2006 Turkish Grand Prix

2006 Turkish Grand Prix
2006 Turkish Grand Prix
Race 14 of 18 in the 2006 Formula One World Championship
	Istanbul Park
Race details
Date	27 August 2006
Official name	2006 Formula 1 Petrol Ofisi Turkish Grand Prix
Location	Istanbul Racing Circuit, Tuzla, Turkey
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.338 km (3.317 miles)
Distance	58 laps, 309.356 km (192.225 miles)
Weather	Sunny, hot
Pole position
Driver	Felipe Massa ;
Time	1:26.907
Fastest lap
Driver	Michael Schumacher
Time	1:28.005 on lap 55
Podium
First	Felipe Massa ;
Second	Fernando Alonso ;
Third	Michael Schumacher ;
	Lap leaders ;

Last updated December 21, 2023

The 2006 Turkish Grand Prix (officially the 2006 Formula 1 Petrol Ofisi Turkish Grand Prix)^[1] was a Formula One motor race, held on 27 August 2006. The 58-lap race, which was the fourteenth round of the 2006 Formula One season, and the second Turkish Grand Prix, was held at Istanbul Park in Tuzla, Turkey. Felipe Massa, driving for the Ferrari team, took his first pole position, and then his first race victory. Fernando Alonso, who drove for Renault finished the race in second position and Massa's teammate Michael Schumacher occupied the final position on the podium. The race was also the first Grand Prix meeting for future quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel, who was assigned a Friday test driver role for the BMW Sauber team. Vettel received a $1,000 fine for speeding in the pit-lane only 6 seconds after he got out onto the track.

As a consequence of the race, Fernando Alonso extended his lead in the Drivers' Championship to 12 points from Michael Schumacher. With victory, Felipe Massa retained third place in the standings, and despite closing the gap between himself and Schumacher to 34 points, it was still near impossible for him to surpass his teammate's points total. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari closed the gap to leaders Renault to just two points. McLaren remained in third position, 69 points behind the top two teams.

This race also marked 200th Grand Prix races for McLaren and Mercedes engine partnership since 1995.

Report

Background

Prior to the Grand Prix weekend, Renault's Fernando Alonso led the Formula One World Drivers' Championship on 100 points. He held a ten-point lead over his main rival Michael Schumacher, despite retiring from the preceding race in Hungary. Ferrari teammates, Schumacher and Felipe Massa lay second and third in the standings on 90 and 52 points respectively, ahead of the second Renault of Giancarlo Fisichella and the McLaren of Kimi Räikkönen, both on 49 points.

Renault led the Constructors' Championship with 149 points, seven clear of Ferrari, while McLaren were in third position with 89 points. They were ahead of Honda F1, who sat in fourth with 52 after picking up their first and to be only victory since their return, three weeks before in Hungary. BMW Sauber completed the top five with 26 points.

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.

Constructor	Nat	Driver
Williams-Cosworth		Alexander Wurz
Honda		Anthony Davidson
Red Bull-Ferrari		Robert Doornbos
BMW Sauber		Sebastian Vettel
MF1-Toyota		Giorgio Mondini
Toro Rosso-Cosworth		Neel Jani
Super Aguri-Honda		Franck Montagny

Practice and qualifying

Kimi Räikkönen set the fastest time in the first free practice session, despite only completing five laps; ahead of Michael Schumacher and Jenson Button, who were both just within half a second of Räikkönen's time. In the bottom half of the order, Felipe Massa finished the session 17th and Fernando Alonso 23rd. Neither of the Williams left the garage during the session.^[2] Sebastian Vettel impressed many as he set the fastest time in the second free practice session, on his first Grand Prix weekend appearance.^[3]

The following day in qualifying, however, it was Felipe Massa who set the fastest time, taking the first pole position of his career, ahead of Schumacher by one tenth of a second. The two Renaults occupied the next row with Alonso in front of Fisichella again. Fifth spot was initially taken up by Ralf Schumacher's Toyota, before he was demoted to fifteenth for a gearbox change. This was also true for Christijan Albers, who was taken from a good sixteenth place qualifying for the Midland team, to the back of the grid. Only four hundredths of a second separated Nick Heidfeld, Button and Räikkönen qualified from sixth to eighth before all moving up a place after Ralf Schumacher's penalty. Robert Kubica and Mark Webber completed the top ten fastest times, with Christian Klien completing the top ten on the starting grid.

Race

The start of the race was affected by a multi-car accident entering the first corner. Massa, Michael Schumacher, Alonso and Fisichella all battled for position entering the first corner, with Fisichella spinning, causing a chain reaction behind him. During the chain reaction, Scott Speed collided with the McLaren of Räikkönen, causing one of Räikkönen's rear tyres to puncture. Räikkönen pitted for a new set of tyres, but soon faced a similar problem due to damaged bodywork; because of this he went straight off the outside of turn 4 and into a barrier, on the next lap. Nick Heidfeld, Fisichella, Speed and Ralf Schumacher all needed repairs from the incident, and the Midland of Tiago Monteiro was forced to retire.

