In addition to seeing seven different winners at the first seven races, the season also had the most races ever in a season with twenty, beating the last record of nineteen, which was first set in 2005. In the World Constructors' Championship, Red Bull Racing secured their third consecutive title when Sebastian Vettel finished second at the United States Grand Prix.
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Alonso needed a podium finish to stand any chance of becoming World Drivers' Champion, but in a race that finished under the safety car, Vettel finished in sixth place, scoring enough points to win his third consecutive championship, becoming the third driver to do so. Vettel entered the final race of the season with a thirteen-point lead over Alonso. Vettel, too, had problems during the season contact with a backmarker left him to finish outside the points in Malaysia, while alternator failures at the European and Italian Grands Prix cost him valuable points and exclusion from qualifying in Abu Dhabi led him to start from the pit lane. However, first-lap retirements in Belgium and Japan allowed others to catch up, and defending World Champion Sebastian Vettel-like Alonso, a two-time winner-took the lead in the sixteenth race of the season. Alonso was the championship leader for the next seven races, taking his third win in Germany and finishing on the podium in the United Kingdom, Italy and Singapore. It was not until the European Grand Prix in June that a driver, Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, won his second race of the year.
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The start of the season was unpredictable, with seven different drivers winning the first seven races of the championship a record for the series. After being cancelled in 2011 due to civil protests, the Bahrain Grand Prix also returned to the calendar. The 2012 season saw the return of the United States Grand Prix, which was held at the Circuit of the Americas, in Austin, Texas. The season had 20 races, starting in Australia on 18 March and ended in Brazil on 25 November. The 2012 Formula One season was the 63rd season of the Formula One World Championship. Kimi Räikkönen – seen here at the 2010 Rallye Deutschland – finished the season in third place, driving for Lotus F1.
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