2012 Canadian Grand Prix
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| Race 7 of 20 in the 2012 Formula One season | |||
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
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| Date | 10 June 2012 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2012 | ||
| Location | Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||
| Course | Street circuit | ||
| Course length | 4.361 km (2.71 mi) | ||
| Distance | 70 laps, 305.27 km (189.7 mi) | ||
| Weather |
Fine, dry and warm; with air temperature approaching 29 °C (84 °F) Track Temp 45 °C (113 °F) dropping to 39 °C (102 °F) |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Red Bull-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:13.784 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Sebastian Vettel
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Red Bull-Renault | |
| Time | 1:15.752 on lap 70 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Second | Lotus-Renault | ||
| Third | Sauber-Ferrari | ||
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Fine, dry and warm; with air temperature approaching 29 °C (84 °F)
The 2012 Canadian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2012) was a Formula One motor race that took place on 10 June 2012 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The 70-lap race was the seventh round of the 2012 Formula One season, and the first of two North American rounds. It was the 49th Canadian Grand Prix, and the 33rd to be held at the circuit since its début on the calendar in 1978.
Sebastian Vettel started the race from pole.Lewis Hamilton went on to win his first race of the year, becoming the seventh different driver to win in as many races, a record for a single Formula One season.
After experimenting with two Drag Reduction System (DRS) zones with a single activation point in 2011, the FIA decided that the 2012 race would use a single, shorter DRS zone. In 2011, the DRS zone was 650 metres from the l'Epingle hairpin to the final chicane, with a secondary zone placed along the main straight. For 2012, the detection point was once again placed after the l'Epingle hairpin, and the DRS zone was shortened to 600 metres, while the secondary zone along the pit straight was removed. The FIA explained that the DRS zone was shortened because overtaking was "too easy" in 2011.
The Monaco Grand Prix saw several teams question the legality of parts used by Red Bull Racing on their car, and although Mark Webber's win went uncontested, rival teams sought clarification on matter. One week before the Canadian Grand Prix, the FIA declared the parts used in Monaco to be illegal, forcing the team to change them. The team was also forced to change the design of their axles, after FIA Race Director Charlie Whiting felt that holes in the axles contravened the technical regulations.
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