2006 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix explained

Grand Prix:	Portuguese
Flag:	Portugal
Official Name:	bwin.com Grande Prémio de Portugal^[1]
Location:	Autódromo do Estoril
Course Mi:	2.599
Course Km:	4.182
Race No:	16
Season No:	17
Date:	15 October
Year:	2006
Pole Rider Motogp:	Valentino Rossi
Pole Rider Motogp Country:	Italy
Pole Time Motogp:	1:36.200
Fast Rider Motogp:	Kenny Roberts Jr.
Fast Rider Motogp Country:	United States
Fast Time Motogp:	1:37.914
First Rider Motogp:	Toni Elías
First Rider Motogp Country:	Spain
Second Rider Motogp:	Valentino Rossi
Second Rider Motogp Country:	Italy
Third Rider Motogp:	Kenny Roberts Jr.
Third Rider Motogp Country:	United States
Pole Rider 250:	Roberto Locatelli
Pole Rider 250 Country:	Italy
Pole Time 250:	1:41.511
Fast Rider 250:	Hiroshi Aoyama
Fast Rider 250 Country:	Japan
Fast Time 250:	1:41.676
First Rider 250:	Andrea Dovizioso
First Rider 250 Country:	Italy
Second Rider 250:	Hiroshi Aoyama
Second Rider 250 Country:	Japan
Third Rider 250:	Alex de Angelis
Third Rider 250 Country:	San Marino
Pole Rider 125:	Álvaro Bautista
Pole Rider 125 Country:	Spain
Pole Time 125:	1:45.322
Fast Rider 125:	Álvaro Bautista
Fast Rider 125 Country:	Spain
Fast Time 125:	1:45.746
First Rider 125:	Álvaro Bautista
First Rider 125 Country:	Spain
Second Rider 125:	Héctor Faubel
Second Rider 125 Country:	Spain
Third Rider 125:	Mika Kallio
Third Rider 125 Country:	Finland

The 2006 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 13–15 October 2006 at the Estoril circuit. This was the last race won by a non-factory team before the 2016 Dutch TT.^[2]

