Pit Lane F1
Round 12 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2012-09-02
Jenson Button (McLaren) took pole for the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix with a 1:47.573 lap.
Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber) joined the front row, 0.298s shy of pole, with Pastor Maldonado (Williams) third on the grid. Paul di Resta (Force India) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) missed the cut by —s.
Q3 was settled inside 1.317s — pole to P10 — with Paul di Resta (Force India) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:49.250 | 1:47.654 | 1:47.573 | 1:47.573 |
| 2 | 10Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber | 1:49.686 | 1:48.569 | 1:47.871 | +0.298 |
| 3 | 13Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 1:48.993 | 1:48.780 | 1:47.893 | +0.320 |
| 4 |
| 7Kimi Räikkönen |
| Lotus F1 |
| 1:49.546 |
| 1:48.414 |
| 1:48.205 |
| +0.632 |
| 5 | 11Sergio PĂ©rez | Sauber | 1:49.642 | 1:47.980 | 1:48.219 | +0.646 |
| 6 | 14Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:49.401 | 1:48.598 | 1:48.313 | +0.740 |
| 7 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 1:49.859 | 1:48.546 | 1:48.392 | +0.819 |
| 8 | 44Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | 1:49.605 | 1:48.563 | 1:48.394 | +0.821 |
| 9 | 8Romain Grosjean | Lotus F1 | 1:50.126 | 1:48.714 | 1:48.538 | +0.965 |
| 10 | 40Paul di Resta | Force India | 1:50.033 | 1:48.729 | 1:48.890 | +1.317 |
| 11 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 1:49.722 | 1:48.792 | — | +1.219 |
| 12 | 27Nico Hülkenberg | Force India | 1:49.362 | 1:48.855 | — | +1.282 |
| 13 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 1:49.742 | 1:49.081 | — | +1.508 |
| 14 | 19Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:49.588 | 1:49.147 | — | +1.574 |
| 15 | 25Jean-Éric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1:49.763 | 1:49.354 | — | +1.781 |
| 16 | 3Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 1:49.572 | 1:49.543 | — | +1.970 |
| 17 | Bruno Senna | Williams | 1:49.958 | 1:50.088 | — | +2.515 |
| 18 | 6Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:50.181 | — | — | +2.608 |
| 19 | Heikki Kovalainen | Caterham | 1:51.739 | — | — | +4.166 |
| 20 | Vitaly Petrov | Caterham | 1:51.967 | — | — | +4.394 |
| 21 | Timo Glock | Marussia | 1:52.336 | — | — | +4.763 |
| 22 | Pedro de la Rosa | HRT | 1:53.030 | — | — | +5.457 |
| 23 | Charles Pic | Marussia | 1:53.493 | — | — | +5.920 |
| 24 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT | 1:54.989 | — | — | +7.416 |