2006 British Grand Prix

2006 British Grand Prix
2006 British Grand Prix
Race 8 of 18 in the 2006 Formula One World Championship
	Silverstone Circuit in 2006
Race details
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
Course length	5.141 km (3.194 miles)
Distance	60 laps, 308.355 km (191.603 miles)
Weather	Sunny
Pole position
Driver	Fernando Alonso;
Time	1:20.253
Fastest lap
Driver	Fernando Alonso
Time	1:21.599 on lap 21
Podium
First	Fernando Alonso;
Second	Michael Schumacher;
Third	Kimi Räikkönen;
	Lap leaders ;

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.

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 match. 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.

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

Classification

Qualifying

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

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	Grid
1	1	Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:21.018	1:20.271	1:20.253	1
2	3	Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:21.648	1:20.497	1:20.397	2
3	5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1:22.096	1:20.659	1:20.574	3
4	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:21.647	1:20.846	1:20.764	4
5	2	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	1:22.411	1:20.594	1:20.919	5
6	11	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:22.965	1:20.929	1:20.943	6
7	7	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	1:22.886	1:21.043	1:21.073	7
8	4	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren-Mercedes	1:22.169	1:20.816	1:21.107	8
9	16	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:21.670	1:20.629	1:21.329	9
10	17	Jacques Villeneuve	BMW Sauber	1:21.637	1:20.672	1:21.599	10
11	14	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari	1:22.424	1:21.442		11
12	10	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth	1:23.083	1:21.567		12
13	20	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	1:22.685	1:21.699		13
14	15	Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari	1:22.773	1:21.990		14
15	21	Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	1:22.541	1:22.076		15
16	18	Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota	1:22.860	1:22.207		16
17	9	Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth	1:23.129			17
18	19	Christijan Albers	MF1-Toyota	1:23.210			18
19	12	Jenson Button	Honda	1:23.247			19
20	22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	1:26.158			21¹
21	23	Franck Montagny	Super Aguri-Honda	1:26.316			20
22	8	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	No time			22
Source:^[2]

Notes

^1 – Takuma Sato was handed a 10 place grid penalty following a chassis and engine change after the Saturday morning practice session.

Race

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

Pos.	No.	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	21
18	23	Franck Montagny	Super Aguri-Honda	57	+3 laps	20
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
Source:^[3]

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos.	Driver	Points
	1	Fernando Alonso	74
	2	Michael Schumacher	51
1	3	Kimi Räikkönen	33
1	4	Giancarlo Fisichella	32
	5	Juan Pablo Montoya	26
Source: ^[4]

Constructors' Championship standings

	Pos.	Constructor	Points
	1	Renault	106
	2	Ferrari	75
	3	McLaren-Mercedes	59
	4	Honda	29
	5	BMW Sauber	17
Source: ^[4]

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

References

^ "British". Formula1.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2006. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
^ Domenjoz, Luc; et al. (February 2007). Formula One Yearbook 2006–2007. Chronosports S.A. p. 132. ISBN 978-2-84707-110-8.
^ Domenjoz, Luc; et al. (February 2007). Formula One Yearbook 2006–2007. Chronosports S.A. p. 135. ISBN 978-2-84707-110-8.
^ ^a ^b "Britain 2006 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

External links

Detailed British Grand Prix results (archived)

Race reports

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[1] "British". Formula1.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2006. Retrieved 2 January 2021.

[2] Domenjoz, Luc; et al. (February 2007). Formula One Yearbook 2006–2007. Chronosports S.A. p. 132. ISBN 978-2-84707-110-8.

[f1yearbook-3] Domenjoz, Luc; et al. (February 2007). Formula One Yearbook 2006–2007. Chronosports S.A. p. 135. ISBN 978-2-84707-110-8.

[champ-4] "Britain 2006 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

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