Race · Round 5 of 20 · 13 May 2012

2012 Spanish Grand Prix

Pastor Maldonado won for Williams from pole at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. 5 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Pastor Maldonado.

Dry, with cloud · High of 22 °C, 2.5 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: Circuit de Barcelona-CatalunyaMontmelo, Spain
Winner: Pastor MaldonadoWilliams
Pole: Pastor Maldonado
Fastest lap: Romain Grosjean
Entries: 2419 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	FW34	1	66	Finished	25
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F2012	2	66	Finished	18
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	E20	4	66	Finished	15
4	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	E20	3	66	Finished	12	fastest lap
5	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	C31	9	66	Finished	10
6	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	RB8	7	66	Finished	8
7	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W03	6	66	Finished	6
8	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-27	24	66	Finished	4
9	Jenson Button	McLaren	MP4-27	10	66	Finished	2
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	VJM05	13	65	Finished	1
11	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB8	11	65	Finished	0
12	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	14	65	Finished	0
13	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	15	65	Finished	0
14	Paul di Resta	Force India	VJM05	12	65	Finished	0
15	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F2012	16	65	Finished	0
16	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	19	65	Finished	0
17	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	18	65	Finished	0
18	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	21	64	Finished	0
19	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	F112	22	63	Finished	0
DNF	Sergio Perez	Sauber	C31	5	37	Transmission	0
DNF	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	20	35	Halfshaft	0
DNF	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	F112	23	22	Wheel	0
DNF	Bruno Senna	Williams	FW34	17	12	Collision damage	0
DNF	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	F1 W03	8	12	Collision	0

F1DB layout catalunya-4 · 4.655 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
Pastor Maldonado	1	1	66
Fernando Alonso	2	2	66
Kimi Raikkonen	4	3	66
Romain Grosjean	3	4	66
Kamui Kobayashi	9	5	66
Sebastian Vettel	7	6	66
Nico Rosberg	6	7	66
Sir Lewis Hamilton	24	8	66
Jenson Button	10	9	66
Nico Hulkenberg	13	10	65
Mark Webber	11	11	65
Jean-Éric Vergne	14	12	65
Daniel Ricciardo	15	13	65
Paul di Resta	12	14	65
Felipe Massa	16	15	65
Heikki Kovalainen	19	16	65
Vitaly Petrov	18	17	65
Timo Glock	21	18	64
Pedro de la Rosa	22	19	63
Sergio Perez	5	DNF	37
Charles Pic	20	DNF	35
Narain Karthikeyan	23	DNF	22
Bruno Senna	17	DNF	12
Michael Schumacher	8	DNF	12

