{"id":752,"date":"2020-12-03T17:42:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/championships\/2012-f1-world-championship\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:04:15","slug":"2012-f1-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"championship","link":"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/championships\/2012-f1-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 F1 World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"hero \">\n    \n            \n<section class=\"c-site-breadcrumbs site-breadcrumbs proxima \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <nav class=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/nav>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n    \n    <div class=\"hero__content\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n                        <h1 class=\"hero__title sanomat\"><\/h1>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"anchor-menu container-no-breakpoints proxima\">\n    <ul>\n                    <li><a href=\"#overview\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#results\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Results<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#standings\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Standings<\/a><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"overview\">\n            <div class=\"post__item\">\n                <div data-behaviour=\"championship-data-box\" data-championship-id=\"752\"><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n        <aside class=\"sidebar\" data-target=\"ad-container\">\n            <aside class=\"broadcast-space \">\n            <div class=\"broadcast-space__element\" id=\"div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-3\" data-behaviour=\"ad-target\"><\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n\n        <\/aside>\n    <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"full-overview\">\n    \n        \n        <section class=\"c-expanding-content expanding-content user-content expanding-content--expandable content-section toggle\">\n            <p>Red Bull\u2019s Sebastian Vettel retained the World Championship in the most dramatic of styles. Leading Fernando Alonso and Ferrari into the Brazilian finale, Vettel crashed into Bruno Senna\u2019s Williams on the opening lap. He then dragged his damaged car from the back of the field to finish sixth. With Jenson Button holding off Alonso at the front of the field, the German clinched the title by three points.<\/p>\n<p>Following the dominance of 2011, Red Bull began the season slowly. However, Adrian Newey and his team developed the RB8 so that Vettel won five times and team-mate Mark Webber twice. Fernando Alonso also won two races in a car that certainly was not the class of the field before incidents in Belgium and Japan ultimately denied him that elusive first title for Ferrari. Felipe Massa recovered from a poor start to the campaign to score two podium finishes and retain his Ferrari drive for another season.<\/p>\n<p>Jenson Button began and ended 2012 with victories (as well as winning at Spa-Francorchamps) but McLaren finished\u00a0as\u00a0a somewhat disappointing third\u00a0best\u00a0constructor. Lewis Hamilton also won three times in what was his final season with the team. Those included at the impressive new\u00a0Circuit of the Americas outside Austin, Texas. However,\u00a0his challenge was blunted by reliability issues and pitstop errors.<\/p>\n<p>Kimi Raikkonen returned to Formula\u00a01 following a couple of disappointing\u00a0seasons in the World Rally Championship. Victory in Abu Dhabi (where he told his race engineer to \u201cleave me alone, I know what I\u2019m doing\u201d) was the highlight as a consistent campaign for\u00a0the renamed Lotus-Renault was rewarded\u00a0with\u00a0third in the\u00a0standings. In contrast, team-mate Romain Grosjean crashed too often, including a first corner accident at Spa-Francorchamps\u00a0that resulted in a one-race ban.<\/p>\n<p>Nico Rosberg\u00a0continued to eclipse\u00a0Michael Schumacher at Mercedes-Benz\u00a0and scored his breakthrough victory in China. In his final season before retiring for a second time, Schumacher reminded us of former glories by qualifying first in Monaco only to lose five grid positions thanks to a penalty for causing an accident at the previous race. The Mercedes W03 began the year as a competitive proposition\u00a0but\u00a0it suffered from excessive tyre wear and slipped back as others developed their cars.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Maldonado endured a second error-strewn season with Williams that included one glorious moment when\u00a0his\u00a0red mist subsided for a day. The Venezuelan converted a surprise pole position in Spain into a finely judged first F1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Tyre management proved\u00a0crucial\u00a0as teams coped with the reduced downforce brought on by the banning of exhaust\u00a0blown diffusers. 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