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. Button briefly looked as if he had the pace to pass Alonso for the race lead, but the race was deadlocked in the final twenty laps, and Button began to fade in the final five laps of the race. [329] Two laps from the end of the race, Paul di Resta crashed heavily as he came onto the main straight, forcing the deployment of the safety car. Price: $159.00. The car was driven by seven time World Drivers' Champion Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg. His team-mate, Romain Grosjean, finished third. Jenson Button took an early lead from pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton and the Red Bull cars while the rest of the field was bottle-necked by contact in the first corner. The circuit was declared dry, allowing the drivers to start on the tyre compound of their choice, with Alonso on the harder tyre streaking away at the start while Paul di Resta crashed at Aintree on the first lap after making contact with Romain Grosjean. Webber visibly faded in the final laps, but held on when the following cars were momentarily pinned behind the slow-moving Heikki Kovalainen. All of the teams that were against it did not make any protest after Monaco. Despite this, Sutil rejoined Force India for the 2013 season. Principal Partner. [45] Renault had previously supplied engines to Williams from 1989 to 1997, when the team won four World Drivers' Championships and five World Constructors' Championships. In January 2012, the FIA banned the use of "reactive ride-height". At the time Peter Sauber had been working with Mercedes engines in sports car racing for several years. [146] Kimi Räikkönen finished seventh after a poor qualifying session saw him start the race seventeenth, taking advantage of a chaotic final lap to make up two places, while Felipe Massa and Bruno Senna both retired after a bizarre collision that saw their cars tangled up in one another. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m38.316s + 1.210 14 4. 2012. március 18. és 2012. november 25. között került megrendezésre.A szezon 20 nagydíjból állt, ami ekkor a Formula–1 leghosszabb szezonja volt. I piloti e i team della stagione 2012 di Formula 1. [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. The following twelve teams and twenty-five race drivers competed in the 2012 Formula One World Championship. [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. [58][59] Senna replaced Rubens Barrichello, who left Formula One after a record-breaking nineteen seasons. The car was launched on 21 February, ahead of the second test of the winter testing season. Vettel quickly converted pole position into a steady race lead as Lewis Hamilton fought to regain second place from Mark Webber. [60], Like Räikkönen and Grosjean, Nico Hülkenberg also returned to Formula One, joining Force India alongside Paul di Resta. 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. Pérez closed to within half a second with seven laps to go, but ran wide at turn 14 and lost five seconds, later admitting that it was his mistake. As the race wore on, Pérez began to quickly catch Alonso on a drying track. Hamilton won the race, becoming the seventh winner in seven races and taking a two-point lead in the championship. [5] The FIA published a provisional entry list on 30 November 2011,[6] and the grid was finalised on 17 February. On the Thursday before the Australian Grand Prix, the FIA's technical delegate Charlie Whiting declared the system to be legal. [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. This was the first Mercedes car to feature … 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. [17] Petrov later replaced Jarno Trulli at Caterham;[7] Trulli's replacement meant that the opening race of the season would be the first race since the 1973 German Grand Prix to take place without an Italian driver on the grid. Any use on another Web site or any other support of diffusion is prohibited except authorization of or the author(s) concerned. Hülkenberg spun on lap 48 and lost the lead to Hamilton, but caught the McLaren on lap 54 as they encountered lapped traffic. [147] HRT failed to qualify for the race for the second consecutive season after drivers Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan failed to set a lap time within 107% of the fastest qualifying time. [195] Hamilton was later excluded from the qualifying results after his car did not have enough fuel to return to the pits for scrutineering, promoting Maldonado to pole position[196] and moving Hamilton to the back of the grid. [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. The Mercedes F1 W03[5] is a Formula One racing car designed by Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team[2] for use in the 2012 Formula One season. [50] The investment gave the Sahara Group and team principal Vijay Mallya an equal stake in the team, with team director Michiel Mol controlling the remaining 15% of the team. Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers. [222] Both Grosjean and Pérez expressed surprise at finishing on the podium,[223][224] while 2011 winner Jenson Button finished sixteenth in what he described as his "worst race in years"[225] and Michael Schumacher suffered a hydraulics failure that left his drag reduction system (DRS) device jammed in the open position. [214], One week before the Canadian Grand Prix, the FIA declared the floor used by Red Bull in Monaco to be illegal, forcing the team to change the offending parts for the Canadian Grand Prix. [294] Further down the order, Scuderia Toro Rosso's Jean-Éric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo fought their way from sixteenth and twenty-first on the grid to finish eighth and ninth,[295] while Romain Grosjean drove a conservative race to finish seventh, having been warned beforehand by the stewards that another first-lap altercation would likely result in his disqualification from the race. [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. 