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:23.380	1:22.105	1:22.285	—	33 m	—
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:23.276	1:22.862	1:22.302	+0.017	34 m	+0.017
3	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:23.248	1:22.667	1:22.424	+0.139	41 m	+0.122
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:23.406	1:22.856	1:22.487	+0.202	45 m	+0.063
5	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:24.261	1:22.773	1:22.533	+0.248	47 m	+0.046
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:23.370	1:22.882	1:23.005	+0.720	74 m	+0.472
7	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:23.850	1:22.884	—	—	44 m	—
8	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:23.757	1:22.904	—	—	45 m	—
9	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:23.386	1:22.897	—	—	45 m	—
10	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:23.510	1:22.944	—	—	48 m	—
11	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:23.592	1:22.977	—	—	50 m	—
12	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:23.852	1:23.125	—	—	58 m	—
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:23.720	1:23.177	—	—	61 m	—
14	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:24.362	1:23.265	—	—	66 m	—
15	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:23.906	1:23.442	—	—	76 m	—
16	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:23.886	1:23.444	—	—	76 m	—
17	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:24.981	—	—	—	136 m	—
18	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:25.277	—	—	—	153 m	—
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:25.507	—	—	—	166 m	—
20	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:26.582	—	—	—	226 m	—
21	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:27.032	—	—	—	252 m	—
22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:27.555	—	—	—	281 m	—
EX	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:22.583	1:22.465	1:21.707	—	0 m	—
NC	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:31.122	—	—	—	483 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)
Pastor Maldonado	1	66	3	11, 24, 41	20.6, 20.2, 22.8
Fernando Alonso	2	66	3	10, 26, 44	19.5, 20.0, 20.1
Kimi Raikkonen	3	66	3	11, 27, 48	19.8, 21.3, 20.1
Romain Grosjean	4	66	3	10, 26, 51	20.2, 21.2, 21.0
Kamui Kobayashi	5	66	3	8, 26, 41	22.3, 20.4, 21.3
Sebastian Vettel	6	66	4	7, 27, 30, 42	19.7, 19.6, 13.3, 26.1
Nico Rosberg	7	66	3	9, 22, 40	20.5, 20.1, 20.2
Sir Lewis Hamilton	8	66	2	14, 35	22.0, 20.0
Jenson Button	9	66	3	9, 25, 38	20.3, 21.1, 19.9
Nico Hulkenberg	10	65	3	10, 19, 39	20.5, 20.6, 20.5
Mark Webber	11	65	3	6, 17, 40	20.1, 24.9, 20.1
Jean-Éric Vergne	12	65	3	10, 23, 40	20.4, 22.6, 20.5
Daniel Ricciardo	13	65	3	11, 25, 39	21.1, 20.1, 20.1
Paul di Resta	14	65	3	9, 23, 42	20.0, 21.7, 19.9
Felipe Massa	15	65	4	10, 28, 29, 45	20.1, 13.3, 19.7, 22.6
Heikki Kovalainen	16	65	3	13, 27, 43	21.3, 22.6, 21.3
Vitaly Petrov	17	65	3	10, 28, 44	24.9, 23.1, 21.8
Timo Glock	18	64	3	14, 26, 47	21.1, 20.9, 20.7
Pedro de la Rosa	19	63	4	10, 19, 35, 51	22.3, 22.1, 21.5, 21.5
Sergio Perez	DNF	37	3	1, 17, 37	21.9, 21.1, 28.5
Charles Pic	DNF	35	2	15, 27	20.9, 21.3
Narain Karthikeyan	DNF	22	2	11, 22	21.5, 22.5
Bruno Senna	DNF	12	0	None recorded	—
Michael Schumacher	DNF	12	1	10	20.1

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
Pastor Maldonado · Fernando Alonso	1 · 2	1 · 2	11 · 10	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Romain Grosjean	2 · 3	2 · 4	10 · 10	Same lap	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Kimi Raikkonen	2 · 4	2 · 3	10 · 11	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Romain Grosjean · Kimi Raikkonen	3 · 4	4 · 3	10 · 11	Romain Grosjean	Swapped places
Romain Grosjean · Kamui Kobayashi	3 · 9	4 · 5	10 · 8	Kamui Kobayashi	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Kamui Kobayashi	7 · 9	6 · 5	7 · 8	Sebastian Vettel	Swapped places
Kamui Kobayashi · Jenson Button	9 · 10	5 · 9	8 · 9	Kamui Kobayashi	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Sebastian Vettel	6 · 7	7 · 6	9 · 7	Sebastian Vettel	Swapped places
Nico Rosberg · Sir Lewis Hamilton	6 · 24	7 · 8	9 · 14	Nico Rosberg	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Sir Lewis Hamilton	10 · 24	9 · 8	9 · 14	Jenson Button	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Nico Hulkenberg	10 · 13	9 · 10	9 · 10	Jenson Button	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Mark Webber	10 · 11	9 · 11	9 · 6	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Nico Hulkenberg	11 · 13	11 · 10	6 · 10	Mark Webber	Swapped places
Paul di Resta · Nico Hulkenberg	12 · 13	14 · 10	9 · 10	Paul di Resta	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Jean-Éric Vergne	13 · 14	10 · 12	10 · 10	Same lap	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Jean-Éric Vergne	11 · 14	11 · 12	6 · 10	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Paul di Resta	11 · 12	11 · 14	6 · 9	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Jean-Éric Vergne · Daniel Ricciardo	14 · 15	12 · 13	10 · 11	Jean-Éric Vergne	Kept their order
Paul di Resta · Daniel Ricciardo	12 · 15	14 · 13	9 · 11	Paul di Resta	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Felipe Massa	15 · 16	13 · 15	11 · 10	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Paul di Resta · Felipe Massa	12 · 16	14 · 15	9 · 10	Paul di Resta	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Heikki Kovalainen	16 · 19	15 · 16	10 · 13	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Vitaly Petrov · Heikki Kovalainen	18 · 19	17 · 16	10 · 13	Vitaly Petrov	Swapped places
Vitaly Petrov · Timo Glock	18 · 21	17 · 18	10 · 14	Vitaly Petrov	Kept their order
Timo Glock · Pedro de la Rosa	21 · 22	18 · 19	14 · 10	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	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:24.430	—	0 m	—	20
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:24.808	+0.378	21 m	+0.378	18
3	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:24.912	+0.482	27 m	+0.104	28
4	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:24.996	+0.566	31 m	+0.084	24
5	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	19	1:25.120	+0.690	38 m	+0.124	24
6	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:25.187	+0.757	42 m	+0.067	15
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:25.217	+0.787	44 m	+0.030	16
8	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:25.252	+0.822	46 m	+0.035	20
9	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:25.285	+0.855	47 m	+0.033	29
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:25.339	+0.909	50 m	+0.054	24
11	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:25.367	+0.937	52 m	+0.028	22
12	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:25.433	+1.003	56 m	+0.066	21
13	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:25.539	+1.109	61 m	+0.106	23
14	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:25.607	+1.177	65 m	+0.068	20
15	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:25.918	+1.488	82 m	+0.311	19
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:26.226	+1.796	99 m	+0.308	24
17	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:26.297	+1.867	103 m	+0.071	18
18	Jules Bianchi	Force India	11	1:26.630	+2.200	122 m	+0.333	21
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:27.475	+3.045	169 m	+0.845	20
20	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:28.267	+3.837	212 m	+0.792	21
21	Alexander Rossi	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:28.448	+4.018	222 m	+0.181	25
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:28.633	+4.203	233 m	+0.185	22
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:29.107	+4.677	259 m	+0.474	19
24	Dani Clos (never started a Grand Prix)	HRT	23	1:31.618	+7.188	398 m	+2.511	19

