2006 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2006 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 October 2006 at the Valencia circuit. The MotoGP riders' championship was decided at this race, as Nicky Hayden's third place ensured he completed the season with more points than his rival, and polesitter for the race, Valentino Rossi, who finished down in thirteenth after he fell during the race.

  2006 Valencian Community Grand Prix
Race details
Race 17 of 17 races in the
2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date29 October 2006
Official nameGran Premio bwin.com de la Comunitat Valenciana[1][2][3]
LocationCircuit Ricardo Tormo
Course
  • Permanent racing facility
  • 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider Valentino Rossi
Time 1:31.002
Fastest lap
Rider Loris Capirossi
Time 1:32.924
Podium
First Troy Bayliss
Second Loris Capirossi
Third Nicky Hayden
250 cc
Pole position
Rider Hiroshi Aoyama
Time 1:35.109
Fastest lap
Rider Alex de Angelis
Time 1:36.441
Podium
First Alex de Angelis
Second Roberto Locatelli
Third Héctor Barberá
125 cc
Pole position
Rider Álvaro Bautista
Time 1:39.058
Fastest lap
Rider Héctor Faubel
Time 1:39.574
Podium
First Héctor Faubel
Second Mika Kallio
Third Sergio Gadea

The race was also notable for two lasts; the last race with the 990cc (60.4 cu in) engines which débuted in 2002, and the last race for the Honda RC211V, as the engines switched to 800cc (48.8 cu in) in capacity and Honda would field the RC212V from 2007.

MotoGP classification
Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 12 Troy Bayliss Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 30 46:55.415 2 25
2 65 Loris Capirossi Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 30 +1.319 3 20
3 69 Nicky Hayden Repsol Honda Team Honda 30 +9.230 5 16
4 26 Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda Team Honda 30 +12.065 6 13
5 33 Marco Melandri Fortuna Honda Honda 30 +16.306 12 11
6 24 Toni Elías Fortuna Honda Honda 30 +17.390 13 10
7 56 Shinya Nakano Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 30 +19.329 4 9
8 10 Kenny Roberts, Jr. Team Roberts KR211V 30 +23.174 14 8
9 5 Colin Edwards Camel Yamaha Team Yamaha 30 +26.072 10 7
10 7 Carlos Checa Tech 3 Yamaha Yamaha 30 +28.194 16 6
11 21 John Hopkins Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 30 +29.364 9 5
12 6 Makoto Tamada Konica Minolta Honda Honda 30 +29.707 15 4
13 46 Valentino Rossi Camel Yamaha Team Yamaha 30 +38.546 1 3
14 77 James Ellison Tech 3 Yamaha Yamaha 30 +1:20.013 19 2
15 8 Garry McCoy Ilmor SRT Ilmor X3 23 +7 laps 20 1
Ret 27 Casey Stoner Honda LCR Honda 23 Accident 7
Ret 71 Chris Vermeulen Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 13 Accident 8
Ret 30 José Luis Cardoso Pramac d'Antin MotoGP Ducati 12 Retirement 18
Ret 66 Alex Hofmann Pramac d'Antin MotoGP Ducati 9 Accident 17
Ret 17 Randy de Puniet Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki 5 Accident 11
Sources: [4][5][6]

250 cc classification
Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 7 Alex de Angelis Aprilia 27 43:52.247 3 25
2 15 Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 27 +4.524 4 20
3 80 Héctor Barberá Aprilia 27 +9.551 6 16
4 48 Jorge Lorenzo Aprilia 27 +11.366 2 13
5 6 Alex Debón Aprilia 27 +14.957 10 11
6 73 Shuhei Aoyama Honda 27 +17.621 8 10
7 34 Andrea Dovizioso Honda 27 +18.505 7 9
8 54 Manuel Poggiali KTM 27 +18.846 11 8
9 52 José David de Gea Honda 27 +20.362 9 7
10 50 Sylvain Guintoli Aprilia 27 +24.257 13 6
11 96 Jakub Smrž Aprilia 27 +36.071 12 5
12 25 Alex Baldolini Aprilia 27 +40.323 17 4
13 42 Aleix Espargaró Honda 27 +49.222 15 3
14 37 Fabricio Perren Honda 27 +51.787 18 2
15 8 Andrea Ballerini Aprilia 27 +53.194 23 1
16 44 Taro Sekiguchi Aprilia 27 +57.940 21
17 31 Álvaro Molina Aprilia 27 +1:16.334 19
18 23 Arturo Tizón Honda 27 +1:29.704 22
19 14 Anthony West Aprilia 27 +1:30.923 14
20 65 Alessandro Brannetti Honda 27 +1:31.558 25
21 57 Chaz Davies Honda 27 +1:31.982 26
22 24 Jordi Carchano Aprilia 26 +1 lap 24
23 53 Santiago Barragán Honda 26 +1 lap 30
24 22 Luca Morelli Aprilia 26 +1 lap 27
Ret 4 Hiroshi Aoyama KTM 20 Accident 1
Ret 58 Marco Simoncelli Gilera 12 Accident 5
Ret 28 Dirk Heidolf Aprilia 10 Retirement 16
Ret 45 Dan Linfoot Honda 8 Retirement 29
Ret 85 Alessio Palumbo Aprilia 4 Accident 28
Ret 16 Jules Cluzel Aprilia 1 Retirement 20
WD 55 Yuki Takahashi Honda Withdrew
[7]

