Race · Round 20 of 20 · 25 November 2012

2012 Brazilian Grand Prix

Jenson Button won for McLaren from 2nd on the grid at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos). 5 of the starters were not classified. This round settled the drivers' title for Sebastian Vettel.

Wet · High of 22 °C, 16.2 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos)Sao Paulo, Brazil
Winner: Jenson ButtonMcLaren
Pole: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Fastest lap: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Entries: 2419 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jenson Button	McLaren	MP4-27	2	71	Finished	25
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F2012	7	71	Finished	18
3	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F2012	5	71	Finished	15
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB8	3	71	Finished	12
5	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	VJM05	6	71	Finished	10
6	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	RB8	4	71	Finished	8
7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	F1 W03	13	71	Finished	6
8	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	17	71	Finished	4
9	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	C31	14	71	Finished	2
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	E20	8	70	Finished	1
11	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	19	70	Finished	0
12	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	22	70	Finished	0
13	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	15	70	Finished	0
14	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	20	70	Finished	0
15	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W03	9	70	Finished	0
16	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	21	70	Finished	0
17	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	F112	24	69	Finished	0
18	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	F112	23	69	Finished	0
19	Paul di Resta	Force India	VJM05	10	68	Accident	0
DNF	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-27	1	54	Collision	0	fastest lap
DNF	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	E20	18	5	Accident	0
DNF	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	FW34	16	1	Accident	0
DNF	Bruno Senna	Williams	FW34	11	0	Collision	0
DNF	Sergio Perez	Sauber	C31	12	0	Collision	0

