Race · Round 17 of 20 · 28 October 2012

2012 Indian Grand Prix

Sebastian Vettel won for Red Bull Racing from pole at Buddh International Circuit. 2 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 28 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Buddh International CircuitGreater Noida, India
Winner: Sebastian VettelRed Bull Racing
Pole: Sebastian Vettel
Fastest lap: Jenson Button
Entries: 2422 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	RB8	1	60	Finished	25
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F2012	5	60	Finished	18
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB8	2	60	Finished	15
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-27	3	60	Finished	12
5	Jenson Button	McLaren	MP4-27	4	60	Finished	10	fastest lap
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F2012	6	60	Finished	8
7	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	E20	7	60	Finished	6
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	VJM05	12	60	Finished	4
9	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	E20	11	60	Finished	2
10	Bruno Senna	Williams	FW34	13	60	Finished	1
11	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W03	10	60	Finished	0
12	Paul di Resta	Force India	VJM05	16	60	Finished	0
13	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	15	60	Finished	0
14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	C31	17	60	Finished	0
15	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	18	59	Finished	0
16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	FW34	9	59	Finished	0
17	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	19	59	Finished	0
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	20	59	Finished	0
19	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	24	59	Finished	0
20	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	21	58	Finished	0
21	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	F112	23	58	Finished	0
22	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	F1 W03	14	55	Gearbox	0
DNF	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	F112	22	42	Brakes	0
DNF	Sergio Perez	Sauber	C31	8	20	Collision damage	0

F1DB layout buddh-1 · 5.125 km · 16 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	1	1	60
Fernando Alonso	5	2	60
Mark Webber	2	3	60
Sir Lewis Hamilton	3	4	60
Jenson Button	4	5	60
Felipe Massa	6	6	60
Kimi Raikkonen	7	7	60
Nico Hulkenberg	12	8	60
Romain Grosjean	11	9	60
Bruno Senna	13	10	60
Nico Rosberg	10	11	60
Paul di Resta	16	12	60
Daniel Ricciardo	15	13	60
Kamui Kobayashi	17	14	60
Jean-Éric Vergne	18	15	59
Pastor Maldonado	9	16	59
Vitaly Petrov	19	17	59
Heikki Kovalainen	20	18	59
Charles Pic	24	19	59
Timo Glock	21	20	58
Narain Karthikeyan	23	21	58
Michael Schumacher	14	22	55
Pedro de la Rosa	22	DNF	42
Sergio Perez	8	DNF	20

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:26.387	1:25.435	1:25.283	—	0 m	—
2	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:26.744	1:25.610	1:25.327	+0.044	3 m	+0.044
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:26.516	1:25.816	1:25.544	+0.261	16 m	+0.217
4	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:26.564	1:25.467	1:25.659	+0.376	23 m	+0.115
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:26.829	1:25.834	1:25.773	+0.490	29 m	+0.114
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:26.939	1:26.111	1:25.857	+0.574	34 m	+0.084
7	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:26.740	1:26.101	1:26.236	+0.953	57 m	+0.379
8	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:27.179	1:26.076	1:26.360	+1.077	65 m	+0.124
9	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:26.048	1:25.983	1:26.713	+1.430	86 m	+0.353
10	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:26.458	1:25.976	—	—	32 m	—
11	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:26.897	1:26.136	—	—	42 m	—
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:27.185	1:26.241	—	—	48 m	—
13	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:26.851	1:26.331	—	—	54 m	—
14	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:27.482	1:26.574	—	—	68 m	—
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:27.006	1:26.777	—	—	81 m	—
16	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:27.462	1:26.989	—	—	93 m	—
17	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:27.517	1:27.219	—	—	107 m	—
18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:27.525	—	—	—	88 m	—
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:28.756	—	—	—	161 m	—
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:29.500	—	—	—	206 m	—
21	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:29.613	—	—	—	212 m	—
22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:30.592	—	—	—	271 m	—
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:30.593	—	—	—	271 m	—
24	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:30.662	—	—	—	275 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	60	1	33	20.7
Fernando Alonso	2	60	1	29	20.8
Mark Webber	3	60	1	30	20.8
Sir Lewis Hamilton	4	60	1	32	20.9
Jenson Button	5	60	1	25	21.5
Felipe Massa	6	60	1	28	21.1
Kimi Raikkonen	7	60	1	27	21.4
Nico Hulkenberg	8	60	1	28	21.7
Romain Grosjean	9	60	1	36	21.0
Bruno Senna	10	60	1	26	22.0
Nico Rosberg	11	60	1	27	21.5
Paul di Resta	12	60	1	28	23.9
Daniel Ricciardo	13	60	1	27	22.6
Kamui Kobayashi	14	60	1	36	22.7
Jean-Éric Vergne	15	59	2	1, 33	25.1, 21.7
Pastor Maldonado	16	59	2	27, 30	22.0, 28.1
Vitaly Petrov	17	59	1	31	22.4
Heikki Kovalainen	18	59	1	32	23.0
Charles Pic	19	59	1	28	22.7
Timo Glock	20	58	1	31	27.3
Narain Karthikeyan	21	58	1	26	24.5
Michael Schumacher	22	55	2	1, 33	25.0, 21.3
Pedro de la Rosa	DNF	42	1	32	23.8
Sergio Perez	DNF	20	2	14, 19	21.3, 24.5

