As well as clinching the 2012 F1 title, Sebastian Vettel ha🐼d also earned the DHL Fastest Lap Award, handed out each season to the driver who sets the most fastest laps over the course of a season.

The Red Bull driver, who first took the award back in 2009, secured the fastest lap♑ on six occasions this season to emerge on top of the pile ahead of Nico Rosberg, Kimi Raik🃏konen and Jenson Button - all of whom set two fastest laps.

A further eight drivers - including Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton - picked up a sin▨gle faste🐭st lap during 2012.

"This year's DHL Fastest Lap Award winner Sebastian Vettel has clearly demonstrated that continually striving for excellence and working c🃏losely as a team can deliver performance at top speed," by Joakim Thrane, Managing Director, DHL Expre🍷ss Brazil, said on presenting Vettel with the award.

"Red Bull Racing's consecutive success in the past two years shows how important teamwork is to achieve success - a highly important ingredient for us also at DHL, as the international specialists in logistics."
DHL Fastest Lap Award 2012:

Sebastian Vettel 6Nico Rosberg2Kimi Raikkonen2Jenson Button2Sergio Perez1Romain Grosjean1Nico Hulkenberg1Michael Schumacher 1Mark Webber1Lewis Hamilton1Kamui Kobayashi1Bruno Senna1