2006 French motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2006 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 May 2006 at the Le Mans Bugatti circuit.

France  2006 French Grand Prix
Race details
Race 5 of 17 races in the
2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date21 May 2006
Official nameAlice Grand Prix de France[1][2][3]
LocationBugatti Circuit
Course
  • Permanent racing facility
  • 4.180 km (2.597 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider Spain Dani Pedrosa
Time 1:33.990
Fastest lap
Rider Italy Valentino Rossi
Time 1:35.087
Podium
First Italy Marco Melandri
Second Italy Loris Capirossi
Third Spain Dani Pedrosa
250 cc
Pole position
Rider Italy Andrea Dovizioso
Time 1:39.733
Fastest lap
Rider Japan Hiroshi Aoyama
Time 1:39.964
Podium
First Japan Yuki Takahashi
Second Italy Andrea Dovizioso
Third Japan Shuhei Aoyama
125 cc
Pole position
Rider Italy Mattia Pasini
Time 1:44.515
Fastest lap
Rider Spain Sergio Gadea
Time 1:44.637
Podium
First Switzerland Thomas Lüthi
Second Finland Mika Kallio
Third Italy Fabrizio Lai

MotoGP classification
Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 33 Italy Marco Melandri Fortuna Honda Honda 28 44:57.369 5 25
2 65 Italy Loris Capirossi Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 28 +1.929 6 20
3 26 Spain Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda Team Honda 28 +2.269 1 16
4 27 Australia Casey Stoner Honda LCR Honda 28 +5.494 11 13
5 69 United States Nicky Hayden Repsol Honda Team Honda 28 +5.709 10 11
6 5 United States Colin Edwards Camel Yamaha Team Yamaha 28 +11.519 9 10
7 6 Japan Makoto Tamada Konica Minolta Honda Honda 28 +16.692 13 9
8 15 Spain Sete Gibernau Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 28 +18.142 8 8
9 24 Spain Toni Elías Fortuna Honda Honda 28 +23.645 16 7
10 71 Australia Chris Vermeulen Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 28 +39.362 12 6
11 7 Spain Carlos Checa Tech 3 Yamaha Yamaha 28 +47.730 14 5
12 56 Japan Shinya Nakano Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 28 +47.782 2 4
13 66 Germany Alex Hofmann Pramac d'Antin MotoGP Ducati 28 +1:09.092 18 3
14 77 United Kingdom James Ellison Tech 3 Yamaha Yamaha 28 +1:16.172 17 2
15 21 United States John Hopkins Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 26 +2 laps 3 1
Ret 30 Spain José Luis Cardoso Pramac d'Antin MotoGP Ducati 21 Retirement 19
Ret 46 Italy Valentino Rossi Camel Yamaha Team Yamaha 20 Mechanical 7
Ret 10 United States Kenny Roberts Jr. Team Roberts KR211V 1 Retirement 15
Ret 17 France Randy de Puniet Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 0 Accident 4
Sources:[4][5][6]

250 cc classification
Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 55 Japan Yuki Takahashi Honda 26 43:42.773 4 25
2 34 Italy Andrea Dovizioso Honda 26 +0.098 1 20
3 73 Japan Shuhei Aoyama Honda 26 +2.215 5 16
4 4 Japan Hiroshi Aoyama KTM 26 +2.484 7 13
5 7 San Marino Alex de Angelis Aprilia 26 +11.270 2 11
6 15 Italy Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 26 +14.597 9 10
7 80 Spain Héctor Barberá Aprilia 26 +16.829 3 9
8 58 Italy Marco Simoncelli Gilera 26 +17.041 11 8
9 50 France Sylvain Guintoli Aprilia 26 +17.589 12 7
10 96 Czech Republic Jakub Smrž Aprilia 26 +17.805 6 6
11 14 Australia Anthony West Aprilia 26 +39.032 13 5
12 8 Italy Andrea Ballerini Aprilia 26 +41.728 14 4
13 36 Colombia Martín Cárdenas Honda 26 +45.150 18 3
14 19 Argentina Sebastián Porto Honda 26 +46.545 10 2
15 21 France Arnaud Vincent Honda 26 +55.747 22 1
16 23 Spain Arturo Tizón Honda 26 +55.846 17
17 54 San Marino Manuel Poggiali KTM 26 +57.241 15
18 28 Germany Dirk Heidolf Aprilia 26 +1:16.941 20
19 25 Italy Alex Baldolini Aprilia 26 +1:25.856 16
20 31 Italy Álvaro Molina Aprilia 26 +1:28.715 23
21 22 Italy Luca Morelli Aprilia 26 +1:31.926 26
22 24 Spain Jordi Carchano Aprilia 26 +1:39.853 25
23 85 Italy Alessio Palumbo Aprilia 25 +1 lap 27
Ret 48 Spain Jorge Lorenzo Aprilia 6 Accident 8
Ret 16 France Jules Cluzel Aprilia 0 Accident 21
Ret 45 United Kingdom Dan Linfoot Honda 0 Accident 24
Ret 57 United Kingdom Chaz Davies Aprilia 0 Accident 19
DNQ 47 France Marc-Antoine Scaccia Aprilia Did not qualify
[7]

