2012 Indian Grand Prix

February 2021 F1 IND Indian 2012 Korean Grand Prix 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012 Formula 1 Airtel Grand Prix of India http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/india_880/circuit_diagram.html Formula One 14 October 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121001111237/http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/india_880/circuit_diagram.html 1 October 2012 2012 10 28 y 2012 17 20 Buddh Circuit 1.svg 2012 Formula 1 Airtel Indian Grand Prix Buddh International CircuitGreater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India Permanent racing facility 5.125 3.185 60 307.249 190.916 Fine, Dry, a little hazy and a little dusty2012 FORMULA 1 AIRTEL INDIAN GRAND PRIX (Race) https://f1standings.net/races/2012-indian-grand-prix-6038e886eedfc8465599a50b f1standings.net F1standings 28 October 2012 5 April 2021 4 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211204034659/https://f1standings.net/races/2012-indian-grand-prix-6038e886eedfc8465599a50b dead Air Temp 30 C Track Temp 36 C dropping to 31 C 65,000http://www.indianexpress.com/news/indian-grand-prix-organisers-upbeat-despite-attendance-dip/1023517 Indian Grand Prix: Organisers upbeat despite attendance dip The Indian Express 29 October 2012 Sebastian Vettel Germany Red Bull-Renault 1:25.283 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.203 60 UK Sebastian Vettel Germany Red Bull-Renault Fernando Alonso Spain Ferrari Mark Webber Australia Red Bull-Renault IND The 2012 Indian Grand Prix (formally known as the 2012 Formula 1 Airtel Indian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 28 October 2012 at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/12/07/united-states-grand-prix-remains-unchanged-2012-f1-calendar/ United States Grand Prix remains on unchanged 2012 F1 calendar Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 7 December 2011 14 October 2012 The race was the seventeenth round of the 2012 championship, and marked the second running of the Indian Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel started the race from pole position.Vettel leads all-Red Bull front row in India Sam Tremayne http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/103772 Autosport Haymarket Publications 27 October 2012 27 October 2012 Vettel won the race for the second consecutive year,2012 Indian Grand Prix result http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/10/28/2012-indian-grand-prix-result/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 28 October 2012 28 October 2012 but despite leading every lap of the race, he was denied a Grand Slam when Jenson Button set the fastest lap of the race. The organisers of the race invited sport shooter Gagan Narang, who won a bronze medal for India at the London Olympics, to wave the chequered flag.A tribute to a champion http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/a-tribute-to-a-champion/article4042271.ece https://web.archive.org/web/20131029190700/http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/a-tribute-to-a-champion/article4042271.ece live 29 October 2013 The Hindu 29 October 2012 subscription 2012-11-02 Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber completed the podium by finishing second and third. His fourth consecutive win enabled Vettel to increase his advantage over Alonso to 16 points heading into the final three rounds of the season. While Räikkönen remained third with 173 points, Webber overtook Hamilton for fourth in the standings, meaning that the three drivers behind Vettel and Alonso were only covered by eight points. Despite their big deficit towards Vettel, all of the top five drivers still remained in contention of winning the Drivers' Championship. Meanwhile, Lotus was mathematically eliminated from contention regarding the Constructors' Championship, whilst Red Bull increased the gap to Ferrari to 91 points, with 129 points remaining. Report Background Sergio Pérez was taken ill ahead of the race, forcing Sauber to run test and reserve driver Esteban Gutiérrez in his place for the first free practice session.Esteban Gutierrez to stand in for Sergio Perez in FP1 Sam Tremayne http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/103702 Autosport Haymarket Publications 26 October 2012 26 October 2012 Pérez was able to return to the car for the second practice session. Valtteri Bottas once again ran in place of Bruno Senna at Williams, while Giedo van der Garde drove Heikki Kovalainen's Caterham.Vettel leads the way as practice begins in India http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/10/26/2012-indian-grand-prix-practice-result-fp1/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 26 October 2012 26 October 2012 Ferrari was the centre of controversy over the course of the weekend when they displayed the