2012 British Grand Prix

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2012 British Grand Prix
Race 9 of 20 in the 2012 Formula One World Championship
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Circuit Silverstone 2010.svg
Silverstone Circuit
Race details
Date8 July 2012
Official name 2012 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix [1]
Location Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.891 km (3.660 mi)
Distance 52 laps, 306.198 km (190.263 miles)
Weather Dry
Air Temp 20 °C (68 °F) [2]
Track Temp 31 °C (88 °F) [2]
Attendance 127,000 (Race Day) [3]
Pole position
Driver Ferrari
Time 1:51.746
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault
Time 1:34.661 on lap 50
Podium
First Red Bull-Renault
Second Ferrari
Third Red Bull-Renault
Lap leaders
  • 2012 British Grand Prix

The 2012 British Grand Prix (formally the 2012 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix) [1] was a Formula One motor race that took place at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England on 8 July 2012. [4] It was the ninth round of the 2012 Formula One season, the 63rd time the event had been a round of the Formula One World Championship, and the 67th time it had been contested overall. The 52-lap race was won by Red Bull driver Mark Webber, who took his second victory of the season. The Ferrari of Fernando Alonso, who started the race in pole position, finished 3.0 seconds behind Webber, in second. Webber's teammate, Sebastian Vettel, completed the podium by finishing in third position.

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As a consequence of the race, Webber narrowed Alonso's lead in the drivers' standings to 13 points. Webber himself was 16 points ahead of Vettel, who had moved ahead of Lewis Hamilton into third in the standings on 100 points. Red Bull extended their lead in the constructors' standings to 64 points. Ferrari moved up from fourth place to second whilst McLaren did the reverse and Lotus stayed in third position. All three teams stayed within 10 points of each other.

This would prove to be Webber's 9th and final career F1 victory. [5]

Report

Background

Jean-Éric Vergne was given a ten-place grid penalty for the race after causing an avoidable collision with Heikki Kovalainen during the previous race. Kamui Kobayashi took a five-place grid penalty for the same offence, having caused an avoidable collision with Felipe Massa in Valencia. [6]

After out-qualifying Toro Rosso drivers Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo in Valencia, Caterham announced plans to bring several upgrades for the CT-01 chassis to the race. [7] Marussia joined Caterham in bringing significant updates to their car, which the Russian team described as their "first proper windtunnel-generated update" [8] since abandoning their computational fluid dynamics-only approach at the start of the 2012 season. [9] Test driver María de Villota was involved in a serious accident while carrying out a straight-line aerodynamic test of the upgraded MR01 chassis in the week preceding the race at Duxford Aerodrome. [10] She was removed from the car with life-threatening injuries, including skull fractures and the loss of her right eye. [11]

Like the 2011 British Grand Prix, tyre supplier Pirelli brought its silver-banded hard compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre. [12]

Dani Clos replaced Narain Karthikeyan at HRT for the first practice session, [13] having previously driven the car at the Spanish Grand Prix. [14] Valtteri Bottas took Bruno Senna's seat at Williams, while Jules Bianchi drove Nico Hülkenberg's car for Force India for the duration of the session. [15]

Free Practice

The wet conditions in Friday's practice sessions saw limited running. 2012 British GP - Kovalainen.jpg
The wet conditions in Friday's practice sessions saw limited running.

The teams were due to test an "experimental" hard tyre compound developed by Pirelli during the first free practice, with a view to introducing it as a racing tyre later in the season; [16] however, wet conditions made this impossible. [17] Romain Grosjean was the fastest driver in the first session, ahead of Daniel Ricciardo and Lewis Hamilton. Fernando Alonso and the Force Indias of Paul di Resta and Jules Bianchi elected not to set lap times in the face of the difficult conditions. [15]

The second session was similarly washed out and saw limited running as teams tried to preserve their wet- and intermediate-compound tyres. Hamilton was fastest, leading Kamui Kobayashi and Michael Schumacher as Grosjean elected not to set a time. [18] Bruno Senna brought out a red flag that resulted in a ten-minute stop to the session when he hit a patch of standing water at Becketts, spinning and crashing heavily into the barriers. Fernando Alonso also encountered trouble, spinning and hitting the wall late in the session, but the Ferrari driver was able to return to the pits.

