Race · Round 7 of 20 · 10 June 2012

2012 Canadian Grand Prix

Sir Lewis Hamilton won for McLaren from 2nd on the grid at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. 4 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 26 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Circuit Gilles-VilleneuveMontreal, Canada
Winner: Sir Lewis HamiltonMcLaren
Pole: Sebastian Vettel
Fastest lap: Sebastian Vettel
Entries: 2420 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-27	2	70	Finished	25
2	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	E20	7	70	Finished	18
3	Sergio Perez	Sauber	C31	15	70	Finished	15
4	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	RB8	1	70	Finished	12	fastest lap
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F2012	3	70	Finished	10
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W03	5	70	Finished	8
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB8	4	70	Finished	6
8	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	E20	12	70	Finished	4
9	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	C31	11	70	Finished	2
10	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F2012	6	70	Finished	1
11	Paul di Resta	Force India	VJM05	8	70	Finished	0
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	VJM05	13	70	Finished	0
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	FW34	22	70	Finished	0
14	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	14	70	Finished	0
15	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	19	69	Finished	0
16	Jenson Button	McLaren	MP4-27	10	69	Finished	0
17	Bruno Senna	Williams	FW34	16	69	Finished	0
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	17	69	Finished	0
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	18	69	Finished	0
20	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	23	67	Finished	0
DNF	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	21	56	Brakes	0
DNF	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	F1 W03	9	43	Hydraulics	0
DNF	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	F112	20	24	Brakes	0
DNF	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	F112	24	22	Brakes	0

F1DB layout montreal-6 · 4.361 km · 14 turns, F1DB’s figures
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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
Sir Lewis Hamilton	2	1	70
Romain Grosjean	7	2	70
Sergio Perez	15	3	70
Sebastian Vettel	1	4	70
Fernando Alonso	3	5	70
Nico Rosberg	5	6	70
Mark Webber	4	7	70
Kimi Raikkonen	12	8	70
Kamui Kobayashi	11	9	70
Felipe Massa	6	10	70
Paul di Resta	8	11	70
Nico Hulkenberg	13	12	70
Pastor Maldonado	22	13	70
Daniel Ricciardo	14	14	70
Jean-Éric Vergne	19	15	69
Jenson Button	10	16	69
Bruno Senna	16	17	69
Heikki Kovalainen	17	18	69
Vitaly Petrov	18	19	69
Charles Pic	23	20	67
Timo Glock	21	DNF	56
Michael Schumacher	9	DNF	43
Pedro de la Rosa	20	DNF	24
Narain Karthikeyan	24	DNF	22

