Belgian Grand Prix 2012

Spa-Francorchamps
Spa
2 September 2012
44 laps
308.1 km
7.004 km a lap

Pole positionJenson ButtonMcLaren · 1:47.573
Fastest lapBruno Senna1:52.822 · lap 43
Winner started fromP1on the grid

Result

Pos	Driver	No.	Team · engine	Grid	Laps	Time / reason	Points
1	Jenson Button	3	McLaren · Mercedes	1	44	1:29:08.530	25
2	Sebastian Vettel	1	Red Bull · Renault	10	44	+13.624	18
3	Kimi Räikkönen	9	Lotus · Renault	3	44	+25.334	15
4	Nico Hülkenberg	12	Force India · Mercedes	11	44	+27.843	12
5	Felipe Massa	6	Ferrari	14	44	+29.845	10
6	Mark Webber	2	Red Bull · Renault	12	44	+31.244	8
7	Michael Schumacher	7	Mercedes	13	44	+53.374	6
8	Jean-Éric Vergne	17	Toro Rosso · Ferrari	15	44	+58.865	4
9	Daniel Ricciardo	16	Toro Rosso · Ferrari	16	44	+1:02.982	2
10	Paul di Resta	11	Force India · Mercedes	9	44	+1:03.783	1
11	Nico Rosberg	8	Mercedes	23	44	+1:05.111
12	Bruno Sennafastest lap	19	Williams · Renault	17	44	+1:11.529
13	Kamui Kobayashi	14	Sauber · Ferrari	2	44	+1:56.119
14	Vitaly Petrov	21	Caterham · Renault	19	43	+1 lap
15	Timo Glock	24	Marussia · Cosworth	20	43	+1 lap
16	Charles Pic	25	Marussia · Cosworth	22	43	+1 lap
17	Heikki Kovalainen	20	Caterham · Renault	18	43	+1 lap
18	Pedro de la Rosa	22	HRT · Cosworth	21	43	+1 lap
DNF	Narain Karthikeyan	23	HRT · Cosworth	24	29	Accident
DNF	Pastor Maldonado	18	Williams · Renault	6	4	Collision damage
DNF	Sergio Pérez	15	Sauber · Ferrari	4	0	Collision damage
DNF	Fernando Alonso	5	Ferrari	5	0	Collision
DNF	Lewis Hamilton	4	McLaren · Mercedes	7	0	Collision
DNF	Romain Grosjean	10	Lotus · Renault	8	0	Collision

A number in the first column means classified. DNF, DNQ and DNS stand for retirement, did not qualify and did not start. ‘shared’ marks a car that two drivers shared between them – permitted in the 1950s, and both were classified.

Lap by lap

The running order on every lap. A line that stops is a car that stopped.

Laps led: Jenson Button 44. Lap data from Jolpica-F1; it exists from 1996 on.

Show as a table

Driver	Grid	Lap 11	Lap 22	Lap 33	Finish	Laps led
Jenson Button	1	1	1	1	1	44
Sebastian Vettel	10	8	6	2	2
Kimi Räikkönen	3	5	2	4	3
Nico Hülkenberg	11	2	3	5	4
Felipe Massa	14	9	5	7	5
Mark Webber	12	11	4	6	6
Michael Schumacher	13	3	8	3	7
Jean-Éric Vergne	15	6	9	10	8
Daniel Ricciardo	16	4	7	11	9
Paul di Resta	9	13	10	12	10
Nico Rosberg	23	10	13	9	11
Bruno Senna	17	7	11	8	12
Kamui Kobayashi	2	16	12	13	13
Vitaly Petrov	19	12	14	14	14
Timo Glock	20	19	15	16	15
Charles Pic	22	18	18	15	16
Heikki Kovalainen	18	14	19	18	17
Pedro de la Rosa	21	17	17	17	18
Narain Karthikeyan	24	15	16	–	out
Pastor Maldonado	6	–	–	–	out

Gap to the leader

How far behind each driver was as every lap ended – the margins the running order hides.

