2012 Chinese Grand Prix

Formula One motor race held in 2012 February 2021 F1 China Chinese 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix Shanghai International Racing Circuit track map.svg Shanghai International Racing Circuit track map.svg 150px 15 April 2012 2012 Formula 1 UBS Chinese Grand Prix 3 20 Shanghai International CircuitShanghai, People's Republic of China Permanent racing facility 3.387 5.451 56 189.559 305.066 Overcast but Dry2012 FORMULA 1 UBS CHINESE GRAND PRIX (Race) https://f1standings.net/races/2012-chinese-grand-prix-6038e885eedfc8465599a4fd f1standings.net F1Standings 15 April 2012 5 April 2021 28 September 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210928083040/https://f1standings.net/races/2012-chinese-grand-prix-6038e885eedfc8465599a4fd dead Air Temp 22 °C °F Track Temp 23 °C °F Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:35.121 GER Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:39.960 40 JPN Nico Rosberg Mercedes GER Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes GBR Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes GBR CHN thumb|right|Shanghai International Circuit The 2012 Chinese Grand Prix (formally the 2012 Formula 1 UBS Chinese Grand Prix)2012 Formula 1 UBS Chinese Grand Prix http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/china_866/ Formula One 22 March 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120316102259/http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/china_866/ 16 March 2012 was a Formula One motor race held on 15 April 2012 at the Shanghai International Circuit in Shanghai, China.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 3 April 2012 It was the ninth running of the Chinese Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship. The 56-lap race was the third round of the 2012 Formula One season. The race was won by German driver Nico Rosberg driving a Mercedes,https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/17718458 Dominant Nico Rosberg wins Chinese Grand Prix 15 April 2012 BBC Sport BBC 17 April 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120417191049/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17718458 17 April 2012 live Andrew Benson after he dominated the race to claim his debut Formula One victory and his first race win since leaving GP2 Series six years prior. Rosberg became the first German driver to win a Grand Prix driving a German car in Formula 1 history.The last time a German driver won a Grand Prix race driving a German car was Hermann Lang's victory at the 1939 Swiss Grand Prix. The win was also the first win for an official Mercedes-Benz team since the 1955 Italian Grand Prix, after which Mercedes departed from Formula One for 55 seasons.https://www.espn.com/racing/f1/story/_/id/7815468/nico-rosberg-dominates-china-first-formula-one-victory Nico Rosberg breezes to China win 15 April 2012 ESPN Associated Press 17 April 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120417161004/http://espn.go.com/racing/f1/story/_/id/7815468/nico-rosberg-dominates-china-first-formula-one-victory 17 April 2012 live Rosberg led home the McLaren pair of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton by over twenty seconds. The race itself was characterised by intense battling throughout the field and by high reliability with 23 of 24 starters finishing the race. This race was also HRT's thirty-ninth race start, setting the record for most Grand Prix starts without scoring a single point. This was the first race since the 2009 Italian Grand Prix that was not won by either Red Bull, McLaren or Ferrari. Hamilton consequently took the lead in the Drivers' Championship with 45 points, two more than his teammate Button as Alonso dropped to third following his ninth-place-finish, sitting on 37 points, eight behind Hamilton. As far as the Constructors' Championship was concerned, McLaren extended their lead to 24 points over reigning double champion Red Bull. Following Rosberg's win, Mercedes was promoted to fifth in the standings with 28 points, nine behind fourth-placed Sauber. Report April 2012 Background After extended debate over the legality of the Mercedes F1 W03's "front wing F-duct" design in Australia and Malaysia,Mercedes F1 team's rear wing concept deemed legal by FIA http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98035 Jonathan Noble Autosport Haymarket Publications 15 March 2012 3 April 2012FIA asked to re-think its view on the Mercedes DRS-activated F-duct http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98094 Jonathan Noble Autosport Haymarket Publications 17 March 2012 3 April 2012 that ended with the FIA declaring the design to be legal,FIA rejects claims that Mercedes's rear wing is illegal http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98248 