2012

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Sebastian VettelVET	German	Red Bull	281	5
2	Fernando AlonsoALO	Spanish	Ferrari	278	3
3	Kimi RäikkönenRAI	Finnish	Lotus F1	207	1
4	Lewis HamiltonHAM	British	McLaren	190	4
5	Jenson ButtonBUT	British	McLaren	188	3
6	Mark WebberWEB	Australian	Red Bull	179	2
7	Felipe MassaMAS	Brazilian	Ferrari	122	0
8	Romain GrosjeanGRO	French	Lotus F1	96	0
9	Nico RosbergROS	German	Mercedes	93	1
10	Sergio PérezPER	Mexican	Sauber	66	0
11	Nico HülkenbergHUL	German	Force India	63	0
12	Kamui KobayashiKOB	Japanese	Sauber	60	0
13	Michael SchumacherMSC	German	Mercedes	49	0
14	Paul di RestaDIR	British	Force India	46	0
15	Pastor MaldonadoMAL	Venezuelan	Williams	45	1
16	Bruno SennaSEN	Brazilian	Williams	31	0
17	Jean-Éric VergneVER	French	Toro Rosso	16	0
18	Daniel RicciardoRIC	Australian	Toro Rosso	10	0
19	Vitaly PetrovPET	Russian	Caterham	0	0
20	Timo GlockGLO	German	Marussia	0	0
21	Charles PicPIC	French	Marussia	0	0
22	Heikki KovalainenKOV	Finnish	Caterham	0	0
23	Jérôme d'AmbrosioDAM	Belgian	Lotus F1	0	0
24	Narain KarthikeyanKAR	Indian	HRT	0	0
25	Pedro de la RosaDLR	Spanish	HRT	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 0 of 25 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 20, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 2012, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 2012, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 2012 is complete: all 20 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.