2012 Canadian Grand Prix

 2012 Canadian Grand Prix

Racing data
7th of 20 races in the 2012 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2012
Date:	June 10, 2012
Place:	Montreal
Course:	Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve
Length:	305.27 km in 70 laps of 4.361 km
Pole position
Driver:	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
Time:	1: 13.784 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
Time:	1: 15.752 min (lap 70)
Podium
First:	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
Second:	Romain Grosjean	Lotus Renault
Third:	Sergio Perez	Clean Ferrari

The 2012 Canadian Grand Prix took place on June 10th at the Gilles-Villeneuve Circuit in Montreal and was the seventh race of the 2012 Formula 1 World Championship .

Reports

background

After the Monaco Grand Prix , Fernando Alonso led the drivers' standings by 3 points over Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber . In the construction standings, Red Bull-Renault led with 38 points ahead of McLaren-Mercedes and with 60 points ahead of Ferrari .

The FIA clarified the technical regulations before the Grand Prix. The trigger was a hole in the underbody of the Red Bull RB8 , the conformity of which had been questioned by several teams. The FIA ​​statement said: “ After a few discussions in Monaco where it became clear that there were some misunderstandings, we think it is important to say that we have a clear view that there are no holes in the underbody panel allowed to. It was argued that it was not explicitly described that a hole should not be located 450 mm behind the cockpit in the underbody plate and that it was therefore legal. However, we do not share this view and find that holes in this area are not allowed. If this were legal, Article 3.12.5 would be superfluous. "

At the Canadian Grand Prix, Pirelli provided the drivers with the tire compounds P Zero Soft (yellow) and P Zero Supersoft (red), as well as Cinturato Intermediates (green) and Cinturato Full Wets (blue) for wet conditions .

With Michael Schumacher (seven times), Lewis Hamilton (twice), Kimi Räikkönen , Alonso and Jenson Button (once each), five former winners competed in this Grand Prix.

José Abed (MEX), Martin Donnelly (GBR) and Gerd Ennser (DEU) acted as race commissioners .

For the first time in years, the event was not sold out. One reason for this was student protests in Montreal. For safety reasons, the traditional “open house” day on the Thursday before the race, where fans usually had free access to the paddock and pit lane, was canceled.

training

Kovalainen's car crashed in first free practice

The first free practice session was interrupted shortly after half-time because Heikki Kovalainen had an accident at Turn 10. Hamilton was the fastest pilot ahead of Vettel and Nico Rosberg . After training, an overtaking maneuver by Vettel against Bruno Senna was investigated. Vettel overtook Senna before turn 14 and left him little space, which is why Senna had to swerve to the left and leave the track a little. During this maneuver, Senna's front wing was damaged. The race stewards warned Vettel for this action, which in their opinion was too aggressive. There was also an incident involving the HRT box. Pedro de la Rosa caught his chief mechanic Craig Stubley with the front wing and knocked him to the ground. Stubley was admitted to hospital but was not seriously injured.

In the second free practice session, Hamilton was again the fastest ahead of Ferrari drivers Alonso and Felipe Massa . Ferrari used the training for some new parts. Among other things, they tested an exhaust similar to that of McLaren. Williams had introduced a new rear wing for this training day. The weather stayed dry throughout the training. It was interrupted by Senna after an accident. He had lost control of his vehicle at turn 15 and hit the so-called “Wall of Champions”. He was uninjured, but the car was badly damaged.

In the third free practice session, Vettel set the fastest lap ahead of Alonso and Hamilton. Rosberg and Jean-Éric Vergne retired at the beginning of the training, Rosberg with technical problems, Vergne after a driving error. Neither set time.

Qualifying

In the first section of qualifying, Vettel achieved the fastest lap. The HRT, Marussia and Caterham pilots and Vergne were eliminated.