Jonathan Noble Autosport Haymarket Publications 22 March 2012 3 April 2012 Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner stated that his team was still seeking clarification on the matter, which he expected to be resolved in Shanghai,Red Bull still seeking clarification about the legality of Mercedes's rear wing http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98565 Jonathan Noble Autosport Haymarket Publications 2 April 2012 3 April 2012 despite having previously sought a "final ruling" in Malaysia.Red Bull, Lotus seek final ruling on Mercedes' rear wing ahead of Malaysian Grand Prix weekend http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98184 Jonathan Noble Glenn Freeman Autosport Haymarket Publications 19 March 2012 3 April 2012 On the Thursday before the race, Lotus F1 filed a formal protest against the front wing design, citing Article 3.15 of the technical regulations as the grounds for their challenge.Lotus files protest against Mercedes's rear wing http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98719 Autosport Haymarket Publications 12 April 2012 12 April 2012 The stewards later unanimously rejected the protestLotus protest against Mercedes wing rejected by FIA http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98736 Autosport Haymarket Publications 12 April 2012 12 April 2012 Pablo Elizalde and Lotus has since confirmed that they will not appeal against decision.Noble, Jonathan "Lotus will not appeal stewards' decision on Mercedes rear wing" Autosport. 12 April 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-16 On the Thursday before the race, McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton was given a five-place grid penalty after the team was forced to change his car's gearbox for the race.Collantine Keith Hamilton to take five-place grid penalty in China http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/04/12/hamilton-fiveplace-grid-penalty-china/ 12 April 2012 F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 12 April 2012 The FIA confirmed that the Drag Reduction System (DRS) zone will be unchanged from 2011, with the detection point located at Turn 12 and the activation point positioned along the back straight.FIA confirms DRS zone for the Chinese Grand Prix http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98711 Pablo Elizalde Autosport Haymarket Publications 12 April 2012 12 April 2012 Like the Australian Grand Prix, tyre supplier Pirelli brought its white-banded medium compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre, whereas in 2011, the "prime" compound was the silver-banded hard compound tyre.Pirelli reveal tyre choices for opening three rounds http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/2/13019.html Formula One 15 February 2012 19 April 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120418180057/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/2/13019.html 18 April 2012 Qualifying Qualifying for the third race of the season began at 2 pm local time under cloudy and overcast conditions with an ambient temperature of 21 C and a track temperature of 26 C (significantly cooler than the previous Malaysia qualifying session). Prior to the start of Q1, Ferrari spoke with Sky Sports commentator Ted Kravitz and said "they need a miracle to get into Q3 today", highlighting just how far the team thought they were from the front runners. Q1 The first session begun with Force India driver Paul di Resta posting the first timed lap of the session. Other drivers followed soon after; all on the harder medium 'prime' tyre. The difference between the medium and the soft compounds was predicted around 0.8 seconds per lap. Leaving their run late, eight minutes into the session both the Red Bull and Mercedes cars had yet to post timed laps. Sebastian Vettel's engineer was heard saying that the lap time he did of 1:36.9 would be good enough to make Q2, subsequently it was the 15th best time of the session. With Felipe Massa in 16th after his run on the prime tyre, he was among the first to switch to the grippier soft compound 'option' tyre. His teammate Fernando Alonso followed suit soon after. Surprisingly Jenson Button undertook a lap on the soft tyres during Q1 even though looking like comfortably progressing to Q2. At the end of the session, Jean-Éric Vergne, for the second consecutive race, failed to make Q2 and was 18th ahead of the usual eliminated cars. In fact, all the eliminated cars in Q1 were in identical positions from the Malaysian Q1 qualifying session. Caterham's Heikki Kovalainen led teammate Vitaly Petrov and Timo Glock led the Marussias, while at the rear were the HRTs of Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan. Q2 For the second session, the two Saubers and Kimi Räikkönen were first to set timed