2012 Korean Grand Prix

Circuit: Korea International CircuitYeongam, South Korea
Winner: Sebastian VettelRed Bull Racing
Pole: Mark Webber
Fastest lap: Mark Webber
Entries: 2420 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	RB8	2	55	Finished	25
2	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB8	1	55	Finished	18	fastest lap
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	F2012	4	55	Finished	15
4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F2012	6	55	Finished	12
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	E20	5	55	Finished	10
6	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	VJM05	8	55	Finished	8
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	E20	7	55	Finished	6
8	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	16	55	Finished	4
9	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR7	21	55	Finished	2
10	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-27	3	55	Finished	1
11	Sergio Perez	Sauber	C31	12	55	Finished	0
12	Paul di Resta	Force India	VJM05	14	55	Finished	0
13	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	F1 W03	10	55	Finished	0
14	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	FW34	15	55	Finished	0
15	Bruno Senna	Williams	FW34	17	55	Finished	0
16	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	18	54	Finished	0
17	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	CT01	19	54	Finished	0
18	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	20	54	Finished	0
19	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MR01	24	53	Finished	0
20	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	F112	23	53	Finished	0
DNF	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	F112	22	16	Throttle	0
DNF	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	C31	13	16	Collision damage	0
DNF	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W03	9	1	Collision damage	0
DNF	Jenson Button	McLaren	MP4-27	11	0	Collision	0

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sebastian Vettel	2	1	55
Mark Webber	1	2	55
Fernando Alonso	4	3	55
Felipe Massa	6	4	55
Kimi Raikkonen	5	5	55
Nico Hulkenberg	8	6	55
Romain Grosjean	7	7	55
Jean-Éric Vergne	16	8	55
Daniel Ricciardo	21	9	55
Sir Lewis Hamilton	3	10	55
Sergio Perez	12	11	55
Paul di Resta	14	12	55
Michael Schumacher	10	13	55
Pastor Maldonado	15	14	55
Bruno Senna	17	15	55
Vitaly Petrov	18	16	54
Heikki Kovalainen	19	17	54
Timo Glock	20	18	54
Charles Pic	24	19	53
Narain Karthikeyan	23	20	53
Pedro de la Rosa	22	DNF	16
Kamui Kobayashi	13	DNF	16
Nico Rosberg	9	DNF	1
Jenson Button	11	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	Interval
1	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:38.397	1:38.220	1:37.242	—	—
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:38.208	1:37.767	1:37.316	+0.074	+0.074
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:39.180	1:38.000	1:37.469	+0.227	+0.153
4	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:39.144	1:37.987	1:37.534	+0.292	+0.065
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:38.887	1:38.227	1:37.625	+0.383	+0.091
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:38.937	1:38.253	1:37.884	+0.642	+0.259
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:38.863	1:38.275	1:37.934	+0.692	+0.050
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:38.981	1:38.428	1:38.266	+1.024	+0.332
9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:38.999	1:38.417	1:38.361	+1.119	+0.095
10	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:38.808	1:38.436	1:38.513	+1.271	+0.152
11	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:38.615	1:38.441	—	—	—
12	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:38.630	1:38.460	—	—	—
13	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:38.719	1:38.594	—	—	—
14	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:38.942	1:38.643	—	—	—
15	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:39.024	1:38.725	—	—	—
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:38.784	1:39.084	—	—	—
17	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:38.744	1:39.340	—	—	—
18	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:39.443	—	—	—	—
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:40.207	—	—	—	—
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:40.333	—	—	—	—
21	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:41.317	—	—	—	—
22	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:41.371	—	—	—	—
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:42.881	—	—	—	—
NC	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	—	—	—	—	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked on each lap a driver stopped. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Only the lap is recorded: not a stop’s length, tyres or gain.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap
Sebastian Vettel	1	55	2	15, 35
Mark Webber	2	55	2	14, 32
Fernando Alonso	3	55	2	15, 34
Felipe Massa	4	55	2	14, 35
Kimi Raikkonen	5	55	2	14, 35
Nico Hulkenberg	6	55	2	13, 32
Romain Grosjean	7	55	2	13, 31
Jean-Éric Vergne	8	55	2	13, 38
Daniel Ricciardo	9	55	2	14, 34
Sir Lewis Hamilton	10	55	3	13, 26, 42
Sergio Perez	11	55	2	18, 33
Paul di Resta	12	55	2	15, 28
Michael Schumacher	13	55	2	13, 32
Pastor Maldonado	14	55	1	21
Bruno Senna	15	55	2	14, 32
Vitaly Petrov	16	54	2	14, 32
Heikki Kovalainen	17	54	2	13, 33
Timo Glock	18	54	2	14, 31
Charles Pic	19	53	2	17, 34
Narain Karthikeyan	20	53	1	18
Pedro de la Rosa	DNF	16	0	None recorded
Kamui Kobayashi	DNF	16	2	1, 7
Nico Rosberg	DNF	1	0	None recorded
Jenson Button	DNF	0	0	None recorded

