Race · Round 8 of 20 · 24 June 2012

2012 European Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso won for Ferrari from 11th on the grid at Valencia Street Circuit. 4 of the starters were not classified.

Dry · High of 30 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Valencia Street CircuitValencia, Spain
Winner: Fernando AlonsoFerrari
Pole: Sebastian Vettel
Fastest lap: Nico Rosberg
Entries: 2419 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F2012	11	57	Finished	25
2	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	E20	5	57	Finished	18
3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	F1 W03	12	57	Finished	15
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB8	19	57	Finished	12
5	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	VJM05	8	57	Finished	10
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W03	6	57	Finished	8	fastest lap
7	Paul di Resta	Force India	VJM05	10	57	Finished	6
8	Jenson Button	McLaren	MP4-27	9	57	Finished	4
9	Sergio Perez	Sauber	C31	15	57	Finished	2
10	Bruno Senna	Williams	FW34	14	57	Finished	1
11	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	17	57	Finished	0
12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	FW34	3	57	Finished	0
13	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	20	57	Finished	0
14	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	16	57	Finished	0
15	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	23	57	Finished	0
16	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F2012	13	56	Finished	0
17	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	F112	21	56	Finished	0
18	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	F112	22	56	Finished	0
19	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-27	2	55	Collision	0
DNF	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	E20	4	40	Alternator	0
DNF	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	RB8	1	33	Alternator	0
DNF	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	C31	7	33	Collision damage	0
DNF	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	18	26	Collision damage	0
DNS	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	—	—	Illness	0

F1DB layout valencia-1 · 5.419 km · 25 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	11	1	57
Kimi Raikkonen	5	2	57
Michael Schumacher	12	3	57
Mark Webber	19	4	57
Nico Hulkenberg	8	5	57
Nico Rosberg	6	6	57
Paul di Resta	10	7	57
Jenson Button	9	8	57
Sergio Perez	15	9	57
Bruno Senna	14	10	57
Daniel Ricciardo	17	11	57
Pastor Maldonado	3	12	57
Vitaly Petrov	20	13	57
Heikki Kovalainen	16	14	57
Charles Pic	23	15	57
Felipe Massa	13	16	56
Pedro de la Rosa	21	17	56
Narain Karthikeyan	22	18	56
Sir Lewis Hamilton	2	19	55
Romain Grosjean	4	DNF	40
Sebastian Vettel	1	DNF	33
Kamui Kobayashi	7	DNF	33
Jean-Éric Vergne	18	DNF	26

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:39.626	1:38.530	1:38.086	—	0 m	—
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:39.169	1:38.616	1:38.410	+0.324	18 m	+0.324
3	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:38.825	1:38.570	1:38.475	+0.389	21 m	+0.065
4	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:39.530	1:38.489	1:38.505	+0.419	23 m	+0.030
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:39.464	1:38.531	1:38.513	+0.427	24 m	+0.008
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:39.061	1:38.504	1:38.623	+0.537	30 m	+0.110
7	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:39.651	1:38.703	1:38.741	+0.655	36 m	+0.118
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:39.009	1:38.689	1:38.752	+0.666	37 m	+0.011
9	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:39.622	1:38.563	1:38.801	+0.715	40 m	+0.049
10	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:38.858	1:38.519	1:38.992	+0.906	50 m	+0.191
11	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:39.409	1:38.707	—	—	12 m	—
12	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:39.447	1:38.770	—	—	15 m	—
13	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:39.388	1:38.780	—	—	16 m	—
14	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:39.449	1:39.207	—	—	40 m	—
15	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:39.353	1:39.358	—	—	48 m	—
16	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:40.087	1:40.295	—	—	99 m	—
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:39.924	1:40.358	—	—	103 m	—
18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:40.203	—	—	—	76 m	—
19	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:40.395	—	—	—	86 m	—
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:40.457	—	—	—	89 m	—
21	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:42.171	—	—	—	183 m	—
22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:42.527	—	—	—	203 m	—
23	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:42.675	—	—	—	211 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)
Fernando Alonso	1	57	2	15, 28	19.8, 20.7
Kimi Raikkonen	2	57	2	14, 28	21.9, 21.1
Michael Schumacher	3	57	2	19, 41	20.5, 20.0
Mark Webber	4	57	2	19, 38	20.2, 20.2
Nico Hulkenberg	5	57	2	14, 28	21.2, 20.3
Nico Rosberg	6	57	2	20, 46	20.6, 20.1
Paul di Resta	7	57	1	23	20.3
Jenson Button	8	57	2	10, 26	20.2, 19.6
Sergio Perez	9	57	2	10, 25	21.0, 20.9
Bruno Senna	10	57	2	20, 24	28.4, 14.7
Daniel Ricciardo	11	57	2	14, 37	21.2, 22.6
Pastor Maldonado	12	57	2	14, 28	21.3, 21.5
Vitaly Petrov	13	57	4	13, 25, 28, 47	20.7, 21.2, 21.4, 30.8
Heikki Kovalainen	14	57	2	12, 27	21.0, 24.4
Charles Pic	15	57	2	11, 28	31.6, 22.8
Felipe Massa	16	56	4	11, 27, 34, 53	20.5, 20.1, 39.0, 20.5
Pedro de la Rosa	17	56	2	14, 28	23.1, 23.1
Narain Karthikeyan	18	56	3	15, 29, 39	22.9, 26.4, 14.8
Sir Lewis Hamilton	19	55	2	13, 28	19.4, 31.1
Romain Grosjean	DNF	40	2	16, 28	20.5, 23.2
Sebastian Vettel	DNF	33	2	16, 29	20.4, 20.0
Kamui Kobayashi	DNF	33	2	14, 20	23.1, 25.7
Jean-Éric Vergne	DNF	26	1	17	21.3

