2006 British Grand Prix

The 2006 British Grand Prix was the eighth race of the 2006 Formula One World Championship. It took place on the weekend of 9–11 June 2006 at the Silverstone Circuit.

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.

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.

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 Pit 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.

Qualifying results

From :

Pos	Nat	Name	Constructor	Part 3	Part 2	Part 1
1		Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:20.253	1:20.271	1:21.018
2		Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:20.397	1:20.497	1:21.648
3		Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1:20.574	1:20.659	1:22.096
4		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:20.764	1:20.846	1:21.647
5		Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	1:20.919	1:20.594	1:22.411
6		Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:20.943	1:20.929	1:22.965
7		Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	1:21.073	1:21.043	1:22.886
8		Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren-Mercedes	1:21.107	1:20.816	1:22.169
9		Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:21.329	1:20.629	1:21.670
10		Jacques Villeneuve	BMW Sauber	1:21.599	1:20.672	1:21.637
11		David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari		1:21.442	1:22.424
12		Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth		1:21.567	1:23.083
13		Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth		1:21.699	1:22.685
14		Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari		1:21.990	1:22.773
15		Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth		1:22.076	1:22.541
16		Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota		1:22.207	1:22.860
17		Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth			1:23.129
18		Christijan Albers	MF1-Toyota			1:23.210
19		Jenson Button	Honda			1:23.247
20		Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda			1:26.158
21		Franck Montagny	Super Aguri-Honda			1:26.316
22		Jarno Trulli	Toyota			No time

Race

From :

Pos	No	Nat	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1		Fernando Alonso	Renault	60	1:25:51.927	1	10
2	5		Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	60	+13.951	3	8
3	3		Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	60	+18.672	2	6
4	2		Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	60	+19.976	5	5
5	6		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	60	+31.559	4	4
6	4		Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren-Mercedes	60	+1:04.769	8	3
7	16		Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	60	+1:14.594	9	2
8	17		Jacques Villeneuve	BMW Sauber	60	+1:18.299	10	1
9	10		Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth	60	+1:19.008	12
10	11		Rubens Barrichello	Honda	59	+1 lap	6
11	8		Jarno Trulli	Toyota	59	+1 lap	22
12	14		David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari	59	+1 lap	11
13	20		Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	59	+1 lap	13
14	15		Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari	59	+1 lap	14
15	19		Christijan Albers	MF1-Toyota	59	+1 lap	18
16	18		Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota	58	+2 laps	16
17	22		Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	57	+3 laps	20
18	23		Franck Montagny	Super Aguri-Honda	57	+3 laps	21
Ret	12		Jenson Button	Honda	8	Oil leak	19
Ret	21		Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	1	Accident damage	15
Ret	7		Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	0	Accident	7
Ret	9		Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth	0	Accident	17

Notes

• Lap Leaders: Fernando Alonso, Lap 1–44, 46–60; Giancarlo Fisichella, Lap 45
• Last points for: Juan Pablo Montoya, Jacques Villeneuve

Standings after the race

Note, only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Fernando Alonso	74
2	Michael Schumacher	51
3	Kimi Räikkönen	33
4	Giancarlo Fisichella	32
5	Juan Pablo Montoya	26

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos	Constructor	Points
1	Renault	106
2	Ferrari	75
3	McLaren–Mercedes	59
4	Honda	29
5	BMW Sauber	17

References

External links

• Detailed British Grand Prix results

Race Reports

• Formula1.com
• ITV-F1.com
• F1Racing.net
• Motorsport.com
• ManipeF1.com