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LIVE BLOG: The 2012 European F1 Grand Prix from Valencia in Spain is set to start at 10:00pm (AEST). For all the race updates, please see below;
Top 10 Placings
1 Alonso
2 Raikkonen
3 Schumacher
4 Webber
5 Hulkenberg
6 Rosberg
7 Di Resta
8 Button
9 Perez
10 Maldonado
Lap 57
- Race finishes under yellow flag, Alonso wins
- Rosberg overtakes Button & Di Resta for 6th spot
Lap 56
- Hamilton & Maldonado crash: Hamilton retires, Maldonado front-end damage
Lap 55
- Raikkonen overtakes Hamilton for 2nd spot
Lap 54
- Schumacher & Webber overtake Di Resta for 6th & 7th spot
- Petrov overtakes Massa for 15th spot
Lap 53
- Schumacher & Webber overtake Perez for 7th & 8th spot
Lap 49
- Schumacher & Webber overtake Button for 8th & 9th spot
- Rosberg overtakes Senna for 11th spot
Lap 48
- Petrov & Ricciardo crash: Minor damage to each
Lap 47
- Rosberg pits
Lap 46
- Schumacher & Webber overtake Petrov for 10th & 11th spot
Lap 42
- Alonso leads Hamilton by 4 seconds
- Schumacher pits
Lap 41
- Grosjean suffers mechanical issues, retires from race
Lap 40
- Hamilton under investigation for overtaking under yellow flag conditions
Lap 39
- Webber pits
Lap 38
- Maldonado overtakes Webber for 7th place
- Ricciardo pits
Lap 37
- Schumacher overtakes Ricciardo for 5th spot
- Raikkonen under investigation for overtaking under yellow flag conditions
Lap 35
- Raikkonen overtakes under yellow flag conditions
Lap 34
- Safety car withdrawn
- Alonso overtakes Grosjean for 2nd spot
- Massa and Kobayashi crash: Massa front-end damage, Kobayashi front-end damage
- Vettel suffers mechanical issues, retires from race
Lap 29
- Safety car deployed
- Kovalaninen (repairs), Grosjean & Hamilton pit
- Front jack fails on Hamilton pit-stop, costs Hamilton 14 seconds
- Vergne retires from race
Lap 28
- Kovalainen & Vergne crash: Kovalainen front-end damage, Vergne rear-end damage
Lap 27
- Button pits
Lap 26
- Ricciardo overtakes Perez for 10th spot
- Perez pits
Lap 24
- Drive through penalty issued to Senna
Lap 23
- Vettel extends lead to 20.3 seconds
Lap 21
- Kobayashi (repairs), Senna (repairs) & Rosberg pit
Lap 20
- Schumacher & Webber pit
- Senna & Kobayashi crash: Kobayashi front-end damage, Senna rear-end damage
Lap 16
- Vettel extends lead to 15 seconds, pits, then re-enters in the lead
- Grosjean pits
- Alonso pits, then re-enters ahead of Raikkonen
Lap 15
- Raikkonen, Kobayashi, Hulkenberg & Ricciardo pit
Lap 13
- Vettel extends lead to 12.5 seconds
- Alonso overtakes Hulkenberg for 7th spot
- Raikkonen overtakes Maldonado for 5th spot
Lap 12
- Massa pits
Lap 11
- Hamilton & Perez (tactical) pit
Lap 10
- Vettel leads Hamilton by 10 seconds
- Grosjean overtakes Hamilton for 2nd spot
Lap 9
- Karthikeyan & Pic crash: Minor damage to each
Lap 3
- DRS enabled
Lap 2
- Vettel increases his lead to 4 seconds
Lap 1
- Vettel away clearly
- Webber up two places to 17th
- Rosberg drops five places to 11th
Pre-Race News
- Ferrari have reported cluth, kers and DRS issues which may affect their race.
- Rumors are circulating that Raikkonen is set for a change of team in 2013.
- Webber is 50/50 between staying at Red Bull for 2013, or heading to Ferrari.
Qualifying
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 1min 38.086
2 Lewis Hamilton (GB) McLaren 1:38.410
3 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams 1:38.475
4 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Lotus F1 Team 1:38.505
5 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Lotus F1 Team 1:38.513
6 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes GP 1:38.623
7 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Sauber-Ferrari 1:38.741
8 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Force India 1:38.752
9 Jenson Button (GB) McLaren 1:38.801
10 Paul di Resta (GB) Force India 1:38.992
11 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 1:38.707
12 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes GP 1:38.770
13 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 1:38.780
14 Bruno Senna (Bra) Williams 1:39.207
15 Sergio Perez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari 1:39.358
16 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Caterham 1:40.295
17 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:40.358
18 Jean-Eric Vergne (Fra) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:40.203
19 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 1:40.395
20 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Caterham 1:40.457
21 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) HRT-F1 1:42.171
22 Narain Karthikeyan (Ind) HRT-F1 1:42.527
23 Charles Pic (Fra) Marussia 1:42.675
24 Timo Glock (Ger) Marussia no time
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