two Force Indias did not set times, and Charles Pic set a time fifteen seconds down on Grosjean.
Grosjean's time was 26 seconds down on Mark Webber's pole time at the previous British GP.
Many drivers spun, including Clos (twice), Kamui Kobayashi, Timo Glock and Pedro de la Rosa; while Grosjean and Heikki Kovalainen ran off-circuit.
===FP2===
The second practice was extremely wet. So wet, that halfway into the 90 minute session, only two cars had gone out and set a time, firstly Timo Glock, with a time of 2:11.964. Bruno Senna then set a time of 2:10.215, before telling his team on the radio that doing laps in the conditions was pointless.
Once the rain stopped, though, things started to happen out on track, with Kamui Kobayashi one of the first out. He quickly set a time over six seconds quicker than Senna's time. Within fifteen minutes, the best time had fallen to 1:58.894, set by Kobayashi. Just after that, though, Senna had a crash, the car slipping away from him as he powered away down the Hangar Straight. The session was red flagged for a few minutes.
By the end of the session, drivers were trying out the intermediate tyre. This was not at all quicker, as shown by Fernando Alonso, who could only manage the then-13th best time of the session on his first lap on the tyres. Sebastian Vettel managed to set a personal best first sector, but then made a mistake. Vettel soon cut across Glock, but the driver, on the wet tyre, managed to pass him. Alonso finished the session with an off-track excursion, clipping the barriers in the process.
The fastest time was set by Lewis Hamilton, the driver setting a time of 1:56.345. Hamilton was using the wet tyre. Second was Kobayashi. Romain Grosjean, Daniel Ricciardo, Mark Webber and Pedro de la Rosa did not set times.
===FP3===
The fastest time in a dry third practice was 's Fernando Alonso, who set a time of 1:32.167. This lap turned out to be the fastest lap of the weekend. The track was not completely dry at first, but dryed out as the session went on.
Charles Pic had issues in his twice. The first, just after 20 minutes into the hour session, meant he stopped his car on track at Becketts, and brought out a temporary red flag. The second, at Stowe, with five minutes left, only brought out yellow flags.
The other main bits of action involved Alonso and the drivers. Alonso spun at the final corner, Club, with about fifteen minutes left in the session. With ten minutes to go, Kamui Kobayashi, who was on for a very quick lap, went off at the final corner (like Alonso). Two minutes later, teammate Sergio Pérez went off-track and damaged his front wing.
===Practice Results===
No.	Driver 	Team		FP1	FP1 		FP2	FP2 		FP3	FP3
No.	Driver 	Team		Pos	Time 		Pos	Time 		Pos	Time
1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 		11 	1:59.414		13 	1:59.476		4 	1:32.420
2 	Mark Webber 	 		6 	1:58.463		22 	no time 		13 	1:33.398
3 	Jenson Button 	 		17 	2:01.834		6 	1:57.948		2 	1:32.320
4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 		3 	1:57.174		1 	1:56.345		6 	1:32.477
5 	Fernando Alonso 	 		22 	no time 		10 	1:59.015		1 	1:32.167
6 	Felipe Massa 	 		5 	1:58.119		15 	2:00.565		16 	1:33.674
7 	Michael Schumacher	 		8 	1:58.493		3 	1:56.545		14 	1:33.462
8 	Nico Rosberg 	 		9 	1:58.542		4 	1:56.567		18 	1:33.733
9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 		16 	2:00.253		8 	1:58.897		5 	1:32.454
10 	Romain Grosjean 	 		1 	1:56.552		23 	no time 		3 	1:32.358
11 	Paul di Resta 	 		23 	no time 		11 	1:59.429		12 	1:33.367
12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 		DNP	DNP 		9 	1:58.943		10 	1:33.150
12 	Jules Bianchi 	 		24 	no time 		DNP	DNP 		DNP	DNP
14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 		7 	1:58.483		2 	1:56.474		9 	1:33.046
15 	Sergio Pérez 	 		4 	1:57.664		5 	1:57.493		8 	1:32.940
16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 		2 	1:56.827		21 	no time 		17 	1:33.707