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. The car was driven by seven time World Drivers' Champion Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg. [309] Alonso was second, while Vettel caught and passed Button to complete the podium,[315] keeping a ten-point championship lead in the process. [218] Nevertheless, Sebastian Vettel comfortably took pole position by three-tenths of a second. [61] Sutil was later the subject of criminal action, charged with grievous bodily harm after allegedly assaulting a senior Renault team member with a glass in a Shanghai nightclub following the 2011 Chinese Grand Prix. [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. The championship was contested over twenty rounds, which started in Australia on 18 March and ended in Brazil on 25 November. The Mercedes F1 W03 is a Formula One racing car designed by Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team for use in the 2012 Formula One season. The Mercedes F1 W04 (originally known as the Mercedes AMG W04) is a Formula One racing car designed and built by the Mercedes team for use in the 2013 season.It was driven by 2008 World Champion Lewis Hamilton, who joined the team after Michael Schumacher's retirement, and Nico Rosberg, who remained with the team for a fourth season. Mercedes-Benz F1 W03 2012 - Codice 410 120078. visiera apribile. [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. [336] The challenge centred on a pass Vettel made on Jean-Éric Vergne early in the race. [44], Williams announced that they would be using Renault engines for the 2012 and 2013 seasons, with an option to use Renault engines again in 2014 under the next generation of engine regulations. Esports Fantasy Daily Fantasy F1 Play F1 2020 F1 … Ancora indietro le due Ferrari, con Alonso 11° e Massa subito alle sue spalle 12°. Räikkönen's strategy failed as Maldonado withstood pressure from Alonso for fifteen laps, winning the race by three seconds and becoming the first Venezuelan driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix. And the rule now is different. He chose not to pit for the time being, as the race was interrupted by the intervention of the safety car. [6] The W03 completed a shakedown at Silverstone on 16 February[7] and carried out a private test at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona on 19 February;[8] under the sporting regulations, the team was entitled to hold a private test as they had only attended three of the four test days at Jerez.[9]. [217] The team was also forced to change the design of their axles, after FIA Race Director Charlie Whiting felt that holes in the axles contravened the technical regulations. This page was last edited on 8 April 2021, at 13:50. Alonso's win cemented a twenty-point lead in the championship, whilst Vettel's retirement relegated him to fourth overall, twenty-six points behind Alonso. Daniel Ricciardo was involved in early contact that saw the Australian driver slide down the order from sixth at the start to fifteenth by the end of the race, having spent most of the Grand Prix caught behind Vitaly Petrov. [331] In his final race in Formula One,[332] Schumacher's seventh place saw him finish the season in thirteenth place overall; his worst performance over a season since he contested six rounds during the 1991 season. [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. The two made contact in the first corner, forcing Hamilton out of the race and earning Hülkenberg a drive-through penalty for causing an avoidable accident. Hamilton held onto the lead for the final fourteen laps, but with Vettel never more than a second and a half behind him, Hamilton could not afford to relax, and he won the race by just six-tenths of a second. At the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix, Nico Rosberg took Mercedes's first pole position and win since the 1955 Italian Grand Prix. Official FIA results for the Constructors' Championship identified the constructors as "Red Bull Racing", "Scuderia Ferrari", "Vodafone McLaren Mercedes", etc. Vettel entered the final race of the season with a thirteen-point lead over Alonso. ", "New HRT car now set for final F1 test after failing two crash tests", "Marussia to miss last pre-season test after crash test failure", "Why is this season so tight at the top? [274], As the teams returned to Asia, the focus shifted to the championship race. [18], (key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap). [187] Petrov's comments came shortly after Fernando Alonso crashed on the final morning of the test. [248] Alonso's outlook for the race was dour, qualifying sixth and pinning his hopes on a wet race[249] as Lewis Hamilton continued McLaren's mid-season resurgence, returning to pole position for the first time since the Malaysian Grand Prix. At the launch of the HRT F112 in March, Liuzzi was confirmed as one of the team's testing and reserve drivers alongside both former GP2 Series driver Dani Clos and Ma Qinghua, the first ever Chinese driver to step into a Formula 1 car. Just as the drivers established a rhythm, Hamilton's gearbox failed, forcing him out of the race and handing the lead to Sebastian Vettel. 