[188] Red Bull Racing and Lotus team principals Christian Horner and Éric Boullier were also critical of the test as they felt that the costs of conducting in-season testing outweighed any benefits, with Horner stating his opposition to continuing mid-season testing in the future. [152] Fernando Alonso inherited the lead, with Sauber's Sergio Pérez a surprise second, having made an early stop for extreme wet weather tyres and then taking advantage of a rush to the pit lane to position himself in third at the restart. And now the rule has been changed and we'll start again. You can click on each driver and team to check out their dedicated page with all the info and statistics we know about them. Hamilton's next target was Alonso, whose tyres lost all grip and he fell victim to Hamilton, Romain Grosjean, Sergio Pérez and Vettel in quick succession. [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. For the video game based on the 2012 Formula One season, see. Heikki Kovalainen qualified sixteenth, the second time Caterham (and its predecessor, Team Lotus) advanced beyond the first qualifying period in dry conditions. Die Motoren werden bei Mercedes AMG HPP in Brixworth gefertigt und auch an Kundenteams geliefert. These sessions gave the teams and drivers the opportunity to familiarise themselves with their cars, though the teams downplayed the accuracy of testing times as being representative of the running order for the season. Peter Sauber formally stepped down from his position as team principal of Sauber F1 in the week before the Korean Grand Prix, appointing the team's CEO, Monisha Kaltenborn as his successor. [239] The result meant Webber closed to within thirteen points of Alonso's championship lead, with both drivers breaking away from third-placed Vettel. Vettel had twenty seconds added to his race time as a penalty, demoting him to fifth overall. PRICE ADJUSTMENTSFOR BITUMINOUS MATERIALS PAGE 2 of 3 Effective March 1, 2015 . [309] Alonso was second, while Vettel caught and passed Button to complete the podium,[315] keeping a ten-point championship lead in the process. It was Schumacher's first podium since the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix. [290][291] Vettel overcame pole-sitter Mark Webber at the start, and was aided in building up a lead by first-lap contact between Jenson Button, Nico Rosberg and Kamui Kobayashi that saw Button and Rosberg retire with damage from the collision; Rosberg pulled over on the approach to the third turn, forcing a protracted yellow flag period as marshalls attempted to retrieve his car. He was given a one-race ban and a €50,000 fine for his role in the collision, forcing him to miss the Italian Grand Prix. [29][70], Jérôme d'Ambrosio left Marussia (then known as Virgin Racing) after the 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix. [143], The season began in Australia. Button's retirement and Hamilton's single point meant that McLaren lost second place in the World Constructors' Championship to Ferrari,[291] and Hamilton admitted that his bid to be the 2012 World Drivers' Champion was over. Maldonado's race ended when he crossed onto the astroturf on the final lap and spun into the wall. Die Formel-1-Weltmeisterschaft 2012 war die 63. Nico Rosberg, who had been forced to pit with damage to his front wing, was in the process of overtaking Narain Karthikeyan as Karthikeyan's car began to fail and the Indian quickly slowed. [151] When the race restarted an hour later, Button was involved in contact with Narain Karthikeyan that forced him to make an unscheduled stop for a new front wing, while Hamilton had a slow pit stop and was held in the lane while other cars passed. [178], The decision to hold the race despite the ongoing protests made it one of the most controversial Grands Prix in the sport's sixty-year history. [155] Hamilton finished third ahead of Mark Webber and Kimi Räikkönen, while Button had to settle for fourteenth. Damit ist sie eng mit anderen Speisegewächsen wie der Kartoffel (Solanum tuberosum), der Paprika (Capsicum) und der Aubergine (Solanum melongena) verwandt, … [262] Button's win allowed him to regain precious ground on the championship fight, while Alonso's retirement from the race and Vettel's second place moved the reigning World Champion to within twenty-four points of the championship lead. [68] The series was later postponed until 2013,[69] but Liuzzi was unable to retain his seat with the team. I accept my mistake. Official list of F1 standings for the 2012 season - filter by driver or team (constructor) to see current World Championship standings. The 2012 F1 season was the best of the last five years according to F1 Fanatic readers. [282] Bruno Senna also ran afoul of the stewards, hitting Nico Rosberg whilst trying to avoid Grosjean and Webber and earning a drive-through penalty for his troubles while Rosberg retired on the spot. [218] Nevertheless, Sebastian Vettel comfortably took pole position by three-tenths of a second. Horner ultimately chose the latter option, and Mark Webber started from pole,[205] establishing an early lead over Nico Rosberg as a first-corner accident eliminated four cars. [339][340] Both Ferrari and Red Bull Racing announced that they were satisfied with the ruling, thereby preserving Vettel's championship.