Race · Round 14 of 20 · 23 September 2012

2012 Singapore Grand Prix

Sebastian Vettel won for Red Bull Racing from 3rd on the grid at Marina Bay Street Circuit. 5 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 28 °C, 5.9 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Marina Bay Street CircuitSingapore, Singapore
Winner: Sebastian VettelRed Bull Racing
Pole: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Fastest lap: Nico Hulkenberg
Entries: 2419 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	RB8	3	59	Finished	25
2	Jenson Button	McLaren	MP4-27	4	59	Finished	18
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F2012	5	59	Finished	15
4	Paul di Resta	Force India	VJM05	6	59	Finished	12
5	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W03	10	59	Finished	10
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	E20	12	59	Finished	8
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	E20	8	59	Finished	6
8	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F2012	13	59	Finished	4
9	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	15	59	Finished	2
10	Sergio Perez	Sauber	C31	14	59	Finished	1
11	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB8	7	59	Finished	0
12	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	20	59	Finished	0
13	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	C31	17	59	Finished	0
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	VJM05	11	59	Finished	0	fastest lap
15	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	19	59	Finished	0
16	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	21	59	Finished	0
17	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	F112	24	58	Finished	0
18	Bruno Senna	Williams	FW34	22	57	Engine	0
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	18	57	Finished	0
DNF	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	16	38	Collision	0
DNF	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	F1 W03	9	38	Collision	0
DNF	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	FW34	2	36	Hydraulics	0
DNF	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	F112	23	30	Accident	0
DNF	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-27	1	22	Gearbox	0

F1DB layout marina-bay-1 · 5.073 km · 23 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sebastian Vettel	3	1	59
Jenson Button	4	2	59
Fernando Alonso	5	3	59
Paul di Resta	6	4	59
Nico Rosberg	10	5	59
Kimi Raikkonen	12	6	59
Romain Grosjean	8	7	59
Felipe Massa	13	8	59
Daniel Ricciardo	15	9	59
Sergio Perez	14	10	59
Mark Webber	7	11	59
Timo Glock	20	12	59
Kamui Kobayashi	17	13	59
Nico Hulkenberg	11	14	59
Heikki Kovalainen	19	15	59
Charles Pic	21	16	59
Pedro de la Rosa	24	17	58
Bruno Senna	22	18	57
Vitaly Petrov	18	19	57
Jean-Éric Vergne	16	DNF	38
Michael Schumacher	9	DNF	38
Pastor Maldonado	2	DNF	36
Narain Karthikeyan	23	DNF	30
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	DNF	22

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:48.285	1:46.665	1:46.362	—	0 m	—
2	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:49.494	1:47.602	1:46.804	+0.442	21 m	+0.442
3	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:48.240	1:46.791	1:46.905	+0.543	26 m	+0.101
4	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:49.381	1:47.661	1:46.939	+0.577	27 m	+0.034
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:49.391	1:47.567	1:47.216	+0.854	41 m	+0.277
6	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:48.028	1:47.667	1:47.241	+0.879	42 m	+0.025
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:48.717	1:47.513	1:47.475	+1.113	53 m	+0.234
8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:47.688	1:47.529	1:47.788	+1.426	68 m	+0.313
9	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:49.546	1:47.823	—	—	55 m	—
10	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:49.463	1:47.943	—	—	61 m	—
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:49.547	1:47.975	—	—	62 m	—
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:48.169	1:48.261	—	—	76 m	—
13	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:49.767	1:48.344	—	—	80 m	—
14	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:49.055	1:48.505	—	—	87 m	—
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:49.023	1:48.774	—	—	100 m	—
16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:49.564	1:48.849	—	—	104 m	—
17	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:49.809	—	—	—	100 m	—
18	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:49.933	—	—	—	106 m	—
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:50.846	—	—	—	148 m	—
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:51.137	—	—	—	162 m	—
21	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:51.370	—	—	—	173 m	—
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:51.762	—	—	—	192 m	—
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:52.372	—	—	—	220 m	—
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:53.355	—	—	—	266 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Sebastian Vettel	1	59	2	10, 33	29.1, 31.1
Jenson Button	2	59	2	14, 33	30.0, 29.7
Fernando Alonso	3	59	2	11, 29	29.6, 29.2
Paul di Resta	4	59	2	12, 33	31.0, 30.0
Nico Rosberg	5	59	2	12, 33	29.5, 29.7
Kimi Raikkonen	6	59	2	13, 32	29.7, 29.4
Romain Grosjean	7	59	2	14, 33	32.1, 31.8
Felipe Massa	8	59	3	1, 19, 33	32.0, 29.4, 29.5
Daniel Ricciardo	9	59	2	11, 31	31.0, 29.8
Sergio Perez	10	59	2	18, 40	30.0, 30.2
Mark Webber	11	59	3	8, 28, 40	29.3, 29.3, 29.3
Timo Glock	12	59	2	13, 25	31.0, 32.0
Kamui Kobayashi	13	59	3	14, 30, 50	30.7, 30.8, 36.1
Nico Hulkenberg	14	59	3	18, 40, 50	30.4, 30.6, 34.6
Heikki Kovalainen	15	59	3	12, 26, 45	30.4, 30.1, 30.2
Charles Pic	16	59	2	16, 32	30.6, 30.8
Pedro de la Rosa	17	58	3	18, 30, 40	33.0, 32.6, 44.1
Bruno Senna	18	57	3	10, 25, 33	30.3, 30.8, 30.7
Vitaly Petrov	19	57	4	1, 18, 30, 40	36.1, 30.3, 30.4, 41.2
Jean-Éric Vergne	DNF	38	2	12, 24	30.5, 29.9
Michael Schumacher	DNF	38	2	11, 33	30.9, 30.3
Pastor Maldonado	DNF	36	3	13, 29, 33	30.2, 30.5, 31.0
Narain Karthikeyan	DNF	30	1	19	32.4
Sir Lewis Hamilton	DNF	22	1	12	29.1