The third and final session was declared dry, but was run under the threat of rain and saw plenty of activity as the teams pushed hard to make up for lost time running in the wet on Friday. Charles Pic stopped on the circuit after twenty minutes, forcing the temporary suspension of the session while his car was removed. Pic later returned to the circuit, but stopped once again, and his car was removed by marshalls without forcing the session to be stopped. Alonso ended the session fastest overall. [19]

Qualifying

Qualifying started in wet conditions, and with the threat of more rain on the way, a queue of cars formed at the end of pit lane in the minutes before the session began. Once out, many drivers were instructed by their teams to keep going with their flying laps, even if they felt they had been impeded by a slower car because the rapidly evolving nature of the circuit meant that they could still set a fast lap time. Jenson Button was eliminated in eighteenth position when he could not find clear track space. His final flying lap saw him set sector times that would have been fast enough to avoid elimination by over a second and a half, but a spin on the main straight by Timo Glock brought out yellow flags, prompting Button to back off, where he was duly eliminated. Vitaly Petrov out-qualified teammate Heikki Kovalainen for the second time in 2012, with the Caterhams starting in eighteenth and nineteenth once grid penalties had been applied. Despite his spin, Glock's fastest lap saw him qualify twentieth, ahead of both HRT drivers, with Pedro de la Rosa once again out-qualifying Narain Karthikeyan. Charles Pic failed to set a lap time within 107% of the fastest time in the session, set by Sebastian Vettel.

Kimi Raikkonen qualified his Lotus in sixth position. 2012 British GP - Raikkonen.jpg
Kimi Räikkönen qualified his Lotus in sixth position.

The weather delivered on its promise of more rain, inundating the circuit ahead of Q2. The session was red-flagged with just over six minutes remaining after four cars span off within the space of a minute, and Sauber's Sergio Pérez at the top of the time sheets. The stoppage lasted for ninety-two minutes while race officials waited for the rain to stop and the circuit to clear. When the session re-opened, the seventeen drivers would have enough time left over for one set of flying laps, forcing them to choose between the intermediate and wet-weather compounds as the length of a lap in the wet meant that the drivers would not have enough time to pit and change tyres if they made the wrong choice. Pérez chose the intermediate compound which quickly proved to be the wrong choice as he rapidly plummeted down the order, and finished slowest. He would start the race fifteenth after penalties were applied. Paul di Resta's final lap gave him a provisional start in Q3, but he was eliminated in the final moments of the session and started eleventh. Kamui Kobayashi was twelfth, but dropped to seventeenth when his penalty from Valencia was applied. Nico Rosberg and Daniel Ricciardo finished thirteenth and fourteenth, ahead of Bruno Senna who admitted to being "too conservative" in qualifying. Jean-Éric Vergne qualified sixteenth, but was moved to the back of the grid once his penalty was applied. Romain Grosjean made it through to Q3, but spun at the end of the period at the Vale chicane, and took no further part in the session.

Q3 was fought between the Ferraris, Red Bulls and Michael Schumacher's Mercedes. Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa quickly locked out the front row of the grid, until late laps from Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel left the Red Bull cars first and second. Massa was unable to improve his lap time and finished fifth, while Schumacher pushed Webber off pole. Webber reclaimed it with his next lap, only to lose it in turn to Alonso on the Spaniard's final lap of the session. Kimi Räikkönen, the last driver to set a time, finished sixth, ahead of Pastor Maldonado and Lewis Hamilton. Nico Hülkenberg was ninth, which became fourteenth when he took a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change.

Race

An engine failure on Vitaly Petrov's Caterham on his way round to the grid meant he had to return to the pits and retire the car before the race had even begun. When it did, however, it was polesitter Alonso who maintained his lead into the first corner. Webber and Schumacher followed him round in their same positions, but Vettel fell prey to Massa and Räikkönen, before quickly getting back past the Finn. Paul di Resta, in tenth place at the time, suffered a puncture as a result of his right rear tyre coming into contact with Romain Grosjean's front wing at the start of the Wellington straight. Di Resta spun and retired from the damage on the following lap whilst Grosjean pitted on the third lap to replace his front wing and change tyres after his impaired front wing was costing him places.

Later on in the race, Sergio Pérez and Pastor Maldonado had an incident at Brooklands at the end of the Wellington Straight. Maldonado tried to overtake Pérez on the inside of the corner under braking, whilst Pérez was defending on the inside line Maldonado's front wing clipped Pérez's car and sent both of them into a spin, the result of this would be Pérez retiring from the race and Maldonado having to make an unscheduled pit stop to repair damage to his front wing. This would be a disaster for his strategy in the race because a lap earlier, he pitted for new tyres, Maldonado would later finish 16th in the race.