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	24	Toni Elías	Fortuna Honda	Honda	28	46:08.739	11	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Camel Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+0.002	1	20
3	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	KR211V	28	+0.176	13	16
4	5	Colin Edwards	Camel Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+0.864	2	13
5	6	Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	28	+18.419	14	11
6	21	John Hopkins	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+25.181	6	10
7	7	Carlos Checa	Tech 3 Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+29.348	9	9
8	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Honda	Honda	28	+31.813	15	8
9	71	Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+40.117	12	7
10	17	Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	28	+41.496	16	6
11	66	Alex Hofmann	Pramac d'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	28	+41.533	18	5
12	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+44.776	10	4
13	77	James Ellison	Tech 3 Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+1:19.113	17	3
14	30	José Luis Cardoso	Pramac d'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	28	+1:40.716	19	2
15	8	Garry McCoy	Ilmor SRT	Ilmor X3	24	+4 laps	20	1
Ret	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	4	Accident	3
Ret	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	4	Accident	4
Ret	27	Casey Stoner	Honda LCR	Honda	1	Accident	5
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	1	Accident	8
Ret	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	0	Accident	7
Sources: ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	26	44:30.727	7	25
2	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	KTM	26	+0.015	2	20
3	7	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+0.348	6	16
4	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	26	+1.842	1	13
5	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Aprilia	26	+6.402	4	11
6	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	26	+9.619	12	10
7	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	26	+14.303	3	9
8	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	26	+17.222	10	8
9	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	26	+34.819	11	7
10	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	26	+37.976	5	6
11	96	Jakub Smrž	Aprilia	26	+41.584	15	5
12	54	Manuel Poggiali	KTM	26	+42.929	18	4
13	42	Aleix Espargaró	Honda	26	+43.022	8	3
14	52	José David de Gea	Honda	26	+43.040	13	2
15	8	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	26	+43.935	16	1
16	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+59.454	17
17	37	Fabricio Perren	Honda	26	+1:10.952	20
18	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia	26	+1:15.390	19
19	24	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	26	+1:17.577	21
20	23	Arturo Tizón	Honda	26	+1:32.205	23
21	22	Luca Morelli	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	22
22	85	Alessio Palumbo	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	26
23	75	Luke Lawrence	Yamaha	25	+1 lap	29
24	32	João Fernandes	Aprilia	24	+2 laps	27
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	25	Accident	14
Ret	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	15	Retirement	9
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	13	Accident	24
Ret	45	Dan Linfoot	Honda	11	Retirement	28
Ret	65	Alessandro Brannetti	Honda	4	Retirement	25
DNQ	59	Ho Chi Fung	Aprilia		Did not qualify
DNQ	56	Su Rong Zai	Aprilia		Did not qualify
^[6]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	23	40:48.792	1	25
2	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	23	+15.098	2	20
3	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	23	+15.112	11	16
4	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	23	+15.745	3	13
5	60	Julián Simón	KTM	23	+15.778	4	11
6	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Malaguti	23	+27.588	7	10
7	32	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	23	+27.609	6	9
8	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	23	+27.652	8	8
9	24	Simone Corsi	Gilera	23	+31.877	18	7
10	11	Sandro Cortese	Honda	23	+38.878	15	6
11	44	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	23	+39.265	10	5
12	42	Pol Espargaró	Derbi	23	+44.501	23	4
13	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	23	+44.543	22	3
14	12	Federico Sandi	Aprilia	23	+46.069	21	2
15	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	23	+48.087	12	1
16	54	Randy Krummenacher	KTM	23	+59.731	27
17	34	Esteve Rabat	Honda	23	+59.788	19
18	45	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	23	+1:07.489	17
19	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	23	+1:07.519	26
20	49	Kazuma Watanabe	Honda	23	+1:21.367	34
21	16	Michele Conti	Honda	23	+1:21.417	32
22	13	Dino Lombardi	Aprilia	23	+1:26.874	40
23	21	Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	23	+1:29.379	36
24	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	23	+1:29.402	29
25	37	Joey Litjens	Honda	23	+1:29.420	35
26	25	Dominique Aegerter	Aprilia	23	+1:30.416	28
27	67	Blake Leigh-Smith	KTM	23	+1:33.029	33
28	73	Kazuya Otani	Malaguti	23	+1:33.112	39
29	95	Georg Fröhlich	Honda	23	+1:33.183	38
30	69	Michal Šembera	Honda	22	+1 lap	41
Ret	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	19	Retirement	13
Ret	20	Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	19	Accident	24
Ret	53	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	19	Retirement	31
Ret	90	Hiroaki Kuzuhara	Aprilia	19	Retirement	30
Ret	38	Bradley Smith	Honda	15	Accident	20
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	12	Retirement	5
Ret	9	Michael Ranseder	KTM	10	Accident	25
Ret	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	3	Accident	14
Ret	1	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	3	Accident	16
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	1	Accident	9
DNS	87	Roberto Lacalendola	Aprilia	0	Did not start	37
DNS	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia		Did not start
^[7]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.^[8]

Riders' Championship standings

	Rider	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	244
2	Nicky Hayden	236
3	Marco Melandri	217
4	Loris Capirossi	209
5	Dani Pedrosa	202

Constructors' Championship standings

	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	344
2	Yamaha	282
3	Ducati	223
4	Suzuki	146
5	KR211V	126

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

Notes and References

Web site: 2006 Portuguese MotoGP. 13 June 2017. Motorsportmagazine.com. 17 May 2018.
Web site: Jack Miller wins an astonishing Dutch TT.
Web site: 2006 Portuguese MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database. 13 June 2017.
Web site: 2006 Portuguese Grand Prix : Classifications : 500cc. PDF. Resources.motogp.com. 17 May 2018.
Web site: motogp.com · bwin.com GRANDE PREMIO DE PORTUGAL · MotoGP Race Classification 2006. www.motogp.com.
Web site: 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix : Classifications : 250cc. PDF. Resources.motogp.com. 17 May 2018.
Web site: 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix : Classifications : 500cc. PDF. Resources.motogp.com. 17 May 2018.
Web site: Standings . 2006. resources.motogp.com . PDF. 2019-08-22.