Race · Round 2 of 20 · 25 March 2012

2012 Malaysian Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso won for Ferrari from 8th on the grid at Sepang International Circuit. 2 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Sergio Perez.

Wet · High of 29 °C, 9.9 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Sepang International CircuitSepang, Malaysia
Winner: Fernando AlonsoFerrari
Pole: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Fastest lap: Kimi Raikkonen
Entries: 2422 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F2012	8	56	Finished	25
2	Sergio Perez	Sauber	C31	9	56	Finished	18
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-27	1	56	Finished	15
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB8	4	56	Finished	12
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	E20	10	56	Finished	10	fastest lap
6	Bruno Senna	Williams	FW34	13	56	Finished	8
7	Paul di Resta	Force India	VJM05	14	56	Finished	6
8	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	18	56	Finished	4
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	VJM05	16	56	Finished	2
10	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	F1 W03	3	56	Finished	1
11	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	RB8	5	56	Finished	0
12	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	15	56	Finished	0
13	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W03	7	56	Finished	0
14	Jenson Button	McLaren	MP4-27	2	56	Finished	0
15	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F2012	12	56	Finished	0
16	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	19	55	Finished	0
17	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	20	55	Finished	0
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	24	55	Finished	0
19	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	FW34	11	54	Engine	0
20	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	21	54	Finished	0
21	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	F112	22	54	Finished	0
22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	F112	23	54	Finished	0
DNF	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	C31	17	46	Brakes	0
DNF	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	E20	6	3	Spun off	0

F1DB layout sepang-1 · 5.543 km · 15 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
Fernando Alonso	8	1	56
Sergio Perez	9	2	56
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	3	56
Mark Webber	4	4	56
Kimi Raikkonen	10	5	56
Bruno Senna	13	6	56
Paul di Resta	14	7	56
Jean-Éric Vergne	18	8	56
Nico Hulkenberg	16	9	56
Michael Schumacher	3	10	56
Sebastian Vettel	5	11	56
Daniel Ricciardo	15	12	56
Nico Rosberg	7	13	56
Jenson Button	2	14	56
Felipe Massa	12	15	56
Vitaly Petrov	19	16	55
Timo Glock	20	17	55
Heikki Kovalainen	24	18	55
Pastor Maldonado	11	19	54
Charles Pic	21	20	54
Pedro de la Rosa	22	21	54
Narain Karthikeyan	23	22	54
Kamui Kobayashi	17	DNF	46
Romain Grosjean	6	DNF	3

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:37.813	1:37.106	1:36.219	—	0 m	—
2	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:37.575	1:36.928	1:36.368	+0.149	9 m	+0.149
3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:37.517	1:37.017	1:36.391	+0.172	10 m	+0.023
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:37.172	1:37.375	1:36.461	+0.242	14 m	+0.070
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:37.961	1:36.715	1:36.461	+0.242	14 m	+0.000
6	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:38.102	1:37.419	1:36.634	+0.415	24 m	+0.173
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:38.058	1:37.338	1:36.658	+0.439	25 m	+0.024
8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:37.696	1:36.996	1:36.664	+0.445	26 m	+0.006
9	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:38.151	1:37.379	1:37.566	+1.347	78 m	+0.902
10	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:37.933	1:37.477	1:37.698	+1.479	85 m	+0.132
11	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:37.789	1:37.589	—	—	50 m	—
12	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:38.381	1:37.731	—	—	58 m	—
13	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:38.437	1:37.841	—	—	65 m	—
14	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:38.325	1:37.877	—	—	67 m	—
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:38.419	1:37.883	—	—	67 m	—
16	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:38.303	1:37.890	—	—	67 m	—
17	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:38.372	1:38.069	—	—	78 m	—
18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:39.077	—	—	—	109 m	—
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:39.306	—	—	—	122 m	—
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:39.567	—	—	—	137 m	—
21	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:40.903	—	—	—	213 m	—
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:41.250	—	—	—	233 m	—
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:42.914	—	—	—	328 m	—
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:43.655	—	—	—	370 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. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. 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)
Fernando Alonso	1	56	3	4, 14, 40	24.7, 22.9, 22.5
Sergio Perez	2	56	3	1, 15, 41	25.7, 24.5, 24.5
Sir Lewis Hamilton	3	56	3	5, 14, 41	24.3, 28.0, 26.3
Mark Webber	4	56	3	5, 14, 39	24.6, 26.3, 23.2
Kimi Raikkonen	5	56	3	5, 13, 40	27.6, 24.9, 25.0
Bruno Senna	6	56	4	1, 7, 13, 39	31.0, 26.3, 25.0, 23.8
Paul di Resta	7	56	3	2, 14, 39	24.0, 22.9, 22.2
Jean-Éric Vergne	8	56	2	15, 40	24.2, 23.3
Nico Hulkenberg	9	56	3	4, 15, 40	23.9, 23.5, 23.4
Michael Schumacher	10	56	3	5, 14, 39	24.8, 24.1, 22.2
Sebastian Vettel	11	56	4	5, 15, 40, 47	25.7, 24.1, 23.0, 25.9
Daniel Ricciardo	12	56	4	4, 14, 25, 37	25.5, 24.5, 22.6, 23.6
Nico Rosberg	13	56	4	5, 13, 26, 39	25.6, 25.2, 23.1, 23.2
Jenson Button	14	56	5	4, 13, 15, 24, 39	24.3, 25.9, 36.5, 23.5, 23.5
Felipe Massa	15	56	4	3, 14, 27, 38	24.0, 24.4, 23.1, 26.9
Vitaly Petrov	16	55	3	4, 13, 39	24.7, 29.4, 30.3
Timo Glock	17	55	3	3, 13, 39	25.1, 25.7, 25.4
Heikki Kovalainen	18	55	4	4, 14, 23, 38	32.7, 25.1, 34.1, 23.8
Pastor Maldonado	19	54	4	5, 14, 15, 39	25.5, 21.6, 24.0, 23.4
Charles Pic	20	54	3	3, 15, 39	29.3, 36.5, 32.2
Pedro de la Rosa	21	54	3	13, 16, 39	15.7, 38.9, 28.5
Narain Karthikeyan	22	54	2	15, 37	36.9, 27.7
Kamui Kobayashi	DNF	46	3	5, 13, 40	28.1, 26.3, 23.7
Romain Grosjean	DNF	3	0	None recorded	—