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	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:23.399	—	0 m	—	38
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:23.563	+0.164	9 m	+0.164	38
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:23.771	+0.372	21 m	+0.208	41
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:23.909	+0.510	29 m	+0.138	32
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:23.918	+0.519	29 m	+0.009	32
6	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:23.964	+0.565	32 m	+0.046	37
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:24.065	+0.666	37 m	+0.101	34
8	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:24.080	+0.681	38 m	+0.015	36
9	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:24.214	+0.815	46 m	+0.134	41
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:24.365	+0.966	54 m	+0.151	22
11	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:24.418	+1.019	57 m	+0.053	35
12	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:24.422	+1.023	57 m	+0.004	32
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:24.468	+1.069	60 m	+0.046	40
14	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:24.600	+1.201	67 m	+0.132	33
15	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:24.688	+1.289	72 m	+0.088	30
16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:24.733	+1.334	75 m	+0.045	34
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:24.769	+1.370	77 m	+0.036	37
18	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:25.047	+1.648	92 m	+0.278	42
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:26.296	+2.897	162 m	+1.249	36
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:26.740	+3.341	187 m	+0.444	35
21	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:27.314	+3.915	219 m	+0.574	27
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:27.664	+4.265	239 m	+0.350	30
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:28.235	+4.836	271 m	+0.571	26
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	—	—	—	—	2

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	1:23.168	—	0 m	—	13
2	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:23.336	+0.168	9 m	+0.168	19
3	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:23.350	+0.182	10 m	+0.014	19
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:23.578	+0.410	23 m	+0.228	16
5	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:23.742	+0.574	32 m	+0.164	22
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:23.807	+0.639	36 m	+0.065	15
7	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:23.833	+0.665	37 m	+0.026	14
8	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:23.909	+0.741	42 m	+0.076	13
9	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:23.936	+0.768	43 m	+0.027	16
10	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:24.070	+0.902	51 m	+0.134	24
11	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:24.179	+1.011	57 m	+0.109	16
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:24.323	+1.155	65 m	+0.144	17
13	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:24.331	+1.163	65 m	+0.008	15
14	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:24.409	+1.241	70 m	+0.078	18
15	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:24.599	+1.431	80 m	+0.190	15
16	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:24.778	+1.610	91 m	+0.179	15
17	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:24.825	+1.657	93 m	+0.047	17
18	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:25.911	+2.743	154 m	+1.086	20
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:26.587	+3.419	192 m	+0.676	20
20	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:27.469	+4.301	242 m	+0.882	18
21	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:27.689	+4.521	254 m	+0.220	16
22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:28.207	+5.039	283 m	+0.518	24
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:28.373	+5.205	293 m	+0.166	13
24	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	—	—	—	—	2

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: 5 of 2012
Grand Prix: Spanish Grand Prix
Dates: 13 May 2012
Layout raced: With Turn 10 chicane · 4.675 km · 16 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Williams
Entrant: Williams-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.