F1DB layout interlagos-2 · 4.309 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
Jenson Button	2	1	71
Fernando Alonso	7	2	71
Felipe Massa	5	3	71
Mark Webber	3	4	71
Nico Hulkenberg	6	5	71
Sebastian Vettel	4	6	71
Michael Schumacher	13	7	71
Jean-Éric Vergne	17	8	71
Kamui Kobayashi	14	9	71
Kimi Raikkonen	8	10	70
Vitaly Petrov	19	11	70
Charles Pic	22	12	70
Daniel Ricciardo	15	13	70
Heikki Kovalainen	20	14	70
Nico Rosberg	9	15	70
Timo Glock	21	16	70
Pedro de la Rosa	24	17	69
Narain Karthikeyan	23	18	69
Paul di Resta	10	19	68
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	DNF	54
Romain Grosjean	18	DNF	5
Pastor Maldonado	16	DNF	1
Bruno Senna	11	DNF	0
Sergio Perez	12	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:15.075	1:13.398	1:12.458	—	0 m	—
2	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:15.456	1:13.515	1:12.513	+0.055	3 m	+0.055
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:16.180	1:13.667	1:12.581	+0.123	7 m	+0.068
4	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:15.644	1:13.209	1:12.760	+0.302	18 m	+0.179
5	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:16.263	1:14.048	1:12.987	+0.529	31 m	+0.227
6	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:16.266	1:13.698	1:13.174	+0.716	43 m	+0.187
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:15.536	1:13.704	1:13.206	+0.748	44 m	+0.032
8	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:16.097	1:13.856	1:13.253	+0.795	47 m	+0.047
9	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:16.432	1:13.698	1:13.298	+0.840	50 m	+0.045
10	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:15.929	1:13.848	1:13.489	+1.031	61 m	+0.191
11	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:15.901	1:14.121	—	—	54 m	—
12	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:15.333	1:14.219	—	—	59 m	—
13	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:15.974	1:14.234	—	—	60 m	—
14	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:16.005	1:14.334	—	—	66 m	—
15	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:16.400	1:14.380	—	—	69 m	—
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:16.744	1:14.574	—	—	80 m	—
17	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:16.722	1:14.619	—	—	83 m	—
18	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:16.967	—	—	—	109 m	—
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:17.073	—	—	—	115 m	—
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:17.086	—	—	—	115 m	—
21	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:17.508	—	—	—	140 m	—
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:18.104	—	—	—	174 m	—
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:19.576	—	—	—	258 m	—
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:19.699	—	—	—	265 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)
Jenson Button	1	71	2	23, 57	21.6, 21.5
Fernando Alonso	2	71	3	10, 18, 56	22.5, 23.0, 21.9
Felipe Massa	3	71	3	15, 19, 55	22.6, 21.7, 22.4
Mark Webber	4	71	3	9, 19, 55	23.1, 21.2, 21.0
Nico Hulkenberg	5	71	3	23, 57, 58	21.3, 22.3, 14.1
Sebastian Vettel	6	71	4	10, 19, 52, 54	21.0, 22.0, 21.3, 28.9
Michael Schumacher	7	71	4	5, 8, 17, 54	26.0, 22.5, 22.2, 21.8
Jean-Éric Vergne	8	71	4	15, 20, 29, 56	22.4, 21.3, 26.0, 22.1
Kamui Kobayashi	9	71	3	8, 18, 54	27.3, 24.3, 32.8
Kimi Raikkonen	10	70	3	5, 19, 53	21.5, 22.7, 32.3
Vitaly Petrov	11	70	3	14, 19, 54	23.0, 27.5, 22.7
Charles Pic	12	70	3	13, 20, 55	24.4, 22.7, 23.1
Daniel Ricciardo	13	70	5	9, 19, 51, 56, 61	22.8, 21.2, 21.4, 22.9, 22.0
Heikki Kovalainen	14	70	5	15, 19, 37, 56, 59	23.4, 38.3, 22.7, 23.0, 21.8
Nico Rosberg	15	70	4	9, 18, 20, 50	23.0, 21.8, 24.3, 31.8
Timo Glock	16	70	4	14, 19, 31, 56	23.3, 21.4, 23.5, 24.8
Pedro de la Rosa	17	69	4	14, 19, 50, 55	25.8, 26.6, 25.4, 24.5
Narain Karthikeyan	18	69	4	13, 20, 51, 55	27.1, 26.7, 23.6, 27.5
Paul di Resta	19	68	3	10, 18, 57	28.3, 21.4, 22.4
Sir Lewis Hamilton	DNF	54	2	10, 18	24.4, 21.6
Romain Grosjean	DNF	5	0	None recorded	—
Pastor Maldonado	DNF	1	0	None recorded	—
Bruno Senna	DNF	0	0	None recorded	—
Sergio Perez	DNF	0	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
Jenson Button · Fernando Alonso	2 · 7	1 · 2	23 · 10	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Mark Webber	2 · 3	1 · 4	23 · 9	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Fernando Alonso	5 · 7	3 · 2	15 · 10	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Fernando Alonso	6 · 7	5 · 2	23 · 10	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Kimi Raikkonen	7 · 8	2 · 10	10 · 5	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Felipe Massa	3 · 5	4 · 3	9 · 15	Mark Webber	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Felipe Massa	4 · 5	6 · 3	10 · 15	Sebastian Vettel	Swapped places
Felipe Massa · Nico Hulkenberg	5 · 6	3 · 5	15 · 23	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Nico Hulkenberg	3 · 6	4 · 5	9 · 23	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Sebastian Vettel	3 · 4	4 · 6	9 · 10	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Nico Hulkenberg	4 · 6	6 · 5	10 · 23	Sebastian Vettel	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Michael Schumacher	4 · 13	6 · 7	10 · 5	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Jean-Éric Vergne	13 · 17	7 · 8	5 · 15	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Kamui Kobayashi	13 · 14	7 · 9	5 · 8	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Kamui Kobayashi · Jean-Éric Vergne	14 · 17	9 · 8	8 · 15	Kamui Kobayashi	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Kamui Kobayashi	8 · 14	10 · 9	5 · 8	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Kamui Kobayashi · Daniel Ricciardo	14 · 15	9 · 13	8 · 9	Kamui Kobayashi	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Vitaly Petrov	8 · 19	10 · 11	5 · 14	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Nico Rosberg	8 · 9	10 · 15	5 · 9	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Vitaly Petrov · Charles Pic	19 · 22	11 · 12	14 · 13	Charles Pic	Kept their order
Vitaly Petrov · Heikki Kovalainen	19 · 20	11 · 14	14 · 15	Vitaly Petrov	Kept their order
Daniel Ricciardo · Charles Pic	15 · 22	13 · 12	9 · 13	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Timo Glock · Charles Pic	21 · 22	16 · 12	14 · 13	Charles Pic	Swapped places
Charles Pic · Narain Karthikeyan	22 · 23	12 · 18	13 · 13	Same lap	Kept their order
Daniel Ricciardo · Heikki Kovalainen	15 · 20	13 · 14	9 · 15	Daniel Ricciardo	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Heikki Kovalainen	9 · 20	15 · 14	9 · 15	Nico Rosberg	Swapped places
Heikki Kovalainen · Timo Glock	20 · 21	14 · 16	15 · 14	Timo Glock	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Timo Glock	9 · 21	15 · 16	9 · 14	Nico Rosberg	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Paul di Resta	9 · 10	15 · 19	9 · 10	Nico Rosberg	Kept their order
Timo Glock · Pedro de la Rosa	21 · 24	16 · 17	14 · 14	Same lap	Kept their order
Narain Karthikeyan · Pedro de la Rosa	23 · 24	18 · 17	13 · 14	Narain Karthikeyan	Swapped places
Paul di Resta · Narain Karthikeyan	10 · 23	19 · 18	10 · 13	Paul di Resta	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	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:14.131	—	0 m	—	33
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:14.140	+0.009	1 m	+0.009	35
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:14.198	+0.067	4 m	+0.058	34
4	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:14.217	+0.086	5 m	+0.019	31
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:14.392	+0.261	15 m	+0.175	28
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:14.716	+0.585	34 m	+0.324	29
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:14.719	+0.588	34 m	+0.003	33
8	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:14.738	+0.607	35 m	+0.019	34
9	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:15.015	+0.884	51 m	+0.277	37
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:15.050	+0.919	53 m	+0.035	32
11	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:15.114	+0.983	57 m	+0.064	36
12	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:15.255	+1.124	65 m	+0.141	31
13	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:15.396	+1.265	74 m	+0.141	32
14	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	19	1:15.413	+1.282	75 m	+0.017	23
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:15.587	+1.456	85 m	+0.174	35
16	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:15.701	+1.570	91 m	+0.114	16
17	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:16.048	+1.917	111 m	+0.347	35
18	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:16.315	+2.184	127 m	+0.267	36
19	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:16.460	+2.329	135 m	+0.145	32
20	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:16.506	+2.375	138 m	+0.046	31
21	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:16.617	+2.486	145 m	+0.111	30
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:17.234	+3.103	180 m	+0.617	26
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:17.678	+3.547	206 m	+0.444	15
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:17.895	+3.764	219 m	+0.217	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	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:14.026	—	0 m	—	35
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:14.300	+0.274	16 m	+0.274	40
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:14.523	+0.497	29 m	+0.223	37
4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:14.553	+0.527	31 m	+0.030	37
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:14.592	+0.566	33 m	+0.039	37
6	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:14.654	+0.628	37 m	+0.062	36
7	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:14.669	+0.643	37 m	+0.015	40
8	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:14.863	+0.837	49 m	+0.194	40
9	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:14.994	+0.968	56 m	+0.131	37
10	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:15.129	+1.103	64 m	+0.135	39
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:15.131	+1.105	64 m	+0.002	40
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:15.371	+1.345	78 m	+0.240	39
13	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:15.432	+1.406	82 m	+0.061	45
14	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:15.542	+1.516	88 m	+0.110	35
15	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:15.839	+1.813	106 m	+0.297	43
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:15.902	+1.876	109 m	+0.063	39
17	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:15.953	+1.927	112 m	+0.051	47
18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:16.048	+2.022	118 m	+0.095	40
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:16.126	+2.100	122 m	+0.078	39
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:16.655	+2.629	153 m	+0.529	42
21	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:17.244	+3.218	187 m	+0.589	15
22	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:17.675	+3.649	212 m	+0.431	42
23	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:18.127	+4.101	239 m	+0.452	31
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:18.139	+4.113	239 m	+0.012	15