Seconds behind the leader as each lap ends, from the lap times. A line that flattens out together with the others is a safety car; a sudden step down is a pit stop. Gaps beyond 75 seconds run off the bottom edge. This is the gap on the road: time penalties given after the flag are not in it.

Show as a table

Driver	Lap 11	Lap 22	Lap 33	Last lap
Jenson Button	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Sebastian Vettel	+16.3	+19.3	+14.4	+13.6
Kimi Räikkönen	+13.9	+8.5	+30.5	+25.3
Nico Hülkenberg	+7.0	+12.8	+31.0	+27.8
Felipe Massa	+17.7	+18.7	+33.8	+29.8
Mark Webber	+20.7	+14.6	+31.4	+31.2
Michael Schumacher	+9.1	+22.3	+30.2	+53.4
Jean-Éric Vergne	+14.8	+29.8	+50.5	+58.9
Daniel Ricciardo	+12.4	+21.9	+51.5	+63.0
Paul di Resta	+30.3	+31.5	+54.0	+63.8
Nico Rosberg	+20.4	+43.3	+50.0	+65.1
Bruno Senna	+15.9	+32.3	+48.1	+71.5
Kamui Kobayashi	+40.1	+42.0	+77.9	+116.1
Vitaly Petrov	+30.0	+69.8	+113.9	+140.5
Timo Glock	+46.6	+79.0	+131.1	+172.0
Charles Pic	+42.8	+87.1	+129.5	+187.6
Heikki Kovalainen	+35.6	+99.0	+153.4	+197.0
Pedro de la Rosa	+42.0	+86.7	+151.2	+200.7
Narain Karthikeyan	+38.9	+85.2	–	out
Pastor Maldonado	–	–	–	out

Qualifying

Knock-out in three parts since 2006: the slowest drop out after Q1 and Q2.

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Jenson Button	McLaren	1:49.250	1:47.654	1:47.573
2	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	1:49.686	1:48.569	1:47.871
3	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	1:48.993	1:48.780	1:47.893
4	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus	1:49.546	1:48.414	1:48.205
5	Sergio Pérez	Sauber	1:49.642	1:47.980	1:48.219
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:49.401	1:48.598	1:48.313
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull	1:49.859	1:48.546	1:48.392
8	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1:49.605	1:48.563	1:48.394
9	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	1:50.126	1:48.714	1:48.538
10	Paul di Resta	Force India	1:50.033	1:48.729	1:48.890
11	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	1:49.722	1:48.792
12	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India	1:49.362	1:48.855
13	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:49.742	1:49.081
14	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:49.588	1:49.147
15	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso	1:49.763	1:49.354
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	1:49.572	1:49.543
17	Bruno Senna	Williams	1:49.958	1:50.088
18	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:50.181
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham	1:51.739
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham	1:51.967
21	Timo Glock	Marussia	1:52.336
22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	1:53.030
23	Charles Pic	Marussia	1:53.493
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	1:54.989

Grid penalties

Why the starting grid differs from the qualifying order.

Driver	Qualified	Started	Penalty
Pastor Maldonado	P3	P6	3 places – 3
Mark Webber	P7	P12	5 places – 5
Nico Rosberg	P18	P23	5 places – 5

Pit stops

Time from entering to leaving the pit lane, not the stationary time.

Driver	Stops	On laps	Fastest
Jenson Button	1	20	19.668 s
Sebastian Vettel	1	21	20.811 s
Charles Pic	1	18	21.611 s
Pastor Maldonado	1	1	21.842 s
Daniel Ricciardo	2	12, 28	20.287 s
Kimi Räikkönen	2	11, 28	20.289 s
Felipe Massa	2	12, 27	20.306 s
Mark Webber	2	11, 27	20.385 s
Nico Rosberg	2	20, 36	20.534 s
Timo Glock	2	11, 25	20.660 s
Jean-Éric Vergne	2	15, 29	20.660 s
Nico Hülkenberg	2	13, 27	20.696 s
Michael Schumacher	2	19, 35	20.835 s
Paul di Resta	2	10, 26	21.115 s
Vitaly Petrov	2	12, 26	21.180 s
Bruno Senna	2	16, 39	21.690 s
Heikki Kovalainen	2	14, 27	21.931 s
Narain Karthikeyan	2	14, 28	22.523 s
Kamui Kobayashi	3	1, 7, 24	21.669 s
Pedro de la Rosa	3	1, 15, 27	22.064 s