[341][342]. HRT team principal Colin Kolles formally left his position, with the team citing the relocation of their headquarters to Spain as the reason for the separation. [279] Elsewhere, a string of retirements – including a late engine problem for Bruno Senna, which left the Brazilian with minor burns to his back[280] – and a series of altercations involving Mark Webber, Nico Hülkenberg, Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Pérez as they fought over the minor points positions allowed Timo Glock to finish twelfth, the result seeing Marussia retake tenth position in the World Constructors' Championship from Caterham. [179][180][181][182], Starting on 1 May, the teams conducted a three-day test at the Mugello Circuit in Italy ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix. 2001-2021 © F1-Fansite.com. 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The Ferrari driver rounded up both McLaren drivers at the start of the race and proceeded to chase down Mark Webber for second, only overtaking the Australian on the long back straight when his car developed a KERS fault fifteen laps from the end that it never recovered from. Any driver in the pit lane when a race is suspended was permitted to return to the circuit and take up the position on the grid that they were running in at the time of the suspension. Hülkenberg spun on lap 48 and lost the lead to Hamilton, but caught the McLaren on lap 54 as they encountered lapped traffic. Fernando Alonso finished second, conceding another seven championship points to Vettel. Saison der Formel-1-Weltmeisterschaft. He was saved by the second appearance of the safety car moments later, brought about when di Resta forced Sergio Pérez wide; as Pérez rejoined the circuit, he cut back across the front of Grosjean and the two made contact, which in turn forced Grosjean into the path of Mark Webber. 281: 2 ALO Fernando Alonso. Rosberg took an early lead in the race, and while his attempt to complete the race with only two pit stops came under threat from second-placed Jenson Button, a mistake by Button's pit crew during his final stop handed Rosberg a nineteen-second advantage over Kimi Räikkönen. The team later denied that there had ever been a problem with Vettel's tyres. Die Formel 1 kehrte in die Vereinigten Staaten zurück. ", "It really pisses me off, to be honest, because the car has passed every single technical regulation after the race. At the time, the first sector of the circuit was under yellow flag conditions following the spin and retirement of Pastor Maldonado at Curva do Sol, the Interlagos circuit's third corner, which feeds onto the back straight. MONTHLY PG 64-22 BINDER ADJUSTMENT: The March 2015 Average F.O.B. [207] The variety of strategies used by the front-runners resulted in the last ten laps being contested with the top six cars running nose-to-tail. [161] Schumacher would ultimately retire from the race after the first round of stops when it was discovered that one of his wheels had not been attached properly. Button remained unchallenged throughout, even after a mid-race safety car to retrieve the stricken Caterham of Vitaly Petrov. [51] The new name originates from AMG, Mercedes-Benz's performance and luxury road car brand. Dear Mr. Alworth: The Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation (OPRHP) assists F1 2012 is a video game developed by Codemasters based on the 2012 Formula One season'. In the World Constructors' Championship, Ferrari secured second place from McLaren with two cars on the podium, while Kamui Kobayashi's ninth place was not enough for Sauber to take fifth from Mercedes, and Marussia lost tenth place to Caterham when Vitaly Petrov secured the team's best result of the season with eleventh place. Button went on to take his third victory at the Melbourne circuit, ahead of Sebastian Vettel, who profited from the safety car to pass Hamilton. Further down the order, Caterham was summoned to the stewards on charges of an unsafe pit release when Heikki Kovalainen was released directly into the path of Karthikeyan and the team was given a €10,000 fine for the incident. Die Tomate (Solanum lycopersicum), in Teilen von Österreich sowie in Südtirol auch Paradeiser (seltener Paradeisapfel oder Paradiesapfel) genannt, ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Nachtschattengewächse (Solanaceae). Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers. Vettel quickly converted pole position into a steady race lead as Lewis Hamilton fought to regain second place from Mark Webber. The 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 66th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. 