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Mark Webber · Sebastian Vettel	1 · 2	2 · 1	14 · 15	Mark Webber	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Sir Lewis Hamilton	2 · 3	1 · 10	15 · 13	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Fernando Alonso	1 · 4	2 · 3	14 · 15	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Fernando Alonso	3 · 4	10 · 3	13 · 15	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Felipe Massa	4 · 6	3 · 4	15 · 14	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Kimi Raikkonen	4 · 5	3 · 5	15 · 14	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Felipe Massa	5 · 6	5 · 4	14 · 14	Same lap	Swapped places
Felipe Massa · Romain Grosjean	6 · 7	4 · 7	14 · 13	Romain Grosjean	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Nico Hulkenberg	5 · 8	5 · 6	14 · 13	Nico Hulkenberg	Kept their order
Romain Grosjean · Nico Hulkenberg	7 · 8	7 · 6	13 · 13	Same lap	Swapped places
Romain Grosjean · Jean-Éric Vergne	7 · 16	7 · 8	13 · 13	Same lap	Kept their order
Pastor Maldonado · Jean-Éric Vergne	15 · 16	14 · 8	21 · 13	Jean-Éric Vergne	Swapped places
Jean-Éric Vergne · Daniel Ricciardo	16 · 21	8 · 9	13 · 14	Jean-Éric Vergne	Kept their order
Jean-Éric Vergne · Bruno Senna	16 · 17	8 · 15	13 · 14	Jean-Éric Vergne	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Daniel Ricciardo	3 · 21	10 · 9	13 · 14	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Timo Glock · Daniel Ricciardo	20 · 21	18 · 9	14 · 14	Same lap	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Sergio Perez	3 · 12	10 · 11	13 · 18	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Paul di Resta	12 · 14	11 · 12	18 · 15	Paul di Resta	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Paul di Resta	10 · 14	13 · 12	13 · 15	Michael Schumacher	Swapped places
Paul di Resta · Pastor Maldonado	14 · 15	12 · 14	15 · 21	Paul di Resta	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Pastor Maldonado	10 · 15	13 · 14	13 · 21	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Pastor Maldonado · Bruno Senna	15 · 17	14 · 15	21 · 14	Bruno Senna	Kept their order
Bruno Senna · Vitaly Petrov	17 · 18	15 · 16	14 · 14	Same lap	Kept their order
Vitaly Petrov · Heikki Kovalainen	18 · 19	16 · 17	14 · 13	Heikki Kovalainen	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · Timo Glock	19 · 20	17 · 18	13 · 14	Heikki Kovalainen	Kept their order
Timo Glock · Charles Pic	20 · 24	18 · 19	14 · 17	Timo Glock	Kept their order
Narain Karthikeyan · Charles Pic	23 · 24	20 · 19	18 · 17	Charles Pic	Swapped places

