Spain 2012: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Maldonado	Williams	1:23.380	1:22.105	1:22.285	+0.578
2	Alonso	Ferrari	1:23.276	1:22.862	1:22.302	+0.595
3	Grosjean	Lotus	1:23.248	1:22.667	1:22.424	+0.717
4	Räikkönen	Lotus	1:23.406	1:22.856	1:22.487	+0.780
5	Pérez	Sauber	1:24.261	1:22.773	1:22.533	+0.826
6	Rosberg	Mercedes	1:23.370	1:22.882	1:23.005	+1.298
7	Vettel	Red Bull	1:23.850	1:22.884		+0.779
8	Schumacher	Mercedes	1:23.757	1:22.904		+0.799
9	Kobayashi	Sauber	1:23.386	1:22.897		+0.792
10	Button	McLaren	1:23.510	1:22.944		+0.839
11	Webber	Red Bull	1:23.592	1:22.977		+0.872
12	Di Resta	Force India	1:23.852	1:23.125		+1.020
13	Hülkenberg	Force India	1:23.720	1:23.177		+1.072
14	Vergne	Toro Rosso	1:24.362	1:23.265		+1.160
15	Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	1:23.906	1:23.442		+1.337
16	Massa	Ferrari	1:23.886	1:23.444		+1.339
17	Senna	Williams	1:24.981			+2.398
18	Petrov	Caterham	1:25.277			+2.694
19	Kovalainen	Caterham	1:25.507			+2.924
20	Pic	Marussia	1:26.582			+3.999
21	Glock	Marussia	1:27.032			+4.449
22	De la Rosa	HRT	1:27.555			+4.972
NC	Karthikeyan	HRT	1:31.122			+8.539
EX	Hamilton	McLaren	1:22.583	1:22.465	1:21.707

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	1	66	1:39:09.145	3	Renault
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	2	66	+3.195	3	Ferrari
3	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus	4	66	+3.884	3	Renault
4	Romain GrosjeanFastest lap	Lotus	3	66	+14.799	3	Renault
5	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	9	66	+1:04.641	3	Ferrari
6	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	7	66	+1:07.576	4	Renault
7	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	6	66	+1:17.919	3	Mercedes
8	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	24	66	+1:18.140	2	Mercedes
9	Jenson Button	McLaren	10	66	+1:25.246	3	Mercedes
10	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India	13	65	+1 lap	3	Mercedes
11	Mark Webber	Red Bull	11	65	+1 lap	3	Renault
12	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso	14	65	+1 lap	3	Ferrari
13	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	15	65	+1 lap	3	Ferrari
14	Paul di Resta	Force India	12	65	+1 lap	3	Mercedes
15	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	16	65	+1 lap	4	Ferrari
16	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham	19	65	+1 lap	3	Renault
17	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham	18	65	+1 lap	3	Renault
18	Timo Glock	Marussia	21	64	+2 laps	3	Cosworth
19	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	63	+3 laps	4	Cosworth
DNF	Sergio Pérez	Sauber	5	37	Transmission	3	Ferrari
DNF	Charles Pic	Marussia	20	35	Halfshaft	2	Cosworth
DNF	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	22	Wheel	2	Cosworth
DNF	Bruno Senna	Williams	17	12	Collision damage	0	Renault
DNF	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	8	12	Collision	1	Mercedes

Race

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Places gained

Hamilton24→8+16
Kobayashi9→5+4
Hülkenberg13→10+3
Kovalainen19→16+3
Glock21→18+3
De la Rosa22→19+3
Vergne14→12+2
Ricciardo15→13+2
Räikkönen4→3+1
Vettel7→6+1
Button10→9+1
Massa16→15+1
Petrov18→17+1
Maldonado1→10
Alonso2→20
Webber11→110
Grosjean3→4-1
Rosberg6→7-1
Di Resta12→14-2

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Fastest pit stops

1Massa13.259R28
2Vettel13.335R30
3Alonso19.456R10
4Vettel19.624R27
5Massa19.699R29
6Vettel19.745R7
7Räikkönen19.777R11
8Di Resta19.867R42
9Button19.888R38
10Hamilton19.980R35

Time in the pit lane from entry to exit, in seconds.

Stints of the top 10

Maldonado111317253 stops
Alonso101618223 stops
Räikkönen111621183 stops
Grosjean101625153 stops
Kobayashi81815253 stops
Vettel720312244 stops
Rosberg91318263 stops
Hamilton1421312 stops
Button91613283 stops
Hülkenberg10920263 stops · +1 lap

Stint length in laps, worked out from the pit stops. Which tyre compound was used per stint needs a licence for timing data, so it is not shown here. Lapped drivers covered fewer laps, so their bar ends earlier.

Retirements

PérezTransmissionSauber
PicHalfshaftMarussia
KarthikeyanWheelHRT
SennaCollision damageWilliams
SchumacherCollisionMercedes

This race in history

21 races here since 1991Won from pole: 16 of 21

Win from furthest back (P3): Michael Schumacher 1996

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.

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