flag of the Italian Navy on the nose of the F2012 in support of the Italian sailors held by Indian authorities over a shooting incident that resulted in the deaths of two Indian fishermen in February 2012.India Grand Prix: Ferrari court controversy with Navy sticker as Indian government refuses to release marines https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/9636218/India-Grand-Prix-Ferrari-court-controversy-with-Navy-sticker-as-Indian-government-refuses-to-release-marines.html The Daily Telegraph 26 October 2012 27 October 2012 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.Pirelli reveal tyre choices for final three rounds http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/10/13931.html Formula One 16 October 2012 20 February 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130929163542/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/10/13931.html 29 September 2013 Following track invasions by stray dogs in 2011, race organisers took precautions by installing ultrasonic devices around the circuit to deter animals from accessing the circuit.Sidhu Jasvinder India F1: Buddh International Circuit 'dog proof' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20080958 27 October 2012 BBC News BBC 26 October 2012 Free practice The first practice session was run without incident. Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time, despite having spent most of the ninety minutes of the session in his garage. Jenson Button was second, three-tenths of a second behind Vettel, with Fernando Alonso in third, a further tenth of a second behind.Sebastian Vettel goes quickest in first practice Simon Strang http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/103709 Autosport Haymarket Publications 26 October 2012 26 October 2012 Vettel was fastest in the second session as well, setting a time one tenth of a second faster than teammate Mark Webber and six-tenths of a second faster than Fernando Alonso.Sebastian Vettel stays on top in second practice Simon Strang http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/103718 Autosport Haymarket Publications 26 October 2012 27 October 2012 The under-used surface of the circuit caused problems for several drivers, with Felipe Massa, Romain Grosjean, and Bruno Senna all spinning throughout the session, though all three were able to continue running without forcing the suspension of the session.Vettel extends his advantage in second practice http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/10/26/2012-indian-grand-prix-practice-result-fp2/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 26 October 2012 27 October 2012 Vettel was once again fastest in the third practice session, two-tenths faster than Button and Webber.Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull complete practice sweep Sam Tremayne http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/103766 Autosport Haymarket Publications 27 October 2012 27 October 2012 Qualifying Force India ensured that their cars were first on track for the first part of Saturday's qualifying session. Kimi Räikkönen, Felipe Massa and Bruno Senna set the early pace while the Red Bulls and McLarens stayed in the garage waiting for the track to become more grippy once rubber had been laid down. Ferrari attempted to improve Fernando Alonso's lap time by making Massa run in front of him on the straight so he could use the slipstream to gain extra top speed. Alonso's lap, however, was not faster than Massa's and the drafting idea was not used later in qualifying, presumably because it did not work. Massa was on a quick lap after this, but accelerated too much out of a corner and spun his car around; he recovered and returned to the pits. Once the Red Bulls and McLarens had set their lap times, the Toro Rosso of Jean-Éric Vergne was left in eighteenth and therefore not within the top seventeen slots times required to make the next qualifying session. He set a lap time, but it was only good enough to move up one place. His teammate, Daniel Ricciardo, was the driver who progressed to Q2 himself when he pushed Vergne back into the eighteenth qualifying slot. Once again, the Caterhams, Marrusias and HRTs occupied the three final rows of the grid. Vitaly Petrov, whose car had needed some last-minute repair just before the session had begun, qualified in nineteenth place and his teammate Heikki Kovalainen ended up twentieth after spinning the car round on his final lap and running back across the track before getting stuck in the gravel. Narain Karthikeyan qualified in twenty-third place for his home Grand Prix, just one-thousandth of a second slower than Pedro de la Rosa. The Marussia cars of Timo Glock and Charles Pic ended up twenty-first and twenty-fourth, and last, respectively. Every car excluding the Red Bulls, McLarens, Ferraris and Lotuses used the softer compound 