Pit Lane F1
Round 1 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2012-03-18
Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) took pole for the 2012 Australian Grand Prix with a 1:24.922 lap.
Jenson Button (McLaren) joined the front row, 0.152s shy of pole, with Romain Grosjean (Lotus F1) third on the grid. Daniel Ricciardo (Toro Rosso) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Jean-Éric Vergne (Toro Rosso) missed the cut by 0.110s.
Q3 was settled inside 1.397s — pole to P10 — with Daniel Ricciardo (Toro Rosso) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | 1:26.800 | 1:25.626 | 1:24.922 | 1:24.922 |
| 2 | 22Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:26.832 | 1:25.663 | 1:25.074 | +0.152 |
| 3 | 8Romain Grosjean | Lotus F1 | 1:26.498 | 1:25.845 | 1:25.302 | +0.380 |
| 4 |
| Michael Schumacher |
| Mercedes |
| 1:26.586 |
| 1:25.571 |
| 1:25.336 |
| +0.414 |
| 5 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 1:27.117 | 1:26.597 | 1:25.651 | +0.729 |
| 6 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 1:26.773 | 1:25.982 | 1:25.668 | +0.746 |
| 7 | 6Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:26.763 | 1:25.469 | 1:25.686 | +0.764 |
| 8 | 13Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 1:26.803 | 1:26.206 | 1:25.908 | +0.986 |
| 9 | 27Nico HĂĽlkenberg | Force India | 1:27.464 | 1:26.314 | 1:26.451 | +1.529 |
| 10 | 3Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 1:27.024 | 1:26.319 | — | +1.397 |
| 11 | 25Jean-Éric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1:26.493 | 1:26.429 | — | +1.507 |
| 12 | 14Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:26.688 | 1:26.494 | — | +1.572 |
| 13 | 10Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber | 1:26.182 | 1:26.590 | — | +1.668 |
| 14 | Bruno Senna | Williams | 1:27.004 | 1:26.663 | — | +1.741 |
| 15 | 40Paul di Resta | Force India | 1:27.469 | 1:27.086 | — | +2.164 |
| 16 | 19Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:27.633 | 1:27.497 | — | +2.575 |
| 17 | 11Sergio Pérez | Sauber | 1:26.596 | — | — | +1.674 |
| 18 | 7Kimi Räikkönen | Lotus F1 | 1:27.758 | — | — | +2.836 |
| 19 | Heikki Kovalainen | Caterham | 1:28.679 | — | — | +3.757 |
| 20 | Vitaly Petrov | Caterham | 1:29.018 | — | — | +4.096 |
| 21 | Timo Glock | Marussia | 1:30.923 | — | — | +6.001 |
| 22 | Charles Pic | Marussia | 1:31.670 | — | — | +6.748 |
| 23 | Pedro de la Rosa | HRT | 1:33.495 | — | — | +8.573 |
| 24 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT | 1:33.643 | — | — | +8.721 |