2012 FORMULA 1 QANTAS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX - QUALIFYING

16 - 18 Mar 2012

Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Australia

Pos

No

Driver

Car

Q1

Q2

Q3

Laps

1

4

Lewis HamiltonHAM

McLaren Mercedes

1:26.800

1:25.626

1:24.922

14

2

3

Jenson ButtonBUT

McLaren Mercedes

1:26.832

1:25.663

1:25.074

15

3

10

Romain GrosjeanGRO

Lotus Renault

1:26.498

1:25.845

1:25.302

21

4

7

Michael SchumacherMSC

Mercedes

1:26.586

1:25.571

1:25.336

18

5

2

Mark WebberWEB

Red Bull Racing Renault

1:27.117

1:26.297

1:25.651

17

6

1

Sebastian VettelVET

Red Bull Racing Renault

1:26.773

1:25.982

1:25.668

18

7

8

Nico RosbergROS

Mercedes

1:26.763

1:25.469

1:25.686

16

8

18

Pastor MaldonadoMAL

Williams Renault

1:26.803

1:26.206

1:25.908

20

9

12

Nico HulkenbergHUL

Force India Mercedes

1:27.464

1:26.314

1:26.451

18

10

16

Daniel RicciardoRIC

STR Ferrari

1:27.024

1:26.319

DNS

16

11

17

Jean-Eric VergneVER

STR Ferrari

1:26.493

1:26.429

12

12

5

Fernando AlonsoALO

Ferrari

1:26.688

1:26.494

12

13

14

Kamui KobayashiKOB

Sauber Ferrari

1:26.182

1:26.590

12

14

19

Bruno SennaSEN

Williams Renault

1:27.004

1:26.663

16

15

11

Paul di RestaDIR

Force India Mercedes

1:27.469

1:27.086

16

16

6

Felipe MassaMAS

Ferrari

1:27.633

1:27.497

16

17

15

Sergio PerezPER

Sauber Ferrari

1:26.596

DNF

11

18

9

Kimi RäikkönenRAI

Lotus Renault

1:27.758

9

19

20

Heikki KovalainenKOV

Caterham Renault

1:28.679

7

20

21

Vitaly PetrovPET

Caterham Renault

1:29.018

8

21

24

Timo GlockGLO

Marussia Cosworth

1:30.923

10

22

25

Charles PicPIC

Marussia Cosworth

1:31.670

9

NC

22

Pedro de la RosaDLR

HRT Cosworth

1:33.495

6

NC

23

Narain KarthikeyanKAR

HRT Cosworth

1:33.643

6

Note - Perez qualified 17th but was penalised five grid places for a gearbox change. De la Rosa and Karthikeyan did not qualify after failing to meet the Q1 107% time.