Talk:2012 Spanish Grand Prix

About Quali/Racing Results
I just wonder how some guys are so quick in adding racing results (which source code is quite complex) without any templates. Ibicdlcod (talk) 13:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Does Maldonado have a pole position?
Interesting question regarding whether articles should mark Maldonado as having the pole position and bold the race name on his lines. Someone already did that. But I have to disagree: Maldonado did not get a pole position, but he does have grid position 1. Why? At the 2012 Chinese GP Lewis Hamilton was known to get a penalty even before the qualification had started. He finished second, went to the press conference etc. So his qualification position was 2nd, grid position 7th. It does not give anyone a pole position, I believe. But let's see do official F1 statistics give Maldonado a pole position. --Pudeo' 17:57, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Hamilton didn't get pole position because he was EXCLUDED from qualify and not penalised.Ganulu (talk) 23:21, 12 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Maldonado is on pole - at the start of the race, he will be in front of everyone else. That pretty much cracks it. Bretonbanquet (talk) 23:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I found that a similar thing has happened atleast in 2005 Italian Grand Prix where Raikkonen got a 10 grid penalty. It seems that it is not thus counted as a pole position. Or do you know any similar GPs where this happened? Weird how the penalized qualifiers still go to the press conference if they get to top 3. --Pudeo' 05:37, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hamilton hadn't received his penalty by the time of the press conference, so he went to it. With regard to drivers who receive penalties for infringements that did not take place during the qualifying session, e.g. gearbox changes, they still go to the press conference if they make the top 3. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:41, 13 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I think that the table should be changed so that it is the same as that on the official F1 website (http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2012/868/7070/). It says that Maldonado is 2nd for quali and Ham is DSQ but still on top of the table. I would prefer that Ham was on top of the quali table and with a DSQ as that is the actual result whereas Maldonado is number 1 on the grid position part of the table. This will keep the qualifying wiki tables consistent (like all other penalties applied after the session) from race to race as the table is ranked by qualification time and not grid position. That is why we have notes on the bottom.Offfspring227 (talk) 05:46, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Race Table needs fixed
Race result table needs changed, its a copy of the one on F1.com and not the wikipedia version. Dontforgetthisone (talk) 14:16, 13 May 2012 (UTC)


 * All fixed and sorted. Dontforgetthisone (talk) 17:15, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

[34] link is dead
81.44.76.50 (talk) 17:48, 25 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I removed it, as it was only a redundant reference to an unreliable blog. Thanks. QueenCake (talk) 19:16, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

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