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no stop duration and no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:39.148	—	—	23
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:39.450	+0.302	+0.302	21
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:39.575	+0.427	+0.125	21
4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:39.854	+0.706	+0.279	23
5	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:40.088	+0.940	+0.234	21
6	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:40.221	+1.073	+0.133	21
7	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:40.396	+1.248	+0.175	24
8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:40.422	+1.274	+0.026	22
9	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:40.440	+1.292	+0.018	19
10	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:40.480	+1.332	+0.040	21
11	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:40.929	+1.781	+0.449	14
12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:41.048	+1.900	+0.119	25
13	Jules Bianchi	Force India	12	1:41.140	+1.992	+0.092	21
14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:41.220	+2.072	+0.080	19
15	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:41.514	+2.366	+0.294	20
16	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:41.596	+2.448	+0.082	23
17	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:42.021	+2.873	+0.425	25
18	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	19	1:42.027	+2.879	+0.006	23
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:42.104	+2.956	+0.077	24
20	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:42.175	+3.027	+0.071	13
21	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:42.706	+3.558	+0.531	22
22	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:42.820	+3.672	+0.114	19
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:44.517	+5.369	+1.697	23
24	Dani Clos (never started a Grand Prix)	HRT	23	1:45.735	+6.587	+1.218	22

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing. † Drove in practice and never started a Grand Prix.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:38.832	—	—	33
2	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:38.864	+0.032	+0.032	33
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:39.160	+0.328	+0.296	28
4	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:39.219	+0.387	+0.059	29
5	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:39.330	+0.498	+0.111	31
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:39.422	+0.590	+0.092	30
7	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:39.584	+0.752	+0.162	36
8	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:39.717	+0.885	+0.133	25
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:39.739	+0.907	+0.022	33
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:39.839	+1.007	+0.100	26
11	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:39.957	+1.125	+0.118	28
12	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:40.089	+1.257	+0.132	32
13	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:40.112	+1.280	+0.023	34
14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:40.445	+1.613	+0.333	28
15	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:40.745	+1.913	+0.300	11
16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:40.789	+1.957	+0.044	31
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:40.997	+2.165	+0.208	32
18	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:41.200	+2.368	+0.203	33
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:41.602	+2.770	+0.402	23
20	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:42.596	+3.764	+0.994	28
21	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:43.066	+4.234	+0.470	21
22	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:43.067	+4.235	+0.001	22
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:43.869	+5.037	+0.802	36
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:44.533	+5.701	+0.664	24

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1	1:37.642	—	—	17
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	1:38.169	+0.527	+0.527	12
3	Jenson Button	McLaren	3	1:38.511	+0.869	+0.342	13
4	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1 Team	10	1:38.582	+0.940	+0.071	16
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus F1 Team	9	1:38.666	+1.024	+0.084	18
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	5	1:38.705	+1.063	+0.039	12
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	2	1:38.766	+1.124	+0.061	7
8	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	1:38.791	+1.149	+0.025	13
9	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	18	1:38.833	+1.191	+0.042	16
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	12	1:38.932	+1.290	+0.099	17
11	Sergio Perez	Sauber	15	1:38.954	+1.312	+0.022	17
12	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	8	1:39.010	+1.368	+0.056	20
13	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	7	1:39.150	+1.508	+0.140	18
14	Paul di Resta	Force India	11	1:39.156	+1.514	+0.006	18
15	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	14	1:39.345	+1.703	+0.189	14
16	Jean-Éric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	17	1:39.448	+1.806	+0.103	17
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Scuderia Toro Rosso	16	1:39.537	+1.895	+0.089	18
18	Bruno Senna	Williams	19	1:39.706	+2.064	+0.169	18
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	21	1:41.114	+3.472	+1.408	14
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14)	20	1:41.437	+3.795	+0.323	19
21	Charles Pic	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	25	1:41.684	+4.042	+0.247	16
22	Timo Glock	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	24	1:42.062	+4.420	+0.378	15
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	23	1:42.845	+5.203	+0.783	15
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	22	1:42.882	+5.240	+0.037	14

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

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Where this comes from

Round: 16 of 2012
Grand Prix: Korean Grand Prix
Dates: 14 Oct 2012
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Red Bull Racing
Entrant: Red Bull-Renault
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.