Compare Narain Karthikeyan‘s performance against his team mate throughout the 2012 F1 season.
Race finishing positions
| AUS | MAL | CHI | BAH | SPA | MON | CAN | EUR | BRI | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | SIN | JAP | KOR | IND | ABU | UNI | BRA | |
| Narain Karthikeyan | - | 22 | 22 | 21 | - | 15 | - | 18 | 21 | 23 | - | - | 19 | - | - | 20 | 21 | - | 22 | 18 |
| Team mate | 21 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 21 | 17 |
Performance comparison
| Narain Karthikeyan | Pedro de la Rosa | |
| Qualified ahead | 3 | 16 |
| Average qualifying gap | +0.638s | - |
| Finished race ahead | 0 | 9 |
| Laps spent ahead | 141 | 627 |
Qualifying gap
Gap in seconds between Narain Karthikeyan and his team mate in the last part of qualifying where both set a time, for each race.
A positive time means the driver was slower than his team mate, a negative time means they were faster:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |
| Narain Karthikeyan | 0.147999999999996 | 0.741000000000028 | 0.589000000000027 | 0.430999999999997 | 3.56700000000001 | 1.21399999999998 | 0.83799999999998 | 0.356000000000009 | 0.297999999999988 | 0.318000000000012 | 0.262000000000015 | 1.959 | -0.188000000000002 | -0.983000000000018 | 1.349 | 0.000999999999990564 | 0.616 | 0.729000000000013 | -0.123000000000019 |