'option' tyre in the session. Williams driver Pastor Maldonado set the session's fastest time. The second part of qualifying began under yellow flag conditions because Kovalainen's stricken Caterham was still being returned to the pits. Every driver set a time not long after the flag had been lifted, and many returned to the pits not long after this. There was a flurry of lap times being set at the end of the session, and it was not certain which drivers had made it through until after the chequered flag was waved as every driver but Vettel, Webber and Hamilton came back on track. Kamui Kobayashi qualified his Sauber in a disappointing seventeenth place, while his teammate made it into the final session of qualifying. It was the same story for Romain Grosjean, Bruno Senna and Michael Schumacher who all failed to make Q3 after their teammates did. They lined up on the grid in 11th, 13th and 14th respectively. The Force India team was disappointed at their home race, with Nico Hülkenberg and Paul di Resta only taking the twelfth and sixteenth spots on the grid respectively. At least one of their two drivers had qualified within the top ten at each of the last ten races. Daniel Ricciardo out-qualified Vergne for the thirteenth time in 2012, putting his Toro Rosso in fifteenth position on the grid. Jenson Button completed the final lap of the session to give himself the second fastest time behind Vettel. Seven teams were represented in Q3, but the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg elected not to run and consequently took tenth place on the grid. Sergio Pérez and Pastor Maldonado did well to qualify their cars in eighth and ninth positions; the Lotus of Räikkönen was in front of them in seventh. The session was split into two informal phases, with cars choosing to make two attempts at a good time. Sebastian Vettel made a mistake on his first flying lap and ran across turn 7, but he set a lap worthy of pole position on his following attempt. Mark Webber set a lap half a tenth slower, initially in front of Button, Alonso and Hamilton. Both Red Bulls abandoned their laps at the very end of the session, as Vettel set a too-slow first sector, and Webber ran wide at turn 3 whilst running behind the McLarens. Vettel took pole position for Red Bull's third consecutive front-row lock-out. It was the first time Red Bull had had three front-row lock-outs in a row, and the first time any team had done since McLaren did in 2007. Lewis Hamilton set the last lap of qualifying to move his car up to third on the grid, only two-tenths behind Webber. Button qualified fourth in front of Vettel's main title rival Alonso and Massa qualified sixth. This meant that the cars lined up two by two, with Red Bulls taking the front row, McLaren taking the second and Ferrari taking the third. It was only the third time in the 2012 season that no penalties needed to be applied before the start of the race. Race Sebastian Vettel took a dominant win, which was his 4th consecutive one ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso who got past Mark Webber when the latter suffered from a KERS problem in his Red Bull. Lewis Hamilton closed up to Webber but couldn't get past and had to settle for 4th place. After this race Vettel extended his Championship lead to 13 points over Alonso.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/20115603 Vettel wins to extend title lead BBC Sport Post race controversies There was speculation in the media that the chaotic Indian customs regulations might have cost Fernando Alonso the race. This was because Ferrari could not get certain crucial auto parts and equipment flown into India because of the complex paperwork associated with Indian customs.https://www.thehindu.com/sport/motorsport/did-indian-customs-cost-alonso-the-title/article4055265.ece Did Indian customs cost Alonso the title? The Hindu 1 September 2012 A significant drop in race day attendance was noticed, as the number of fans attending the race dropped to 65,000 (from 95,000 in the previous year). Formula One president Bernie Ecclestone stated that he was not worried and that attendance is always high in the first year and tends to go down in the second. There was also some discontent between Ferrari technical director Pat Fry and Alonso, when Fry stated on Twitter that "In order to be where we wanted and where we were capable of being, we needed to be perfect today and we weren't", after Alonso qualified fifth behind the Red Bulls and the McLarens. Alonso apparently took this as a jibe against his driving skills, and the Ferrari management had to prevent him from responding to it publicly. Classification Qualifying Pos. Qualifying position No. Number Driver Constructor Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Grid Final grid position 1 1 DEU Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:26.387 