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:14.661	1:14.187	1:13.784	—	0 m	—
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:14.891	1:14.371	1:14.087	+0.303	18 m	+0.303
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:14.916	1:14.314	1:14.151	+0.367	22 m	+0.064
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:14.956	1:14.479	1:14.346	+0.562	33 m	+0.195
5	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:15.098	1:14.568	1:14.411	+0.627	37 m	+0.065
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:15.194	1:14.641	1:14.465	+0.681	40 m	+0.054
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:15.163	1:14.627	1:14.645	+0.861	51 m	+0.180
8	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:15.019	1:14.639	1:14.705	+0.921	54 m	+0.060
9	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:14.892	1:14.480	1:14.812	+1.028	61 m	+0.107
10	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:14.799	1:14.680	1:15.182	+1.398	83 m	+0.370
11	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:15.101	1:14.688	—	—	29 m	—
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:14.995	1:14.734	—	—	32 m	—
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:15.106	1:14.748	—	—	33 m	—
14	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:15.552	1:15.078	—	—	52 m	—
15	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:15.326	1:15.156	—	—	57 m	—
16	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:14.995	1:15.170	—	—	58 m	—
17	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:14.979	1:15.231	—	—	61 m	—
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:16.263	—	—	—	94 m	—
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:16.482	—	—	—	106 m	—
20	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:16.602	—	—	—	113 m	—
21	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:17.492	—	—	—	165 m	—
22	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:17.901	—	—	—	189 m	—
23	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:18.255	—	—	—	210 m	—
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:18.330	—	—	—	214 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)
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	70	2	17, 50	21.4, 22.5
Romain Grosjean	2	70	1	21	21.8
Sergio Perez	3	70	1	41	21.4
Sebastian Vettel	4	70	2	16, 63	21.6, 22.4
Fernando Alonso	5	70	1	19	21.1
Nico Rosberg	6	70	2	19, 38	21.2, 21.2
Mark Webber	7	70	2	17, 52	21.2, 21.3
Kimi Raikkonen	8	70	1	40	21.5
Kamui Kobayashi	9	70	1	24	21.5
Felipe Massa	10	70	2	12, 58	21.1, 21.1
Paul di Resta	11	70	2	13, 44	21.5, 21.7
Nico Hulkenberg	12	70	2	21, 42	24.6, 23.7
Pastor Maldonado	13	70	1	29	22.7
Daniel Ricciardo	14	70	2	17, 58	21.7, 21.6
Jean-Éric Vergne	15	69	3	16, 43, 47	22.3, 23.2, 14.6
Jenson Button	16	69	3	15, 33, 52	21.7, 21.8, 21.4
Bruno Senna	17	69	1	23	22.8
Heikki Kovalainen	18	69	2	17, 42	21.7, 21.7
Vitaly Petrov	19	69	2	18, 43	21.9, 21.4
Charles Pic	20	67	1	28	23.3
Timo Glock	DNF	56	1	24	25.5
Michael Schumacher	DNF	43	2	13, 43	21.8, 22.5
Pedro de la Rosa	DNF	24	0	None recorded	—
Narain Karthikeyan	DNF	22	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
Sebastian Vettel · Sir Lewis Hamilton	1 · 2	4 · 1	16 · 17	Sebastian Vettel	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Romain Grosjean	2 · 7	1 · 2	17 · 21	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Fernando Alonso	2 · 3	1 · 5	17 · 19	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Romain Grosjean	6 · 7	10 · 2	12 · 21	Felipe Massa	Swapped places
Romain Grosjean · Sergio Perez	7 · 15	2 · 3	21 · 41	Romain Grosjean	Kept their order
Romain Grosjean · Paul di Resta	7 · 8	2 · 11	21 · 13	Paul di Resta	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Sergio Perez	1 · 15	4 · 3	16 · 41	Sebastian Vettel	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Sergio Perez	14 · 15	14 · 3	17 · 41	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Sergio Perez · Bruno Senna	15 · 16	3 · 17	41 · 23	Bruno Senna	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Fernando Alonso	1 · 3	4 · 5	16 · 19	Sebastian Vettel	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Nico Rosberg	3 · 5	5 · 6	19 · 19	Same lap	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Mark Webber	3 · 4	5 · 7	19 · 17	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Nico Rosberg	4 · 5	7 · 6	17 · 19	Mark Webber	Swapped places
Nico Rosberg · Felipe Massa	5 · 6	6 · 10	19 · 12	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Kimi Raikkonen	4 · 12	7 · 8	17 · 40	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Kamui Kobayashi · Kimi Raikkonen	11 · 12	9 · 8	24 · 40	Kamui Kobayashi	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Nico Hulkenberg	12 · 13	8 · 12	40 · 21	Nico Hulkenberg	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Kamui Kobayashi	6 · 11	10 · 9	12 · 24	Felipe Massa	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Kamui Kobayashi	10 · 11	16 · 9	15 · 24	Jenson Button	Swapped places
Felipe Massa · Paul di Resta	6 · 8	10 · 11	12 · 13	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Paul di Resta · Nico Hulkenberg	8 · 13	11 · 12	13 · 21	Paul di Resta	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Pastor Maldonado	13 · 22	12 · 13	21 · 29	Nico Hulkenberg	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Daniel Ricciardo	13 · 14	12 · 14	21 · 17	Daniel Ricciardo	Kept their order
Daniel Ricciardo · Pastor Maldonado	14 · 22	14 · 13	17 · 29	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Pastor Maldonado · Charles Pic	22 · 23	13 · 20	29 · 28	Charles Pic	Kept their order
Daniel Ricciardo · Jean-Éric Vergne	14 · 19	14 · 15	17 · 16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Jean-Éric Vergne	10 · 19	16 · 15	15 · 16	Jenson Button	Swapped places
Vitaly Petrov · Jean-Éric Vergne	18 · 19	19 · 15	18 · 16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Bruno Senna	10 · 16	16 · 17	15 · 23	Jenson Button	Kept their order
Bruno Senna · Heikki Kovalainen	16 · 17	17 · 18	23 · 17	Heikki Kovalainen	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · Vitaly Petrov	17 · 18	18 · 19	17 · 18	Heikki Kovalainen	Kept their order
Vitaly Petrov · Charles Pic	18 · 23	19 · 20	18 · 28	Vitaly Petrov	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	1:15.564	—	0 m	—	30
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:15.682	+0.118	7 m	+0.118	29
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:15.782	+0.218	13 m	+0.100	30
4	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:15.842	+0.278	16 m	+0.060	34
5	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:15.897	+0.333	19 m	+0.055	28
6	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:15.986	+0.422	24 m	+0.089	29
7	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:16.000	+0.436	25 m	+0.014	31
8	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:16.249	+0.685	40 m	+0.249	32
9	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:16.264	+0.700	40 m	+0.015	28
10	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:16.347	+0.783	45 m	+0.083	12
11	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:16.460	+0.896	52 m	+0.113	32
12	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:16.619	+1.055	61 m	+0.159	17
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:16.859	+1.295	75 m	+0.240	26
14	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:16.890	+1.326	77 m	+0.031	36
15	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:17.014	+1.450	84 m	+0.124	42
16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:17.352	+1.788	103 m	+0.338	28
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:17.580	+2.016	116 m	+0.228	31
18	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:17.935	+2.371	137 m	+0.355	23
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:18.177	+2.613	151 m	+0.242	16
20	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:18.182	+2.618	151 m	+0.005	26
21	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:18.762	+3.198	185 m	+0.580	36
22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:19.354	+3.790	219 m	+0.592	23
23	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:20.004	+4.440	256 m	+0.650	21
24	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:20.067	+4.503	260 m	+0.063	23

