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2006 British motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
Grand Prix	British
flag	UK
Official Name	GAS British Grand Prix
Location	Donington Park
Image	Donington as of 2006.svg
Course_mi	2.500
Course_km	4.023
Race_No	9
Season_No	17
Date	2 July
Year	2006
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Dani Pedrosa
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Pole_Time_MotoGP	1:27.676
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Dani Pedrosa
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Fast_Time_MotoGP	1:28.714
First_Rider_MotoGP	Dani Pedrosa
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Marco Melandri
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Pole_Rider_250	Jorge Lorenzo
Pole_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Pole_Time_250	1:31.659
Fast_Rider_250	Andrea Dovizioso
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Italy
Fast_Time_250	1:33.029
First_Rider_250	Jorge Lorenzo
First_Rider_250_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_250	Alex de Angelis
Second_Rider_250_Country	San Marino
Third_Rider_250	Hiroshi Aoyama
Third_Rider_250_Country	Japan
Pole_Rider_125	Álvaro Bautista
Pole_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Pole_Time_125	1:36.203
Fast_Rider_125	Álvaro Bautista
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Fast_Time_125	1:37.312
First_Rider_125	Álvaro Bautista
First_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Second_Rider_125	Mika Kallio
Second_Rider_125_Country	Finland
Third_Rider_125	Mattia Pasini
Third_Rider_125_Country	Italy

The 2006 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2006 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 30 June – 2 July 2006 at the Donington Park circuit.

Dani Pedrosa, lifting his trophy on the podium after winning the MotoGP race.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
26	ESP Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	44:54.878	1	25
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Camel Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+3.864	12	20
33	ITA Marco Melandri	Fortuna Honda	Honda	30	+4.016	3	16
27	AUS Casey Stoner	Honda LCR	Honda	30	+5.776	8	13
10	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	KR211V	30	+9.596	9	11
5	USA Colin Edwards	Camel Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+21.710	10	10
69	USA Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+25.764	11	9
21	USA John Hopkins	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	30	+29.034	4	8
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+35.606	5	7
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Tech 3 Yamaha	Yamaha	30	+40.442	13	6
6	JPN Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	30	+41.062	14	5
17	FRA Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+42.197	6	4
66	DEU Alex Hofmann	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+51.454	15	3
77	GBR James Ellison	Tech 3 Yamaha	Yamaha	30	+1:17.804	16	2
30	ESP José Luis Cardoso	Pramac d'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	29	+1 lap	18	1
71	AUS Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	29	+1 lap	2
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	13	Retirement	7
22	ESP Iván Silva	Pramac d'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	5	Retirement	17
84	ITA Michel Fabrizio	Fortuna Honda	Honda		Withdrew

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
48	ESP Jorge Lorenzo	Aprilia	27	42:16.321	1	25
7	SMR Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	27	+6.257	4	20
4	JPN Hiroshi Aoyama	KTM	27	+7.366	3	16
15	ITA Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	27	+14.788	7	13
80	ESP Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	27	+20.341	6	11
34	ITA Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	27	+23.010	2	10
55	JPN Yuki Takahashi	Honda	27	+23.644	11	9
50	FRA Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	27	+26.070	13	8
14	AUS Anthony West	Aprilia	27	+31.575	12	7
58	ITA Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	27	+41.298	9	6
96	CZE Jakub Smrž	Aprilia	27	+48.440	10	5
42	ESP Aleix Espargaró	Honda	27	+1:02.743	16	4
73	JPN Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	27	+1:03.564	5	3
16	FRA Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	27	+1:06.165	18	2
8	ITA Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	27	+1:06.461	14	1
25	ITA Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	27	+1:06.818	20
23	ESP Arturo Tizón	Honda	27	+1:09.129	17
9	ITA Franco Battaini	Aprilia	27	+1:09.498	15
22	ITA Luca Morelli	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	22
17	DEU Franz Aschenbrenner	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	24
67	SWE Nicklas Cajback	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	27
54	SMR Manuel Poggiali	KTM	23	Accident	8
24	ESP Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	22	Retirement	25
37	ARG Fabricio Perren	Honda	17	Accident	19
45	GBR Dan Linfoot	Honda	4	Accident	21
57	GBR Chaz Davies	Honda	2	Accident	23
75	GBR Luke Lawrence	Yamaha	2	Accident	26
76	GBR Alex Kenchington	Yamaha		Did not qualify
77	GBR Ian Gardner	Yamaha		Did not qualify

