2012 Brazilian Grand Prix F1 Race Results

2012 Brazilian GP podium: 1. Button, 2. Alonso 3. Massa last win for Button and McLaren

Event: Brazilian F1 Grand Prix
Track: Autodromo Interlagos

Weather: Wet
Track temperature: 22°C
Air temperature: 19°C
Wind speed: 3.2 mph
Wind direction: South
Humidity: 66%
Air pressure: 926.5 mBar

Jenson BUTTON won his 15th F1 World Championship race at the 2012 Brazil F1 GP, a rain-classic finale in which Sebastian VETTEL clinched his third consecutive F1 world championship despite a first-lap spin to last. The McLaren driver started second and won at Interlagos by 2.754 seconds from Fernando Alonso for Ferrari. It was McLarens 178th F1 win.

Hamilton pole for McLaren front-row lockout

Interlagos on 25 November 2012 saw Hamilton take pole with a 1:12.458 lap, Button second by 0.055 for a McLaren front-row lockout, Webber third for Red Bull, Vettel fourth. Alonso needed a miracle: he had to outscore Vettel by at least 4 points to take the title.

Race day: Vettel spins to last, recovers to sixth, seals title

The race began in changeable conditions and delivered chaos on lap 1: Vettel was clipped by Bruno Senna at Turn 4 and spun into the pit wall, his Red Bull damaged and running last. His championship looked to have vanished. But over 71 laps of rain, safety cars and a chaotic changeable-conditions race, Vettel drove one of the recovery drives of his career: from 22nd to 6th, taking 8 points that secured the title by 3 points over Alonso. Button controlled the front for McLaren after Hamilton was collected by Hulkenberg while battling for the lead. Alonso second for Ferrari, Massa third for the sister Ferrari (his final F1 podium), Webber fourth, Hulkenberg fifth after his mistake dropped him from the lead, Vettel sixth for the title-sealing points, Schumacher seventh in his very last F1 race. Hamilton set the fastest lap on lap 38 at 1:18.069.

Championship: Vettel 281 champion, Alonso 278, Raikkonen 207

Vettel became three-time world champion at 25 years and 145 days, the youngest triple champion in F1 history. Schumachers retirement (a second one) ended a career of seven titles and 91 wins. An extraordinary end to an extraordinary season, 2012s eight different winners in 20 rounds was F1s widest spread ever, but the two big names still shared the trophies as they always do.

Classification 2012 Brazilian F1 GP

Pos	#	Driver	Team	Time	Laps	Grid	Pts
1	3	Jenson Button	McLaren	1:45:22.656	71	2	25
2	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:45:25.410	71	7	18
3	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:45:26.271	71	5	15
4	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull	1:45:27.592	71	3	12
5	12	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India	1:45:28.364	71	6	10
6	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	1:45:32.109	71	4	8
7	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:45:34.563	71	13	6
8	17	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	1:45:51.309	71	17	4
9	14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	1:45:53.906	71	14	2
10	9	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus F1	1:45:23.622	70	8	1
11	21	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham	1:45:29.908	70	19	0
12	25	Charles Pic	Manor	1:45:31.606	70	22	0
13	16	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	1:45:32.987	70	15	0
14	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham	1:45:57.545	70	20	0
15	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:46:04.352	70	9	0
16	24	Timo Glock	Manor	1:46:06.184	70	21	0
17	22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	1:45:24.456	69	24	0
18	23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	1:45:56.781	69	23	0
19	11	Paul di Resta	Force India	Collision	68	10	0
DNF	4	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	Collision	54	1	0
DNF	10	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1	Spun off	5	18	0
DNF	18	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	Collision	1	16	0
DNF	19	Bruno Senna	Williams	Collision	0	11	0
DNF	15	Sergio Pérez	Sauber	Collision	0	12	0

Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton, McLaren MP4-27, 1:18.069 min on lap 38.
Highest speed: 304 km/h by Daniel Ricciardo in his Toro Rosso STR7 Ferrari

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