Pit Lane F1
Round 5 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2012-05-13
Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) took pole for the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix with a 1:21.707 lap.
Pastor Maldonado (Williams) joined the front row, 0.578s shy of pole, with Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) third on the grid. Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Jenson Button (McLaren) missed the cut by 0.047s.
Q3 was settled inside 1.190s — pole to P10 — with Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | 1:22.583 | 1:22.465 | 1:21.707 | 1:21.707 |
| 2 | 13Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 1:23.380 | 1:22.105 | 1:22.285 | +0.578 |
| 3 | 14Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:23.276 | 1:22.862 | 1:22.302 | +0.595 |
| 4 |
| 8Romain Grosjean |
| Lotus F1 |
| 1:23.248 |
| 1:22.667 |
| 1:22.424 |
| +0.717 |
| 5 | 7Kimi Räikkönen | Lotus F1 | 1:23.406 | 1:22.856 | 1:22.487 | +0.780 |
| 6 | 11Sergio PĂ©rez | Sauber | 1:24.261 | 1:22.773 | 1:22.533 | +0.826 |
| 7 | 6Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:23.370 | 1:22.882 | 1:23.005 | +1.298 |
| 8 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 1:23.850 | 1:22.884 | — | +1.177 |
| 9 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 1:23.757 | 1:22.904 | — | +1.197 |
| 10 | 10Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber | 1:23.386 | 1:22.897 | — | +1.190 |
| 11 | 22Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:23.510 | 1:22.944 | — | +1.237 |
| 12 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 1:23.592 | 1:22.977 | — | +1.270 |
| 13 | 40Paul di Resta | Force India | 1:23.852 | 1:23.125 | — | +1.418 |
| 14 | 27Nico Hülkenberg | Force India | 1:23.720 | 1:23.177 | — | +1.470 |
| 15 | 25Jean-Éric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1:24.362 | 1:23.265 | — | +1.558 |
| 16 | 3Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 1:23.906 | 1:23.442 | — | +1.735 |
| 17 | 19Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:23.886 | 1:23.444 | — | +1.737 |
| 18 | Bruno Senna | Williams | 1:24.981 | — | — | +3.274 |
| 19 | Vitaly Petrov | Caterham | 1:25.277 | — | — | +3.570 |
| 20 | Heikki Kovalainen | Caterham | 1:25.507 | — | — | +3.800 |
| 21 | Charles Pic | Marussia | 1:26.582 | — | — | +4.875 |
| 22 | Timo Glock | Marussia | 1:27.032 | — | — | +5.325 |
| 23 | Pedro de la Rosa | HRT | 1:27.555 | — | — | +5.848 |
| 24 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT | 1:31.122 | — | — | +9.415 |