2012 British Grand Prix

April 2014 April 2014 F1 Great Britain British 2012 European Grand Prix 2012 German Grand Prix 8 July 2012 2012 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix2012 Formula One Santander British Grand Prix http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/great_britain_872/ Formula1.com Formula One Management 25 June 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120511102123/http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/great_britain_872/ 11 May 2012 Circuit Silverstone 2010.svg 250px Silverstone Circuit 9 20 Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England Permanent racing facility 5.891 km mi on 52 190.263 306.198 DryAir Temp 20 C2012 FORMULA 1 SANTANDER BRITISH GRAND PRIX (Race) https://f1standings.net/races/2012-british-grand-prix-6038e886eedfc8465599a503 F1Standings 8 July 2012 5 April 2021 23 October 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211023075611/https://f1standings.net/races/2012-british-grand-prix-6038e886eedfc8465599a503 dead Track Temp 31 C 127,000 (Race Day)http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/8790870/silverstone-says-2013-british-gp-tickets-still-on-sale-and-fans-can-turn-up-at-gate Silverstone says 2013 British GP tickets still on sale and fans can turn up at gate Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:51.746 ESP Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:34.661 50 FIN Mark Webber AUS Red Bull-Renault Fernando Alonso ESP Ferrari Sebastian Vettel GER Red Bull-Renault GBR The 2012 British Grand Prix (formally the 2012 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that took place at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England on 8 July 2012.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 11 June 2012 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. This would prove to be Webber's ninth and final career F1 victory.Britain 2012 • STATS F1 https://www.statsf1.com/en/2012/grande-bretagne.aspx 2022-06-19 www.statsf1.com This was also the last victory for an Australian Formula One driver until Daniel Ricciardo's victory in the 2014 Canadian Grand Prix, Ricciardo having replaced Webber at Red Bull after the latter's retirement at the end of the 2013 season. 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.Silverstone penalties for Kobayashi and Vergne http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/6/13502.html Formula 1 24 June 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120627092129/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/6/13502.html 27 June 2012 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.Heikki Kovalainen 'cannot wait' for British Grand Prix given Caterham's progress http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100782 Jonathan Noble Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 29 June 2012 30 June 2012 Marussia joined Caterham in bringing significant updates to their car, which the Russian team described as their "first proper windtunnel-generated update"Marussia to bring first major upgrade to British Grand Prix http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100806 Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 29 June 2012 30 June 2012 since abandoning their computational fluid dynamics-only approach at the start of the 2012 season.Symonds: 2011 Virgin had potential http://www.racer.com/symonds-2011-virgin-had-potential/article/224175/ Racer Magazine 22 January 2012 20 June 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120124212637/http://www.racer.com/symonds-2011-virgin-had-potential/article/224175/ 24 January 2012 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.F1 Marussia driver hurt in Duxford testing crash https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-18685789 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire BBC 3 July 2012 3 July 2012 She was removed from the car with life-threatening injuries, which included skull fractures and the loss of her right eye.Maria de Villota loses right eye in accident, remains in critical but stable condition http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100907 Pablo Elizalde Haymarket Publications 4 July 2012 6 July 2012 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.Pirelli reveal tyre choices for final three rounds http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/10/13931.html Formula One 16 October 2012 18 February 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130111030532/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/10/13931.html 11 January 2013 Dani Clos replaced Narain Karthikeyan at HRT for the first practice session,Dani Clos to drive for HRT again in British Grand Prix Friday practice http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100780 Jonathan Noble Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 29 June 2012 30 June 2012 having previously driven the car at the Spanish Grand Prix.Dani Clos to drive for HRT in first practice in Spain http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/05/08/dani-clos-drive-hrt-practice-spain/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 8 May 2012 30 June 2012 Valtteri Bottas took Bruno Senna's seat at Williams, while Jules Bianchi drove Nico Hülkenberg's car for Force India and for the duration of the session.Grosjean fastest at drenched Silverstone http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/07/06/2012-british-grand-prix-practice-result-fp1/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 6 July 2012 6 July 2012 Free Practice thumb|right|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;Teams to test new hard tyres at Silverstone http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/07/02/teams-test-hard-tyres-silverstone/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 2 July 2012 3 July 2012 however, wet conditions made this impossible.Practice One – Dark day, Dark Knight http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/7/13540.html Formula1.com Formula One Group 6 July 2012 6 July 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120708182814/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/7/13540.html 8 July 2012 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. The second session was washed out as well and teams saw limited action as they tried to preserve their wet- and intermediate-compound tyres. Hamilton had the fastest time, leading Kamui Kobayashi and Michael Schumacher as Grosjean elected not to set a time.Hamilton quickest in washed out second practice for the British Grand Prix http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100945 Matt Beer Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 6 July 2012 7 July 2012 Bruno Senna brought out a red flag that resulted in a ten-minute stoppage 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 the fastest overall.Alonso leads the way for Ferrari in dry final practice ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100995 Matt Beer Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 7 July 2012 7 July 2012 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, whereupon 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 place once grid penalties had been applied. Despite his spin, Glock's fastest lap saw him start 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. thumb|right|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 in the session after four cars spun 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 July 2012 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 Maldonado's 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 closely 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 which 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 in the race, Alonso tried to attack him in the next few corners. Now Vettel would try and close up on Alonso. When the chequered flag finally fell, Mark Webber won his second British Grand Prix, following up his victory in 2010. Alonso placed 2nd, and Vettel not having the pace to catch Alonso came in 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 for the incident with Sergio Pérez. Kamui Kobayashi received a €25,000 fine for a poorly controlled pit entry in which he knocked down some of his crew; the incident 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.Round 9: British GP – Race: Top Three | BBC Formula 1 2012 The drivers then proceeded to the interview room for the press conference with assembled media.http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/7/13564.html FIA post-race press conference – Great Britain 8 July 2012 Formula1.com 24 July 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120711015102/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/7/13564.html 11 July 2012 This form of post-race interviewing was used in every race, with alternating hosts, until the 2018 Chinese Grand Prix. 