
This would also prove to be the last Grand Prix for Vitaly Petrov, Timo Glock, Pedro de la Rosa, Narain Karthikeyan and Bruno Senna.įernando Alonso needed to overcome a 13-point deficit to Sebastian Vettel. It was also the last race for HRT, as they collapsed before the start of 2013, meaning that this was the last race to feature 24 drivers. The race also marked the 306th and final one for Michael Schumacher, after he announced his retirement for the second time. Fernando Alonso finished second in both the race and the championship, and had the provisional championship lead at a late stage of the race, before Vettel moved up the order to have a three-point cushion. It was at this race that Sebastian Vettel won the 2012 World Drivers' Championship, his third title in a row. The race was won by Jenson Button driving for McLaren, scoring the 15th and last victory of his Formula One career, as well as McLaren's last Grand Prix victory until the 2021 Italian Grand Prix. The race was the twentieth and final round of the 2012 Formula One World Championship, and marked the forty-first running of the Brazilian Grand Prix. The 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Petrobras do Brasil 2012) was a Formula One motor race that took place at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil, on 25 November 2012.