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
Nico Rosberg · Fernando Alonso	7 · 8	13 · 1	5 · 4	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Sergio Perez	8 · 9	1 · 2	4 · 1	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Sergio Perez	1 · 9	3 · 2	5 · 1	Sergio Perez	Swapped places
Sergio Perez · Kimi Raikkonen	9 · 10	2 · 5	1 · 5	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Mark Webber	1 · 4	3 · 4	5 · 5	Same lap	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Jenson Button	1 · 2	3 · 14	5 · 4	Jenson Button	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Mark Webber	3 · 4	10 · 4	5 · 5	Same lap	Swapped places
Mark Webber · Kimi Raikkonen	4 · 10	4 · 5	5 · 5	Same lap	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Sebastian Vettel	4 · 5	4 · 11	5 · 5	Same lap	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Bruno Senna	10 · 13	5 · 6	5 · 1	Bruno Senna	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Pastor Maldonado	10 · 11	5 · 19	5 · 5	Same lap	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Bruno Senna	12 · 13	15 · 6	3 · 1	Bruno Senna	Swapped places
Bruno Senna · Paul di Resta	13 · 14	6 · 7	1 · 2	Bruno Senna	Kept their order
Paul di Resta · Jean-Éric Vergne	14 · 18	7 · 8	2 · 15	Paul di Resta	Kept their order
Paul di Resta · Daniel Ricciardo	14 · 15	7 · 12	2 · 4	Paul di Resta	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Jean-Éric Vergne	16 · 18	9 · 8	4 · 15	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Jean-Éric Vergne · Vitaly Petrov	18 · 19	8 · 16	15 · 4	Vitaly Petrov	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Nico Hulkenberg	3 · 16	10 · 9	5 · 4	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Nico Hulkenberg	15 · 16	12 · 9	4 · 4	Same lap	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Michael Schumacher	2 · 3	14 · 10	4 · 5	Jenson Button	Swapped places
Michael Schumacher · Sebastian Vettel	3 · 5	10 · 11	5 · 5	Same lap	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Daniel Ricciardo	5 · 15	11 · 12	5 · 4	Daniel Ricciardo	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Daniel Ricciardo	7 · 15	13 · 12	5 · 4	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Nico Rosberg	2 · 7	14 · 13	4 · 5	Jenson Button	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Felipe Massa	2 · 12	14 · 15	4 · 3	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Pastor Maldonado · Felipe Massa	11 · 12	19 · 15	5 · 3	Felipe Massa	Swapped places
Felipe Massa · Vitaly Petrov	12 · 19	15 · 16	3 · 4	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Vitaly Petrov · Timo Glock	19 · 20	16 · 17	4 · 3	Timo Glock	Kept their order
Timo Glock · Heikki Kovalainen	20 · 24	17 · 18	3 · 4	Timo Glock	Kept their order
Timo Glock · Charles Pic	20 · 21	17 · 20	3 · 3	Same lap	Kept their order
Pastor Maldonado · Heikki Kovalainen	11 · 24	19 · 18	5 · 4	Heikki Kovalainen	Swapped places
Narain Karthikeyan · Heikki Kovalainen	23 · 24	22 · 18	15 · 4	Heikki Kovalainen	Swapped places
Pastor Maldonado · Charles Pic	11 · 21	19 · 20	5 · 3	Charles Pic	Kept their order
Charles Pic · Pedro de la Rosa	21 · 22	20 · 21	3 · 13	Charles Pic	Kept their order
Pedro de la Rosa · Narain Karthikeyan	22 · 23	21 · 22	13 · 15	Pedro de la Rosa	Kept their order

