2012 Italian Grand Prix

 2012 Italian Grand Prix

Racing data
13th of 20 races in the 2012 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	Formula 1 Gran Premio Santander d'Italia 2012
Date:	September 9, 2012
Place:	Monza
Course:	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Length:	306.72 km in 53 laps of 5.793 km
Weather:	sunny
Pole position
Driver:	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
Time:	1: 24.010 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Time:	1: 27.239 min (lap 53)
Podium
First:	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
Second:	Sergio Perez	Clean Ferrari
Third:	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari

The 2012 Italian Grand Prix took place on September 9th at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza and was the 13th race of the 2012 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

After the Belgian Grand Prix , Fernando Alonso led the drivers' standings with 24 points ahead of Sebastian Vettel and 32 points over Mark Webber . In the constructors' championship, Red Bull-Renault led by 54 points over McLaren-Mercedes and 65 points over Lotus-Renault .

At the Italian Grand Prix, Pirelli made the tire compounds P Zero Hard (silver) and P Zero Medium (white) available to the drivers , as well as Cinturato Intermediates (green) and Cinturato Full Wets (blue) for wet conditions .

There was a driver change at Lotus before this race: Romain Grosjean was banned from a race for causing a start collision at the previous Grand Prix. Jérôme D'Ambrosio , regular substitute driver for the racing team, received the cockpit for this Grand Prix.

In this race, Michael Schumacher started a Formula 1 Grand Prix for the 300th time.

With Schumacher (five times), Alonso and Vettel (twice each) three former winners competed in this Grand Prix.

The race commissioners were Silvia Bellot (ESP), Gerd Ennser (DEU), Paolo Longini (ITA) and Emanuele Pirro (ITA).

training

Schumacher set the fastest time in the first free practice, followed by Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg . Alonso and Pastor Maldonado stopped with technical problems. This training took Jules Bianchi the Force India of Paul di Resta , Valtteri Bottas the Williams of Bruno Senna and Qing Hua Ma the HRT of Narain Karthikeyan . Ma became the first Chinese to drive a Formula 1 car on a Grand Prix weekend. In the second Friday practice session, Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time. He was followed by his team-mate Button and Alonso. Alonso suffered another technical defect in this training. In the third free practice session, Hamilton again set the fastest lap. Fernando Alonso was only a thousandth of a second slower, followed by Paul di Resta. Vettel fell out with a technical defect.

Qualifying

In the first section, Alonso was the fastest pilot. Nico Hulkenberg had a technical defect and did not achieve time. He therefore failed to qualify. The race stewards later admitted him to the race. The Caterham , HRT and Marussia pilots didn't make it into the next segment. In the second section, Alonso stayed in the lead. The Toro Rosso and Williams drivers as well as D'Ambrosio, Sergio Pérez and Webber were eliminated. In the third segment, Hamilton drove the fastest lap and took pole position ahead of Button and Felipe Massa .

Di Resta and Maldonado were moved five and ten positions down on the grid, respectively. Di Resta was punished for changing the gearbox, Maldonado received two penalty transfers of five positions because he had a jump start and caused a collision at the Belgian Grand Prix.

In this qualifying, Schumacher managed to qualify for a Formula 1 Grand Prix for the 300th time.

run

Jean-Éric Vergne (left) and Jérôme D'Ambrosio (right) in the first corner

Massa started the Grand Prix well and passed Button at the start. He also attempted an attack on leader Hamilton, but he successfully defended his position. While Hamilton pulled away in the following rounds, several duels developed in the background. In the fourth lap, Vettel passed Schumacher to fourth position. Schumacher was then put under pressure by Alonso, who had already worked his way up to sixth place. After several failed attempts, Alonso managed an overtaking maneuver on lap seven on the start-finish straight.

In the eighth round, Senna and di Resta dueled in the variant della Roggia . Senna dodged through the run-off zone so that there was no collision. One lap later, Vergne broke the rear of the car when braking in front of the Rettifilo and he lost control of the vehicle. He took off briefly and landed in the run-off zone. Vergne then complained of headache and back pain.

