Malaysian GP, Sepang Circuit 2012 - Formula One

Fernando Alonso of Ferrari managed to hold off Sergio Perez in todays Malaysian GP to take the win.

With the race starting with torrential rain the race was finally stopped after just 6 laps when the red flags came out.  The race was held up for around 50 mins with a restart with the safety car deployed.



Once the safety car left the circuit Alonso managed to pull out a 7 second lead, but Perez during the course of the race managed to catch Alonso and looked certain to overtake him with around 5 laps remaining, but ran wide giving Alonso that much need space to take the chequed flag.

Lewis Hamilton started the race on pole position but ended the race in 3rd following a slow pitstop.

Jenson Button could only manage 14th position after a small collision with Karthikayen, with Sebastian Vettel also having a poor race finishing in 11th position after picking up a puncture.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time
1	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	2:44:51:812
2	Sergio Perez	Sauber	+2.2s
3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	+14.5s
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull	+17.6s
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus	+29.4s
6	Bruno Senna	Williams	+37.6s
7	Paul di Resta	Force India	+44.4s
8	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	+46.9s
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	+47.8s
10	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	+49.9s
11	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	+75.5s
12	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	+76.8s
13	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	+78.5s
14	Jenson Button	McLaran	+79.7s
15	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	+97.3s
16	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham	+1 Lap
17	Timo Glock	Marussia	+1 Lap
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham	+1 Lap
19	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	+2 Laps
20	Charles Pic	Marussia	+2 Laps
21	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT	+2 Laps
22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT	+2 Laps
ret	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	+10 Laps
ret	Romain Grosjean	Lotus F1	+53 Laps