2012 Singapore Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 14 of 20 in the 2012 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 23 September 2012 | ||
| Official name | 2012 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Marina Bay Street Circuit Marina Bay, Singapore |
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| Course | Street circuit | ||
| Course length | 5.073 km (3.152 mi) | ||
| Distance | 59 laps, 299.170 km (185.896 mi) | ||
| Scheduled Distance | 61 laps, 309.316 km (192.201 mi) | ||
| Weather |
Hot and humid Air Temp 29 °C (84 °F) Track Temp 31 °C (88 °F) |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:46.362 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nico Hülkenberg
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Force India-Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:51.033 on lap 52 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Red Bull-Renault | ||
| Second | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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Hot and humid Air Temp 29 °C (84 °F)
The 2012 Singapore Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race that took place at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Marina Bay, Singapore on 23 September 2012 as the fourteenth round of the 2012 season. The race was the thirteenth time that a Singapore Grand Prix has been held, and the fifth time it was a round of the Formula One World Championship.
Lewis Hamilton started the race from pole.Sebastian Vettel won the race, his second of the season, after Hamilton's gearbox failed early in the race.
Having been unable to race in Italy two weeks earlier because of a one-race ban he received for causing a serious collision in Belgium,Romain Grosjean was back in the driving seat again with Lotus F1 for the race in Singapore.
Like the 2011 Singapore Grand Prix, tyre supplier Pirelli brought its yellow-banded soft compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the red-banded supersoft compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre.
At Singapore's Marina Bay circuit, Ma Qinghua once again drove Narain Karthikeyan's car in the first free practice session, as he had during free practice at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza,
The first practice session on Friday evening was held in damp conditions. Rain earlier in the day had soaked the circuit, but it had started drying out as the session began. Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time of the session, five hundredths of a second faster than Lewis Hamilton. Although several drivers went off the circuit, they were able to rejoin without damage and the session was uninterrupted. By the time the second session began, the circuit was completely dry. Vettel was once again fastest, this time three tenths of a second faster than Jenson Button. The session was briefly interrupted when Bruno Senna clipped a barrier coming out from under the grandstand at turn 19 before spinning to a halt at the next corner. Vettel topped the third and final session on Saturday evening, three-tenths faster than Hamilton. The session was cut short two minutes before the chequered flag when Vitaly Petrov hit the wall at Turn 21, breaking his right-rear suspension and as a consequence, his Caterham stopped in the entrance to the pitlane and by doing so, blocked it causing a red flag until the session ended.
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