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[1]
Location Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England
Course Permanent Road Facility
Course length 5.141 km (3.194 mi)
Distance 60 laps, 308.355 km (191.603 mi)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver
Renault
Time 1:20.253
Fastest lap
Driver Spain Fernando Alonso Renault
Time 1:21.599 on lap 21
Podium
First
  • Spain Fernando Alonso
 Renault
Second
Ferrari
Third
McLaren-Mercedes

The 2006 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 game. Jacques Villeneuve scored his last ever World Championship points at this race, Juan Pablo Montoya also scored his final points.

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.
Pos. No. Driver Constructor Q3 Q2 Q1 Grid
1 1Spain Fernando AlonsoRenault 1:20.253 1:20.271 1:21.018 1
2 3Finland Kimi RäikkönenMcLaren-Mercedes 1:20.397 1:20.497 1:21.648 2
3 5Germany Michael SchumacherFerrari 1:20.574 1:20.659 1:22.096 3
4 6Brazil Felipe MassaFerrari 1:20.764 1:20.846 1:21.647 4
5 2Italy Giancarlo FisichellaRenault 1:20.919 1:20.594 1:22.411 5
6 11Brazil Rubens BarrichelloHonda 1:20.943 1:20.929 1:22.965 6
7 7Germany Ralf SchumacherToyota 1:21.073 1:21.043 1:22.886 7
8 4Colombia Juan Pablo MontoyaMcLaren-Mercedes 1:21.107 1:20.816 1:22.169 8
9 16Germany Nick HeidfeldBMW Sauber 1:21.329 1:20.629 1:21.670 9
10 17Canada Jacques VilleneuveBMW Sauber 1:21.599 1:20.672 1:21.637 10
11 14United Kingdom David CoulthardRed Bull-Ferrari 1:21.442 1:22.424 11
12 10Germany Nico RosbergWilliams-Cosworth 1:21.567 1:23.083 12
13 20Italy Vitantonio LiuzziToro Rosso-Cosworth 1:21.699 1:22.685 13
14 15Austria Christian KlienRed Bull-Ferrari 1:21.990 1:22.773 14
15 21United States Scott SpeedToro Rosso-Cosworth 1:22.076 1:22.541 15
16 18Portugal Tiago MonteiroMF1-Toyota 1:22.207 1:22.860 16
17 9Australia Mark WebberWilliams-Cosworth 1:23.129 17
18 19Netherlands Christijan AlbersMF1-Toyota 1:23.210 18
19 12United Kingdom Jenson ButtonHonda 1:23.247 19
20 22Japan Takuma SatoSuper Aguri-Honda 1:26.158 20
21 23France Franck MontagnySuper Aguri-Honda 1:26.316 21
22 8Italy Jarno TrulliToyota No time 22
Source:[2]

Race

Michael Schumacher finished second, just under 14 seconds behind Fernando Alonso
Pos.No.DriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
1 1Spain Fernando AlonsoRenault 60 1:25:51.927 1 10
2 5Germany Michael SchumacherFerrari 60 +13.951 3 8
3 3Finland Kimi RäikkönenMcLaren-Mercedes 60 +18.672 2 6
4 2Italy Giancarlo FisichellaRenault 60 +19.976 5 5
5 6Brazil Felipe MassaFerrari 60 +31.559 4 4
6 4Colombia Juan Pablo MontoyaMcLaren-Mercedes 60 +1:04.769 8 3
7 16Germany Nick HeidfeldBMW Sauber 60 +1:14.594 9 2
8 17Canada Jacques VilleneuveBMW Sauber 60 +1:18.299 10 1
9 10Germany Nico RosbergWilliams-Cosworth 60 +1:19.008 12
10 11Brazil Rubens BarrichelloHonda 59 +1 lap 6
11 8Italy Jarno TrulliToyota 59 +1 lap 22
12 14United Kingdom David CoulthardRed Bull-Ferrari 59 +1 lap 11
13 20Italy Vitantonio LiuzziToro Rosso-Cosworth 59 +1 lap 13
14 15Austria Christian KlienRed Bull-Ferrari 59 +1 lap 14
15 19Netherlands Christijan AlbersMF1-Toyota 59 +1 lap 18
16 18Portugal Tiago MonteiroMF1-Toyota 58 +2 laps 16
17 22Japan Takuma SatoSuper Aguri-Honda 57 +3 laps 20
18 23France Franck MontagnySuper Aguri-Honda 57 +3 laps 21
Ret 12United Kingdom Jenson ButtonHonda 8 Oil leak 19
Ret 21United States Scott SpeedToro Rosso-Cosworth 1 Collision damage 15
Ret 7Germany Ralf SchumacherToyota 0 Collision 7
Ret 9Australia Mark WebberWilliams-Cosworth 0 Collision 17
Source:[3]

Championship standings after the race

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

References

  1. ↑ Formula 1 Fosters British Grand Prix Official Program. 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Domenjoz, Luc; et al. Formula One Yearbook 2006–2007. Chronosports S.A. p. 132. ISBN 2-84707-110-5.
  3. 1 2 3 Domenjoz, Luc; et al. Formula One Yearbook 2006–2007. Chronosports S.A. p. 135. ISBN 2-84707-110-5.

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