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Race details for the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix
2012 Bahrain Grand Prix  |
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| Date:21-22 Apr 2012, Weather | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From this race…Raikkonen, Kimi
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Ran wide in FP2.
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| Schumacher, Michael (Mercedes Grand Prix) |
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9 pts | Schumacher was demoted to 22nd on the grid after the team decided to replace the gearbox. Electing to start from the grid rather than the pit lane, the demotion was yet another dampener on a potentially good weekend. |
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| Ricciardo, Daniel (Scuderia Toro Rosso) |
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3 pts | Collided with the back of Kovalainen damaging his front wing. Kovalainen received a sliced rear tyre which forced him back to the pits to get new tyres. A slow get away from a relatively high qualifying position meant that Ricciardo was struggling to regain lost ground. His collision with Kovalainen put pay to again gain. Whilst he did not put for a new nose until lap 7, he was to finish 2nd from last. |
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| Petrov, Vitaly (Caterham F1) |
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1 pts | Ran wide and lost time. |
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| McLaren |
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5 pts | In Hamilton’s first stop of the race, things went wrong on the left-rear tyre. The delay cost Hamilton around 5-6 seconds prompting Hamilton to call to the pits on his out lap demanding an explanation. |
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| Pic, Charles (Marussia Racing) |
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5 pts | Retired with engine problems. |
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| Rosberg, Nico (Mercedes Grand Prix) |
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3 pts | Rosberg forced Hamilton onto the grass to avoid a collision. Hamilton, who had been in the process of overtaking Rosberg, still manged to overtake whilst using the grass. Both drivers called their teams blaming the other (Rosberg “Hamilton overtook me off the track”, Hamilton “Rosberg forced me onto the grass”. Rosberg was put under investigation after the race but was not punished because he was deemed not to have been alongside Hamilton when he began to move across the track (to overtake another driver). |
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| McLaren |
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5 pts | This was now the thir dpit stop in a row (the 1st being in China) that the left-rear had given issues for Hamilton. The delay cost Mclaren yet further in the failing performance of their two drivers. In a carbon copy of the earlier incident in the pits, the McLaren team continued to have problems with the left-rear tyre. |
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| Rosberg, Nico (Mercedes Grand Prix) |
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3 pts | In a repeat of his incident with Hamilton, Rosberg pushed Alonso off the track. Again, Rosberg was investigated and found not to have been at fault for as he moved across before Alonso started to pass |
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| Maldonado, Pastor (Williams) |
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6 pts | After suffering a puncture, Maldonado span his Williams through 306 degrees. The tyre punctured was the left-rear and he retired a lap or so later with damage to his car from the puncture and spin. |
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| Ferrari |
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5 pts | After his final stop of the race, Ferrari released Alonso a little too close to another driver. The stewards investigated Alonso for an unsafe pit release but took no further action. |
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| Senna, Bruno (Williams) |
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3 pts | Retired will vibration problems. |
55 | |
| Button, Jenson (McLaren) |
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5 pts | Retired with problems in the exhausts or differential. |
56 | |
| Vettel, Sebastian (Red Bull Racing) |
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8 pts | Ran out of fuel and had to park up the car right after crossing the line. |
57 | |
| Rosberg, Nico (Mercedes Grand Prix) |
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8 pts | Ran out of fuel and had to park up the car right after crossing the line. |
57 | |
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| Vergne, Jean-Eric (Scuderia Toro Rosso) |
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1 pts | Early on in Q1, Vergne got a nice slide on a ran wide off the track. |
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| Hamilton, Lewis (McLaren) |
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1 pts | Outbraked himself and ran wide off the track in Q1. |
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| Rosberg, Nico (Mercedes Grand Prix) |
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1 pts | Ran wide and cut across the run off in turns 5 & 6. |
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| Webber, Mark (Red Bull Racing) |
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1 pts | Ran wide off the track whilst trying to stay out of the way of drivers on timed laps. |
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| Vergne, Jean-Eric (Scuderia Toro Rosso) |
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1 pts | Missed his call by the stewards to have his car weighed during Q1. Vergne received a reprimand for missing the stewards trying to waving him down in the pitlane. Initially, the stewards had a grid penalty lined up for the rookie Frenchman but as his team noticed the mistake and pushed him back to the weighbridge, his punishment was downgraded to a slap on the wrists. |
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| Schumacher, Michael (Mercedes Grand Prix) |
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6 pts | DRS failure put pay to Schumacher’s involvement in Q1. The German had been in line for a spot towards the front of the grid. |
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| Senna, Bruno (Williams) |
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1 pts | In his last timed lap of Q2, Senna had a moment and ran off the track. |
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| Karthikeyan, Narain (Hispania Racing) |
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1 pts | Ran wide cutting across turns 6 & 7 |
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| Glock, Timo (Marussia Racing) |
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1 pts | Span in turn 1 in the closing stages of FP1 |
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| Massa, Felipe (Ferrari) |
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1 pts | Ran a little wide in turn 12. |
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| Force India |
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10 pts | Did not take part in FP2. The team, concerned over the well being of it’s team members after some of them got a little too close to a petrol bomb decided to opt out of FP2. They also requested early scrutineering to ensure the team was in the hotel before night fall. |
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| Vergne, Jean-Eric (Scuderia Toro Rosso) |
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2 pts | Ran wide in FP3 in the final turn and turns 4 & 5 |
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| Button, Jenson (McLaren) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in FP2. |
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| Raikkonen, Kimi (Lotus F1 Team) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in FP2. |
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| Massa, Felipe (Ferrari) |
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1 pts | In FP1, Massa ran wide in turn 4. |
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| di Resta, Paul (Force India) |
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1 pts | Ran wide into Turn 13 in FP1 |
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| Kobayashi, Kamui (Sauber) |
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2 pts | In FP1, Kobayashi ran wide in turn 10. |
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| Maldonado, Pastor (Williams) |
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9 pts | WIlliams were forced to change Maldonado’s gearbox after Q3 and as such Maldonado received a 5 place grid penalty. |
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| Maldonado, Pastor (Williams) |
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4 pts | Had KERS issues in Q1 and could not run in Q2 as a result. |
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| Vergne, Jean-Eric (Scuderia Toro Rosso) |
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1 pts | Ran wide in Pouhon |
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