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. Alonso needed a podium finish to stand any chance of becoming World Drivers' Champion, but in a race of attrition that finished under the safety car, Vettel finished in sixth place, scoring enough points to win his third consecutive championship, becoming just the third driver in the sport's sixty-three-year history to do so. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m38.116s + 1.010 14 3. [288], Championship leader Fernando Alonso when asked how he will win the World Drivers' Championship after Sebastian Vettel cut his lead to just four points after the Japanese Grand Prix. Three days after the Brazilian Grand Prix, reports began to surface suggesting that Sebastian Vettel's championship was under threat and that Ferrari would be filing a formal protest against the race results. [141][142], 2009 World Drivers' Champion Jenson Button on the competitive nature of the 2012 season. 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. After renaming the team to Mercedes AMG F1, the new car also looked quick early in in the season, with Rosberg finally taking pole and victory at the Chinese GP of 2012. Unless, of course, that's us! Under the terms of the sale, the Sahara Group became Force India's naming-rights sponsor. In addition to seeing seven different drivers win the first seven races, the 2012 season broke several records. Grosjean had initially shown the pace to challenge Vettel's lead, but unlike Räikkönen, he did not have an extra set of fresh tyres, and lost touch with the reigning World Champion after the first set of stops. [199] It was Williams's first win in one hundred and thirty Grand Prix starts; their previous race win was Juan Pablo Montoya's victory at the 2004 Brazilian Grand Prix. [56] Kaltenborn's appointment made her the first female team principal in the sport's sixty-three-year history. [155] Hamilton finished third ahead of Mark Webber and Kimi Räikkönen, while Button had to settle for fourteenth. Tyre management became the focus of the race, as drivers reported heavy graining, particularly on the right-front tyre, which bore most of the load over a lap of the circuit. Stay informed Follow us and use the following social media platforms to get in contact with us: Title Partner. [296] Lewis Hamilton's day went from bad to worse when an anti-roll bar on his McLaren failed,[297] while the car handled its tyres so poorly that he was forced to make an unscheduled stop in order to make it to the finish, only to tear up a length of astroturf that wreaked havoc on his downforce and he slid down to tenth place,[298] narrowly fending off an opportunistic charge from Sergio Pérez to take the final World Championship point on offer. 66th season of Formula One motor racing in 2012, "F1 2012" redirects here. Button won the race, with Alonso second and Massa third, but Vettel's sixth place was enough to secure his third consecutive World Drivers' Championship. [269] Starting outside the top ten, Pérez elected to start on the harder compound tyres and complete one stop, producing fastest lap after fastest lap as McLaren's confidence was broken when Jenson Button's car was paralysed by a fuel pressure problem. [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. F1 2012 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-27 3D model , formats MAX, OBJ, 3DS, FBX, C4D, LWO, ready for 3D animation and other 3D projects [19] Adrian Sutil left the team, having spent six years with both Force India and its previous incarnations, Spyker and Midland. Michael Schumacher, Mercedes AMG F1 W03 Photo by: Sutton Images Schumacher’s stop was marginally on the early side but the team had to get it out of the way to give Rosberg the ideal slot. M. Schumacher Mercedes F1 W03 300th GP Terme Formula 1 2012 Casco 1:8 Schuberth. [234] The torrential rain lasted throughout the weekend, forcing qualifying to be suspended for ninety minutes,[235] before race day dawned clear. We had a car which was legal for the first part of the season. F1 W12 E Performance F1 M12 E Performance Heritage Cars. f1 formula 1 formula1 2012 mercedes w03 michael schumacher nico rosberg pirelli steering wheel rim tire tyre helmet race racing car fia brake compound slick slicks bbs enkei oz bridgestone arai shoei schuberth vehicle automobile. [178] Red Bull Racing took the lead from McLaren in the World Constructors' Championship, while Lotus's double podium moved them into third overall. Vettel dominated the weekend, setting the fastest time in every practice session before qualifying on pole,[300][301][302][303] and leading every lap of the sixty-lap race,[304] though he was denied his third Grand Chelem when Jenson Button set the fastest lap of the race on the final lap. Button remained unchallenged throughout, even after a mid-race safety car to retrieve the stricken Caterham of Vitaly Petrov. [278] Alonso completed the podium, retaining his championship lead after defending from Paul di Resta late in the race. All three drivers were using a two-stop strategy at the time, but as Hamilton made his second stop, both Alonso and Vettel shifted to a one-stop strategy,[220][221] with Alonso's team resorting to discussing strategy options in his native Spanish to prevent their rivals from overhearing their plans. Mark Webber's response to claims he won the Monaco Grand Prix with an "illegal car". [6] The team used the F1 W03's predecessor, the Mercedes MGP W02, at the first test in Jerez de la Frontera — running for three of the four days — in order to evaluate the 2012 specification of Pirelli tyres. [277] Vettel controlled the race from the second restart, beating Jenson Button to the line, for his second win of the season and his first since the Bahrain Grand Prix five months previously.