F1 - GP of Hungary 2012

Lewis Hamilton, Romain Grosjean, Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Kimi Räikkönen

Lewis Hamilton, Romain Grosjean, Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Kimi Räikkönen,

 Romain Grosjean, Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen,

Felipe Massa, Mark Webber, Kimi Räikkönen

Romain Grosjean, Lewis Hamilton

Paul Di Resta, Jean-Eric Vergne, Pastor Maldonad

Mark Webber, Kimi Räikkönen, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel

 Nico Rosberg, Bruno Senna, Mark Webber

Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Romain Grosjean

Kimi Räikkönen, Lewis Hamilton

Kimi Räikkönen, Lewis Hamilton

Kimi Räikkönen, Lewis Hamilton, Romain Grosjean

Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton

2012 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
DRIVERS  |  PROVISIONAL CLASSIFICATION
Ps	Driver																					Pts
1	Fernando Alonso ESP	105	251	29	67	182	153	105	251	182	251	105										164
2	Mark Webber AUS	124	124	124	124	011	251	67	124	251	48	48										124
3	Sebastien Vettel DEU	182	011	105	251	86	124	124	0M	153	105	124										122
4	Lewis Hamilton GBR	153	153	153	48	48	105	251	019	48	0M	251										117
5	Kimi Raikkonen FIN	67	105	014	182	153	29	48	182	105	153	182										116
6	Nico Rosberg DEU	012	013	251	105	67	182	86	86	015	110	110										77
7	Jenson Button GBR	251	014	182	018	29	016	016	48	110	182	86										76
8	Romain Grosjean FRA	0A	0A	86	153	124	0A	182	0M	86	018	153										76
9	Sergio Perez MEX	48	182	011	011	0M	011	153	29	0M	86	014										47
10	Kamui Kobayashi JPN	86	0M	110	013	105	0M	29	0M	011	124	018										33
11	Pastor Maldonado VEN	013	019	48	0M	251	0A	013	012	016	015	013										29
12	Michael Schumacher DEU	0M	110	0M	110	0A	0M	0M	153	67	67	0M										29
13	Paul Di Resta GBR	110	67	012	86	014	67	011	67	0M	011	012										27
14	Felipe Massa BRA	0M	015	013	29	015	86	110	016	124	012	29										25
15	Bruno Senna BRA	016	86	67	022	0A	110	017	110	29	017	67										24
16	Nico Hulkenberg DEU	0A	29	015	012	110	48	012	105	012	29	011										19
17	Jean-Eric Vergne FRA	011	48	016	014	012	012	015	0M	014	014	016										4
18	Daniel Ricciardo AUS	29	012	017	015	013	0M	014	011	013	013	015										2
19	Heikki Kovalainen FIN	0M	018	023	017	016	013	018	014	017	019	017										0
20	Vitaly Petrov RUS	0M	016	018	016	017	0M	019	013	-DS	016	019										0
21	Timo Glock DEU	014	017	019	019	018	014	0M		018	022	021										0
22	Charles Pic FRA	015	020	020	0M	0M	0M	020	015	019	020	020										0
23	Narain Karthikeyan IND	-DS	022	022	021	0M	015	0M	018	021	023	0M										0
24	Pedro De la Rosa ESP	-DS	021	021	020	019	0A	0M	017	020	021	022										0
KEY:  25  1 NC M A X W DS		Points Scored in Race  Position in Race  Not Classified  Retired - Mechanical  Retired - Accident  Excluded  Withdrawn  Did not start
NOTE:		The Sporting Regulations provide that if two or more manufacturers or drivers have the same number of points (including 0 points), their positions in the Championship are fixed according to the quality of their places. Under this system one first place is better than any number of second places, one second place is better than any number of third places, and so on.