On lap 13, Vitantonio Liuzzi, who had climbed to seventh place, lost control entering the first turn and spun, stalling the engine. The car was left stranded on the racing line at the exit of the corner, and the Safety Car was deployed. Massa, Schumacher, Alonso, Button, Kubica and Webber all came in to make pit stops whilst the Safety Car circulated. The first four drivers stayed at the front, but Webber and Kubica dropped to near the back of the pack. Alonso, however, was able to jump Schumacher, as his title rival was forced to 'stack' behind Massa before the mechanics could set to work on his car. The final 15 laps of the race were focused on Alonso and Michael Schumacher, who fought for second place behind Massa as part of their championship battle. Schumacher pursued Alonso for the last laps, but was unable to catch Alonso until the final corners of the final lap. Schumacher was right on the gearbox of Alonso exiting the last corner, but did not get past.

Thus, Massa took his first career Formula One victory, making it the second Grand Prix in a row with a first-time winner, following Button's win in Hungary three weeks earlier. It was the first time this had happened since 2003, when Räikkönen and Fisichella won their first victories at the consecutive Malaysian and Brazilian Grands Prix. Drivers' Championship rivals Alonso and Schumacher completed the podium. Button, de la Rosa, Fisichella, Ralf Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello completed the points-scorers and the cars on the lead lap.

Post-race

The podium display after the race caused controversy when winner Felipe Massa received the trophy from Mehmet Ali Talat, who was referred to as the "President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". This breakaway area of the island of Cyprus is only recognized by Turkey. The government of the Republic of Cyprus filed an official complaint with the FIA, the body governing the Formula One world championship. After investigating the incident, the FIA fined the organizers of the Grand Prix $5 million on 19 September 2006.^[4]

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	Grid
1	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:27.306	1:27.059	1:26.907	1
2	5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1:27.385	1:25.850	1:27.284	2
3	1	Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:27.861	1:26.917	1:27.321	3
4	2	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	1:28.175	1:27.346	1:27.564	4
5	7	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	1:27.668	1:27.062	1:27.569	15¹
6	16	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:28.200	1:27.251	1:27.785	5
7	12	Jenson Button	Honda	1:28.222	1:26.872	1:27.790	6
8	3	Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:28.236	1:27.202	1:27.866	7
9	17	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:28.212	1:27.405	1:28.167	8
10	9	Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth	1:28.307	1:27.608	1:29.436	9
11	15	Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari	1:28.271	1:27.852		10
12	4	Pedro de la Rosa	McLaren-Mercedes	1:28.403	1:27.897		11
13	8	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:28.549	1:27.973		12
14	11	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:28.411	1:28.257		13
15	10	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth	1:28.889	1:28.386		14
16	19	Christijan Albers	MF1-Toyota	1:29.021	1:28.639		22¹
17	14	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari	1:29.136			16
18	21	Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	1:29.158			17
19	20	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	1:29.250			18
20	18	Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota	1:29.901			19
21	23	Sakon Yamamoto	Super Aguri-Honda	1:30.607			20
22	22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	1:30.850			21
Source:^[5]^[6]

Notes

^1 – Ralf Schumacher and Christijan Albers both received 10 place grid penalties due to engine changes.

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	58	1:28:51.082	1	10
2	1	Fernando Alonso	Renault	58	+5.575	3	8
3	5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	58	+5.656	2	6
4	12	Jenson Button	Honda	58	+12.334	6	5
5	4	Pedro de la Rosa	McLaren-Mercedes	58	+45.908	11	4
6	2	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	58	+46.594	4	3
7	7	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	58	+59.337	15	2
8	11	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	58	+1:00.034	13	1
9	8	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	57	+1 lap	12
10	9	Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth	57	+1 lap	9
11	15	Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari	57	+1 lap	10
12	17	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	57	+1 lap	8
13	21	Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	57	+1 lap	17
14	16	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	56	+2 laps	5
15	14	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari	55	Gearbox	16
Ret	19	Christijan Albers	MF1-Toyota	46	Spin	22
NC	22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	41	+17 laps	21
Ret	10	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth	25	Water leak	14
Ret	23	Sakon Yamamoto	Super Aguri-Honda	23	Spin	20
Ret	20	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	12	Spin	18
Ret	3	Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	1	Accident	7
Ret	18	Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota	0	Collision	19
Source:^[7]

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings
	Pos.	Driver	Points
	1	Fernando Alonso*	108
	2	Michael Schumacher*	96
	3	Felipe Massa	62
	4	Giancarlo Fisichella	52
	5	Kimi Räikkönen	49
Source: ^[8]

Constructors' Championship standings
	Pos.	Constructor	Points
	1	Renault*	160
	2	Ferrari*	158
	3	McLaren-Mercedes*	89
	4	Honda	58
1	5	Toyota	28
Source: ^[8]

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
Bold text and an asterisk indicates competitors who still had a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion.

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External links

Detailed Turkish Grand Prix results

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2006 Turkish Grand Prix

Contents

Report

Background

Friday drivers

Practice and qualifying

Race

Post-race

Classification

Qualifying

Race

Championship standings after the race

See also

Related Research Articles

References

External links