17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 		10 	1:59.076		14 	1:59.854		16 	1:33.673
18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 		15 	2:00.125		12 	1:59.872		7 	1:32.622
19 	Bruno Senna 	 		DNP	DNP 		17 	2:01.099		11 	1:33.267
19 	Valtteri Bottas 	 		13 	1:59.733		DNP	DNP 		DNP	DNP
20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 		14 	1:59.787		7 	1:58.580		19 	1:34.298
21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 		12 	1:59.614		18 	2:01.348		20 	1:34.781
22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 		19 	2:04.341		24 	no time 		24 	1:37.429
23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 		DNP	DNP 		20 	2:04.774		23 	1:37.269
23 	Dani Clos 	 		20 	2:05.022		DNP	DNP 		DNP	DNP
24 	Timo Glock 	 		18 	2:01.835		16 	2:00.820		21 	1:36.605
25 	Charles Pic 	 		21 	2:11.760		19 	2:03.719		22 	1:37.060
==Qualifying==
===Q1===
The session was a wet one, but only wet enough for intermediates. The rain had only started falling five minutes or so after FP3 finished, but then stopped, before beginning again five minutes before Q1 started.
The twenty-minute session began with all 24 drivers out on intermediates almost immediately. The Q1 order was constantly changing, since the intermediate tyres were durable and thus drivers could perform a large number of laps on one set of tyres. Quite surprisingly considering the conditions, the first major incident happened in the last minute. Timo Glock spun on the start-finish straight and brought out yellow flags. This meant that drivers could not set a fastest final sector time, difficult to do in the improving conditions on track.
The yellow flags affected Jenson Button, who was on for good lap that would have taken him through to Q2, but he slowed down, and did not manage to beat Nico Rosberg's time and was out of qualifying. Also out were the two s, Vitaly Petrov ahead of Heikki Kovalainen, then Glock, Pedro de la Rosa, Narain Karthikeyan and Charles Pic was last, outside of the 107% time.
===Q2===
The weather, already not good, took a turn for the worst for Q2. Even the wet tyre appeared to not be sufficient. Michael Schumacher went off at Becketts in the horrendous conditions. Eventually, after Fernando Alonso went off, and Lewis Hamilton nearly hit a , the session was red flagged, with just six minutes and seventeen seconds left.
Sergio Pérez was the fastest at the time, with a time of 1:59.092, ahead of Hamilton and Nico Rosberg and Jean-Éric Vergne. During the break, the boredom was such that a few Mexican Waves took place in the pit lane.
After 90 minutes, the session started up again. With dryer conditions, the times started to tumble downwards. As the chequered flag was waved, the most notable driver in the dropout zone was Alonso, but like most of the field, he was on a quick lap. Romain Grosjean managed to spin, bringing out yellow flags for the final sector, just like in Q1. Grosjean was safely through to Q3, but he would be unable to take part in it. Despite the yellow flags, Alonso managed to set the ninth quickest time of the session, and got in Q3.
Hamilton set the fastest time, at 1:54.897. Unluckiest was Paul di Resta, who came in eleventh, his place in Q1 lost during the yellow flags. Also out was Kamui Kobayashi, Rosberg, Daniel Ricciardo, Bruno Senna, Vergne and Pérez, who was first during the red flag period, but last after it.
===Q3===
In the final ten-minute session, the track conditions were good enough for intermediates. Fernando Alonso set pole position, with a time of 1:51.746, 's first pole since the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix, 32 races ago. Second was Mark Webber, just 0.047 seconds behind. This meant that the two championship leaders occupied the first two places on the grid.
Third was Michael Schumacher, the German bringing his home 0.274 seconds behind Alonso. Schumacher was followed by fellow German, Sebastian Vettel, who was 0.453 seconds behind Alonso.