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Sebastian Vettel · Jenson Button	3 · 4	1 · 2	10 · 14	Sebastian Vettel	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Fernando Alonso	4 · 5	2 · 3	14 · 11	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Paul di Resta	5 · 6	3 · 4	11 · 12	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Paul di Resta · Nico Rosberg	6 · 10	4 · 5	12 · 12	Same lap	Kept their order
Paul di Resta · Mark Webber	6 · 7	4 · 11	12 · 8	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Nico Hulkenberg	10 · 11	5 · 14	12 · 18	Nico Rosberg	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Kimi Raikkonen	10 · 12	5 · 6	12 · 13	Nico Rosberg	Kept their order
Romain Grosjean · Kimi Raikkonen	8 · 12	7 · 6	14 · 13	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Kimi Raikkonen	11 · 12	14 · 6	18 · 13	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Felipe Massa	12 · 13	6 · 8	13 · 1	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Romain Grosjean	7 · 8	11 · 7	8 · 14	Mark Webber	Swapped places
Romain Grosjean · Felipe Massa	8 · 13	7 · 8	14 · 1	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Daniel Ricciardo	13 · 15	8 · 9	1 · 11	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Sergio Perez	13 · 14	8 · 10	1 · 18	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Daniel Ricciardo	14 · 15	10 · 9	18 · 11	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Mark Webber · Sergio Perez	7 · 14	11 · 10	8 · 18	Mark Webber	Swapped places
Mark Webber · Timo Glock	7 · 20	11 · 12	8 · 13	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Kamui Kobayashi · Timo Glock	17 · 20	13 · 12	14 · 13	Timo Glock	Swapped places
Heikki Kovalainen · Timo Glock	19 · 20	15 · 12	12 · 13	Heikki Kovalainen	Swapped places
Timo Glock · Charles Pic	20 · 21	12 · 16	13 · 16	Timo Glock	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Kamui Kobayashi	11 · 17	14 · 13	18 · 14	Kamui Kobayashi	Swapped places
Kamui Kobayashi · Vitaly Petrov	17 · 18	13 · 19	14 · 1	Vitaly Petrov	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Heikki Kovalainen	11 · 19	14 · 15	18 · 12	Heikki Kovalainen	Kept their order
Vitaly Petrov · Heikki Kovalainen	18 · 19	19 · 15	1 · 12	Vitaly Petrov	Swapped places
Heikki Kovalainen · Charles Pic	19 · 21	15 · 16	12 · 16	Heikki Kovalainen	Kept their order
Charles Pic · Pedro de la Rosa	21 · 24	16 · 17	16 · 18	Charles Pic	Kept their order
Charles Pic · Bruno Senna	21 · 22	16 · 18	16 · 10	Bruno Senna	Kept their order
Bruno Senna · Pedro de la Rosa	22 · 24	18 · 17	10 · 18	Bruno Senna	Swapped places
Vitaly Petrov · Bruno Senna	18 · 22	19 · 18	1 · 10	Vitaly Petrov	Swapped places

