Pit Lane F1
Round 2 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2012-03-25
Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) took pole for the 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix with a 1:36.219 lap.
Jenson Button (McLaren) joined the front row, 0.149s shy of pole, with Michael Schumacher (Mercedes) third on the grid. Sergio Pérez (Sauber) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Pastor Maldonado (Williams) missed the cut by —s.
Q3 was settled inside 1.479s — pole to P10 — with Sergio Pérez (Sauber) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | 1:37.813 | 1:37.106 | 1:36.219 | 1:36.219 |
| 2 | 22Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:37.575 | 1:36.928 | 1:36.368 | +0.149 |
| 3 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 1:37.517 | 1:37.017 | 1:36.391 | +0.172 |
| Mark Webber |
| Red Bull |
| 1:37.172 |
| 1:37.375 |
| 1:36.461 |
| +0.242 |
| 5 | 7Kimi Räikkönen | Lotus F1 | 1:37.961 | 1:36.715 | 1:36.461 | +0.242 |
| 6 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 1:38.102 | 1:37.419 | 1:36.634 | +0.415 |
| 7 | 8Romain Grosjean | Lotus F1 | 1:38.058 | 1:37.338 | 1:36.658 | +0.439 |
| 8 | 6Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:37.696 | 1:36.996 | 1:36.664 | +0.445 |
| 9 | 14Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:38.151 | 1:37.379 | 1:37.566 | +1.347 |
| 10 | 11Sergio PĂ©rez | Sauber | 1:37.933 | 1:37.477 | 1:37.698 | +1.479 |
| 11 | 13Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 1:37.789 | 1:37.589 | — | +1.370 |
| 12 | 19Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:38.381 | 1:37.731 | — | +1.512 |
| 13 | Bruno Senna | Williams | 1:38.437 | 1:37.841 | — | +1.622 |
| 14 | 40Paul di Resta | Force India | 1:38.325 | 1:37.877 | — | +1.658 |
| 15 | 3Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 1:38.419 | 1:37.883 | — | +1.664 |
| 16 | 27Nico Hülkenberg | Force India | 1:38.303 | 1:37.890 | — | +1.671 |
| 17 | 10Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber | 1:38.372 | 1:38.069 | — | +1.850 |
| 18 | 25Jean-Éric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1:39.077 | — | — | +2.858 |
| 19 | Heikki Kovalainen | Caterham | 1:39.306 | — | — | +3.087 |
| 20 | Vitaly Petrov | Caterham | 1:39.567 | — | — | +3.348 |
| 21 | Timo Glock | Marussia | 1:40.903 | — | — | +4.684 |
| 22 | Charles Pic | Marussia | 1:41.250 | — | — | +5.031 |
| 23 | Pedro de la Rosa | HRT | 1:42.914 | — | — | +6.695 |
| 24 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT | 1:43.655 | — | — | +7.436 |