Alonso's teammate, Felipe Massa, was well over a second down in fith, while Kimi Räikkönen was over one and half seconds down on Alonso. Pastor Maldonado was 0.004 seconds quicker than Lewis Hamilton. They qualified seventh and eighth. Ninth was Nico Hülkenberg, who was over 2.5 seconds down on Alonso. Romain Grosjean did not compete in the session after going off in Q2, and would line up tenth before any penalties were taken into account.
===Post-Qualifying===
Fernando Alonso's pole was both his and 's first for nearly two years, and it put him in a perfect position to extend his championship lead.
Charles Pic was allowed to race by the stewards, who took the extreme conditions into account.
Nico Hülkenberg changed his gearbox, resulting in a five-place grid penalty. Pic also had a five-place grid penalty for changing his gearbox. The penalties received in the previous race by Jean-Éric Vergne (ten places) and Kamui Kobayashi (five places) were also implemented.
After these changes, Hülkenberg fell to 14th, Kobayashi fell to 17th, Vergne fell to 23rd and Pic stayed 24th and last. Everyone from Romain Grosjean (9th) to Narain Karthikeyan was affected by the grid penalties, moving up either one or two positions.
===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 	5 	Fernando Alonso 	 		5 	1:46.515		9 	1:56.921		1 	1:51.746	1
2 	2 	Mark Webber 	 		11 	1:47.246		4 	1:55.898		2 	1:51.793	2
3 	7 	Michael Schumacher	 		6 	1:46.571		3 	1:55.799		3 	1:52.020	3
4 	1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 		1 	1:46.279		10 	1:56.931		4 	1:52.199	4
5 	6 	Felipe Massa 	 		13 	1:47.401		6 	1:56.388		5 	1:53.065	5
6 	9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 		12 	1:47.309		7 	1:56.469		6 	1:53.290	6
7 	18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 		3 	1:46.449		8 	1:56.802		7 	1:53.539	7
8 	4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 		14 	1:47.433		1 	1:54.897		8 	1:53.543	8
9 	12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 		2 	1:46.334		2 	1:55.556		9 	1:54.382	14*
10 	10 	Romain Grosjean 	 		8 	1:47.043		5 	1:56.388		10 	No time 	9
11 	11 	Paul di Resta 	 		15 	1:47.582		11 	1:57.009		 	 	10
12 	14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 		7 	1:46.049		12 	1:57.071		 	 	17†
13 	8 	Nico Rosberg 	 		17 	1:47.724		13 	1:57.108		 	 	11
14 	16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 		10 	1:47.266		14 	1:57.132		 	 	12
15 	19 	Bruno Senna 	 		9 	1:47.105		15 	1:57.426		 	 	13
16 	17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 		16 	1:47.705		16 	1:57.719		 	 	23‡
17 	15 	Sergio Pérez 	 		4 	1:46.494		17 	1:57.895		 	 	15
18 	3 	Jenson Button 	 		18 	1:48.044		 	 		 	 	16
19 	21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 		19 	1:49.027		 	 		 	 	DNS
20 	20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 		20 	1:49.477		 	 		 	 	19
21 	24 	Timo Glock 	 		21 	1:51.618		 	 		 	 	20
22 	22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 		22 	1:52.017		 	 		 	 	21
23 	23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 		23 	1:53.040		 	 		 	 	22
24 	25 	Charles Pic 	 		24 	1:54.143		 	 		 	 	24§
===Grid===
Notes:
* * Nico Hülkenberg dropped 5 places due to a gearbox change.
* † Kamui Kobayashi dropped 5 places due to causing a collision in the last race.
* ‡ Jean-Éric Vergne dropped 10 places due to causing a collision in the last race.
* § Charles Pic dropped 5 places due to a gearbox change.
* Pic did not set a time within 107% of the fastest Q1 time, but was allowed to race.
* ** Vitaly Petrov did not start (engine).
==Race==
===Report===
Before the cars took to the grid, the engine in Vitaly Petrov's car suffered an oil leak, and he was unable to take part in the race.