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 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. Classification Qualifying Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Constructor Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Grid Final grid position 1 5 Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:46.515 1:56.921 1:51.746 1 2 2 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:47.276 1:55.898 1:51.793 2 3 7 GER Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:46.571 1:55.799 1:52.020 3 4 1 GER Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:46.279 1:56.931 1:52.199 4 5 6 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:47.401 1:56.388 1:53.065 5 6 9 FIN Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:47.309 1:56.469 1:53.290 6 7 18 Venezuela Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:46.449 1:56.802 1:53.539 7 8 4 UK Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:47.433 1:54.897 1:53.543 8 9 12 GER Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1:46.334 1:55.556 1:54.382 141 1 10 10 FRA Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:47.043 1:56.388 no time 9 11 11 UK Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:47.582 1:57.009 10 12 14 Japan Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:46.649 1:57.071 172 2 13 8 GER Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:47.724 1:57.108 11 14 16 AUS Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:47.266 1:57.132 12 15 19 BRA Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1:47.105 1:57.426 13 16 17 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:47.705 1:57.719 233 3 17 15 Mexico Sergio Pérez Sauber-Ferrari 1:46.494 1:57.895 15 18 3 UK Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:48.044 16 19 21 Russia Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1:49.027 18 20 20 FIN Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1:49.477 19 21 24 GER Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1:51.618 20 22 22 Spain Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1:52.742 21 23 23 India Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1:53.040 22 107% time: 1:53.718 24 25 FRA Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1:54.143 244 4Source:Alonso grabs pole in disrupted qualifying for the British Grand Prix http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/101009 Matt Beer Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 7 July 2012 8 July 2012 Notes: 1 1 – Nico Hülkenberg was given a five-place grid penalty for changing his gearbox.Hulkenberg to take five-place grid penalty at Silverstone after gearbox change http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100998 Jonathan Noble Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 7 July 2012 8 July 2012 2 2 – Kamui Kobayashi was given a five-place grid penalty for causing an avoidable accident with Felipe Massa in Valencia. 3 3 – Jean-Éric Vergne was given a ten-place grid penalty for causing an avoidable accident with Heikki Kovalainen in Valencia. 4 4 – Charles Pic failed to set a lap time within 107% of the fastest lap time set in Q1. His entry into the race depended on an injunction from the race stewards. He received a five-place grid penalty for changing his gearbox,Gearbox-change penalty for Charles Pic in the British Grand Prix http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100999 AUTOSPORT.com 7 July 2012 before being given permission to enter the race by the stewards, leaving him twenty-fourth overall.2012 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix – Provisional Results http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2012/872/7149/ Formula1.com Formula One Management 7 July 2012 8 July 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120712120856/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2012/872/7149/ 12 July 2012 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 2 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 52 1:25:11.288 2 25 2 5 Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari 52 +3.060 1 18 3 1 GER Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 52 +4.836 4 15 4 6 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 52 +9.519 5 12 5 9 FIN Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 52 +10.314 6 10 6 10 FRA Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 52 +17.101 9 8 7 7 GER Michael Schumacher Mercedes 52 +29.153 3 6 8 4 UK Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 52 +36.463 8 4 9 19 BRA Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 52 +43.347 13 2 10 3 UK Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 52 +44.444 16 1 11 14 Japan Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 52 +45.370 17 12 12 GER Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 52 +47.856 14 13 16 AUS Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 52 +51.241 12 14 17 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 52 +53.313 23 15 8 GER Nico Rosberg Mercedes 52 +57.394 11 16 18 Venezuela Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 51 +1 Lap 7 17 20 FIN Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 51 +1 Lap 19 18 24 GER Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 51 +1 Lap 20 19 25 FRA Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 51 +1 Lap 24 20 22 Spain Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 50 +2 Laps 21 21 23 India Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 50 +2 Laps 22 Ret Retired 15 Mexico Sergio Pérez Sauber-Ferrari 11 Collision 15 Ret Retired 11 GBR Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 2 Collision damage 10 DNS Did not start 21 RUS Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 0 Engine 18Source:Mark Webber charges to superb British Grand Prix victory http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/101064 Matt Beer Autosport.com Haymarket Publications 8 July 2012 8 July 2012 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 ESP Fernando Alonso 129 10px 2 AUS Mark Webber 116 10px 1 3 GER Sebastian Vettel 100 10px 1 4 GBR Lewis Hamilton 92 10px 1 5 FIN Kimi Räikkönen 83Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2012/grande-bretagne/championnat.aspx Britain 2012 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 14 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 AUT Red Bull-Renault 216 10px 2 2 ITA Ferrari 152 10px 3 GBR Lotus-Renault 144 10px 2 4 GBR McLaren-Mercedes 142 10px 5 GER Mercedes 98Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. See also 2012 Silverstone GP2 Series round 2012 Silverstone GP3 Series round References 30em British Grand Prix 2012 2012 European Grand Prix 2012 German Grand Prix 2011 British Grand Prix 2013 British Grand Prix British Category:British Grand Prix Grand Prix British Grand Prix Category:Sport in Buckinghamshire Category:Sport in Northamptonshire British Grand Prix Category:2010s in Buckinghamshire