2012 Italian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 13 of 20 in the 2012 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza
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| Date | 9 September 2012 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Gran Premio Santander d'Italia 2012 | ||
| Location | Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.793 km (3.6 mi) | ||
| Distance | 53 laps, 306.720 km (190.58 mi) | ||
| Weather |
Dry and Sizzlingly Sunny Air Temp 28 °C (82 °F) Track Temp 40 °C (104 °F) |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:24.010 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nico Rosberg
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:27.239 on lap 53 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Second | Sauber-Ferrari | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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Dry and Sizzlingly Sunny Air Temp 28 °C (82 °F)
The 2012 Italian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio Santander d'Italia 2012) was a Formula One motor race that took place at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza, Italy on 9 September 2012. It was the thirteenth race of the 2012 season, and the final race in Europe before the teams return to Asia for the Singapore Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton qualified on pole, ahead of teammate Jenson Button. The result gave McLaren their sixty-second front-row lock-out, breaking the previous record set by Williams. Hamilton won the race by four seconds from Sergio Pérez, with Fernando Alonso completing the podium.
Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its silver-banded hard compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the white-banded medium compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre.
The drag reduction system zones used in 2011 were shortened for the 2012 race. The first DRS zone, located on the straight between the second Lesmo corner and the Variante Ascari, was shortened by fifty meters, while the DRS zone on the front straight was shortened by five meters.
Lotus driver Romain Grosjean did not participate in the race due to receiving a one-race ban for his involvement in the first-lap incident at the Belgian Grand Prix that saw four cars crash heavily at the La Source hairpin. Grosjean was replaced by the team's testing and reserve driver, Jérôme d'Ambrosio.
Pastor Maldonado received two five-place grid penalties. the first for jumping the start of the Belgian Grand Prix and the second for causing an avoidable accident with Timo Glock after Grosjean's accident.
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