2006 Portuguese Grand Prix

Race details
Race 16 of 17 races in the 2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	15 October 2006
Official name	bwin.com Grande Prémio de Portugal[1]
Location	Autódromo do Estoril
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.182 km (2.599 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:36.200 Fastest lap Rider Kenny Roberts Jr. Time 1:37.914 Podium First Toni Elías Second Valentino Rossi Third Kenny Roberts Jr.
250cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:41.511 Fastest lap Rider Hiroshi Aoyama Time 1:41.676 Podium First Andrea Dovizioso Second Hiroshi Aoyama Third Alex de Angelis
125cc
Pole position Rider Álvaro Bautista Time 1:45.322 Fastest lap Rider Álvaro Bautista Time 1:45.746 Podium First Álvaro Bautista Second Héctor Faubel Third Mika Kallio

The2006 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth race of the2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 13–15 October 2006 at theEstoril circuit. This was the last race won by a non-factory team before the2016 Dutch TT.^[2]

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]

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]

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]

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

Riders' Championship standings Pos. 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 Pos. 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.

• Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix
• 2006 MotoGP race reports
• 2006 in Portuguese motorsport

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