Otherwise you just overdo it and you go nowhere. [177] Hamilton went on to finish eighth, while team-mate Jenson Button was forced to retire two laps from the end of the race after reporting an unusual vibration from the differential. Tom Alworth Formal Opinion . 207: 4 HAM Lewis Hamilton. Starting eleventh,[228] he was forced to navigate his way through traffic, narrowly avoiding early contact between Bruno Senna and Kamui Kobayashi as Sebastian Vettel broke free of the field to establish a twenty-second lead by the first round of stops. The 2012 F1 season was the best of the last five years according to F1 Fanatic readers. 200mm F1.0 Germanium Thermal Imager Lens Rank Taylor IRTAL Super-Fast Objective. [254] Hamilton's victory brought with it twenty-five points that put him back in championship contention, while a late decision by Red Bull to move Mark Webber onto a three-stop strategy saw the Australian slip further behind Fernando Alonso, as the Spaniard extended his championship lead to forty points. Ferrari's early bid to put Fernando Alonso on pole position by way of using Felipe Massa to offer him a slipstream ended in disaster when Alonso's rear anti-roll bar failed in the final period of qualifying,[266] leaving the championship leader marooned in tenth while Lewis Hamilton took pole. Mit Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Räikkönen, Michael Schumacher und Sebastian Vettel nahmen sechs Fahrer an der Weltmeisterschaft 2012 teil, welche die WM bereits jeweils mindestens einmal gewonnen, insgesamt bereits 14 Titel errungen und außerdem alle Weltmeisterschaften seit der Saison 2000 gewonnen hatten. In January 2012, the FIA banned the use of "reactive ride-height". Räikkönen held on to secure his – and Lotus F1's – first victory of the season. Confusion briefly reigned when Hamilton, in seventeenth place at the time, began lapping faster than the leaders and sought to unlap himself. It was announced on 18 March 2012, co-inciding with the first race of the 2012 season. [253] Despite taking two seconds out of Hamilton's lead within five laps of rejoining the race, Räikkönen was powerless to reel Hamilton in any further. Sergio Pérez added his name to the growing list of early retirements when he slid off at the hairpin under brakes and into the gravel trap whilst trying to force his way past a struggling Lewis Hamilton. [305] Webber held off a late challenge from Lewis Hamilton to complete the podium. 278: 3 RAI Kimi Raikkonen. [298], Ferrari's strategy for staying in the championship battle saw them introduce upgrades to the F2012 at every remaining race in the season, starting with an extensive revision for the Indian Grand Prix,[299] but whatever advantage they offered was still not enough for Fernando Alonso to catch Sebastian Vettel. Webber caught Alonso with five laps to go, passing him on the Wellington Straight. [71] Charles Pic – who placed fourth in the 2011 GP2 Series driving for Addax – joined Marussia, replacing d'Ambrosio. Tyre management became the focus of the race, as drivers reported heavy graining, particularly on the right-front tyre, which bore most of the load over a lap of the circuit. [45] Renault had previously supplied engines to Williams from 1989 to 1997, when the team won four World Drivers' Championships and five World Constructors' Championships. Vettel's seventh became sixth when Michael Schumacher moved aside to let Vettel through. In the World Constructors' Championship, Red Bull Racing secured their third consecutive title when Sebastian Vettel finished second at the United States Grand Prix. [157], The championship resumed three weeks later in China, with the lead-in period to the race marked by Lotus F1 protesting the legality of Mercedes's rear wing design. [193] Pirelli would later diagnose the problems with the tyre compounds as originating from developing them on a testing chassis that was two years out-of-date at the time. Webber held on for his second win of the season, with Vettel third and Felipe Massa in fourth, his best result since achieving a podium in South Korea in 2010. [276] The race was shortened by two laps to fit the two-hour time limit for a Grand Prix following a pair of lengthy safety car interventions; first, Narain Karthikeyan understeered into the barriers under the grandstands on lap 30, forcing the safety car to be deployed. ... die obige Tabelle ist aber genauer und differenziert. ===== pre { overflow:scroll; margin:2px; padding:15px; b | The UNIX and Linux Forums Die Formel 1 kehrte in die Vereinigten Staaten zurück. [286], With Alonso retiring and Vettel taking a full twenty-five points for victory,[287] the championship fight became as close as it had been all season long. [195] Hamilton was later excluded from the qualifying results after his car did not have enough fuel to return to the pits for scrutineering, promoting Maldonado to pole position[196] and moving Hamilton to the back of the grid. [289], Sebastian Vettel's momentum continued one week later in Korea, winning his third consecutive race and taking a six-point championship lead as Fernando Alonso finished third. [274], As the teams returned to Asia, the focus shifted to the championship race. [293] Vettel ignored six radio calls from his pit wall cautioning him that a tyre failure was imminent, only backing off just enough in the final few laps to secure victory over Webber by six seconds. Having started eleventh, Räikkönen used an extra set of soft tyres to move up through the field. [47] Likewise, Marussia (then known as Virgin Racing) underwent a restructuring, splitting with Wirth Research mid-season after a technical review by Marussia Motors and the board of directors. 