Pastor Maldonado: I'm really enjoying my time with Williams and I was obviously very happy when I was told that I would be continuing with the team in 2013
Williams F1 driver Bruno Senna almost played the most crucial role of anyone in the season finale, after his collision with Sebastian Vettel on the first lap of the Brazil GP.
Jenson Button had a perfect race to win his first Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, but the race started with disaster for several of the front runners who ended up in a heap at La Source.
Kamui Kobayashi had to apologise to his mechanics, after his badly misjudged his entry into the Sauber pit box during the final round of stops and ended up bowling them over.
Pastor Maldonado resisted getting drawn into a heated row with Sergio Perez, after the Sauber driver blasted the Venezuelan for their collision early in the British GP.
The European Grand Prix was a frustrating race for Williams F1, as more than Bruno Senna's solitary point was on offer until Pastor Maldonado's challenge came to a premature end, as chief operations engineer Mark Gillan reflects.
Lewis Hamilton may have been boiling inside, but his public post-race demeanour was altogether more in keeping with his approach to the 2012 F1 campaign.