125 cc classification
Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 Switzerland Thomas Lüthi Honda 24 42:54.555 9 25
2 36 Finland Mika Kallio KTM 24 +3.380 6 20
3 32 Italy Fabrizio Lai Honda 24 +9.807 8 16
4 19 Spain Álvaro Bautista Aprilia 24 +10.789 2 13
5 22 Spain Pablo Nieto Aprilia 24 +14.850 7 11
6 35 Italy Raffaele De Rosa Aprilia 24 +17.226 22 10
7 6 Spain Joan Olivé Aprilia 24 +20.577 10 9
8 33 Spain Sergio Gadea Aprilia 24 +21.818 12 8
9 29 Italy Andrea Iannone Aprilia 24 +27.038 11 7
10 24 Italy Simone Corsi Gilera 24 +30.171 13 6
11 10 Spain Ángel Rodríguez Aprilia 24 +30.555 20 5
12 60 Spain Julián Simón KTM 24 +30.815 14 4
13 71 Japan Tomoyoshi Koyama Malaguti 24 +30.890 19 3
14 55 Spain Héctor Faubel Aprilia 24 +31.450 15 2
15 11 Germany Sandro Cortese Honda 24 +31.872 17 1
16 9 Austria Michael Ranseder KTM 24 +39.061 27
17 14 Hungary Gábor Talmácsi Honda 24 +45.468 4
18 17 Germany Stefan Bradl KTM 24 +45.717 23
19 23 Italy Lorenzo Baroni Honda 24 +46.078 29
20 45 Hungary Imre Tóth Aprilia 24 +46.299 21
21 38 United Kingdom Bradley Smith Honda 24 +46.581 25
22 43 Spain Manuel Hernández Aprilia 24 +49.294 30
23 15 Italy Michele Pirro Aprilia 24 +1:00.773 24
24 37 Netherlands Joey Litjens Honda 24 +1:01.128 28
25 44 Czech Republic Karel Abraham Aprilia 24 +1:05.340 31
26 78 Netherlands Hugo van den Berg Aprilia 24 +1:05.989 26
27 63 France Mike Di Meglio Honda 24 +1:15.109 16
28 26 Switzerland Vincent Braillard Aprilia 24 +1:36.501 39
29 7 France Alexis Masbou Malaguti 23 +1 lap 33
30 13 Italy Dino Lombardi Aprilia 23 +1 lap 40
31 85 France Yannick Deschamps Honda 23 +1 lap 37
Ret 53 Italy Simone Grotzkyj Aprilia 13 Retirement 35
Ret 18 Spain Nicolás Terol Derbi 7 Retirement 18
Ret 20 Italy Roberto Tamburini Aprilia 4 Accident 32
Ret 52 Czech Republic Lukáš Pešek Derbi 1 Accident 3
Ret 16 Italy Michele Conti Honda 0 Accident 36
Ret 21 Spain Mateo Túnez Aprilia 0 Accident 34
Ret 75 Italy Mattia Pasini Aprilia 0 Accident 1
Ret 8 Italy Lorenzo Zanetti Aprilia 0 Accident 5
Ret 82 France Matthieu Lussiana Honda 0 Accident 38
DNS 83 France Clément Dunikowski Honda Did not start
DNS 84 France Mathieu Olagnon Honda Did not start
DNQ 41 Spain Aleix Espargaró Honda Did not qualify
DNQ 12 Italy Federico Sandi Aprilia Did not qualify
[8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.[9]

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References
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  2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2006 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  3. "Le Mans | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Archived from the original on 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  4. "2006 French MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  5. "2006 French Grand Prix : Classifications : MotoGP" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  6. "ALICE GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE · MotoGP Race Classification 2006". Motogp.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  7. "2006 French Grand Prix : Classifications : 250cc" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  8. "2006 French Grand Prix : Classifications : 125cc" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  9. "Standings" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 2006. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
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