Canada 2012: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Vettel	Red Bull	1:14.661	1:14.187	1:13.784
2	Hamilton	McLaren	1:14.891	1:14.371	1:14.087	+0.303
3	Alonso	Ferrari	1:14.916	1:14.314	1:14.151	+0.367
4	Webber	Red Bull	1:14.956	1:14.479	1:14.346	+0.562
5	Rosberg	Mercedes	1:15.098	1:14.568	1:14.411	+0.627
6	Massa	Ferrari	1:15.194	1:14.641	1:14.465	+0.681
7	Grosjean	Lotus	1:15.163	1:14.627	1:14.645	+0.861
8	Di Resta	Force India	1:15.019	1:14.639	1:14.705	+0.921
9	Schumacher	Mercedes	1:14.892	1:14.480	1:14.812	+1.028
10	Button	McLaren	1:14.799	1:14.680	1:15.182	+1.398
11	Kobayashi	Sauber	1:15.101	1:14.688		+0.501
12	Räikkönen	Lotus	1:14.995	1:14.734		+0.547
13	Hülkenberg	Force India	1:15.106	1:14.748		+0.561
14	Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	1:15.552	1:15.078		+0.891
15	Pérez	Sauber	1:15.326	1:15.156		+0.969
16	Senna	Williams	1:14.995	1:15.170		+0.983
17	Maldonado	Williams	1:14.979	1:15.231		+1.044
18	Kovalainen	Caterham	1:16.263			+1.602
19	Petrov	Caterham	1:16.482			+1.821
20	Vergne	Toro Rosso	1:16.602			+1.941
21	De la Rosa	HRT	1:17.492			+2.831
22	Glock	Marussia	1:17.901			+3.240
23	Pic	Marussia	1:18.255			+3.594
24	Karthikeyan	HRT	1:18.330			+3.669

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	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	2	70	1:32:29.586	2	Mercedes
2	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	7	70	+2.513	1	Renault
3	Sergio Pérez	Sauber	15	70	+5.260	1	Ferrari
4	Sebastian VettelFastest lap	Red Bull	1	70	+7.295	2	Renault
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	3	70	+13.411	1	Ferrari
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	5	70	+13.842	2	Mercedes
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull	4	70	+15.085	2	Renault
8	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus	12	70	+15.567	1	Renault
9	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	11	70	+24.432	1	Ferrari
10	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	70	+25.272	2	Ferrari
11	Paul di Resta	Force India	8	70	+37.693	2	Mercedes
12	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India	13	70	+46.236	2	Mercedes
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	22	70	+47.052	1	Renault
14	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	14	70	+1:04.475	2	Ferrari
15	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso	19	69	+1 lap	3	Ferrari
16	Jenson Button	McLaren	10	69	+1 lap	3	Mercedes
17	Bruno Senna	Williams	16	69	+1 lap	1	Renault
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham	17	69	+1 lap	2	Renault
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham	18	69	+1 lap	2	Renault
20	Charles Pic	Marussia	23	67	+3 laps	1	Cosworth
DNF	Timo Glock	Marussia	21	56	Brakes	1	Cosworth
DNF	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	9	43	Hydraulics	2	Mercedes
DNF	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	20	24	Brakes	0	Cosworth
DNF	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	24	22	Brakes	0	Cosworth

Starting grid vs qualifying

Maldonado Qualified 17, started 22 · 5-place penalty

Penalties and pit lane starts. Everyone else moves up accordingly.

Race

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Places gained

Pérez15→3+12
Maldonado22→13+9
Grosjean7→2+5
Räikkönen12→8+4
Vergne19→15+4
Pic23→20+3
Kobayashi11→9+2
Hamilton2→1+1
Hülkenberg13→12+1
Ricciardo14→140
Rosberg5→6-1
Senna16→17-1
Kovalainen17→18-1
Petrov18→19-1
Alonso3→5-2
Vettel1→4-3
Webber4→7-3
Di Resta8→11-3
Massa6→10-4
Button10→16-6

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

Fastest pit stops

1Vergne14.641R47
2Massa21.115R58
3Massa21.128R12
4Alonso21.133R19
5Rosberg21.179R38
6Webber21.199R17
7Rosberg21.222R19
8Webber21.254R52
9Button21.363R52
10Hamilton21.375R17

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

Stints of the top 10

Hamilton1733202 stops
Grosjean21491 stop
Pérez41291 stop
Vettel164772 stops
Alonso19511 stop
Rosberg1919322 stops
Webber1735182 stops
Räikkönen40301 stop
Kobayashi24461 stop
Massa1246122 stops

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.

This race in history

32 races here since 1978Won from pole: 14 of 32

Win from furthest back (P10): Jacques Laffite 1981

Most wins here

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

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