In the second section, Pastor Maldonado , who was the last pilot to try to set a time , hit the "Wall of Champions" with his stern. He had previously set a best time in the first sector. Vettel was again the fastest pilot. In addition to Maldonado, the Sauber pilots as well as Senna, Daniel Ricciardo , Nico Hülkenberg and Räikkönen were eliminated.

In the final segment, Vettel set another best time and secured pole position in front of Hamilton and Alonso.

After qualifying, Maldonado had his gearbox changed, which earned him a five-position penalty.

run

Scene from the first lap of the race

At the start of the Canadian Grand Prix, Vettel kept the lead ahead of Hamilton, Alonso and Webber. Rosberg initially stayed fifth ahead of Massa, who put pressure on Rosberg. In the second lap, Massa managed to drive past Rosberg in the chicane before the start and finish, and in the next laps he pulls away a little. One lap later, Paul di Resta also passed Rosberg. In contrast to Massa, di Resta used the Drag Reduction System (DRS).

While Vettel moved away from Hamilton at the top, Massa spun in the seventh lap and fell back to twelfth place. Finally, on lap 13, Massa was the first driver to pit to change tires. He switched from the super soft to the soft tire compound. Di Resta and Schumacher followed a lap later with the same tire change. Button, who started on soft tires, pitted on super soft tires before the top group and switched to super soft tires.

After 15 laps, Vettel was the first driver from the top 4 to pit. Hamilton and Webber followed a lap later. Hamilton's stop did not go optimally, but he stayed ahead of Vettel. Alonso pitted three laps after Hamilton to change tires. Like the other drivers from the top group, he switched from super soft to soft tires. Alonso initially came back on the track before Hamilton, but the latter overtook him in the DRS zone. In the meantime in the lead was Romain Grosjean , who came to a stop one lap after Alonso.

Hamilton now led the race ahead of Alonso and Vettel. Behind them were Raikkonen, Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Pérez, three drivers who had not yet been to the pits. Kobayashi, who, unlike Raikkonen and Pérez, started on the super-soft mixture, pitted on lap 24. After 22 and 24 laps, respectively, the race was over for HRT drivers Narain Karthikeyan and de la Rosa. Both retired with braking problems.

At the top, Hamilton had slightly separated from Alonso and Vettel. A gap formed behind it on Raikkonen, Pérez and Webber. Although Webber had fresher tires, he couldn't get past his opponents. On lap 40, Raikkonen finally pitted for his only stop and switched to the super soft tires. One lap later, Pérez followed with the same tire change. Rosberg, who pitted for his second stop shortly before Raikkonen, first overtook Raikkonen and then passed Pérez. Rosberg's team-mate Schumacher dueled Kobayashi in midfield at this stage of the race. At first, Schumacher passed Kobayashi in the hairpin, but Kobayashi already overtook himself on the next straight. For Schumacher, however, the race was over soon afterwards, as his rear flight flap no longer closed. It was his fifth retirement in race seven.

On lap 50, Hamilton pitted for his second and final stop. He stayed on the softer tire compound. This stop was not optimal either and lost some time. Alonso took over the lead. He and Vettel fell by the wayside. Hamilton fell back to third place and always drove faster times than the leading duo over the next few laps. In the background there was a three-way duel between Massa, Pérez and Rosberg. Rosberg tried to overtake Massa on the DRS straight, but then had to shorten the chicane before the start and finish, which meant that he passed Massa. However, he had to let Massa pass again. Pérez took advantage of the situation and also overtook Rosberg. Shortly afterwards, Pérez also overtook Massa and took fifth position. After Rosberg had also overtaken Massa, he pitted for the second time and switched back to the super-soft tires. He fell back to tenth place. In the meantime, another pilot with braking problems, Timo Glock, had retired.

At the top, the times of Alonso and Vettel broke down more and more, which is why Hamilton passed both of them relatively easily and took the lead. Vettel finally decided to stop again, Alonso fell by the wayside. Vettel initially fell back to fifth place, but with the fresh tires was able to set the fastest race lap on the last lap. Alonso's times got slower and slower and he was overtaken by Grosjean, Pérez and Vettel on the following laps.