While the action had stabilized in most positions, Webber di Resta attacked in front of the Curva del Vialone and claimed tenth position in a subsequent counterattack. Webber immediately pulled away from di Resta and kept his position in front of his opponent even after a small mistake in the second Lesmo . From the drivers in the front, the Mercedes drivers began the phase of the first pit stops on lap 14. The other drivers stayed outside for the time being. In doing so, Pérez managed to overtake Kimi Raikkonen . Raikkonen then drove into the pits and made his stop on the 17th lap. Two laps later there was a similar situation between Massa and Button. First Button drove past his opponent, then Massa went to the pits. Another two laps later, Vettel and Alonso pitted. Vettel stayed in front of Alonso and both came back on the track behind Massa.

In the 24th lap, the leader, Hamilton, pitted. As his team-mate Button had already changed his tires shortly before, Pérez took the lead for five laps. In the meantime, a duel developed between Vettel and Alonso. Alonso put pressure on Vettel. In the 26th lap, Alonso tried to drive past the outside of the Curva Grande , but Vettel gave him little space, so Alonso drove through the gravel and lost some time. Alonso then had problems with the suspension, but finished. Shortly after Hamilton had passed Pérez on the start-finish straight on the 29th lap to take the lead, Alonso overtook Vettel in front of the variant della Roggia.

While Hamilton was leading the race ahead of Button, the positions behind were the Ferrari of Massa and Alonso. Vettel was given a drive-through penalty by the race management for driving unfairly. Shortly before Vettel completed this, Button retired with technical problems with the fuel pump. The fastest driver at this point was Pérez, who drove up to the Ferrari with fast laps and overtaking maneuvers. On the 40th lap, the Ferrari drivers swapped places so that Alonso got second place behind Hamilton.

After Pérez had completed more fast laps, he passed the two Ferrari drivers into second position. First he overtook Massa on the 43rd lap on the back straight. In the 46th lap he left Alonso behind in front of the Curva del Vialone. Although Pérez was able to drive faster laps than Hamilton, to catch up with him, he was no longer successful.

Shortly before the end of the race, Vettel, Webber and Hülkenberg retired with technical problems. Since they had completed enough laps, they were counted. At Vettel it was another defect in the alternator , which had a defect on Saturday morning.

Hamilton finally won about four seconds ahead of Pérez. Alonso, Massa and Raikkonen followed in the places behind. Schumacher and Rosberg in sixth and seventh were the only drivers in the top 10 who pitted twice. Rosberg also drove the fastest lap. The remaining points went to di Resta, Kamui Kobayashi and Senna. Senna only took the last point position on the home straight, as Daniel Ricciardo , who had previously occupied the position, no longer accelerated from the last corner with a technical problem with the fuel supply.

While Alonso retained the lead in the World Cup, there were several postponements behind him. Vettel and Webber lost second and third place to Hamilton and Raikkonen. In the constructors' category, Ferrari took third position from Lotus, while the first two positions remained unchanged.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Red Bull Racing	01	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull RB8	Renault 2.4 V8	P
	02	Mark Webber
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	03	Jenson Button	McLaren MP4-27	Mercedes-Benz 2.4 V8	P
	04th	Lewis Hamilton
Scuderia Ferrari	05	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari F2012	Ferrari 2.4 V8	P
	06th	Felipe Massa
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	07th	Michael sSchumacher	Mercedes F1 W03	Mercedes-Benz 2.4 V8	P
	08th	Nico Rosberg
Lotus F1 Team	09	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus E20	Renault 2.4 V8	P
	10	Jérôme D'Ambrosio
Sahara Force India F1 Team	11	Jules Bianchi	Force India VJM05	Mercedes-Benz 2.4 V8	P
		Paul di Resta
	12	Nico Hulkenberg
Sauber F1 Team	14th	Kamui Kobayashi	Clean C31	Ferrari 2.4 V8	P
	15th	Sergio Perez
Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso STR7	Ferrari 2.4 V8	P
	17th	Jean-Éric Vergne
Williams F1 team	18th	Pastor Maldonado	Williams FW34	Renault 2.4 V8	P
	19th	Valtteri Bottas
		Bruno Senna
Caterham F1 team	20th	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham CT01	Renault 2.4 V8	P
	21st	Vitaly Petrov
HRT F1 team	22nd	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT F112	Cosworth 2.4 V8	P
	23	Qing Hua Ma
		Narain Karthikeyan
Marussia F1 Team	24	Timo Glock	Marussia MR01	Cosworth 2.4 V8	P
	25th	Charles Pic