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:50.566	—	0 m	—	24
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:50.615	+0.049	2 m	+0.049	15
3	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:51.459	+0.893	41 m	+0.844	17
4	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:51.525	+0.959	44 m	+0.066	20
5	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:51.576	+1.010	46 m	+0.051	20
6	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:51.655	+1.089	50 m	+0.079	19
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:51.658	+1.092	50 m	+0.003	24
8	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:51.943	+1.377	63 m	+0.285	21
9	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:52.275	+1.709	78 m	+0.332	24
10	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:52.296	+1.730	79 m	+0.021	19
11	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:52.629	+2.063	94 m	+0.333	25
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:52.716	+2.150	98 m	+0.087	16
13	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:52.839	+2.273	104 m	+0.123	23
14	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:52.986	+2.420	111 m	+0.147	21
15	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:53.028	+2.462	113 m	+0.042	20
16	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:53.080	+2.514	115 m	+0.052	17
17	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:53.189	+2.623	120 m	+0.109	25
18	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:53.227	+2.661	122 m	+0.038	26
19	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:54.908	+4.342	199 m	+1.681	20
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:55.091	+4.525	207 m	+0.183	16
21	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:55.335	+4.769	218 m	+0.244	22
22	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:55.760	+5.194	238 m	+0.425	22
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:56.656	+6.090	279 m	+0.896	21
24	Qing Hua Ma (never started a Grand Prix)	HRT	23	1:58.053	+7.487	343 m	+1.397	20

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing. † Drove in practice and never started a Grand Prix.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:48.340	—	0 m	—	27
2	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:48.651	+0.311	15 m	+0.311	24
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:48.896	+0.556	26 m	+0.245	26
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:48.964	+0.624	29 m	+0.068	26
5	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:49.086	+0.746	35 m	+0.122	28
6	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:49.300	+0.960	45 m	+0.214	30
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:49.339	+0.999	47 m	+0.039	32
8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:49.790	+1.450	68 m	+0.451	32
9	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:50.039	+1.699	79 m	+0.249	28
10	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:50.161	+1.821	85 m	+0.122	24
11	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:50.263	+1.923	90 m	+0.102	23
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:50.345	+2.005	94 m	+0.082	24
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:50.636	+2.296	107 m	+0.291	32
14	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:50.791	+2.451	115 m	+0.155	26
15	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:51.122	+2.782	130 m	+0.331	28
16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:51.450	+3.110	145 m	+0.328	21
17	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:51.452	+3.112	145 m	+0.002	11
18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:52.009	+3.669	171 m	+0.557	31
19	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:52.218	+3.878	181 m	+0.209	29
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:52.576	+4.236	198 m	+0.358	27
21	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:52.863	+4.523	211 m	+0.287	27
22	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:52.936	+4.596	215 m	+0.073	26
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:54.448	+6.108	285 m	+1.512	26
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:54.514	+6.174	289 m	+0.066	30

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:47.947	—	0 m	—	15
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:48.272	+0.325	15 m	+0.325	15
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:48.623	+0.676	32 m	+0.351	11
4	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:48.859	+0.912	43 m	+0.236	16
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:48.865	+0.918	43 m	+0.006	17
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:49.458	+1.511	71 m	+0.593	13
7	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:49.684	+1.737	81 m	+0.226	15
8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:49.699	+1.752	82 m	+0.015	16
9	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:49.715	+1.768	83 m	+0.016	14
10	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:49.981	+2.034	95 m	+0.266	14
11	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:50.110	+2.163	101 m	+0.129	12
12	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:50.524	+2.577	121 m	+0.414	10
13	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:50.664	+2.717	127 m	+0.140	16
14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:50.777	+2.830	133 m	+0.113	15
15	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:50.840	+2.893	136 m	+0.063	15
16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:51.012	+3.065	144 m	+0.172	15
17	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:51.059	+3.112	146 m	+0.047	17
18	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:51.272	+3.325	156 m	+0.213	10
19	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:52.290	+4.343	204 m	+1.018	16
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:53.781	+5.834	274 m	+1.491	12
21	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:54.326	+6.379	299 m	+0.545	14
22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:54.421	+6.474	304 m	+0.095	14
23	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:54.630	+6.683	313 m	+0.209	9
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:54.875	+6.928	325 m	+0.245	14

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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Where this comes from

Round: 14 of 2012
Grand Prix: Singapore Grand Prix
Dates: 23 Sep 2012
Layout raced: Original layout · 5.063 km · 23 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Red Bull Racing
Entrant: Red Bull-Renault
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.