At the start of lap 50, Mark Webber was closing in on race leader Fernando Alonso, with Vettel shortly behind his teammate in 3rd place. Webber was faster than Alonso due to his tyres being worn more than Webber's, but then with 3 laps to go Webber was within a second of Alonso's car, this would mean he was eligible to use DRS in the allocated DRS zone on the Wellington Straight, this would give him extra speed. Alonso knew he was slower than Webber so he took the inside line as Webber passed Alonso for the lead of the race, Alonso tried to attack on him in the next few corners. Now Vettel would try and close up on Alonso.

When the chequered flag fell, Mark Webber won his second British Grand Prix, following his victory in 2010. Alonso was 2nd, Vettel not having the pace to catch Alonso and remaining 3rd. Felipe Massa finished 5 seconds behind Vettel, Romain Grosjean recovered from the first lap incident to finish sixth, behind his teammate Kimi Räikkönen. The other points scorers were Schumacher, Hamilton, Senna, and Jenson Button in 10th.

Post-race

Pastor Maldonado received a 10,000 fine the incident with Sergio Pérez. Kamui Kobayashi received a €25,000 fine for the pit-lane incident which was described by the stewards as a 'very dangerous move which had potentially serious implications'.

A new podium design and interview format was introduced at this Grand Prix; instead of Webber, Alonso, and Vettel proceeding to the interview room in the media centre, Jackie Stewart conducted the televised interview on the podium, allowing the drivers to address the crowd directly. [20] The drivers then proceeded to the interview room for the press conference with assembled media. [21] This form of post-race interviewing was used in every race, with alternating hosts, until the 2018 Chinese Grand Prix.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.No.DriverConstructorPart 1Part 2Part 3Grid
15 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:46.5151:56.9211:51.7461
22 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:47.2761:55.8981:51.7932
37 Flag of Germany.svg Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:46.5711:55.7991:52.0203
41 Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:46.2791:56.9311:52.1994
56 Flag of Brazil.svg Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:47.4011:56.3881:53.0655
69 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:47.3091:56.4691:53.2906
718 Flag of Venezuela.svg Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:46.4491:56.8021:53.5397
84 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:47.4331:54.8971:53.5438
912 Flag of Germany.svg Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1:46.3341:55.5561:54.38214 1
1010 Flag of France.svg Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:47.0431:56.388no time9
1111 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:47.5821:57.00910
1214 Flag of Japan.svg Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:46.6491:57.07117 2
138 Flag of Germany.svg Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:47.7241:57.10811
1416 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:47.2661:57.13212
1519 Flag of Brazil.svg Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1:47.1051:57.42613
1617 Flag of France.svg Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:47.7051:57.71923 3
1715 Flag of Mexico.svg Sergio Pérez Sauber-Ferrari 1:46.4941:57.89515
183 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:48.04416
1921 Flag of Russia.svg Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1:49.02718
2020 Flag of Finland.svg Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1:49.47719
2124 Flag of Germany.svg Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1:51.61820
2222 Flag of Spain.svg Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1:52.74221
2323 Flag of India.svg Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1:53.04022
107% time: 1:53.718
2425 Flag of France.svg Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1:54.14324 4
Source: [22]

Notes:

Race

PosNoDriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
12 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 521:25:11.288225
25 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Ferrari 52+3.060118
31 Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 52+4.836415
46 Flag of Brazil.svg Felipe Massa Ferrari 52+9.519512
59 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 52+10.314610
610 Flag of France.svg Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 52+17.10198
77 Flag of Germany.svg Michael Schumacher Mercedes 52+29.15336
84 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 52+36.46384
919 Flag of Brazil.svg Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 52+43.347132
103 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 52+44.444161
1114 Flag of Japan.svg Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 52+45.37017
1212 Flag of Germany.svg Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 52+47.85614
1316 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 52+51.24112
1417 Flag of France.svg Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 52+53.31323
158 Flag of Germany.svg Nico Rosberg Mercedes 52+57.39411
1618 Flag of Venezuela.svg Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 51+1 Lap7
1720 Flag of Finland.svg Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 51+1 Lap19
1824 Flag of Germany.svg Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 51+1 Lap20
1925 Flag of France.svg Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 51+1 Lap24
2022 Flag of Spain.svg Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 50+2 Laps21
2123 Flag of India.svg Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 50+2 Laps22
Ret15 Flag of Mexico.svg Sergio Pérez Sauber-Ferrari 11Collision15
Ret11 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 2Collision damage10
DNS21 Flag of Russia.svg Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 0Engine18
Source: [26]

Championship standings after the race

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