Every stop, lap by lap (38)

Lap	Driver	Stop	Time
1	Pastor Maldonado	1	21.842 s
1	Kamui Kobayashi	1	27.248 s
1	Pedro de la Rosa	1	29.107 s
7	Kamui Kobayashi	2	21.669 s
10	Paul di Resta	1	21.402 s
11	Kimi Räikkönen	1	20.383 s
11	Mark Webber	1	20.908 s
11	Timo Glock	1	22.463 s
12	Daniel Ricciardo	1	20.287 s
12	Felipe Massa	1	20.306 s
12	Vitaly Petrov	1	25.972 s
13	Nico Hülkenberg	1	22.152 s
14	Narain Karthikeyan	1	23.953 s
14	Heikki Kovalainen	1	52.206 s
15	Jean-Éric Vergne	1	20.660 s
15	Pedro de la Rosa	2	25.027 s
16	Bruno Senna	1	21.690 s
18	Charles Pic	1	21.611 s
19	Michael Schumacher	1	21.664 s
20	Jenson Button	1	19.668 s
20	Nico Rosberg	1	21.062 s
21	Sebastian Vettel	1	20.811 s
24	Kamui Kobayashi	3	22.106 s
25	Timo Glock	2	20.660 s
26	Paul di Resta	2	21.115 s
26	Vitaly Petrov	2	21.180 s
27	Mark Webber	2	20.385 s
27	Nico Hülkenberg	2	20.696 s
27	Felipe Massa	2	21.049 s
27	Heikki Kovalainen	2	21.931 s
27	Pedro de la Rosa	3	22.064 s
28	Kimi Räikkönen	2	20.289 s
28	Daniel Ricciardo	2	21.060 s
28	Narain Karthikeyan	2	22.523 s
29	Jean-Éric Vergne	2	21.077 s
35	Michael Schumacher	2	20.835 s
36	Nico Rosberg	2	20.534 s
39	Bruno Senna	2	22.030 s

Fastest laps

Each driver's quickest lap of the race.

Pos	Driver	Lap	Time	Gap
1	Bruno Senna	43	1:52.822
2	Nico Rosberg	39	1:53.073	+0.251
3	Felipe Massa	30	1:53.464	+0.642
4	Michael Schumacher	37	1:53.507	+0.685
5	Kimi Räikkönen	34	1:53.640	+0.818
6	Nico Hülkenberg	40	1:53.760	+0.938
7	Mark Webber	42	1:53.768	+0.946
8	Jean-Éric Vergne	31	1:53.995	+1.173
9	Sebastian Vettel	39	1:54.198	+1.376
10	Jenson Button	40	1:54.293	+1.471

Championship after this race

The official standings after round 12. Arrows show the change against the round before.

The whole season

Drivers' championship after round 12
Pos	Driver	Points	Change
1	Fernando Alonso	164
2	Sebastian Vettel	140	▲1
3	Mark Webber	132	▼1
4	Kimi Räikkönen	131	▲1
5	Lewis Hamilton	117	▼1
6	Jenson Button	101	▲1
7	Nico Rosberg	77	▼1
8	Romain Grosjean	76
9	Sergio Pérez	47
10	Michael Schumacher	35	▲2

Constructors' championship after round 12
Pos	Team	Points	Change
1	Red Bull	272
2	McLaren	218
3	Lotus	207
4	Ferrari	199
5	Mercedes	112
6	Sauber	80
7	Force India	59	▲1
8	Williams	53	▼1
9	Toro Rosso	12
10	Caterham	0