laps. Romain Grosjean was late to post a lap as he made a mistake on his first attempt and pitted for a new set of option tyres. Vettel, in 6th midway through the session, was told on the radio that his current time would probably not make it into Q3. With less than 2 minutes remaining only the Mercedes (P1 and P2), Lewis Hamilton (P3) and Räikkönen (P4) remained in the pits, while everyone else scrambled to get into the top 10 for Q3. Vettel was in 7th as the chequered flag fell, however, many cars were still on flying 'hot laps'. Sergio Pérez jumped into Q3 as did Grosjean from P17 (only needing one timed lap). In a huge shock, Vettel who was on pole for the last three consecutive Chinese Grands Prix failed to make Q3. On his final lap, he only improved his time by 0.003 of a second. It was the first time since the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix (where he qualified 16th) that Vettel failed to make the top 10 (and hence the final Q3 session). This brought his streak of 41 consecutive qualifying sessions to make the top 10 to an end. Following Vettel in 11th was Massa in 12th (the same as Malaysia) and the two Williams cars of Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna who were within 0.006 seconds of each other. In 15th and 16th were the two Force India cars led by di Resta, while Australian Daniel Ricciardo was last in the session in a clearly uncompetitive Toro Rosso. Q3 For the final session, the track was cooling down and German Nico Rosberg was told to think about that in his warm up lap. He was the first to set a timed lap early on with six minutes remaining in the session. The top speed of his car down the long back straight was only 314 km/h as he hit the 7th gear rev-limiter meaning that Mercedes cars didn't have the highest top speed but rather made up time through a better acceleration through the f-duct system as he was one of the quickest past the start/finish line speed trap. Rosberg posted a 1:35.121 which was by far the fastest time of the weekend so far. Teammate Michael Schumacher was half a second slower than Rosberg, as was Hamilton, further highlighting how good Rosberg's lap was. Schumacher on his radio was told Rosberg's lap time and in reply said "not bad". After seeing Webber more than a second off his fastest lap time, Rosberg got out of his car with just under two minutes still left in the session. After confidently leaving his Mercedes, Rosberg watched everyone else fall short of his time and claimed his first pole position of his 111-race career. Following him was Hamilton half a second off (who lined up 7th on the grid after a gearbox change incurred a 5 place grid penalty) and teammate Schumacher in 3rd. Kamui Kobayashi qualified 4th fastest in his best ever qualifying result of his Formula One career to date. His previous best qualifying result was 7th in his home race at the 2011 Japanese Grand Prix. Räikkönen, like in Malaysia, posted the 5th quickest time while Button was more than a second from Rosberg's time in 6th. Webber, in the Red Bull, was 7th while Pérez, in the second Sauber, was an impressive 8th with - like his teammate - his best ever qualifying result in his Formula One career to date. His previous best was a 9th in the 2011 Belgian Grand Prix. Alonso, like Räikkönen, was in the same position as the Malaysia qualifying session and lined up on the grid in 9th, while Grojean in the second Lotus didn't complete a timed lap and hence was 10th. In another milestone, it was the first time that both Saubers had qualified in the top 10 since the 2009 season when team were known as BMW Sauber. After qualifying, Jean-Éric Vergne made changes to his car before the race, leading to him starting the race in pit lane.2012 FORMULA 1 UBS CHINESE GRAND PRIX Provisional Results http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2012/866/7137/ Formula One 14 April 2012 15 April 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120416144201/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2012/866/7137/ 16 April 2012 Race thumb|right|Sergio Pérez thumb|right|Kimi Räikkönen thumb|right|Nico Hülkenberg leading Massa and Hamilton In contrast to the previous Malaysian Grand Prix, the race began under mild cloudy conditions with an ambient temperature of 22 C and a track temperature of 24 C. Massa, Senna, and the two Toro Rossos started on the medium tyre while everybody else had the soft yellow banded tyre fitted for the start. The Rosberg-led Mercedes cars led as they lined up on the grid into turn 1 with relative ease, while behind them Kobayashi starting in P3 was down to 6th by the fourth corner. Button started well and took sixth ahead of Räikkönen in an almost incident-free first lap. Only minor contact was made at the first turn as Bruno Senna ran into the back of Massa's Ferrari slightly damaging his front wing in the process. Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso yet again raced side by side and passed each other three times throughout the first lap - Webber, making a poor start, was scrapping for 9th behind Alonso by lap 5. By the time the DRS was enabled (lap 3) the two leading Mercedes were more than one second ahead of their rivals and therefore out of range from DRS attack from cars behind. By lap 6, Vettel was struggling with straight line speed in 14th position and was 19th fastest through the speed trap, complaining to his engineer via radio. On lap 7, Webber made a strategic early pit stop to change to medium tyres and immediately set a fastest lap time. This prompted a flurry of pit stops by the other drivers. Hamilton and Räikkönen pitted and came out side by side. However, Hamilton had his nose in front, allowing him to rejoin ahead of Räikkönen. Mark Webber slotted in between in Hamilton and Räikkönen, leaving Räikkönen the loser during the pit stop phase. Michael Schumacher was forced to retire after a miscommunication resulted in him leaving the pit lane before his right front wheel was properly fitted.BBC live coverage https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17712429 BBC 15 April 2012 15 April 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120417191048/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17712429 17 April 2012 The wheel-gun man knew he made an error and immediately tried to call Schumacher back, but it was too late. He was subsequently the only retirement of the race, leaving Mercedes to ponder what could have been at least a podium finish. On lap 14, pole sitter and leader Rosberg pitted for mediums tyres leaving an unpitted Pérez in the lead. Following the pit stops, Nico Rosberg once again emerged as the leader, followed by Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber, and Kimi Räikkönen. Lap 21 saw everyone in their adjusted positions after everyone had completed one pit stop. On lap 22, Webber stopped for fresh medium tyres, and set a new fastest lap upon emerging. Button and Hamilton followed suit soon after. Räikkönen pitted from 2nd on lap 29, dropping him down to 13th. At this stage of the race, Jenson Button had great pace and was quickly catching the cars ahead who had only stopped once (Pérez, Vettel, Grosjean, and the leading Rosberg). On lap 30, Rob Smedley was heard telling Felipe Massa, "Fernando on a different strategy", essentially telling him to let his teammate through for 10th place at the time. Soon after Alonso moved ahead of di Resta, justifying Ferrari's radio call to Massa. At this stage it was clear that Rosberg, Vettel, and Räikkönen were on two-stop strategies while Button, Hamilton and Webber were on track for three stops. Pérez was third on lap 35, but under huge pressure from Lewis Hamilton and was locking up his front tyres heavily while defending into the hairpin, turn 14. Rosberg, having continued running on his hard tyres for 21 laps, finally decided to pit on lap 34 for his second and final stop - meaning he would need 22 laps from this set of medium tyres. This allowed Button to take the lead, followed by Rosberg and Hamilton, who was closely pressed by Alonso for third. At this stage of the race, a 'train' of cars started to form (seen clearly down the back straight). From Massa in 5th, who had only stopped once, the next three cars all had their DRS open, meaning they were all within one second of each other and it appeared Massa was fast enough not to be overtaken, but slow enough to keep everyone bunched up behind him. Replays were shown of Mark Webber, prior to the long DRS back straight, going wide and hitting a bump to ascend both his front tyres off the ground by half a metre. Luckily, he handed the car without damaging the suspension of front wing allowing him to only lose a second of lap time. The train continued to grow by lap 38 as Grosjean in 10th joined Massa, Räikkönen, Kobayshi, and Vettel in the battle for 5th. Jenson Button asked his engineer "what time is Rosberg doing?", to which his engineer replied "Rosberg is seven-tenths slower than us". However, this was before Rosberg pitted for new tyres, and now Rosberg was six-tenths a lap up on Button. Lap 38 saw Hamilton pit from 3rd, closely followed in by Alonso, dropping them to 10th and 11th respectively. Button's final pit stop while 7 seconds ahead, on lap 39, was delayed due to an error on the left rear wheel and allowed Rosberg back into the lead. Following Button's pit stop, Rosberg now led Massa by 19.1 seconds in clear command and within sight of victory as highlighted by his engineer saying "most important thing is your looking after the tyres". Finally Massa pitted from second place, but he now released a