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| Who? | What | Points | Action | Lap | |
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| 2011 – Chinese Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Made a hole in the nose of his Sauber on Sutil. |
14 | |
| 2011 – Turkish Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Kobayashi took to the grass to get past Schumacher. With Schumacher making life hard for everyone behind him, the hard charging Kobayashi used the grass to get around the German. This worked and threw Schumacher into the clutches of Sutil. |
16 | |
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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3 pts | Shoved his way past Buemi, banging wheels. |
24 | |
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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6 pts | Fuel feed failure at the end of the first lap. The curtailed Kobayashi’s qualifying session relegating him to last on the grid. |
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| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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4 pts | Hydraulic problem. |
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| 2011 – Spanish Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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5 pts | Left rear puncture on lap 1. At the start Kobayashi was forced on to the grass down the right hand side of the track. Another car made contact with Kobayashi causing a right rear puncture. |
1 | |
| 2011 – Monaco Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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3 pts | Slid into Sutil whilst trying to overtake at Mirabeau. |
66 | |
| 2011 – Canadian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Took a trip off the track. This trip cost Kobayashi two places as Schumacher and Massa managed to capitalize on the event |
51 | |
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Braked late and ran over the grass at turn 8 & 9. |
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| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Scraped the wall on the exit of turn 4. |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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5 pts | Ran wide on the exit of turn 4 and slammed into the wall. The plucky Japanese man was not so lucky when he found the wall at turn 4. The result was a red flag whilst the marshals put his car into bin bags. |
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| 2011 – British Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Went wide and lost two positions. |
9 | |
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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5 pts | Retired from the race with an oil leak. |
25 | |
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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5 pts | Kobayashi ran wide coming out of Club and crashed. In FP1, Kobayashi was in do or die mode (the only mode he has) when he ran wide in Club, staying flat on the gas and running along the curb, the back suddenly stepped out and Kobayashi span and made heavy contact with the tyre wall. |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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2 pts | Ran wide at Abby & Aintree |
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| 2011 – Hungarian Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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2 pts | Rand wide a turns 11 & 12 |
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| 2011 – Belgian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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2 pts | Collided with Perez on at the first chicane damaging his nose. The Japanese driver did not care much for his front wing and ran with the front-wing end-plate broken for several laps before pitting on lap 15. |
1 | |
| 2011 – Italian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Cut the Rettifilo chicane. |
21 | |
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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6 pts | Retired with gearbox failure. |
22 | |
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Locked up and went off at the Rettifilo. |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran wide at Lesmo 2, clipping the gravel on the exit. |
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| 2011 – Singapore Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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8 pts | Handed a drive through penalty for ignoring blue flags. |
38 | |
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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7 pts | Hit the kerbs hard and crashed into the barriers. The impact against the kerbs gave Kobayashi air and after that he was a passenger. Kobayashi crashed into the wall ripping the right front wheel off. The session was red-flagged so the marshals could clean up the mess. |
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| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Outbraked himself and went into a spin narrowly avoiding the wall. |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Clipped the wall coming onto the Anderson Bridge. |
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| 2011 – Korean Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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2 pts | In the run to the first corner, Kobayashi collided with the back of Buemi. The collision damaged the front wing of Kobayashi although the Sauber did not pit for a replacement. |
1 | |
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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2 pts | Collided with Senna whilst trying to overtake. The result was a broken front wing and a trip to the pits to change his front wing. |
22 | |
| 2011 – Indian Grand Prix | |||||
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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5 pts | Kobayashi blamed Massa for slowing him down on his last run. Kobayashi described Massa as “traffic” to reporters citing this as the reason why he did not progress to Q2. |
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| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in FP1. |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran wide and got airborne off a kerb. |
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| 2011 – Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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4 pts | After completing one lap, Kobayashi was stuck in the pits with a drive train issue. |
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| 2011 – Brazilian Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Kobayashi span in turn 10 ofter running wide over the marbles. |
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| 2012 – Australian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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3 pts | After Massa had managed to get past Raikkonen took a chance. Kobayashi gave Raikkonen a good bash for being so cheeky |
25 | |
