2012 United States Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 19 of 20 in the 2012 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Circuit of the Americas
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| Date | November 18, 2012 | ||
| Official name | 2012 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Circuit of the Americas Travis County, Austin, Texas |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.516 km (3.427 mi) | ||
| Distance | 56 laps, 308.896 km (191.912 mi) | ||
| Weather |
Scattered Clouds Air Temp 24 °C (75 °F) Track Temp 32 °C (90 °F) |
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| Attendance | 117,429 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Red Bull-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:35.657 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Sebastian Vettel
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Red Bull-Renault | |
| Time | 1:39.347 on lap 56 (lap record) | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Second | Red Bull-Renault | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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Scattered Clouds Air Temp 24 °C (75 °F)
The 2012 United States Grand Prix (formally the 2012 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit of the Americas in Travis County, near Austin, Texas on November 18, 2012. The race, run over fifty-six laps, was the penultimate round of the 2012 championship. It was the inaugural race at the circuit, and the first time the United States Grand Prix had been held since 2007. On Sunday a capacity crowd of 117,429 watched the race around the brand new 20-turn circuit.
Sebastian Vettel started the race from pole position.Lewis Hamilton won the race, with Vettel finishing second and Fernando Alonso in third. Vettel's second place gave Red Bull Racing enough points to secure their third consecutive World Constructors' Championship.Bruno Senna scored his last ever World Championship points at this race.
After a troubled construction period that saw a stop-work order issued in November 2011, and the threat of the race being removed from the Formula One calendar altogether, construction laid the final layer of tarmac on September 21. The circuit passed its final pre-race inspection on September 25, allowing the race to go ahead as planned. By comparison, the most-recent additions to the Formula One calendar – the Korea International Circuit in South Korea and the Buddh International Circuit in India – were only completed in the days leading up to their inaugural races. The event was not the first Formula One Grand Prix in the state of Texas- the one-off Dallas Grand Prix was held in July 1984 and the event was run in the extremely high temperatures of a Texas summer.
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