At the start, Fernando Alonso held off Mark Webber, cutting across the track. Felipe Massa overtook Sebastian Vettel for fourth, and started pressuring Michael Schumacher. Pastor Maldonado also gained a place, overtaking Kimi Räikkönen. Later on during the lap, Romain Grosjean clipped the right rear tyre of Paul di Resta, and the driver went off the track with the resulting puncture. Di Resta pitted, but the floor of his car was terminally damaged and he retired from the race. On lap three, Grosjean also pitted to replace his front wing to put on the prime tyres, and a result he fell to last place.
By lap nine, Alonso had built up a lead of about two seconds over Webber, who had a similar gap to Schumacher, who was holding up a train of cars, with Massa leading the charge. Vettel pitted on lap ten, rejoining in fifteenth place behind Daniel Ricciardo. The next lap, Massa passed Schumacher for third, and both Maldonado and Sergio Pérez pitted. Pérez attempted to pass the driver after the DRS zone, but the Venezuelan suffered a bit of oversteer and crashed into the . The Mexican was forced to retire, but Maldonado continued, but effectively, his race was over and any chance of pointscoring had disappeared. Due to the positioning of the accident, DRS was disabled for two laps.
Schumacher pitted after being overtaken, taking on the hard tyre. Massa and Räikkönen pitted a lap later. On lap 14, Webber pitted, and on lap 15, Alonso pitted from the lead. This left Lewis Hamilton in front. On lap 19, Alonso had caught up with Hamilton, but got past despite strong defense from the British driver. Alonso had completed his pass after the DRS detection point, but before the DRS zone, and he used the DRS down Wellington Straight. But to everyone's surprise, Hamilton managed to slipstream the and take the place back at the end of the straight; unfortuanately though, he went wide, and Alonso took the place back. Hamilton pitted a few laps later on lap 21.
With all the pitstops completed, Alonso had retrained the lead and was still ahead of Webber. Vettel had performed the undercut on both Massa and Schumacher to take third place. Sixth was Räikkönen, ahead of Hamilton. Eighth was Grosjean, who was attempting to complete two long stints and had only pitted once on lap three. Ninth was Kamui Kobayashi, with Nico Hülkenberg rounding out the points. Eleventh was Bruno Senna, twelfth was Jenson Button. Nico Rosberg, in thirteenth, was the last of main pack. Ricciardo and Jean-Éric Vergne in the s were 14th and 15th.
On lap 24, Schumacher lost two places to seventh as Räikkönen went past him with the aid of DRS, before Hamilton found his way past a few corners later. Räikkönen became the fastest driver on track. Back at the front, Alonso was pulling out a comfortable lead of about six seconds ahead of Webber.
Grosjean finally pitted on lap 26. To cover, on lap 29, Hamilton pitted, after a stint of just eight laps. He fell behind Rosberg, but overtook the German into Copse. The next lap, Hamilton passed team-mate Button for 10th. Grosjean also finds his way past the out-of-form Button, who pitted at the end of the lap. Grosjean immediately starts attacking Hamilton, and he gets past on lap 35.
Vettel pitted on lap 31, starting a string of pit stops by the front runners. Webber was the next, on lap 33, finishing the race on the harder tyre. Both Räikkönen and Schumacher pitted on lap 34, followed by Massa on lap 35. Massa's teammate, Alonso, pitted for the option tyre on lap 37, meaning he had to survive 15 laps on the softer compound, which was unlikely to last the distance at full race pace. Webber, on the more durable tyre, started closing in on the leader.
When Kobayashi pitted on lap 37, he entered his pit box with too much speed, going slightly wide, and clattering into his mechanics on the right-hand side, before knocking the front jack man off his feet. Thankfully, no-one was seriously injured.
After the final round of pitstops, the running order of the top 10 was Alonso, Webber, Vettel, Massa, Räikkönen, Grosjean, Hamilton, Schumacher, Hülkenberg and Senna. Button was 11th, followed by Kobayashi, Vergne, Ricciardo and Rosberg. Maldonado was nearly a lap down in 16th.
