2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix result

November 4, 2012 at 2:57 pm by Keith Collantine

Pos	#	Driver	Car	Laps	Gap	Difference	Reason
1	9	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	55
2	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	55	0.852	0.852
3	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	55	4.163	3.311
4	3	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	55	7.787	3.624
5	18	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	55	13.007	5.220
6	14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	55	20.076	7.069
7	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	55	22.896	2.820
8	19	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	55	23.542	0.646
9	11	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	55	24.160	0.618
10	16	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	55	27.463	3.303
11	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	55	28.075	0.612
12	17	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	55	34.906	6.831
13	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	55	47.764	12.858
14	24	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	55	56.473	8.709
15	15	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	55	56.768	0.295
16	21	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	55	64.595	7.827
17	22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	55	71.778	7.183
Not classified
	25	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	41	14 laps	14 laps	Engine
	10	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	37	18 laps	4 laps	Accident
	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	37	18 laps	1.729	Accident
	4	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	19	36 laps	18 laps	Fuel pressure
	23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	7	48 laps	12 laps	Accident
	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	7	48 laps	2.074	Accident
	12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	0	55 laps	7 laps	Accident

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OmarR-Pepper (@omarr-pepper) said on 4th November 2012, 18:01

This race woke me up completely!!!!! Great race with good overtakings in NO-DRS places. What a thrill, I felt the race like it was 10 hours because anything could happen right away… Amazing drive by Kimi, Alonso (he’s from outer space right?) and Vettel (another outstanding driver). Poor Hamilton, but the race kept its thrill even without him.

AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 4th November 2012, 19:47

I’m kinda glad that Caterham didn’t beat Glock today, I wanna see what Marussia can do with that extra money for next year.

leotef (@leotef) said on 5th November 2012, 1:49

Reading thru the comments, it’s exactly as expected. Vettel drove very well thru the race but he is indeed lucky boy – even with a few mistakes. Just thinking two numbers of starting position and finishing position from 23rd to 3rd may decorate it as super outstanding but not so fast.
His car setup change has definitely played huge role here considering the overall pace of WEB in overtaking, 2 SC sessions, and some fore-runner’s retirement for various reasons. Consider KOB from 15th to 6th whose car was only able to fit in the rear end and no change at all for race trim. Still he was able to finish 6th. Yeah he also drove very well. If Vettel was undoubtedly superb here so was KOB too with way less capable car. That’s it, no need to get too much excited about this proof or that proof.