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
19	ESP Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	25	40:49.054	1	25
36	FIN Mika Kallio	KTM	25	+3.454	2	20
75	ITA Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	25	+3.499	3	16
55	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	25	+14.869	6	13
33	ESP Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	25	+17.032	5	11
6	ESP Joan Olivé	Aprilia	25	+20.683	8	10
52	CZE Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	25	+22.286	7	9
1	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Honda	25	+24.899	10	8
18	ESP Nicolás Terol	Derbi	25	+25.138	9	7
14	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	25	+25.276	15	6
32	ITA Fabrizio Lai	Honda	25	+28.254	11	5
38	GBR Bradley Smith	Honda	25	+30.064	13	4
24	ITA Simone Corsi	Gilera	25	+37.120	4	3
11	DEU Sandro Cortese	Honda	25	+38.214	14	2
8	ITA Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	25	+38.592	16	1
63	FRA Mike Di Meglio	Honda	25	+39.964	30
29	ITA Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	25	+45.145	18
9	AUT Michael Ranseder	KTM	25	+45.146	19
10	ESP Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	25	+48.066	17
54	CHE Randy Krummenacher	KTM	25	+52.668	25
21	ESP Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	25	+53.161	20
26	CHE Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	25	+53.581	32
12	ITA Federico Sandi	Aprilia	25	+58.185	26
53	ITA Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	25	+1:01.101	35
16	ITA Michele Conti	Honda	25	+1:05.686	29
90	JPN Hiroaki Kuzuhara	Malaguti	25	+1:05.836	39
23	ITA Lorenzo Baroni	Honda	25	+1:10.078	28
44	CZE Karel Abraham	Aprilia	25	+1:12.056	27
20	ITA Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	25	+1:38.823	24
66	GBR Anthony Rogers	Honda	24	+1 lap	43
67	AUS Blake Leigh-Smith	Honda	24	+1 lap	41
95	DEU Georg Fröhlich	Malaguti	24	+1 lap	33
65	GBR Kyle Kentish	Honda	24	+1 lap	42
96	GBR Daniel Cooper	Honda	23	Retirement	38
15	ITA Michele Pirro	Aprilia	13	Retirement	36
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	13	Retirement	21
34	ESP Esteve Rabat	Honda	10	Accident	22
17	DEU Stefan Bradl	KTM	3	Retirement	34
35	ITA Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	2	Accident	12
43	ESP Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	0	Accident	23
45	HUN Imre Tóth	Aprilia	0	Accident	31
64	GBR Alex Lowes	Honda	0	Retirement	40
13	ITA Dino Lombardi	Aprilia	25	+1:48.750	37
37	NLD Joey Litjens	Honda		Did not start

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded.

;Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	USA Nicky Hayden	153
2	ESP Dani Pedrosa	127
3	ITA Valentino Rossi	118
4	ITA Marco Melandri	114
5	ITA Loris Capirossi	107

;Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	JPN Honda	201
2	JPN Yamaha	147
3	ITA Ducati	116
4	JPN Suzuki	72
5	USA KR211V	66

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

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2005 British Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 2007 British Grand Prix

References

(13 June 2017). "2006 British MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
Mitchell, Malcolm. "2006 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
Mitchell, Malcolm. "Donington Park - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
"OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT".
"GAS BRITISH GRAND PRIX · MotoGP Race Classification 2006".
(2006). "Standings".

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