Webber was closing down on leader Alonso at over half a second a lap. It was becoming a question of when, and not if, Webber would get past the Spaniard. On lap 47, Webber got the gap down to just half a second. On this lap, Schumacher, who was also going very quickly, managed to overtake Hamilton with the aid of DRS. Then, on lap 48, Webber got past Alonso, for the lead, with a DRS overtake. Alonso was trying to make his tyres last too long, and unfortunately paid the price.
With three laps remaining, Senna attempted to overtake Hülkenberg for ninth. The Brazilian got past at Brooklands, before Hülkenberg ran wide at Copse, losing two more positions to Button and Kobayashi, and falling to twelfth.
Webber went on to win the race, which would ultimately prove to be his final victory in F1, finishing 2.5 seconds ahead of Alonso. Vettel claimed the final podium place. Fourth was Massa, his best finish since his third place at the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix. Fifth was Räikkönen, less than a second behind Massa. Grosjean completed a strong recovery by coming in sixth. Schumacher was seventh and Hamilton was eighth, followed by Senna and Button, who took the final point. Kobayashi came 11th, ahead of the unlucky Hülkenberg. Thirteenth was Ricciardo, who overtook Vergne with a few laps to go. Rosberg was fifteenth. Maldonado, after his collision, came in a lap down in sixteenth. Heikki Kovalainen was the first driver of the new teams, in seventeenth, ahead of Timo Glock and Charles Pic. Pedro de la Rosa, who managed to complete a one-stop strategy, was twentieth; followed by his teammate, Narain Karthikeyan.
===Post-Race===
Mark Webber's win brought him seven points closer to Fernando Alonso, whose lead was now thirteen points. Sebastian Vettel overtook Lewis Hamilton in the championship battle; Vettel was now third.
In the Constructors' Championship, held their lead, but second was now , after a 2nd place and a 4th place. were third, and were behind them by two points, capping off a disappointing weekend by falling two places in the championship.
Pastor Maldonado was given a fine of €10,000 (euros) for his collision with Sergio Pérez. Kamui Kobayashi was given a fine of €25,000 for his pitstop mishap, which could have serious injured four members of the pit crew.
===Results===
Pos.	No.	Driver 	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired 	Avg Speed	Grid	Pts
1 	2 	Mark Webber 	 	52 	1:25:11.288 	215.662 	2 	25
2 	5 	Fernando Alonso 	 	52 	+ 3.060 s 	215.533 	1 	18
3 	1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	52 	+ 4.836 s 	215.459 	4 	15
4 	6 	Felipe Massa 	 	52 	+ 9.519 s 	215.262 	5 	12
5 	9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	52 	+ 10.314 s 	215.228 	6 	10
6 	10 	Romain Grosjean 	 	52 	+ 17.101 s 	214.943 	9 	8
7 	7 	Michael Schumacher	 	52 	+ 29.153 s 	214.439 	3 	6
8 	4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	52 	+ 36.463 s 	214.135 	8 	4
9 	19 	Bruno Senna 	 	52 	+ 43.347 s 	213.849 	13 	2
10 	3 	Jenson Button 	 	52 	+ 44.444 s 	213.803 	16 	1
11 	14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 	52 	+ 45.370 s 	213.765 	17 	
12 	12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	52 	+ 47.856 s 	213.662 	14 	