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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3 pts | Ran wide in turn 1 in the damp FP1 and FP2 as well as the dry FP3 |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | At the end of his final lap of Friday, Kobayashi span narrowly missing the wall. |
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| 2012 – Malaysia Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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5 pts | Stopped in the closing stages of the race with brake problems. |
46 | |
| 2012 – Chinese Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Did a half spin in FP2 |
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| 2012 – Bahrain Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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2 pts | In FP1, Kobayashi ran wide in turn 10. |
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| 2012 – Spanish Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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3 pts | Pushed and bumped his way past Button to gain a place. |
33 | |
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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3 pts | Rubbed against Rosberg whilst overtaking him. |
61 | |
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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6 pts | Retired at the end of Q2 parking up at the side of the track. He retired due to a hydraulic problem which put pay his aspirations to get to the top 5 at the end of Q3. |
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| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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2 pts | Ran wide a number of times in FP1 |
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| 2012 – Monaco Grand Prix | |||||
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Clipped the barriers coming into Mirabeau. |
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| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran off the track at Mirabeau in FP3 |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran wide on the exit of the swimming pool complex and cut the chicane. |
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| 2012 – Canadian Grand Prix | |||||
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Went off and then on again in Q1 the first corner. |
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| 2012 – European Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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8 pts | Kobayashi was very brutal in his overtake of Massa and piled into the side of the Brazilian. The impact broke Kobayashi’s front win and punctured his front tyre. The stewards investigated this incident and decided to give Kobayashi a 5 place grid drop at the next race. Kobayashi retired from the race from the damage. |
34 | |
| 2012 – British Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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11 pts | Enter his pit box too fast and missed his marks colliding with some of his pit crew. None of the mechanics on the front right were seriously injured by the miscalculation from the Japanese driver. However, the stewards frowned upon such a dangerous miscalculation and fined Perez a whopping 25,000 euros. |
39 | |
| Qualifying | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Had a spin and brought out the yellow flags. |
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| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Slid off the track in FP1 |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | In FP3, he had a small off in Chapel |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | On a flying lap towards the end of FP3, Kobayashi span in the final corner. |
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| 2012 – German Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in the slight wet turn 12 in FP1 |
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| 2012 – Hungarian Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Had a off track moment in the rain at turn 11. |
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| 2012 – Belgian Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Out braked himself and ran wide in Les Combes |
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| 2012 – Singapore Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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3 pts | Clipped Hulkenberg damaging his nose. The Saubers had it in for Hulkenberg as this was the second nose to rear collision against Hulkenberg inside 2 laps. This time Hulkenberg had a puncture and Kobayashi needed to return to the pits for a new nose. |
50 | |
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in turn 7 |
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| 2012 – Japanese Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran off the track and through the gravel in the Dunlop curve. |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in Degner |
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| 2012 – Korean Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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14 pts | In the first lap run, Kobayashi collided with Button and Rosberg. The collision came as the gap, which Kobayashi was expecting, closed between both Button and Rosberg. Kobayashi collided with the back of Button and bounced into Rosberg. The collision broke the radiators on Rosberg’s Mercedes which caused and instant retirement. Kobayashi, not done with Button, collided with the Englishman’s front wheel almost ripping it off. Button commented on his team radio “what an idiot!”. Kobayashi, who carried on driving, was handed a drive through penalty for causing a collision. |
1 | |
| 2012 – Indian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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3 pts | Ran into Maldonado giving him a right read puncture. The incident was investigated by the stewards but they decided it was a racing incident. |
31 | |
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in turn 1 during FP3 |
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| 2012 – Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in the penultimate corner during FP2 |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Had a brush with the wall exiting turn 19 in FP3 |
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| 2012 – United States Grand Prix | |||||
| Practice | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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2 pts | In the opening phase of FP1, Kobayashi had a off track moment |
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| 2012 – Brazilian Grand Prix | |||||
| Race | |||||
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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5 pts | Pushed Webber into a spin in turn 1 |
7 | |
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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1 pts | Ran wide whilst battling with Vettel for position. |
57 | |
| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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4 pts | Span on the track after bumping against Schumacher whilst trying to overtake him. |
69 | |