Hamilton eventually won the race ahead of Grosjean, Pérez, Vettel and Alonso. With this, Hamilton took over the world championship lead from Alonso, who dropped to second place. Grosjean and Pérez stood on the podium for the second time this season. The other points went to Rosberg, Webber, Räikkönen, Kobayashi and Massa. While Hamilton clinched his first win of the season, his teammate Button only finished in 16th place. After technical problems on Friday, Button was behind in training and was unable to make optimal use of the tires.

With Hamilton, the seventh driver won the seventh race of the season. This has never happened in any Formula 1 season.

In the constructors' championship, the first two positions remained unchanged. Ferrari lost third place to Lotus .

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	Romain Grosjean
Sahara Force India F1 Team	11	Paul di Resta	Force India VJM05	Mercedes-Benz 2.4 V8	P
	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	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	Narain Karthikeyan
Marussia F1 Team	24	Timo Glock	Marussia MR01	Cosworth 2.4 V8	P
	25th	Charles Pic

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	begin
01	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1: 14.661	1: 14.187	1: 13.784	01
02	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 14.891	1: 14.371	1: 14.087	02
03	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1: 14.916	1: 14.314	1: 14.151	03
04th	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1: 14,956	1: 14.479	1: 14.346	04th
05	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1: 15.098	1: 14.568	1: 14.411	05
06th	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1: 15.194	1: 14.641	1: 14.465	06th
07th	Romain Grosjean	Lotus Renault	1: 15.163	1: 14.627	1: 14.645	07th
08th	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1: 15.019	1: 14.639	1: 14.705	08th
09	Michael sSchumacher	Mercedes	1: 14.892	1: 14.480	1: 14.812	09
10	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 14.799	1: 14.680	1: 15.182	10
11	Kamui Kobayashi	Clean Ferrari	1: 15.101	1: 14.688	-	11
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus Renault	1: 14.995	1: 14.734	-	12
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1: 15.106	1: 14.748	-	13
14th	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1: 15.552	1: 15.078	-	14th
15th	Sergio Perez	Clean Ferrari	1: 15.326	1: 15.156	-	15th
16	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1: 14.995	1: 15.170	-	16
17th	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1: 14.979	1: 15.231	-	22nd
18th	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1: 16.263	-	-	17th
19th	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1: 16.482	-	-	18th
20th	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1: 16.602	-	-	19th
21st	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1: 17.492	-	-	20th
22nd	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1: 17.901	-	-	21st
23	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1: 18.255	-	-	23
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1: 18.330	-	-	24
107 percent time : 1: 19.887 min (based on Q1 best time of 1: 14.661 min)

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. ↑ Pastor Maldonado was moved five positions back because of a gear change.

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	70	2	1: 32: 29.586	02	1: 17.020 (59th)
02	Romain Grosjean	Lotus Renault	70	1	+ 2.513	07th	1: 17,264 (57.)
03	Sergio Perez	Clean Ferrari	70	1	+ 5.260	15th	1: 16,414 (67.)
04th	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	70	2	+ 7.295	01	1: 15.752 (70th)
05	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	70	1	+ 13,411	03	1: 17.820 (42nd)
06th	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	70	2	+ 13.842	05	1: 17.060 (67.)
07th	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	70	2	+ 15.085	04th	1: 17,131 (62nd)
08th	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus Renault	70	1	+ 15.567	12	1: 16.764 (70th)
09	Kamui Kobayashi	Clean Ferrari	70	1	+ 24.432	11	1: 17.464 (61.)
10	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	70	2	+ 25.272	06th	1: 16,182 (69.)
11	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	70	2	+ 37.693	08th	1: 17,219 (63.)
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	70	2	+ 46.236	13	1: 17.202 (62nd)
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	70	1	+ 47.052	22nd	1: 17.489 (67.)
14th	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	70	2	+1: 04.475	14th	1: 16.609 (70th)
15th	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	69	3	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 17.875 (55th)
16	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	69	3	+ 1 lap	10	1: 17.843 (63.)
17th	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	69	1	+ 1 lap	16	1: 17.817 (67.)
18th	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	69	2	+ 1 lap	17th	1: 18.128 (62.)
19th	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	69	2	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 18.093 (58th)
20th	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	67	1	+ 3 rounds	23	1: 20.632 (63rd)
-	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	56	1	DNF	21st	1: 21.032 (47th)
-	Michael sSchumacher	Mercedes	43	2	DNF	09	1: 18.433 (37th)
-	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	24	0	DNF	20th	1: 21.535 (23.)
-	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	22nd	0	DNF	24	1: 22.044 (12.)