125 cc classification
Garry McCoy, riding for Ilmor, finished the MotoGP race in fifteenth position.
Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 55 Héctor Faubel Aprilia 24 40:15.460 2 25
2 36 Mika Kallio KTM 24 +1.764 5 20
3 33 Sergio Gadea Aprilia 24 +1.938 3 16
4 19 Álvaro Bautista Aprilia 24 +8.646 1 13
5 52 Lukáš Pešek Derbi 24 +8.673 7 11
6 42 Pol Espargaró Derbi 24 +12.428 6 10
7 22 Pablo Nieto Aprilia 24 +18.925 19 9
8 14 Gábor Talmácsi Honda 24 +22.058 12 8
9 75 Mattia Pasini Aprilia 24 +22.102 4 7
10 1 Thomas Lüthi Honda 24 +25.405 13 6
11 18 Nicolás Terol Derbi 24 +25.605 11 5
12 38 Bradley Smith Honda 24 +28.700 23 4
13 34 Esteve Rabat Honda 24 +36.206 17 3
14 71 Tomoyoshi Koyama Malaguti 24 +41.651 18 2
15 8 Lorenzo Zanetti Aprilia 24 +41.748 20 1
16 21 Mateo Túnez Aprilia 24 +45.893 26
17 20 Roberto Tamburini Aprilia 24 +46.005 22
18 11 Sandro Cortese Honda 24 +47.510 9
19 24 Simone Corsi Gilera 24 +52.287 16
20 6 Joan Olivé Aprilia 24 +54.531 21
21 43 Manuel Hernández Aprilia 24 +56.966 27
22 12 Federico Sandi Aprilia 24 +57.995 24
23 16 Michele Conti Honda 24 +1:01.336 35
24 9 Michael Ranseder KTM 24 +1:02.918 28
25 37 Joey Litjens Honda 24 +1:02.992 38
26 30 Pere Tutusaus Derbi 24 +1:04.324 33
27 90 Hiroaki Kuzuhara Aprilia 24 +1:07.021 30
28 53 Simone Grotzkyj Aprilia 24 +1:08.649 29
29 25 Dominique Aegerter Aprilia 24 +1:08.682 32
30 49 Kazuma Watanabe Honda 24 +1:08.809 36
31 13 Dino Lombardi Aprilia 24 +1:09.140 34
32 67 Blake Leigh-Smith KTM 24 +1:19.944 42
33 45 Imre Tóth Aprilia 24 +1:20.568 31
34 87 Roberto Lacalendola Aprilia 24 +1:31.922 43
35 40 Nico Vivarelli Malaguti 24 +1:31.995 31
36 77 Daniel Sáez Aprilia 24 +1:38.898 40
37 83 Clément Dunikowski Honda 23 +1 lap 39
Ret 32 Fabrizio Lai Honda 18 Retirement 14
Ret 35 Raffaele De Rosa Aprilia 11 Retirement 25
Ret 60 Julián Simón KTM 6 Accident 8
Ret 44 Karel Abraham Aprilia 6 Accident 15
Ret 54 Randy Krummenacher KTM 5 Accident 10
Ret 78 Hugo van den Berg Aprilia 3 Accident 37
[8]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

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

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

References
  1. "2006 Valencia MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  2. Mitchell, Malcolm. "2006 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
  3. Mitchell, Malcolm. "Valencia Ricardo Tormo - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  4. "2006 Valencia MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
  5. "2006 Valencian Community Grand Prix : Classifications : 500cc" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  6. "motogp.com · GP bwin.com DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA · MotoGP Race Classification 2006". www.motogp.com.
  7. "2006 Valencian Community Grand Prix : Classifications : 250cc" (PDF). Resources.motogp.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  8. "2006 Valencian Community 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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