Pit Lane F1
Round 17 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2012-10-28
Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) took pole for the 2012 Indian Grand Prix with a 1:25.283 lap.
Mark Webber (Red Bull) joined the front row, 0.044s shy of pole, with Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) third on the grid. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Romain Grosjean (Lotus F1) missed the cut by 0.160s.
Q3 was settled inside 0.693s — pole to P10 — with Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 PĂ©rez | 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 |