Pit Lane F1
Etapa 17 — tempos de Q1, Q2 e Q3 - 2012-10-28
Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) cravou a pole do Indian Grand Prix de 2012 com uma volta de 1:25.283.
Mark Webber (Red Bull) completou a primeira fila a 0.044s da pole, com Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) em terceiro no grid. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) entrou na Q3 em P10, enquanto Romain Grosjean (Lotus F1) ficou de fora por 0.160s.
A Q3 foi resolvida em um intervalo de 0.693s — da pole ao P10 — com Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) fechando o top 10.
| Pos | Piloto | Equipe | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Diferença |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 1:26.387 | 1:25.435 | 1:25.283 | 1:25.283 |
| 2 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 1:26.744 | 1:25.610 | 1:25.327 | +0.044 |
| 3 | 44Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | 1:26.516 | 1:25.816 | 1:25.544 | +0.261 |
| 4 |
| 22Jenson Button |
| McLaren |
| 1:26.564 |
| 1:25.467 |
| 1:25.659 |
| +0.376 |
| 5 | 14Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:26.829 | 1:25.834 | 1:25.773 | +0.490 |
| 6 | 19Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:26.939 | 1:26.111 | 1:25.857 | +0.574 |
| 7 | 7Kimi Räikkönen | Lotus F1 | 1:26.740 | 1:26.101 | 1:26.236 | +0.953 |
| 8 | 11Sergio Pérez | Sauber | 1:27.179 | 1:26.076 | 1:26.360 | +1.077 |
| 9 | 13Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 1:26.048 | 1:25.983 | 1:26.713 | +1.430 |
| 10 | 6Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:26.458 | 1:25.976 | — | +0.693 |
| 11 | 8Romain Grosjean | Lotus F1 | 1:26.897 | 1:26.136 | — | +0.853 |
| 12 | 27Nico Hülkenberg | Force India | 1:27.185 | 1:26.241 | — | +0.958 |
| 13 | Bruno Senna | Williams | 1:26.851 | 1:26.331 | — | +1.048 |
| 14 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 1:27.482 | 1:26.574 | — | +1.291 |
| 15 | 3Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 1:27.006 | 1:26.777 | — | +1.494 |
| 16 | 40Paul di Resta | Force India | 1:27.462 | 1:26.989 | — | +1.706 |
| 17 | 10Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber | 1:27.517 | 1:27.219 | — | +1.936 |
| 18 | 25Jean-Éric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1:27.525 | — | — | +2.242 |
| 19 | Vitaly Petrov | Caterham | 1:28.756 | — | — | +3.473 |
| 20 | Heikki Kovalainen | Caterham | 1:29.500 | — | — | +4.217 |
| 21 | Timo Glock | Marussia | 1:29.613 | — | — | +4.330 |
| 22 | Pedro de la Rosa | HRT | 1:30.592 | — | — | +5.309 |
| 23 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT | 1:30.593 | — | — | +5.310 |
| 24 | Charles Pic | Marussia | 1:30.662 | — | — | +5.379 |