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
Kimi Raikkonen · Fernando Alonso	5 · 11	2 · 1	14 · 15	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Paul di Resta · Fernando Alonso	10 · 11	7 · 1	23 · 15	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Michael Schumacher	11 · 12	1 · 3	15 · 19	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Nico Rosberg	5 · 6	2 · 6	14 · 20	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Michael Schumacher	5 · 12	2 · 3	14 · 19	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Mark Webber	12 · 19	3 · 4	19 · 19	Same lap	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Felipe Massa	12 · 13	3 · 16	19 · 11	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Mark Webber	8 · 19	5 · 4	14 · 19	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Mark Webber · Vitaly Petrov	19 · 20	4 · 13	19 · 13	Vitaly Petrov	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Nico Hulkenberg	6 · 8	6 · 5	20 · 14	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Jenson Button	8 · 9	5 · 8	14 · 10	Jenson Button	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Paul di Resta	6 · 10	6 · 7	20 · 23	Nico Rosberg	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Paul di Resta	9 · 10	8 · 7	10 · 23	Jenson Button	Swapped places
Jenson Button · Sergio Perez	9 · 15	8 · 9	10 · 10	Same lap	Kept their order
Bruno Senna · Sergio Perez	14 · 15	10 · 9	20 · 10	Sergio Perez	Swapped places
Sergio Perez · Heikki Kovalainen	15 · 16	9 · 14	10 · 12	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Bruno Senna	13 · 14	16 · 10	11 · 20	Felipe Massa	Swapped places
Bruno Senna · Daniel Ricciardo	14 · 17	10 · 11	20 · 14	Daniel Ricciardo	Kept their order
Pastor Maldonado · Daniel Ricciardo	3 · 17	12 · 11	14 · 14	Same lap	Swapped places
Heikki Kovalainen · Daniel Ricciardo	16 · 17	14 · 11	12 · 14	Heikki Kovalainen	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Pastor Maldonado	2 · 3	19 · 12	13 · 14	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Pastor Maldonado · Vitaly Petrov	3 · 20	12 · 13	14 · 13	Vitaly Petrov	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · Vitaly Petrov	16 · 20	14 · 13	12 · 13	Heikki Kovalainen	Swapped places
Vitaly Petrov · Pedro de la Rosa	20 · 21	13 · 17	13 · 14	Vitaly Petrov	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · Charles Pic	16 · 23	14 · 15	12 · 11	Charles Pic	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Charles Pic	13 · 23	16 · 15	11 · 11	Same lap	Swapped places
Narain Karthikeyan · Charles Pic	22 · 23	18 · 15	15 · 11	Charles Pic	Swapped places
Felipe Massa · Pedro de la Rosa	13 · 21	16 · 17	11 · 14	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Pedro de la Rosa · Narain Karthikeyan	21 · 22	17 · 18	14 · 15	Pedro de la Rosa	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Narain Karthikeyan	2 · 22	19 · 18	13 · 15	Sir Lewis Hamilton	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	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:40.890	—	0 m	—	22
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:40.973	+0.083	4 m	+0.083	21
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:40.984	+0.094	5 m	+0.011	19
4	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:40.994	+0.104	6 m	+0.010	19
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:41.065	+0.175	9 m	+0.071	26
6	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:41.105	+0.215	12 m	+0.040	15
7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:41.117	+0.227	12 m	+0.012	22
8	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:41.158	+0.268	14 m	+0.041	18
9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:41.182	+0.292	16 m	+0.024	21
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:41.620	+0.730	39 m	+0.438	22
11	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:41.784	+0.894	48 m	+0.164	15
12	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:41.838	+0.948	51 m	+0.054	19
13	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:41.861	+0.971	52 m	+0.023	16
14	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:42.109	+1.219	65 m	+0.248	20
15	Jules Bianchi	Force India	12	1:42.175	+1.285	69 m	+0.066	21
16	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	19	1:42.299	+1.409	76 m	+0.124	24
17	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:42.442	+1.552	83 m	+0.143	26
18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:42.758	+1.868	100 m	+0.316	27
19	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:42.777	+1.887	101 m	+0.019	28
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:43.209	+2.319	125 m	+0.432	19
21	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:44.173	+3.283	176 m	+0.964	19
22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:44.996	+4.106	221 m	+0.823	15
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:45.120	+4.230	227 m	+0.124	23
24	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:45.338	+4.448	239 m	+0.218	7