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 · Fernando Alonso	1 · 5	1 · 2	33 · 29	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Mark Webber	1 · 2	1 · 3	33 · 30	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Fernando Alonso	2 · 5	3 · 2	30 · 29	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Fernando Alonso	4 · 5	5 · 2	25 · 29	Jenson Button	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Felipe Massa	5 · 6	2 · 6	29 · 28	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Sir Lewis Hamilton	2 · 3	3 · 4	30 · 32	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Jenson Button	3 · 4	4 · 5	32 · 25	Jenson Button	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Felipe Massa	4 · 6	5 · 6	25 · 28	Jenson Button	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Kimi Raikkonen	6 · 7	6 · 7	28 · 27	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Nico Hulkenberg	7 · 12	7 · 8	27 · 28	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Romain Grosjean · Nico Hulkenberg	11 · 12	9 · 8	36 · 28	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Bruno Senna	12 · 13	8 · 10	28 · 26	Bruno Senna	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Romain Grosjean	10 · 11	11 · 9	27 · 36	Nico Rosberg	Swapped places
Romain Grosjean · Bruno Senna	11 · 13	9 · 10	36 · 26	Bruno Senna	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Bruno Senna	10 · 13	11 · 10	27 · 26	Bruno Senna	Swapped places
Bruno Senna · Michael Schumacher	13 · 14	10 · 22	26 · 1	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Pastor Maldonado · Nico Rosberg	9 · 10	16 · 11	27 · 27	Same lap	Swapped places
Nico Rosberg · Paul di Resta	10 · 16	11 · 12	27 · 28	Nico Rosberg	Kept their order
Daniel Ricciardo · Paul di Resta	15 · 16	13 · 12	27 · 28	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Paul di Resta · Kamui Kobayashi	16 · 17	12 · 14	28 · 36	Paul di Resta	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Daniel Ricciardo	14 · 15	22 · 13	1 · 27	Michael Schumacher	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Kamui Kobayashi	15 · 17	13 · 14	27 · 36	Daniel Ricciardo	Kept their order
Kamui Kobayashi · Jean-Éric Vergne	17 · 18	14 · 15	36 · 1	Jean-Éric Vergne	Kept their order
Pastor Maldonado · Jean-Éric Vergne	9 · 18	16 · 15	27 · 1	Jean-Éric Vergne	Swapped places
Jean-Éric Vergne · Vitaly Petrov	18 · 19	15 · 17	1 · 31	Jean-Éric Vergne	Kept their order
Pastor Maldonado · Vitaly Petrov	9 · 19	16 · 17	27 · 31	Pastor Maldonado	Kept their order
Vitaly Petrov · Heikki Kovalainen	19 · 20	17 · 18	31 · 32	Vitaly Petrov	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · Charles Pic	20 · 24	18 · 19	32 · 28	Charles Pic	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · Timo Glock	20 · 21	18 · 20	32 · 31	Timo Glock	Kept their order
Timo Glock · Charles Pic	21 · 24	20 · 19	31 · 28	Charles Pic	Swapped places
Narain Karthikeyan · Charles Pic	23 · 24	21 · 19	26 · 28	Narain Karthikeyan	Swapped places
Timo Glock · Narain Karthikeyan	21 · 23	20 · 21	31 · 26	Narain Karthikeyan	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Narain Karthikeyan	14 · 23	22 · 21	1 · 26	Michael Schumacher	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	1:27.619	—	0 m	—	22
2	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:27.929	+0.310	18 m	+0.310	22
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:28.044	+0.425	25 m	+0.115	24
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:28.046	+0.427	25 m	+0.002	25
5	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:28.175	+0.556	33 m	+0.129	22
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:28.447	+0.828	48 m	+0.272	25
7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:28.542	+0.923	54 m	+0.095	24
8	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:28.993	+1.374	80 m	+0.451	23
9	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:29.204	+1.585	93 m	+0.211	24
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:29.291	+1.672	98 m	+0.087	24
11	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	19	1:29.691	+2.072	121 m	+0.400	26
12	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:29.760	+2.141	125 m	+0.069	23
13	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:29.802	+2.183	128 m	+0.042	18
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:29.850	+2.231	130 m	+0.048	19
15	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:29.895	+2.276	133 m	+0.045	19
16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:30.041	+2.422	142 m	+0.146	26
17	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:30.401	+2.782	163 m	+0.360	23
18	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:30.630	+3.011	176 m	+0.229	24
19	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:30.896	+3.277	192 m	+0.266	20
20	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber	15	1:31.212	+3.593	210 m	+0.316	29
21	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:31.903	+4.284	251 m	+0.691	22
22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:32.125	+4.506	264 m	+0.222	24
23	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:32.369	+4.750	278 m	+0.244	19
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:32.859	+5.240	306 m	+0.490	13