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The pre-2012 regulations allowed the nose to be as high as 62.5 centimetres (24.6 in) above ground, but the revisions to the sporting code lowered the maximum allowable height to 55 centimetres (22 in) 150mm ahead of the front bulkhead. [234] The torrential rain lasted throughout the weekend, forcing qualifying to be suspended for ninety minutes,[235] before race day dawned clear. Webber visibly faded in the final laps, but held on when the following cars were momentarily pinned behind the slow-moving Heikki Kovalainen. [292] With the sporting regulations banning overtaking while yellow flags were shown, the field was effectively thinned out in the opening laps as drivers were unable to pass one another. All rights reserved. [261] Button controlled the race from the front and was unchallenged throughout, while Sebastian Vettel clawed his way up to second from tenth on the grid. Felipe Massa finished second, his first podium result since the 2010 Korean Grand Prix,[284] whilst Kamui Kobayashi claimed the first podium of his career – and the first podium for a Japanese driver at the Suzuka Circuit since Aguri Suzuki finished third in 1990[285] – after withstanding late pressure from Jenson Button. Lewis Hamilton finished eighth, once again hampered by slow pit stops. The final race of the season was run in conditions that were never quite wet enough for drivers to use wet tyres, but never quite dry enough for slick tyres to provide enough grip. [267] Hamilton asserted early control over the race, and while Ferrari made significant ground early on to be running second and third – despite losing the data uplink between their cars and the pit wall that provided them with telemetry[268] – it was Sergio Pérez who proved to be Hamilton's biggest challenge. Your go-to source for the latest F1 news, video highlights, GP results, live timing, in-depth analysis and expert commentary. The rain never materialised, though Jean-Éric Vergne was observed using a set of intermediate tyres late in the race. [147] HRT failed to qualify for the race for the second consecutive season after drivers Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan failed to set a lap time within 107% of the fastest qualifying time. The following twelve teams and twenty-five race drivers competed in the 2012 Formula One World Championship. [232], Difficult conditions greeted the teams upon their arrival at the Silverstone Circuit,[233] as parts of the Midlands received a month's rainfall in the space of two days. So we will try to do it. This forced Rosberg to drive conservatively to preserve his tyres while Button recovered from his disastrous pit stop to pass Sebastian Vettel for second. [255], The championship resumed one month later in Belgium. Daniel Ricciardo was the first driver to pit for dry-weather tyres on lap 38, triggering another round of stops. [231] Meanwhile, Michael Schumacher and Mark Webber had started to carve their way through the field by virtue of a late pit stop and easily picked off the minor points positions and taking advantage of the Maldonado—Hamilton collision to finish third and fourth behind Alonso and Räikkönen. [296] Lewis Hamilton's day went from bad to worse when an anti-roll bar on his McLaren failed,[297] while the car handled its tyres so poorly that he was forced to make an unscheduled stop in order to make it to the finish, only to tear up a length of astroturf that wreaked havoc on his downforce and he slid down to tenth place,[298] narrowly fending off an opportunistic charge from Sergio Pérez to take the final World Championship point on offer. [210] Elsewhere, Spanish Grand Prix winner Pastor Maldonado was given a ten-place grid penalty for an incident that saw him clip Sergio Pérez. Kamui Kobayashi's car was also damaged, and Pastor Maldonado was spun around amidst the chaos. [247] With Button promoted to second, Kimi Räikkönen inherited third place and Kamui Kobayashi was classified a career-best fourth. At the November 2011 meeting of the Formula One Commission in Geneva, several teams were given permission to change their constructor names – the name recognised by the FIA as the entity that effectively owns the team, and to which all results for that team are credited[36] – with final approval from the World Motor Sport Council granted in December of that year:[35][37], As a result of the name changes, Team Lotus and Lotus Renault GP declared that their ongoing dispute over the use of the Lotus name was over after they had reached an "amicable conclusion". 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Deputy Commissioner for No. Official list of F1 standings for the 2012 season - filter by driver or team (constructor) to see current World Championship standings. Select Language English Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Nederlands Polski Português Русский Suomi Tiếng Việt 简体中文 हिन्दी العربية 日本語 … Daniel Ricciardo was involved in early contact that saw the Australian driver slide down the order from sixth at the start to fifteenth by the end of the race, having spent most of the Grand Prix caught behind Vitaly Petrov. Vettel dominated the weekend, setting the fastest time in every practice session before qualifying on pole,[300][301][302][303] and leading every lap of the sixty-lap race,[304] though he was denied his third Grand Chelem when Jenson Button set the fastest lap of the race on the final lap. Prior to 2012, drivers were entitled to change their gearboxes once over the course of the season without incurring a five-place grid penalty. [311] Vettel began to round up the HRTs, Marussias and Caterhams, but his early progress came at the expense of his front wing endplate when he made contact with Senna at Turn 8 switchback. He later moved to IndyCar for the 2012 season, joining KV Racing Technology. [156] Sebastian Vettel finished outside the points after making contact with Karthikeyan and developing a puncture. 2001-2021 © F1-Fansite.com. [187] Petrov's comments came shortly after Fernando Alonso crashed on the final morning of the test. [314] When racing resumed, Räikkönen began to rebuild his lead over Alonso, who was being harried by Jenson Button; Button himself was being harried by Vettel in fourth. Button seized the lead from Hamilton, but soon found himself under pressure from Nico Hülkenberg and lost the lead to the German driver on lap 18, and second place to Hamilton shortly thereafter. The team later denied that there had ever been a problem with Vettel's tyres. [269] Starting outside the top ten, Pérez elected to start on the harder compound tyres and complete one stop, producing fastest lap after fastest lap as McLaren's confidence was broken when Jenson Button's car was paralysed by a fuel pressure problem. Tafel 2, Zeile 3.1 oder Tafel 3, Zeile 3) 13 2012 Formula 1 Entry List. Die Motoren werden bei Mercedes AMG HPP in Brixworth gefertigt und auch an Kundenteams geliefert. For the video game based on the 2012 Formula One season, see. Despite its troubled construction period, the Circuit of the Americas passed its final FIA inspection on 25 September, allowing the race to go ahead. Rosberg, caught unawares by Karthikeyan's troubles, was launched over the back of the HRT and into the barrier. [73], The 2012 season was preceded by three test sessions; one at Jerez de la Frontera and two in Barcelona.