2006 British Grand Prix

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2006 British Grand Prix
Race 8 of 18 in the 2006 Formula One World Championship
Silverstone Circuit 2004 to 2009.png
Silverstone Circuit in 2006
Race details
Date11 June 2006
Official name 2006 Formula 1 Foster's British Grand Prix [1]
Location Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England
Course Permanent Road Facility
Course length 5.141 km (3.194 miles)
Distance 60 laps, 308.355 km (191.603 miles)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver Renault
Time 1:20.253
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Renault
Time 1:21.599 on lap 21
Podium
First
  • Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso
Renault
Second Ferrari
Third McLaren-Mercedes
Lap leaders
  • 2006 British Grand Prix

The 2006 British Grand Prix (officially the 2006 Formula 1 Foster's British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 11 June 2006 at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England. The 60-lap race was the eighth round of the 2006 Formula One season.

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Ticket sales were rather slow; the race was scheduled far earlier than normal, and local Jenson Button had a rather poor season the previous year. When the race sold out in 2005, Button had been coming off one of his best years. Also, the weekend clashed with England's first World Cup game. Jacques Villeneuve and Juan Pablo Montoya both scored their final World Championship points by finishing in eighth and sixth respectively.

Button had a very poor qualifying run and started the race 19th; after a blinding first few laps, Jenson's engine caught fire on lap 9, due to an oil leak that also caused the car to spin out of the race. Scotsman David Coulthard also had a poor race suffering from understeer.

Fernando Alonso became the first Spanish driver and the youngest driver (24 years and 317 days) to get a hat trick (pole position, winning and fastest lap in the same race). He fell one lap short of clinching a Grand Chelem (leading every lap, he would finally achieve this at the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix).

This race also featured the first ever pit stop to have involved a woman, during a Midland F1 pit stop for Tiago Monteiro, ITV-F1's then pit-lane reporter Louise Goodman was the left rear tyre changer.

The only other noticeable incident of the race happened on the first lap, when Scott Speed pushed Ralf Schumacher's Toyota right in the path of Mark Webber at the entrance on the Hangar Straight. Schumacher and Webber retired on the spot, while Speed crawled to the pits and drove straight into the garage at the end of lap 1.

Friday drivers

The bottom 6 teams in the 2005 Constructors' Championship and Super Aguri were entitled to run a third car in free practice on Friday. These drivers drove on Friday but did not compete in qualifying or the race.

ConstructorNatDriver
Williams-Cosworth Flag of Austria.svg Alexander Wurz
Honda Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Anthony Davidson
Red Bull-Ferrari Flag of the Netherlands.svg Robert Doornbos
BMW Sauber Flag of Poland.svg Robert Kubica
MF1-Toyota Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Giorgio Mondini
Toro Rosso-Cosworth Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Neel Jani
Super Aguri-Honda Flag of Japan.svg Sakon Yamamoto

Classification

Qualifying

Fernando Alonso took pole position, fastest lap, and race victory, leading every lap of the race except one. Fernando Alonso 2006 Britain.jpg
Fernando Alonso took pole position, fastest lap, and race victory, leading every lap of the race except one.
Pos.No.DriverConstructorQ1Q2Q3Grid
11 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Renault 1:21.0181:20.2711:20.2531
23 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.6481:20.4971:20.3972
35 Flag of Germany.svg Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:22.0961:20.6591:20.5743
46 Flag of Brazil.svg Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:21.6471:20.8461:20.7644
52 Flag of Italy.svg Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:22.4111:20.5941:20.9195
611 Flag of Brazil.svg Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:22.9651:20.9291:20.9436
77 Flag of Germany.svg Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:22.8861:21.0431:21.0737
84 Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes 1:22.1691:20.8161:21.1078
916 Flag of Germany.svg Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:21.6701:20.6291:21.3299
1017 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Jacques Villeneuve BMW Sauber 1:21.6371:20.6721:21.59910
1114 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg David Coulthard Red Bull-Ferrari 1:22.4241:21.44211
1210 Flag of Germany.svg Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth 1:23.0831:21.56712
1320 Flag of Italy.svg Vitantonio Liuzzi Toro Rosso-Cosworth 1:22.6851:21.69913
1415 Flag of Austria.svg Christian Klien Red Bull-Ferrari 1:22.7731:21.99014
1521 Flag of the United States.svg Scott Speed Toro Rosso-Cosworth 1:22.5411:22.07615
1618 Flag of Portugal.svg Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota 1:22.8601:22.20716
179 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth 1:23.12917
1819 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota 1:23.21018
1912 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jenson Button Honda 1:23.24719
2022 Flag of Japan.svg Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:26.15821 1
2123 Flag of France.svg Franck Montagny Super Aguri-Honda 1:26.31620
228 Flag of Italy.svg Jarno Trulli Toyota No time22
Source: [2]


Notes

Race

Michael Schumacher finished second, just under 14 seconds behind Fernando Alonso Michael Schumacher 2006 Britain.jpg
Michael Schumacher finished second, just under 14 seconds behind Fernando Alonso
Pos.No.DriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
11 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Renault 601:25:51.927110
25 Flag of Germany.svg Michael Schumacher Ferrari 60+13.95138
33 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 60+18.67226
42 Flag of Italy.svg Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 60+19.97655
56 Flag of Brazil.svg Felipe Massa Ferrari 60+31.55944
64 Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes 60+1:04.76983
716 Flag of Germany.svg Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 60+1:14.59492
817 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Jacques Villeneuve BMW Sauber 60+1:18.299101
910 Flag of Germany.svg Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth 60+1:19.00812
1011 Flag of Brazil.svg Rubens Barrichello Honda 59+1 lap6
118 Flag of Italy.svg Jarno Trulli Toyota 59+1 lap22
1214 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg David Coulthard Red Bull-Ferrari 59+1 lap11
1320 Flag of Italy.svg Vitantonio Liuzzi Toro Rosso-Cosworth 59+1 lap13
1415 Flag of Austria.svg Christian Klien Red Bull-Ferrari 59+1 lap14
1519 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota 59+1 lap18
1618 Flag of Portugal.svg Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota 58+2 laps16
1722 Flag of Japan.svg Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 57+3 laps21
1823 Flag of France.svg Franck Montagny Super Aguri-Honda 57+3 laps20
Ret12 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jenson Button Honda 8Oil leak19
Ret21 Flag of the United States.svg Scott Speed Toro Rosso-Cosworth 1Collision damage15
Ret7 Flag of Germany.svg Ralf Schumacher Toyota 0Collision7
Ret9 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth 0Collision17
Source: [3]

Championship standings after the race

See also

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