The car was driven by Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Éric Vergne, after the team elected not to renew the contracts of former drivers Sébastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari,[3] and was launched on 7 February 2012 at the first winter test of the season at Jerez de la Frontera.

However, afterward, the car struggled for competitiveness as both drivers finished outside the points-scoring positions.

Since then, both drivers consistently scored points and the car showed improvements.

They eventually finished the season in 9th place with 26 points with the best result of 8th place on 4 occasions where Vergne achieved all the points he had managed to get while finishing in that position.

The livery remained unchanged apart from the distinctive charging bull; furthermore, the team gained new sponsors for the season including Nova Chemicals and Cepsa.