Compare Pastor Maldonado‘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 | |
| Pastor Maldonado | 13 | 19 | 8 | - | 1 | - | 13 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 13 | - | 11 | - | 8 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 9 | - |
| Team mate | 16 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 10 |
Performance comparison
| Pastor Maldonado | Bruno Senna | |
| Qualified ahead | 15 | 5 |
| Average qualifying gap | -0.559s | - |
| Finished race ahead | 7 | 7 |
| Laps spent ahead | 500 | 382 |
Qualifying gap
Gap in seconds between Pastor Maldonado 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 | |
| Pastor Maldonado | -0.456999999999994 | -0.251999999999995 | -0.00600000000000023 | 0.173000000000002 | -1.601 | -0.683000000000007 | 0.0609999999999928 | -0.636999999999986 | -0.624000000000024 | -2.021 | -0.403999999999996 | -1.30799999999999 | -0.222000000000008 | -0.314999999999984 | -0.571000000000012 | -0.419000000000011 | -0.348000000000013 | -0.422999999999988 | -0.593000000000004 | -0.521000000000015 |