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	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:13.188	—	0 m	—	22
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:13.245	+0.057	3 m	+0.057	21
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:13.385	+0.197	12 m	+0.140	25
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:13.389	+0.201	12 m	+0.004	17
5	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:13.420	+0.232	14 m	+0.031	24
6	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:13.486	+0.298	18 m	+0.066	21
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:13.602	+0.414	24 m	+0.116	22
8	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:13.691	+0.503	30 m	+0.089	15
9	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:13.700	+0.512	30 m	+0.009	20
10	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:13.712	+0.524	31 m	+0.012	17
11	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:13.948	+0.760	45 m	+0.236	20
12	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:14.126	+0.938	55 m	+0.178	25
13	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:14.190	+1.002	59 m	+0.064	26
14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:14.192	+1.004	59 m	+0.002	21
15	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:14.347	+1.159	68 m	+0.155	24
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:14.687	+1.499	88 m	+0.340	21
17	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:14.972	+1.784	105 m	+0.285	19
18	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:15.159	+1.971	116 m	+0.187	22
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:15.707	+2.519	148 m	+0.548	21
20	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:15.763	+2.575	152 m	+0.056	24
21	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:16.059	+2.871	169 m	+0.296	21
22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:16.198	+3.010	177 m	+0.139	15
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:16.793	+3.605	212 m	+0.595	18
24	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	—	—	—	—	3

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: 20 of 2012
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 25 Nov 2012
Layout raced: Current layout · 4.309 km · 15 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-Mercedes
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.