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 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:26.221	—	0 m	—	35
2	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:26.339	+0.118	7 m	+0.118	33
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:26.820	+0.599	36 m	+0.481	34
4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:27.022	+0.801	48 m	+0.202	38
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:27.030	+0.809	48 m	+0.008	40
6	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:27.131	+0.910	54 m	+0.101	38
7	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:27.182	+0.961	57 m	+0.051	24
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:27.233	+1.012	60 m	+0.051	37
9	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:27.397	+1.176	70 m	+0.164	36
10	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:27.738	+1.517	90 m	+0.341	36
11	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:28.004	+1.783	106 m	+0.266	32
12	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:28.178	+1.957	116 m	+0.174	39
13	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:28.222	+2.001	119 m	+0.044	37
14	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:28.239	+2.018	120 m	+0.017	37
15	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:28.296	+2.075	123 m	+0.057	23
16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:28.455	+2.234	133 m	+0.159	40
17	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:28.596	+2.375	141 m	+0.141	38
18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:29.167	+2.946	175 m	+0.571	35
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:29.320	+3.099	184 m	+0.153	43
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:29.606	+3.385	201 m	+0.286	22
21	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:30.950	+4.729	281 m	+1.344	37
22	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:31.113	+4.892	291 m	+0.163	35
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:31.372	+5.151	306 m	+0.259	20
24	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:31.493	+5.272	313 m	+0.121	31

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	1:25.842	—	0 m	—	20
2	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:26.034	+0.192	11 m	+0.192	17
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:26.108	+0.266	16 m	+0.074	18
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:26.151	+0.309	18 m	+0.043	21
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:26.209	+0.367	22 m	+0.058	22
6	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:26.214	+0.372	22 m	+0.005	24
7	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:26.521	+0.679	41 m	+0.307	15
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:26.531	+0.689	41 m	+0.010	21
9	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:26.652	+0.810	48 m	+0.121	21
10	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:26.664	+0.822	49 m	+0.012	21
11	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:26.691	+0.849	51 m	+0.027	13
12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:27.140	+1.298	77 m	+0.449	18
13	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:27.162	+1.320	79 m	+0.022	21
14	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:27.193	+1.351	81 m	+0.031	22
15	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:27.229	+1.387	83 m	+0.036	21
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:27.374	+1.532	91 m	+0.145	21
17	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:27.711	+1.869	112 m	+0.337	20
18	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:27.983	+2.141	128 m	+0.272	19
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:29.035	+3.193	191 m	+1.052	20
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:29.237	+3.395	203 m	+0.202	20
21	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:29.617	+3.775	225 m	+0.380	20
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:30.298	+4.456	266 m	+0.681	20
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:30.824	+4.982	297 m	+0.526	22
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:30.873	+5.031	300 m	+0.049	22

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.

The cars in this race

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Where this comes from

Round: 17 of 2012
Grand Prix: Indian Grand Prix
Dates: 28 Oct 2012
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Red Bull Racing
Entrant: Red Bull-Renault
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.