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  Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 88 02  Fernando Alonso Ferrari 86 03  Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 85 04th  Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 79 05  Nico Rosberg Mercedes 67 06th  Kimi Raikkonen Lotus Renault 55 07th  Romain Grosjean Lotus Renault 53 08th  Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 45 09  Sergio Perez Clean Ferrari 37 10  Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 29 11  Kamui Kobayashi Clean Ferrari 21st 12  Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 21st

Item driver constructor Points 13  Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 15th 14th  Felipe Massa Ferrari 11 15th  Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 7th 16  Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 4th 17th  Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2 18th  Michael sSchumacher Mercedes 2 19th  Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 0 20th  Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 0 21st  Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 0 22nd  Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 0 23  Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 0 24  Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Red Bull-Renault 164 02  McLaren-Mercedes 133 03  Lotus Renault 108 04th  Ferrari 97 05  Mercedes 69 06th  Clean Ferrari 58

Item constructor Points 07th  Williams-Renault 44 08th  Force India-Mercedes 28 09  Toro Rosso-Ferrari 6th 10  Caterham-Renault 0 11  Marussia-Cosworth 0 12  HRT-Cosworth 0

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Sebastian Fränzschky: "The tire compounds for the next four races". Motorsport-Total.com, May 21, 2012, accessed May 25, 2012 . 
3. ↑ 2012-06-07: "Canadian Grand Prix not sold out due to the unrest". Motorsport-Total.com, accessed June 10, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Christian Nimmervoll: “Eventful training start in Montreal”. Motorsport-Total.com, June 8, 2012, accessed June 9, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Canadian GP in Montréal / 1st free practice. Motorsport-Total.com, June 8, 2012, accessed June 9, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Stefan Ziegler: "Vettel warned for aggressive maneuvers against Senna". Motorsport-Total.com, June 8, 2012, accessed June 9, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Stefan Ziegler: "After a pit accident: HRT mechanic almost uninjured". Motorsport-Total.com, June 9, 2012, accessed June 9, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Canadian GP in Montréal / 2nd free practice. Motorsport-Total.com, June 8, 2012, accessed June 9, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Christian Nimmervoll: "Montreal-Friday: Hamilton before the Ferraris". Motorsport-Total.com, June 8, 2012, accessed June 9, 2012 . 
10. ↑ Christian Nimmervoll: "Changing the gearbox: Maldonado only 22nd instead of 17." Motorsport-Total.com, June 10, 2012, accessed on June 10, 2012 . 
11. ↑ Fabian Hust: "Bitter double failure for HRT in Canada". Motorsport-Total.com, June 10, 2012, accessed June 11, 2012 . 
12. ↑ "Mercedes: Rosberg scores - Schumacher unlucky again". Motorsport-Total.com, June 10, 2012, accessed June 11, 2012 . 
13. ↑ Fabian Hust: "Marussia: Glock gives up just to be on the safe side ". Motorsport-Total.com, June 10, 2012, accessed June 11, 2012 . 
14. ↑ Markus Lüttgens: “Button in free fall: It's getting worse and worse”. Motorsport-Total.com, June 11, 2012, accessed June 11, 2012 .