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. Der Formel-1-Kalender 2012 im Überblick: Die Formel 1-Saison 2012 mit allen Strecken, Zeiten und Terminen - jetzt bequem in Ihr Smartphone oder PC importieren Die F1-Saison 2020 startete im Juli mit den ersten Rennen in Österreich. Tabelle der 2004er Mannschaft. See all 2012 F1 results for each race, driver and team. Meanwhile, third-placed Kimi Räikkönen moved to an ambitious strategy that would see him attempt to force Maldonado and Alonso to race beyond the life expectancy of their tyres, allowing him to swoop in at the last minute to steal first place. [325] Further down the order, Massa overcame his gearbox penalty to finish fourth, while Jenson Button fell from twelfth on the grid to sixteenth at the end of the first lap, using an alternative strategy to claw his way back up to fifth. After prematurely moving Jenson Button onto a three-stop strategy, McLaren gave Hamilton the order to hold position as the tight confines of the Hungaroring circuit forced the teams to try to make up positions in the pits. It was announced on 18 March 2012, co-inciding with the first race of the 2012 season. [144] McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh later admitted that Button was "more than marginal" on fuel after the team made a mistake in calculating their fuel loads for the race, forcing Button to use a "severe fuel-saving mode" from the eighth lap of the race. 207: 4 HAM Lewis Hamilton. Grosjean and Webber retired, whilst Pérez was given a stop-go penalty. Vettel's lead was quashed when Heikki Kovalainen and Jean-Éric Vergne made contact, triggering the deployment of the safety car to clear debris from the circuit. [58][59] Senna replaced Rubens Barrichello, who left Formula One after a record-breaking nineteen seasons. [281], Fernando Alonso's luck finally ran out in Japan; having spent most of the season profiting from poor results from his rivals when he needed them the most, Alonso was the victim of a dramatic first corner clash, spinning out when he made contact with Kimi Räikkönen and paving the way for his championship rivals to make considerable inroads into his twenty-nine-point championship lead. [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. [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. [320] Amid concerns that drivers starting from even-numbered grid slots would suffer from a lack of grip as they were located off the racing line, Ferrari deliberately broke the seal on Felipe Massa's gearbox, thereby giving him a five-place grid penalty and promoting Alonso to seventh and the clean side of the grid. [18] Grosjean returned to the team for the next round in Singapore. 278: 3 RAI Kimi Raikkonen. Meanwhile, Hamilton suffered another mechanical failure while leading the race, and was once again forced out, handing the lead to Kimi Räikkönen while Fernando Alonso inherited second. Webber caught Alonso with five laps to go, passing him on the Wellington Straight. It featured the 63rd FIA Formula One World Championship, a motor racing series for Formula One cars, recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) – the governing body of motorsport – as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. This allowed Hamilton to leapfrog both drivers and Kimi Räikkönen – who finished the race fifth – to take second place in the World Drivers' Championship, with the result enabling McLaren to close the gap to Red Bull in the World Constructors' Championship. In January 2012, the FIA banned the use of "reactive ride-height". [322] Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner later admitted that the team's perpetual alternator problems were a serious concern with just one race left in the championship, a World Championship at stake and very little time to diagnose and correct the problem. [48] The team also announced a technical partnership with McLaren that granted them access to McLaren's testing facilities as well as the purchase of Wirth Research facilities.[49]. Sportliches Reglement, Artikel 4.2., im Wortlaut: Immer dann, wenn nach dem Internationalen Sportgesetzbuch oder nach Artikel 38.3 eine Strafe verhängt wird, können die Kommissare in der Formel 1 Strafpunkte auf die Superlizenz des Fahrers verbuchen. ", "Jenson Button storms to Australian Grand Prix victory", "Jenson Button was 'more than marginal' on fuel during the Australian Grand Prix", "Maldonado says he had accepted finishing behind Alonso before crash", "Massa and Senna agree that no blame can be apportioned for late collision", "Alonso convinced Ferrari an almost perfect team despite struggling to regularly fight for victory", "Malaysian Grand Prix qualifying results", "2012 Malaysian Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stops", "Sergio Perez says victory was possible after finishing career-best second at Malaysian Grand Prix", "Fernando Alonso holds off Perez to win sensational Malaysian Grand Prix", "Was Sauber's radio message to Perez a team order to help Ferrari? [77] Jenson Button qualified on pole[258] and broke away at the start while a four-car pile-up started behind him when Romain Grosjean made contact with Lewis Hamilton and they both slammed into Fernando Alonso and Sergio Pérez, eliminating all four on the spot and triggering the safety car. This page was last edited on 18 February 2021, at 11:24. [206] The race was run under the constant threat of rain, with drivers trying to extend the life of their tyres to avoid being forced to make an additional stop and falling down the order. The championship was contested over twenty rounds, which started in Australia on 18 March and ended in Brazil on 25 November. 