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bianchi drove the Force India with the number 11 in the first free practice. Di Resta then took over the vehicle for the remainder of the race weekend.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bottas drove the Williams with the number 19 in the first free practice. Senna then took over the vehicle for the rest of the race weekend.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ma drove the HRT with the number 23 in the first free practice. Karthikeyan then took over the vehicle for the rest of the race weekend.

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	begin
01	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 24.211	1: 24.394	1: 24.010	01
02	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 24.672	1: 24.255	1: 24.133	02
03	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1: 24.882	1: 24.505	1: 24.247	03
04th	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1: 24.875	1: 24.345	1: 24.304	09
05	Michael sSchumacher	Mercedes	1: 25.302	1: 24.675	1: 24.540	04th
06th	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1: 25.011	1: 24.687	1: 24.802	05
07th	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1: 24.689	1: 24.515	1: 24.833	06th
08th	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus Renault	1: 25.151	1: 24.742	1: 24.855	07th
09	Kamui Kobayashi	Clean Ferrari	1: 25.317	1: 24.683	1: 25.109	08th
10	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1: 24.175	1: 24.242	1: 25.678	10
11	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1: 25.556	1: 24.809	-	11
12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1: 25.103	1: 24.820	-	22nd
13	Sergio Perez	Clean Ferrari	1: 25,300	1: 24.901	-	12
14th	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1: 25.135	1: 25.042	-	13
15th	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1: 25.728	1: 25.312	-	14th
16	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Lotus Renault	1: 25.834	1: 25.408	-	15th
17th	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1: 25.649	1: 25.441	-	16
18th	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1: 26.382	-	-	17th
19th	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1: 26.887	-	-	18th
20th	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1: 27.039	-	-	19th
21st	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1: 27.073	-	-	20th
22nd	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1: 27.441	-	-	21st
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1: 27.629	-	-	23
107 percent time : 1: 30.067 min (based on Q1 best time of 1: 24.175 min)
DNQ	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	no time	-	-	24

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t} racing cars with KERS
2. ↑ Paul di Resta was moved five positions back due to a gear change.
3. ↑ Pastor Maldonado was moved five positions back due to an early start at the Belgian Grand Prix and causing a collision at the Belgian Grand Prix.

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	53	1	1: 19: 41,221	01	1: 28.427 (52nd)
02	Sergio Perez	Clean Ferrari	53	1	+ 4.356	12	1: 27,562 (53.)
03	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	53	1	+ 20.594	10	1: 28.835 (44th)
04th	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	53	1	+ 29.667	03	1: 28.914 (33.)
05	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus Renault	53	1	+ 30.881	07th	1: 29.109 (52nd)
06th	Michael sSchumacher	Mercedes	53	2	+ 31.259	04th	1: 27.718 (51st)
07th	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	53	2	+ 33,550	06th	1: 27.239 (53.)
08th	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	53	1	+ 41.057	09	1: 29.068 (51st)
09	Kamui Kobayashi	Clean Ferrari	53	1	+ 43.898	08th	1: 29.032 (39.)
10	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	53	1	+ 48.144	13	1: 28.742 (52nd)
11	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	53	2	+ 48.682	22nd	1: 28.053 (51st)
12	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	53	1	+ 50.316	14th	1: 28.621 (46.)
13	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Lotus Renault	53	1	+1: 15.861	15th	1: 28.677 (52nd)
14th	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	52	2	+ 1 lap	17th	1: 29,399 (46.)
15th	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	52	2	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 29.066 (46.)
16	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	52	2	+ 1 lap	20th	1: 29.753 (44th)
17th	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	52	2	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 29.888 (50.)
18th	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	52	1	+ 1 lap	23	1: 30.398 (51st)
19th	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	52	1	+ 1 lap	21st	1: 31.086 (44th)
20th	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	51	1	DNF	11	1: 29.202 (43.)
21st	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	50	1	DNF	24	1: 28,578 (46.)
22nd	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	47	2	DNF	05	1: 28.713 (46.)
-	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	32	1	DNF	02	1: 28.926 (31st)
-	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	08th	0	DNF	16	1: 31.962 ( 06.)