1:25.435 1:25.283 1 2 2 AUS Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:26.744 1:25.610 1:25.327 2 3 4 GBR Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:26.516 1:25.816 1:25.544 3 4 3 GBR Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:26.564 1:25.467 1:25.649 4 5 5 ESP Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:26.829 1:25.834 1:25.773 5 6 6 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:26.939 1:26.111 1:25.857 6 7 9 FIN Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:26.740 1:26.101 1:26.236 7 8 15 MEX Sergio Pérez Sauber-Ferrari 1:27.179 1:26.076 1:26.360 8 9 18 VEN Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:26.048 1:25.983 1:26.713 9 10 8 DEU Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:26.458 1:25.976 No time 10 11 10 FRA Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:26.897 1:26.136 11 12 12 DEU Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1:27.185 1:26.241 12 13 19 BRA Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1:26.851 1:26.331 13 14 7 DEU Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:27.482 1:26.574 14 15 16 AUS Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:27.006 1:26.777 15 16 11 GBR Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:27.462 1:26.989 16 17 14 JPN Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:27.517 1:27.219 17 18 17 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:27.525 18 19 21 RUS Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1:28.756 19 20 20 FIN Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1:29.500 20 21 24 DEU Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1:29.613 21 22 22 ESP Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1:30.592 22 23 23 IND Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1:30.593 23 24 25 FRA Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1:30.662 24107% time:1:32.071Source: Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 GER Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 60 1:31:10.744 1 25 2 5 ESP Fernando Alonso Ferrari 60 +9.437 5 18 3 2 AUS Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 60 +13.217 2 15 4 4 GBR Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 60 +13.909 3 12 5 3 GBR Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 60 +26.266 4 10 6 6 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 60 +44.674 6 8 7 9 FIN Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 60 +45.227 7 6 8 12 GER Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 60 +54.998 12 4 9 10 FRA Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 60 +56.103 11 2 10 19 BRA Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 60 +1:14.975 13 1 11 8 GER Nico Rosberg Mercedes 60 +1:21.694 10 12 11 GBR Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 60 +1:22.815 16 13 16 AUS Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 60 +1:26.064 15 14 14 JPN Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 60 +1:26.495 17 15 17 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 59 +1 Lap 18 16 18 VEN Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 59 +1 Lap 9 17 21 RUS Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 59 +1 Lap 19 18 20 FIN Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 59 +1 Lap 20 19 25 FRA Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 59 +1 Lap 24 20 24 GER Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 58 +2 Laps 21 21 23 IND Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 58 +2 Laps 23 22 7 GER Michael Schumacher Mercedes 55 Gearbox 14 Ret Retired 22 ESP Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 42 Brakes 22 Ret Retired 15 MEX Sergio Pérez Sauber-Ferrari 20 Collision damage 8Source:2012 FORMULA 1 AIRTEL INDIAN GRAND PRIX - RACE RESULT https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2012/races/24/india/race-result.html Formula One 3 February 2024 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 GER Sebastian Vettel* 240 10px 2 ESP Fernando Alonso* 227 10px 3 FIN Kimi Räikkönen* 173 10px 1 4 AUS Mark Webber* 167 10px 1 5 GBR Lewis Hamilton* 165Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2012/inde/championnat.aspx India 2012 - Championship • STATS F1 statsf1.com 18 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 AUT Red Bull-Renault* 407 10px 2 ITA Ferrari* 316 10px 3 GBR McLaren-Mercedes* 306 10px 4 GBR Lotus-Renault 263 10px 5 GER Mercedes 136Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Competitors marked in bold and with an asterisk still had a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion. References Indian Grand Prix 2012 2012 Korean Grand Prix 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2011 Indian Grand Prix 2013 Indian Grand Prix 2011 Indian Grand Prix 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix Category:2012 Formula One races Grand Prix 2012 Indian Grand Prix