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	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:38.021	—	0 m	—	19
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:38.535	+0.514	29 m	+0.514	21
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:38.813	+0.792	45 m	+0.278	21
4	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:38.826	+0.805	46 m	+0.013	19
5	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:38.919	+0.898	51 m	+0.093	17
6	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:39.092	+1.071	61 m	+0.173	20
7	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:39.128	+1.107	63 m	+0.036	22
8	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:39.298	+1.277	72 m	+0.170	23
9	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:39.323	+1.302	74 m	+0.025	15
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:39.440	+1.419	80 m	+0.117	19
11	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	19	1:39.724	+1.703	96 m	+0.284	23
12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:39.783	+1.762	100 m	+0.059	23
13	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:39.896	+1.875	106 m	+0.113	16
14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:39.910	+1.889	107 m	+0.014	21
15	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:39.980	+1.959	111 m	+0.070	23
16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:40.099	+2.078	118 m	+0.119	23
17	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:40.247	+2.226	126 m	+0.148	19
18	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:40.469	+2.448	138 m	+0.222	23
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:40.857	+2.836	160 m	+0.388	25
20	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:41.085	+3.064	173 m	+0.228	23
21	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:43.170	+5.149	291 m	+2.085	18
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:44.580	+6.559	371 m	+1.410	14
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:45.360	+7.339	415 m	+0.780	8
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:45.528	+7.507	425 m	+0.168	18

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	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:38.172	—	0 m	—	28
2	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:38.533	+0.361	20 m	+0.361	34
3	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:38.535	+0.363	20 m	+0.002	30
4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:38.696	+0.524	30 m	+0.161	34
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:38.853	+0.681	38 m	+0.157	33
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:38.891	+0.719	41 m	+0.038	27
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:39.133	+0.961	54 m	+0.242	29
8	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:39.297	+1.125	64 m	+0.164	33
9	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:39.311	+1.139	64 m	+0.014	22
10	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:39.402	+1.230	69 m	+0.091	25
11	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:39.444	+1.272	72 m	+0.042	35
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:39.464	+1.292	73 m	+0.020	26
13	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:39.625	+1.453	82 m	+0.161	20
14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:39.687	+1.515	86 m	+0.062	16
15	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:39.696	+1.524	86 m	+0.009	29
16	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:40.271	+2.099	119 m	+0.575	28
17	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:40.678	+2.506	141 m	+0.407	34
18	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:40.947	+2.775	157 m	+0.269	33
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:41.464	+3.292	186 m	+0.517	25
20	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:41.681	+3.509	198 m	+0.217	20
21	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:42.594	+4.422	250 m	+0.913	18
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:42.874	+4.702	265 m	+0.280	24
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:43.658	+5.486	310 m	+0.784	18
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:43.823	+5.651	319 m	+0.165	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.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:36.877	—	0 m	—	16
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:37.320	+0.443	25 m	+0.443	15
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:37.338	+0.461	26 m	+0.018	12
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:37.356	+0.479	27 m	+0.018	13
5	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:37.382	+0.505	29 m	+0.026	13
6	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:37.404	+0.527	30 m	+0.022	12
7	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:37.455	+0.578	33 m	+0.051	13
8	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:37.663	+0.786	45 m	+0.208	15
9	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:37.776	+0.899	51 m	+0.113	8
10	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:37.977	+1.100	63 m	+0.201	17
11	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:38.091	+1.214	69 m	+0.114	20
12	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:38.178	+1.301	74 m	+0.087	15
13	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:38.246	+1.369	78 m	+0.068	17
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:38.285	+1.408	81 m	+0.039	16
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:38.423	+1.546	88 m	+0.138	13
16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:38.640	+1.763	101 m	+0.217	11
17	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:38.794	+1.917	110 m	+0.154	18
18	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:39.209	+2.332	133 m	+0.415	16
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:39.704	+2.827	162 m	+0.495	15
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:40.189	+3.312	190 m	+0.485	14
21	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:41.901	+5.024	287 m	+1.712	14
22	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:42.007	+5.130	294 m	+0.106	14
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:42.464	+5.587	320 m	+0.457	14
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:43.378	+6.501	372 m	+0.914	17

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: 2 of 2012
Grand Prix: Malaysian Grand Prix
Dates: 25 Mar 2012
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
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.