2006 British Grand Prix

  2006 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 8 of 18 in the 2006 Formula One season
The Silverstone Circuit modified in 2000
Date	11 June 2006
Official name	2006 Formula 1 Foster's British Grand Prix
Location	Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England
Course	Permanent Road Facility 5.141 km (3.194 mi)
Distance	60 laps, 308.355 km (191.603 mi)
Weather	Fine
Pole position
Driver	Fernando Alonso	Renault
Time	1:20.253
Fastest lap
Driver	Fernando Alonso	Renault
Time	1:21.599 on lap 21
Podium
First	Fernando Alonso	Renault
Second	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
Third	Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes

The 2006 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 11, 2006 at the Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England. The race, contested over 60 laps, was the eighth round of the 2006 Formula One season.

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.

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, 10 months, 13 days) to get the Hat Trick (pole position, winning and fastest lap in same Grand Prix). He fell one lap short of clinching the Grand Chelem (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 very 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.

Classification

Qualifying

Fernando Alonso took pole position, fastest lap, and race victory, leading every lap of the race except one.

From:

Pos	Nat	Driver	Constructor	Part 3	Part 2	Part 1
1		Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:20.253	1:20.271	1:21.018
2		Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:20.397	1:20.497	1:21.648
3		Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1:20.574	1:20.659	1:22.096
4		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:20.764	1:20.846	1:21.647
5		Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	1:20.919	1:20.594	1:22.411
6		Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:20.943	1:20.929	1:22.965
7		Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	1:21.073	1:21.043	1:22.886
8		Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren-Mercedes	1:21.107	1:20.816	1:22.169
9		Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:21.329	1:20.629	1:21.670
10		Jacques Villeneuve	BMW Sauber	1:21.599	1:20.672	1:21.637
11		David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari		1:21.442	1:22.424
12		Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth		1:21.567	1:23.083
13		Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth		1:21.699	1:22.685
14		Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari		1:21.990	1:22.773
15		Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth		1:22.076	1:22.541
16		Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota		1:22.207	1:22.860
17		Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth			1:23.129
18		Christijan Albers	MF1-Toyota			1:23.210
19		Jenson Button	Honda			1:23.247
20		Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda			1:26.158
21		Franck Montagny	Super Aguri-Honda			1:26.316
22		Jarno Trulli	Toyota			No time

Race

From:

Michael Schumacher finished second, just under 14 seconds behind Fernando Alonso

Pos	No	Nat	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1		Fernando Alonso	Renault	60	1:25:51.927	1	10
2	5		Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	60	+13.951	3	8
3	3		Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	60	+18.672	2	6
4	2		Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	60	+19.976	5	5
5	6		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	60	+31.559	4	4
6	4		Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren-Mercedes	60	+1:04.769	8	3
7	16		Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	60	+1:14.594	9	2
8	17		Jacques Villeneuve	BMW Sauber	60	+1:18.299	10	1
9	10		Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth	60	+1:19.008	12
10	11		Rubens Barrichello	Honda	59	+1 lap	6
11	8		Jarno Trulli	Toyota	59	+1 lap	22
12	14		David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari	59	+1 lap	11
13	20		Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	59	+1 lap	13
14	15		Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari	59	+1 lap	14
15	19		Christijan Albers	MF1-Toyota	59	+1 lap	18
16	18		Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota	58	+2 laps	16
17	22		Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	57	+3 laps	20
18	23		Franck Montagny	Super Aguri-Honda	57	+3 laps	21
Ret	12		Jenson Button	Honda	8	Oil leak	19
Ret	21		Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	1	Collision damage	15
Ret	7		Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	0	Collision	7
Ret	9		Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth	0	Collision	17

Standings after the race

Note, only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Fernando Alonso 74 2 Michael Schumacher 51 3 Kimi Räikkönen 33 4 Giancarlo Fisichella 32 5 Juan Pablo Montoya 26

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Renault 106 2 Ferrari 75 3 McLaren-Mercedes 59 4 Honda 29 5 BMW Sauber 17

External links

• Detailed British Grand Prix results

Race Reports

• Formula1.com
• ITV-F1.com
• GPUpdate.net
• Motorsport.com
• ManipeF1.com

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