2006 British Grand Prix

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.

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 Fernando Alonso Renault
Time 1:21.599 on lap 21
Podium
First
  • Fernando Alonso
 Renault
Second
Ferrari
Third
McLaren-Mercedes

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 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, 10 months, 13 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.

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

Race
Michael Schumacher finished second, just under 14 seconds behind Fernando Alonso
Pos.No.DriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
1 1 Fernando AlonsoRenault 60 1:25:51.927 1 10
2 5 Michael SchumacherFerrari 60 +13.951 3 8
3 3 Kimi RäikkönenMcLaren-Mercedes 60 +18.672 2 6
4 2 Giancarlo FisichellaRenault 60 +19.976 5 5
5 6 Felipe MassaFerrari 60 +31.559 4 4
6 4 Juan Pablo MontoyaMcLaren-Mercedes 60 +1:04.769 8 3
7 16 Nick HeidfeldBMW Sauber 60 +1:14.594 9 2
8 17 Jacques VilleneuveBMW Sauber 60 +1:18.299 10 1
9 10 Nico RosbergWilliams-Cosworth 60 +1:19.008 12
10 11 Rubens BarrichelloHonda 59 +1 lap 6
11 8 Jarno TrulliToyota 59 +1 lap 22
12 14 David CoulthardRed Bull-Ferrari 59 +1 lap 11
13 20 Vitantonio LiuzziToro Rosso-Cosworth 59 +1 lap 13
14 15 Christian KlienRed Bull-Ferrari 59 +1 lap 14
15 19 Christijan AlbersMF1-Toyota 59 +1 lap 18
16 18 Tiago MonteiroMF1-Toyota 58 +2 laps 16
17 22 Takuma SatoSuper Aguri-Honda 57 +3 laps 20
18 23 Franck MontagnySuper Aguri-Honda 57 +3 laps 21
Ret 12 Jenson ButtonHonda 8 Oil leak 19
Ret 21 Scott SpeedToro Rosso-Cosworth 1 Collision damage 15
Ret 7 Ralf SchumacherToyota 0 Collision 7
Ret 9 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.
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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. Domenjoz, Luc; et al. Formula One Yearbook 2006–2007. Chronosports S.A. p. 135. ISBN 2-84707-110-5.
  4. "Britain 2006 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

Race reports
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2007 British Grand Prix

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