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. Vettel overtook Vergne along the straight, which led to claims that the pass was illegal because of the yellow flags. The race was marked by another technical dispute regarding Red Bull Racing, who were referred to the stewards by FIA Technical Delegate Jo Bauer for what he felt was an illegal engine map in use on the Red Bull RB8. [270] Hamilton would ultimately prevail, but he was forced to push in the final few laps to maintain his lead, and won the race by four seconds as Pérez claimed his third podium of the season with second place. [173], Sebastian Vettel qualified on pole, his first since the 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix. Both HRT cars qualified for the race, but filled out the final row of the grid almost two seconds behind Marussia's Charles Pic in twenty-second position. Formel-1-WM-Stand 2018: Formel-1-Fahrerwertung 2018, Formel-1-Konstrukteurswertung 2018 Vettel's win gave him a four-point lead in the championship over Hamilton, while Mark Webber's fourth consecutive fourth place secured third overall. F1 2012 is a video game developed by Codemasters based on the 2012 Formula One season'. Formula One Standings 2012. The calendar for the season included twenty races, breaking the previous record of nineteen, which was first set in 2005. [226], Fernando Alonso became the first man to win two races in 2012 at the European Grand Prix in Valencia,[227] scoring his first home win since the 2006 Spanish Grand Prix. A slow stop for Vettel relegated him to twelfth and swinging the balance of power in Alonso's favour. [141][142], 2009 World Drivers' Champion Jenson Button on the competitive nature of the 2012 season. Ebenfalls gelang es seinem Rennstall Red Bull Racing mit Mark Webber als zweitem Fahrer vorzeitig den Konstrukteurstitel zu verteidigen. [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. Vettel pulled away once more, but his lead was short-lived as he lost drive and his engine shut down on lap 33. [186][189], Michael Schumacher's criticism of tyre supplier Pirelli's 2012 tyre compounds. Further down the order, Kimi Räikkönen finished seventh after spending most of the race trapped behind Felipe Massa, and later claimed that mistakes on Saturday had robbed him of a podium on Sunday,[306] while Pedro de la Rosa retired from the race when he suffered a brake failure that saw him spin into the barriers at Turn 4. Faced with several constructors applying for name changes, At the final meeting of the World Motorsports Commission in December 2011, a series of amendments to the sporting regulations were published. In the week before the 2011 Indian Grand Prix, Force India announced that the Sahara Group had purchased a 42.5% stake in the team, valued at US$100 million. [55] Both Lotus's trackside operations director Alan Permane and Red Bull Racing driver Mark Webber questioned the value of testing at the Mugello circuit as the characteristics of the circuit were unlike any of the circuits the championship was due to visit after the test,[185][186] while Caterham driver Vitaly Petrov was critical of the choice of Mugello as a testing venue as he felt it was not safe enough for Formula One. The complete 2012 F1 standings: Check out the final championship position of your favourite driver & team and who won the season title in this overview. [18] He qualified sixteenth, and went on to finish thirteenth overall. De… Sauber and Pérez initially looked as if they had left their stop too late when Pérez emerged from the pits five seconds behind Alonso, but he began catching the two-time World Champion at the same rate as he had before. Mercedes GP also changed the name of their team, announcing that they were to become known as Mercedes AMG. Button and Vettel's duel allowed Alonso to break free, and he started chasing down Räikkönen in the last five laps. Webber won the race – his second on the streets of Monaco – with Rosberg second and Fernando Alonso third,[208] the result giving Alonso a three-point lead in the championship. [167] The week preceding the Grand Prix saw a renewed wave of protests against the government's attempts use the race to "tell the outside world that the whole thing is back to normal",[168][169] while human rights organisations including Amnesty International criticised the decision to hold the race amid the violent crackdowns. [241] The stewards elected to take no action against Red Bull, stating that the team had not violated any of the technical regulations, but noted that they did not accept all of the arguments presented by the team when asked to explain. It uses the EGO Engine.This was also the first game by Codemasters released under their "Codemasters Racing" label, which was used until 2016. 2012 F1 results distribution of points: P1=25, P2=18, P3=15, P4=12, P5=10, P6=8, P7=6, P8=4, P9=2 & P10=1 point * = this driver drove the fastest lap of the race. Alonso recovered from seventh to finish third – marking the first time that he, Hamilton and Vettel had stood on the podium together in the one hundred races all three had contested together – and forcing the title fight to extend to the final round in Brazil. [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. [321] Ferrari's fears were not without merit as the drivers starting from even-number spaces fell behind at the start of the race. Red Bull Racing took the opportunity to pit him early, with the downside being that Vettel would have to do 42 laps on the soft tyre when supplier Pirelli predicted they could only do 36.