2012 European Grand Prix
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| Race 8 of 20 in the 2012 Formula One season | |||
The Valencia Street Circuit
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| Date | 24 June 2012 | ||
| Official name | 2012 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe | ||
| Location | Valencia Street Circuit, Valencia, Spain | ||
| Course | Temporary street circuit | ||
| Course length | 5.419 km (3.367 mi) | ||
| Distance | 57 laps, 308.883 km (191.931 mi) | ||
| Weather |
Fine and Dry Air Temp 27 °C (81 °F) Track Temp 45 °C (113 °F) |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Red Bull-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:38.086 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nico Rosberg
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:42.163 on lap 54 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Ferrari | ||
| Second | Lotus-Renault | ||
| Third | Mercedes | ||
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Fine and Dry Air Temp 27 °C (81 °F)
The 2012 European Grand Prix (formally, the 2012 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe) was a Formula One motor race that was held at the Valencia Street Circuit in Valencia, Spain on 24 June 2012. It was the eighth round of the 2012 championship season, and the final time the circuit hosted the European Grand Prix. It was Fernando Alonso's second Grand Prix win in Spain after the 2006 Spanish Grand Prix held at Barcelona. Michael Schumacher finished third at the age of 43 years and 173 days, the oldest to climb to the podium since Jack Brabham's second-place finish at the 1970 British Grand Prix. It was Schumacher's best result since his comeback in 2010 and the final podium finish of his Formula One career.
After experimenting with two drag reduction system (DRS) zones with a single detection point in 2011, the FIA decided that the 2012 race would use a single, longer DRS zone, mirroring the approach used in Canada. The detection point was positioned on the approach to Turn 8, with the activation point located between Turn 10 and Turn 11, and was brought forward 70 metres (230 ft) from its position in the 2011 race, allowing drivers to activate the system sooner. The second DRS activation zone, located after Turn 14 in 2011, was removed for the 2012 race.
Like the 2011 European Grand Prix, tyre supplier Pirelli brought its white-banded medium compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre.
Marussia driver Timo Glock decided not to take part in Saturday's qualifying session or start the race because he was suffering from food poisoning. His teammate, Charles Pic, qualified in twenty-third and last place. The HRTs occupied the row in front of him on the grid, with Pedro de la Rosa out-qualifying Narain Karthikeyan. The Red Bull of Mark Webber was very out of place, qualifying in nineteenth due to hydraulic problems which meant he could not use the DRS rear wing. The Caterham of Vitaly Petrov qualified on the same row as Webber in twentieth, whilst the Toro Rosso of Jean-Éric Vergne qualified eighteenth again.
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