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| Fastest lap progression | |||||||
| No | Driver | Time | Gain | Lap | Race time | ||
| 1 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | 1:43.934 | 2 | 3:29.566 | ||
| 2 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | 1:43.610 | 0.324 | 3 | 5:13.176 | |
| 3 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | 1:43.544 | 0.066 | 5 | 8:40.450 | |
| 4 | 2 | Mark Webber | 1:43.010 | 0.534 | 8 | 14:21.123 | |
| 5 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | 1:42.732 | 0.278 | 11 | 19:40.376 | |
| 6 | 3 | Jenson Button | 1:42.677 | 0.055 | 13 | 22:55.642 | |
| 7 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | 1:42.551 | 0.126 | 15 | 26:17.647 | |
| 8 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | 1:42.503 | 0.048 | 18 | 31:25.663 | |
| 9 | 2 | Mark Webber | 1:41.466 | 1.037 | 23 | 40:28.505 | |
| 10 | 3 | Jenson Button | 1:41.391 | 0.075 | 26 | 45:30.555 | |
| 11 | 17 | Jean-Éric Vergne | 1:41.205 | 0.186 | 30 | 53:07.380 | |
| 12 | 17 | Jean-Éric Vergne | 1:41.104 | 0.101 | 31 | 54:48.484 | |
| 13 | 3 | Jenson Button | 1:40.908 | 0.196 | 32 | 55:42.462 | |
| 14 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | 1:40.601 | 0.307 | 33 | 57:47.145 | |
| 15 | 18 | Pastor Maldonado | 1:40.563 | 0.038 | 35 | 1:01:22.922 | |
| 16 | 18 | Pastor Maldonado | 1:40.482 | 0.081 | 36 | 1:03:03.404 | |
| 17 | 14 | Kamui Kobayashi | 1:39.960 | 0.522 | 40 | 1:09:59.442 | |
| No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Lap count | Distance (km) | ||
| 1 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1 – 13 | 13 | 70.673 | |
| 2 | 15 | Sergio Pérez | Sauber-Ferrari | 14 – 16 | 3 | 16.353 | |
| 3 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 17 – 34 | 18 | 98.118 | |
| 4 | 3 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 35 – 39 | 5 | 27.255 | |
| 5 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 40 – 56 | 17 | 92.667 |
| No | Driver | Total Laps | Total Distance | ||
| 1 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | 48 | 261.458 | |
| 2 | 3 | Jenson Button | 5 | 27.255 | |
| 3 | 15 | Sergio Pérez | 3 | 16.353 |
| No | Driver | Total time | Stops | Avg. time | |
| 7 | Michael Schumacher | 21.746 | 1 | 21.746 | |
| 6 | Felipe Massa | 40.301 | 2 | 20.151 | |
| 11 | Paul di Resta | 41.393 | 2 | 20.697 | |
| 8 | Nico Rosberg | 41.758 | 2 | 20.879 | |
| 19 | Bruno Senna | 42.507 | 2 | 21.254 | |
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | 42.595 | 2 | 21.298 | |
| 18 | Pastor Maldonado | 42.798 | 2 | 21.399 | |
| 24 | Timo Glock | 42.842 | 2 | 21.421 | |
| 9 | Kimi Räikkönen | 42.927 | 2 | 21.464 | |
| 21 | Vitaly Petrov | 43.858 | 2 | 21.929 | |
| 16 | Daniel Ricciardo | 44.202 | 2 | 22.101 | |
| 15 | Sergio Pérez | 45.574 | 2 | 22.787 | |
| 10 | Romain Grosjean | 47.019 | 2 | 23.510 | |
| 22 | Pedro de la Rosa | 47.122 | 2 | 23.561 | |
| 23 | Narain Karthikeyan | 48.088 | 2 | 24.044 | |
| 12 | Nico Hülkenberg | 53.434 | 2 | 26.717 | |
| 25 | Charles Pic | 59.866 | 3 | 19.955 | |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso | 1:00.456 | 3 | 20.152 | |
| 2 | Mark Webber | 1:01.322 | 3 | 20.441 | |
| 4 | Lewis Hamilton | 1:01.771 | 3 | 20.590 | |
| 14 | Kamui Kobayashi | 1:04.358 | 3 | 21.453 | |
| 3 | Jenson Button | 1:07.655 | 3 | 22.552 | |
| 17 | Jean-Éric Vergne | 1:08.989 | 3 | 22.996 | |
| 20 | Heikki Kovalainen | 2:48.863 | 4 | 42.216 |
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