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t} racing cars with KERS

World Cup stands after the race

The first ten of the race got 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Fernando Alonso Ferrari 179 02  Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 142 03  Kimi Raikkonen Lotus Renault 141 04th  Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 140 05  Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 132 06th  Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 101 07th  Nico Rosberg Mercedes 83 08th  Romain Grosjean Lotus Renault 76 09  Sergio Perez Clean Ferrari 65 10  Felipe Massa Ferrari 47 11  Michael sSchumacher Mercedes 43 12  Kamui Kobayashi Clean Ferrari 35 13  Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 32

Item driver constructor Points 14th  Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 31 15th  Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 29 16  Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 25th 17th  Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 8th 18th  Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 4th 19th  Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 0 20th  Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 0 21st  Jérôme D'Ambrosio Lotus Renault 0 22nd  Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 0 23  Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 0 24  Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 0 25th  Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Red Bull-Renault 272 02  McLaren-Mercedes 243 03  Ferrari 226 04th  Lotus Renault 217 05  Mercedes 126 06th  Clean Ferrari 100

Item constructor Points 07th  Force India-Mercedes 63 08th  Williams-Renault 54 09  Toro Rosso-Ferrari 12 10  Caterham-Renault 0 11  Marussia-Cosworth 0 12  HRT-Cosworth 0

Web links

Commons : Italian Grand Prix 2012  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Pirelli: Mixtures for Belgium, Italy, Singapore are fixed". Motorsport-Total.com, July 31, 2012, accessed August 7, 2012 . 
2. ^ Christian Nimmervoll: "Officially: D'Ambrosio in Monza in the Lotus". Motorsport-Total.com, September 4, 2012, accessed September 4, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Roman Wittemeier: "Schumacher in front: Golden prelude for silver". Motorsport-Total.com, September 7, 2012, accessed September 8, 2012 . 
4. ^ "GP Italy in Monza / 1st free practice". Motorsport-Total.com, September 7, 2012, accessed September 8, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Ma with first Friday assignment at HRT". Motorsport-Total.com, September 5, 2012, accessed September 7, 2012 . 
6. ^ Roman Wittemeier: "Monza: McLaren just ahead of Ferrari". Motorsport-Total.com, September 7, 2012, accessed September 8, 2012 . 
7. ^ "GP Italy in Monza / 2nd free practice". Motorsport-Total.com, September 7, 2012, accessed September 8, 2012 . 
8. ^ Roman Wittemeier: "Monza: McLaren and Ferrari at eye level". Motorsport-Total.com, September 8, 2012, accessed September 8, 2012 . 
9. ^ "GP Italy in Monza / 3rd free practice". Motorsport-Total.com, September 8, 2012, accessed September 8, 2012 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} “GP Italy in Monza / races”. Motorsport-Total.com, September 9, 2012, accessed January 5, 2013 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Fabian Hust: "Turbulent race for Toro Rosso with luck in misfortune". Motorsport-Total.com, September 9, 2012, accessed January 5, 2013 . 
12. ^ ^{A b c d} Roman Wittemeier: "Monza: Hamilton wins, Perez does the show". Motorsport-Total.com, September 9, 2012, accessed January 5, 2013 .