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	1:15.259	—	0 m	—	43
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:15.313	+0.054	3 m	+0.054	36
3	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:15.410	+0.151	9 m	+0.097	39
4	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:15.531	+0.272	16 m	+0.121	44
5	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:15.544	+0.285	17 m	+0.013	32
6	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:15.651	+0.392	23 m	+0.107	37
7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:15.697	+0.438	25 m	+0.046	32
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:15.799	+0.540	31 m	+0.102	39
9	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:15.812	+0.553	32 m	+0.013	14
10	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:15.878	+0.619	36 m	+0.066	40
11	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:15.898	+0.639	37 m	+0.020	38
12	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:15.907	+0.648	38 m	+0.009	41
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:15.987	+0.728	42 m	+0.080	39
14	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:16.360	+1.101	64 m	+0.373	29
15	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:16.562	+1.303	76 m	+0.202	33
16	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:16.981	+1.722	100 m	+0.419	24
17	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:17.022	+1.763	102 m	+0.041	22
18	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:17.075	+1.816	105 m	+0.053	41
19	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:17.124	+1.865	108 m	+0.049	41
20	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:17.716	+2.457	142 m	+0.592	34
21	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:18.908	+3.649	211 m	+1.192	27
22	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:19.084	+3.825	222 m	+0.176	40
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:19.378	+4.119	239 m	+0.294	21
24	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:19.902	+4.643	269 m	+0.524	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 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:14.442	—	0 m	—	22
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:14.448	+0.006	0 m	+0.006	17
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:14.712	+0.270	16 m	+0.264	19
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:14.724	+0.282	17 m	+0.012	21
5	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:14.755	+0.313	18 m	+0.031	22
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:14.767	+0.325	19 m	+0.012	21
7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:14.796	+0.354	21 m	+0.029	19
8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:14.873	+0.431	25 m	+0.077	20
9	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:14.977	+0.535	31 m	+0.104	21
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:14.992	+0.550	32 m	+0.015	22
11	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:15.067	+0.625	37 m	+0.075	19
12	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:15.112	+0.670	39 m	+0.045	21
13	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:15.126	+0.684	40 m	+0.014	24
14	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:15.237	+0.795	47 m	+0.111	22
15	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:15.327	+0.885	52 m	+0.090	22
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:15.498	+1.056	62 m	+0.171	19
17	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:16.268	+1.826	107 m	+0.770	24
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:16.545	+2.103	123 m	+0.277	20
19	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:17.705	+3.263	191 m	+1.160	21
20	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:17.974	+3.532	207 m	+0.269	23
21	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:18.189	+3.747	220 m	+0.215	21
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:18.684	+4.242	249 m	+0.495	23
23	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	—	—	—	—	3
24	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	—	—	—	—	1

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: 7 of 2012
Grand Prix: Canadian Grand Prix
Dates: 10 Jun 2012
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-Mercedes
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.