Räikkönen-led train of cars. On lap 43, eleven cars could be seen from one end to the other of the long back DRS straight. Alonso went wide on turn 7 onto the discarded tyre marbles while trying to overtake Maldonado and nearly collected the Sauber of Sergio Pérez on the way back onto track. Grosjean who was a part of the train went wide in turn 7 (like Alonso) and lost grip on tyre marbles while trying to overtake Vettel, consequently losing some positions. By lap 49 Räikkönen's tyres appeared to hit the 'cliff' and lose effective tyre performance. In the space of 2 laps Räikkönen went from 2nd to 12th. The 'train', which was started by Massa and continued by Räikkönen, led to 2nd to 14th positions being separated by just 15 seconds (rare to see so late in a race without a safety car). With 5 laps remaining, Rosberg had a 20+ second lead while Vettel, in 2nd, finally succumbed to the 3-stopped Button. Vettel, who had gone with a two-stop strategy, was now struggling like Räikkönen a few laps earlier. Hamilton and Webber were right on his rear wing now and it was only a matter of time before he dropped back. On lap 54, Hamilton took 3rd position from Vettel at the hairpin and a lap later, Mark Webber did the same for 4th. thumb|right|Lewis Hamilton fighting Sebastian Vettel for position On crossing the chequered flag, Nico Rosberg won his first ever Formula One grand prix from 111 races. He was the 103rd different winner of a Formula One grand prix since 1950, and the 12th different Mercedes powered winner in Formula One. Button finished 20 seconds adrift in 2nd after a pit stop error robbed what little chance he may have had at taking victory (although unlikely given Rosberg's pace and the difficulty seen when overtaking on this track). Locking out an all Mercedes-powered podium was Hamilton, followed by Red Bull's Mark Webber in 4th. Both Hamilton and Webber have now finished 3rd and 4th respectively for all of the three grands prix this season. Webber's Red Bull teammate, Sebastian Vettel, finished 5th on worn tyres and Romain Grosjean finished 6th in his best ever result in a Formula One race. The Williams cars showed good race pace and earned solid points with Senna in 7th and Maldonado in 8th. Ferrari continued their struggle in dry conditions, with Alonso finishing 9th and teammate Massa in 13th. Kamui Kobayashi took the final point in 10th ahead of teammate Pérez in a disappointing grand prix for the Sauber team after having such a great qualifying performance. Of note was 2007 world champion Kimi Räikkönen who finished a disappointing 14th after his tyres were too worn. Also, of note was that 17 drivers completed the race on the lead lap, with Daniel Ricciardo in 17th just over one minute behind the leader in a highly uncompetitive Toro Rosso (teammate Vergne was 16th). This race was the first win for the Brackley-based Mercedes GP team since the 2009 Italian Grand Prix when Rubens Barrichello won when the team was known as Brawn GP. Support events thumb|right|The Porsche Carrera Cup Asia supported the Chinese Grand Prix The event took place between 12 and 15 April where throughout the weekend there were support events. Taking part in the Chinese Grand Prix program was the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia with 2 races.2012 FORMULA 1 UBS CHINESE GRAND PRIX Event Timetable http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/china_866/event_timetable.html Formula One 16 April 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120328042006/http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/china_866/event_timetable.html 28 March 2012 Classification Qualifying Pos. Qualifying position No. Car number Driver Constructor Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Grid Final grid position 1 8 GER Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:36.875 1:35.725 1:35.121 1 2 4 GBR Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.763 1:35.902 1:35.626 7qual1 1 3 7 GER Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:36.797 1:35.794 1:35.691 2 4 14 JPN Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.863 1:35.853 1:35.784 3 5 9 FIN Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:36.850 1:35.921 1:35.898 4 6 3 GBR Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.746 1:35.942 1:36.191 5 7 2 AUS Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:36.682 1:35.700 1:36.290 6 8 15 MEX Sergio Pérez Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.198 1:35.831 1:36.524 8 9 5 ESP Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:36.292 1:35.982 1:36.622 9 10 10 FRA Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:36.343 1:35.903 no time 10 11 1 GER Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:36.911 1:36.031 11 12 6 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:36.556 