13 	16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	52 	+ 51.241 s 	213.522 	12 	
14 	17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	52 	+ 53.313 s 	213.436 	23 	
15 	8 	Nico Rosberg 	 	52 	+ 57.394 s 	213.268 	11 	
16 	18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 	51 	+ 1 lap 	209.957 	7 	
17 	20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 	51 	+ 1 lap 	209.577 	19 	
18 	24 	Timo Glock 	 	51 	+ 1 lap 	208.596 	20 	
19 	25 	Charles Pic 	 	51 	+ 1 lap 	207.777 	24 	
20 	22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 	50 	+ 2 laps 	206.740 	21 	
21 	23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 	50 	+ 2 laps 	206.235 	22 	
Ret 	15 	Sergio Pérez 	 	11 	Collision 	209.553 	15 	
Ret 	11 	Paul di Resta 	 	2 	Collision damage/Puncture	141.581 	10 	
DNS 	21 	Vitaly Petrov 	 	 	Engine 	 	18 	
===Fastest Laps===
Pos.	No.	Driver 	Constructor	Lap	Time 	Gap 	Avg Speed	Race
1 	9 	Kimi Räikkönen 	 	50 	1:34.661	 	224.037 	5
2 	10 	Romain Grosjean 	 	50 	1:34.884	0.223	223.511 	6
3 	1 	Sebastian Vettel 	 	52 	1:34.897	0.236	223.480 	3
4 	2 	Mark Webber 	 	49 	1:34.934	0.273	223.393 	1
5 	6 	Felipe Massa 	 	50 	1:35.041	0.380	223.142 	4
6 	7 	Michael Schumacher	 	52 	1:35.191	0.530	222.790 	7
7 	5 	Fernando Alonso 	 	49 	1:35.385	0.724	222.337 	2
8 	16 	Daniel Ricciardo 	 	49 	1:35.448	0.787	222.190 	13
9 	14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	 	48 	1:35.478	0.817	222.120 	11
10 	17 	Jean-Éric Vergne 	 	49 	1:35.514	0.853	222.037 	14
11 	8 	Nico Rosberg 	 	49 	1:35.750	1.089	221.489 	15
12 	19 	Bruno Senna 	 	48 	1:35.863	1.202	221.228 	9
13 	12 	Nico Hülkenberg 	 	37 	1:35.981	1.320	220.956 	12
14 	3 	Jenson Button 	 	52 	1:36.086	1.425	220.715 	10
15 	4 	Lewis Hamilton 	 	44 	1:36.173	1.512	220.515 	8
16 	24 	Timo Glock 	 	50 	1:37.422	2.761	217.688 	18
17 	18 	Pastor Maldonado 	 	34 	1:37.515	2.854	217.480 	16
18 	25 	Charles Pic 	 	50 	1:38.008	3.347	216.386 	19
19 	20 	Heikki Kovalainen 	 	37 	1:38.050	3.389	216.294 	17
20 	23 	Narain Karthikeyan	 	50 	1:38.339	3.678	215.658 	21
21 	22 	Pedro de la Rosa 	 	44 	1:39.618	4.957	212.889 	20
22 	15 	Sergio Pérez 	 	3 	1:39.781	5.120	212.541 	Ret
===Laps in the Lead===
====By Lap====
Stint	Driver 	Laps 	Total	Distance
1 	Fernando Alonso	1 – 15 	15 	88.371 km
2 	Lewis Hamilton 	16 – 18	3 	17.673 km
3 	Fernando Alonso	19 – 47	29 	170.839 km
4 	Mark Webber 	48 – 52	5 	29.455 km
====Totals====
Pos.	Driver 	Laps	Distance
1 	Fernando Alonso	44 	259.070 km
2 	Mark Webber 	5 	29.455 km
3 	Lewis Hamilton 	3 	17.673 km
==Milestones==
* 's 30th victory.
* Final win for Mark Webber.
==Standings after race==
Drivers' World Championship	Drivers' World Championship	Drivers' World Championship
Pos. 	Driver 	Pts
1 	Fernando Alonso 	129
2 	Mark Webber 	116
3 	Sebastian Vettel 	100
4 	Lewis Hamilton 	92
5 	Kimi Räikkönen 	83
6 	Nico Rosberg 	75
7 	Romain Grosjean 	61
8 	Jenson Button 	50
9 	Sergio Pérez 	39
10 	Pastor Maldonado 	29
11 	Paul di Resta 	27
12 	Michael Schumacher 	23
13 	Felipe Massa 	23
14 	Kamui Kobayashi 	21
15 	Bruno Senna 	18
16 	Nico Hülkenberg 	17
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 	 	216
2 	 	152
3 	 	144
4 	 	142
5 	 	98
6 	 	60
7 	 	47
8 	 	44
9 	 	6
10 	 	0
11 	 	0
12 	 	0
==Notes==
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