CONSTRUCTORS  |  PROVISIONAL CLASSIFICATION
Ps	Constructor																					Pts
1	Red Bull Racing	302 4	124 11	225 4	371 4	811 6	371 4	187 4	124 M	403 1	145 8	164 8										246
2	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	403 1	1514 3	333 2	48 18	69 8	1016 5	2516 1	48 19	58 10	182 M	331 6										193
3	Lotus F1 Team	67 A	105 A	814 6	332 3	274 3	29 A	222 8	18M 2	185 6	1518 3	332 3										192
4	Scuderia Ferrari	105 M	251 15	213 9	89 7	1815 2	233 6	1110 5	2516 1	304 2	251 12	125 9										189
5	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	0M 12	110 13	251 M	1110 5	6A 7	18M 2	86 M	236 3	615 7	77 10	1M 10										106
6	Sauber F1 Team	128 6	18M 2	110 11	013 11	105 M	011 M	173 9	2M 9	0M 11	206 4	014 18										80
7	Williams F1 Team	013 16	86 19	108 7	0M 22	251 A	1A 10	013 17	110 12	29 16	017 15	67 13										53
8	Sahara Force India F1 Team	110 A	89 7	012 15	812 6	114 10	107 8	011 12	167 5	0M 12	29 11	011 12										46
9	Scuderia Toro Rosso	211 9	412 8	017 16	014 15	012 13	012 M	014 15	0M 11	014 13	013 14	015 16										6
10	Caterham F1 Team	0M M	016 18	018 23	017 16	016 17	013 M	019 18	014 13	0DS 17	016 19	019 17										0
11	Marussia F1 Team	015 14	020 17	019 20	0M 19	0M 18	014 M	0M 20	015	019 18	020 22	020 21										0
12	HRT F1 Team	0DS DS	022 21	022 21	021 20	0M 19	015 A	0M M	018 17	020 21	021 23	0M 22										0

Lewis Hamilton - GBR

Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton

Yeah, these are the kind of grands prix, the races you win like this, where you’re under intense pressure from great drivers like Romain and Kimi – for me it’s a great reminder of the old days with Kimi – and this is the kind of day when you have to have your mind 100 per cent and I feel great because the team didn’t flinch and neither did I.

The team were talking about it. The plan was to do a two-stop but, you know, I had my target laps and the team weren’t confident that I was going to make it to those laps but I knew I would. In my second stint I could have gone longer but they wanted to cover the guys behind which was probably the right thing to do. So, as we did that, then it was just trying to make those tyres last a long time while keeping this guy [Räikkönen] behind. Which as you know, they are absolutely rapid, these guys. So, you know, if we were on another track where overtaking was much easier I think perhaps the result would have been different.

Kimi Räikkönen - FIN

Kimi Räikkönen

Kimi Räikkönen

(Did you have a chance Kimi, with the DRS?)  Ah, no. It was not so bad to follow through the last corner but you’re, I don’t know, one second later on the power every time so they just pull too far away and the straight is not long enough and the others are too fast. So it didn’t really give you any chance. My only chance was that they would run out of the tyres and then you will have a chance – but that never happened, so we probably should have had 20 more laps – and then it would have happened.

I didn’t, so there’s no point to worry about it. I had an OK start but then we had an issue with the KERS and I only could use 50 per cent and I lost one position to Fernando, so the first few laps were not really good because we were trying to get the KERS working. After that it was OK but the same situation with Alonso, I was stuck behind him and just tried to save my tyres and push once we got the clear circuit. It seemed to work both times and we gained a lot of time on those few laps.

Yeah. The team told me it’s going to be very close and I made a mistake with the pit lane speed limiter so it meant maybe five metres after the line I was still on it, so I thought that I really didn’t do a very good job out of there – but luckily it was enough gap and we were side-by-side in the first corner, but I could keep my position quite easily at that point. But it was one of those things: we had a lot of speed but just couldn’t use it in all the race.

Romain Grosjean - FRA 

Romain Grosjean

Romain Grosjean

Romain Grosjean

It just happens. Unfortunately, I got stuck behind another car, which had been [blue] flagged but didn’t let me past in this lap. I lost 1.5 seconds. I wasn’t very happy at that stage to be honest because I had been fighting for the win the whole race with Lewis and suddenly you get stopped by something you cannot really manage. Basically it was close with Kimi. He did what he had to do to not let me pass. I went a little bit on the outside and got the marbles on the tyres and then I struggled to recover. It is what it is.

It’s really difficult to follow another car here, to be close and not do any mistakes. When I was following Lewis sometimes I was losing a little bit the grip of my tyres. Then I had to recover a little bit. Our first pit stop was a disaster. The second one was OK. We didn’t get the chance to jump in on the pit stop strategy. I think that was the only key today because overtaking is really too difficult. You can feel that you’re sliding tyres, losing the grip, sliding more and it gets worse and worse. So it’s very difficult to follow.

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