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	1:39.334	—	0 m	—	33
2	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:39.465	+0.131	7 m	+0.131	32
3	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:39.595	+0.261	14 m	+0.130	20
4	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:39.601	+0.267	15 m	+0.006	27
5	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:39.644	+0.310	17 m	+0.043	34
6	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:39.700	+0.366	20 m	+0.056	32
7	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:39.733	+0.399	22 m	+0.033	34
8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:39.868	+0.534	29 m	+0.135	33
9	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:39.901	+0.567	31 m	+0.033	30
10	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:39.926	+0.592	32 m	+0.025	32
11	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:39.945	+0.611	33 m	+0.019	34
12	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:39.990	+0.656	36 m	+0.045	33
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:40.075	+0.741	40 m	+0.085	29
14	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:40.147	+0.813	44 m	+0.072	25
15	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:40.244	+0.910	50 m	+0.097	35
16	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:40.511	+1.177	64 m	+0.267	29
17	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:40.963	+1.629	89 m	+0.452	20
18	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:41.121	+1.787	97 m	+0.158	32
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:41.197	+1.863	102 m	+0.076	38
20	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:41.263	+1.929	105 m	+0.066	29
21	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:42.424	+3.090	169 m	+1.161	21
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:42.958	+3.624	198 m	+0.534	30
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:44.201	+4.867	266 m	+1.243	33
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:44.260	+4.926	269 m	+0.059	12

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	1:38.562	—	0 m	—	17
2	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:38.655	+0.093	5 m	+0.093	18
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:38.759	+0.197	11 m	+0.104	18
4	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:38.819	+0.257	14 m	+0.060	17
5	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:38.892	+0.330	18 m	+0.073	17
6	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:39.084	+0.522	29 m	+0.192	20
7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:39.141	+0.579	32 m	+0.057	15
8	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:39.178	+0.616	34 m	+0.037	17
9	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:39.318	+0.756	42 m	+0.140	15
10	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:39.357	+0.795	44 m	+0.039	18
11	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:39.358	+0.796	44 m	+0.001	19
12	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:39.395	+0.833	46 m	+0.037	15
13	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:39.434	+0.872	48 m	+0.039	13
14	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:39.543	+0.981	54 m	+0.109	13
15	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:39.946	+1.384	76 m	+0.403	20
16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:40.037	+1.475	81 m	+0.091	17
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:40.134	+1.572	86 m	+0.097	20
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:40.681	+2.119	117 m	+0.547	15
19	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:41.282	+2.720	150 m	+0.601	4
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:41.931	+3.369	185 m	+0.649	15
21	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:42.758	+4.196	231 m	+0.827	14
22	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:42.815	+4.253	234 m	+0.057	16
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:42.943	+4.381	241 m	+0.128	14
24	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:43.124	+4.562	251 m	+0.181	16

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: 8 of 2012
Grand Prix: European Grand Prix
Dates: 24 Jun 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.