Pit Lane F1
Round 7 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2012-06-10
Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) took pole for the 2012 Canadian Grand Prix with a 1:13.784 lap.
Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) joined the front row, 0.303s shy of pole, with Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) third on the grid. Jenson Button (McLaren) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber) missed the cut by —s.
Q3 was settled inside 1.398s — pole to P10 — with Jenson Button (McLaren) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 1:14.661 | 1:14.187 | 1:13.784 | 1:13.784 |
| 2 | 44Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | 1:14.891 | 1:14.371 | 1:14.087 | +0.303 |
| 3 | 14Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:14.916 | 1:14.314 | 1:14.151 | +0.367 |
| 4 |
| Mark Webber |
| Red Bull |
| 1:14.956 |
| 1:14.479 |
| 1:14.346 |
| +0.562 |
| 5 | 6Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:15.098 | 1:14.568 | 1:14.411 | +0.627 |
| 6 | 19Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:15.194 | 1:14.641 | 1:14.465 | +0.681 |
| 7 | 8Romain Grosjean | Lotus F1 | 1:15.163 | 1:14.627 | 1:14.645 | +0.861 |
| 8 | 40Paul di Resta | Force India | 1:15.019 | 1:14.639 | 1:14.705 | +0.921 |
| 9 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 1:14.892 | 1:14.480 | 1:14.812 | +1.028 |
| 10 | 22Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:14.799 | 1:14.680 | 1:15.182 | +1.398 |
| 11 | 10Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber | 1:15.101 | 1:14.688 | — | +0.904 |
| 12 | 7Kimi Räikkönen | Lotus F1 | 1:14.995 | 1:14.734 | — | +0.950 |
| 13 | 27Nico Hülkenberg | Force India | 1:15.106 | 1:14.748 | — | +0.964 |
| 14 | 3Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 1:15.552 | 1:15.078 | — | +1.294 |
| 15 | 11Sergio Pérez | Sauber | 1:15.326 | 1:15.156 | — | +1.372 |
| 16 | Bruno Senna | Williams | 1:14.995 | 1:15.170 | — | +1.386 |
| 17 | 13Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 1:14.979 | 1:15.231 | — | +1.447 |
| 18 | Heikki Kovalainen | Caterham | 1:16.263 | — | — | +2.479 |
| 19 | Vitaly Petrov | Caterham | 1:16.482 | — | — | +2.698 |
| 20 | 25Jean-Éric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1:16.602 | — | — | +2.818 |
| 21 | Pedro de la Rosa | HRT | 1:17.492 | — | — | +3.708 |
| 22 | Timo Glock | Marussia | 1:17.901 | — | — | +4.117 |
| 23 | Charles Pic | Marussia | 1:18.255 | — | — | +4.471 |
| 24 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT | 1:18.330 | — | — | +4.546 |