2012 FORMULA 1 QANTAS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX - QUALIFYING

16 18 Mar 2012 Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Australia

Pos	No	Driver	Car	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
1	4	Lewis Hamilton HAM	McLaren Mercedes	1:26.800	1:25.626	1:24.922	14
2	3	Jenson Button BUT	McLaren Mercedes	1:26.832	1:25.663	1:25.074	15
3	10	Romain Grosjean GRO	Lotus Renault	1:26.498	1:25.845	1:25.302	21
4	7	Michael Schumacher MSC	Mercedes	1:26.586	1:25.571	1:25.336	18
5	2	Mark Webber WEB	Red Bull Racing Renault	1:27.117	1:26.297	1:25.651	17
6	1	Sebastian Vettel VET	Red Bull Racing Renault	1:26.773	1:25.982	1:25.668	18
7	8	Nico Rosberg ROS	Mercedes	1:26.763	1:25.469	1:25.686	16
8	18	Pastor Maldonado MAL	Williams Renault	1:26.803	1:26.206	1:25.908	20
9	12	Nico Hulkenberg HUL	Force India Mercedes	1:27.464	1:26.314	1:26.451	18
10	16	Daniel Ricciardo RIC	STR Ferrari	1:27.024	1:26.319	DNS	16
11	17	Jean-Eric Vergne VER	STR Ferrari	1:26.493	1:26.429		12
12	5	Fernando Alonso ALO	Ferrari	1:26.688	1:26.494		12
13	14	Kamui Kobayashi KOB	Sauber Ferrari	1:26.182	1:26.590		12
14	19	Bruno Senna SEN	Williams Renault	1:27.004	1:26.663		16
15	11	Paul di Resta DIR	Force India Mercedes	1:27.469	1:27.086		16
16	6	Felipe Massa MAS	Ferrari	1:27.633	1:27.497		16
17	15	Sergio Perez PER	Sauber Ferrari	1:26.596	DNF		11
18	9	Kimi Räikkönen RAI	Lotus Renault	1:27.758			9
19	20	Heikki Kovalainen KOV	Caterham Renault	1:28.679			7
20	21	Vitaly Petrov PET	Caterham Renault	1:29.018			8
21	24	Timo Glock GLO	Marussia Cosworth	1:30.923			10
22	25	Charles Pic PIC	Marussia Cosworth	1:31.670			9
NC	22	Pedro de la Rosa DLR	HRT Cosworth	1:33.495			6
NC	23	Narain Karthikeyan KAR	HRT Cosworth	1:33.643			6

Note - Perez qualified 17th but was penalised five grid places for a gearbox change. De la Rosa and Karthikeyan did not qualify after failing to meet the Q1 107% time.