1:36.255 12 13 18 VEN Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:36.528 1:36.283 13 14 19 BRA Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1:36.674 1:36.289 14 15 11 GBR Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:36.639 1:36.317 15 16 12 GER Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1:36.921 1:36.745 16 17 16 AUS Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.933 1:36.956 17 18 17 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:37.714 18 19 20 FIN Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1:38.463 19 20 21 RUS Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1:38.677 20 21 24 GER Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1:39.282 21 22 25 FRA Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1:39.717 22 23 22 ESP Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1:40.411 23 24 23 IND Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1:41.000 24107% time: 1:42.931Source:2012 Chinese Grand Prix — Qualifying Session Official Classification http://fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1_media/Documents/chn-qualifying-classification.pdf Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile 15 April 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120417050923/http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1_media/Documents/chn-qualifying-classification.pdf 17 April 2012 Notes qual1 1 — Lewis Hamilton was given a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change prior to the weekend. Race Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 8 GER Nico Rosberg Mercedes 56 1:36:26.929 1 25 2 3 GBR Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 56 +20.626 5 18 3 4 GBR Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 56 +26.012 7 15 4 2 AUS Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 56 +27.924 6 12 5 1 GER Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 56 +30.483 11 10 6 10 FRA Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 56 +31.491 10 8 7 19 BRA Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 56 +34.597 14 6 8 18 VEN Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 56 +35.643 13 4 9 5 ESP Fernando Alonso Ferrari 56 +37.256 9 2 10 14 JPN Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 56 +38.720 3 1 11 15 MEX Sergio Pérez Sauber-Ferrari 56 +41.066 8 12 11 GBR Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 56 +42.273 15 13 6 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 56 +42.779 12 14 9 FIN Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 56 +50.573 4 15 12 GER Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 56 +51.213 16 16 17 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 56 +51.756 PLrace1 1 17 16 AUS Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 56 +1:03.156 17 18 21 RUS Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 55 +1 Lap 19 19 24 GER Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 55 +1 Lap 20 20 25 FRA Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 55 +1 Lap 21 21 22 ESP Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 55 +1 Lap 22 22 23 IND Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 54 +2 Laps 23 23 20 FIN Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 53 +3 Laps 18 Ret Retired 7 GER Michael Schumacher Mercedes 12 Wheel 2Source:2012 FORMULA 1 UBS CHINESE GRAND PRIX Race Results http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2012/866/7137/results.html Formula One 15 April 2012 2012-04-15 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120417045407/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2012/866/7137/results.html 17 April 2012 Notes race1 1 — Jean-Éric Vergne started from pit lane after his team carried out various changes to his car, contravening parc ferme regulations.Noble Jonathan Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne to start Chinese Grand Prix from pitlane http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98849 15 April 2012 Autosport Haymarket Publications 15 April 2012 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 1 GBR Lewis Hamilton 45 10px 1 2 GBR Jenson Button 43 10px 2 3 ESP Fernando Alonso 37 10px 4 AUS Mark Webber 36 10px 1 5 GER Sebastian Vettel 28Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2012/chine/championnat.aspx China 2012 - Championship • STATS F1 statsf1.com 15 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 GBR McLaren-Mercedes 88 10px 2 AUT Red Bull-Renault 64 10px 3 ITA Ferrari 37 10px 4 SUI Sauber-Ferrari 31 10px 4 5 GER Mercedes 26Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References External links Chinese Grand Prix 2012 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix 2011 Chinese Grand Prix 2013 Chinese Grand Prix Category:Chinese Grand Prix China Grand Prix China Chinese Grand Prix