2006 German motorcycle Grand Prix

  2006 German Grand Prix

Race details
Race 10 of 17 races in the 2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	16 July 2006
Location	Sachsenring
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.671 km (2.281 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Dani Pedrosa
Time	1:21.815
Fastest lap
Rider	Dani Pedrosa
Time	1:23.355
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Marco Melandri
Third	Nicky Hayden
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Jorge Lorenzo
Time	1:25.073
Fastest lap
Rider	Alex de Angelis
Time	1:25.284
Podium
First	Yuki Takahashi
Second	Alex de Angelis
Third	Jorge Lorenzo
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Lukáš Pešek
Time	1:27.064
Fastest lap
Rider	Álvaro Bautista
Time	1:27.519
Podium
First	Mattia Pasini
Second	Álvaro Bautista
Third	Lukáš Pešek

The 2006 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 2006 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 14–16 July 2006 at the Sachsenring. This was the 700th race to contribute to the Grand Prix motorcycle racing championship.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	30	41:59.248	10	25
2	33	Marco Melandri	Honda	30	+0.145	6	20
3	69	Nicky Hayden	Honda	30	+0.266	3	16
4	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	30	+0.307	1	13
5	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati	30	+8.764	5	11
6	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki	30	+9.147	4	10
7	71	Chris Vermeulen	Suzuki	30	+16.608	13	9
8	15	Sete Gibernau	Ducati	30	+16.648	7	8
9	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	30	+17.097	11	7
10	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki	30	+17.786	8	6
11	24	Toni Elías	Honda	30	+27.425	15	5
12	5	Colin Edwards	Yamaha	30	+29.308	14	4
13	77	James Ellison	Yamaha	30	+1:02.029	17	3
14	30	José Luis Cardoso	Ducati	30	+1:19.997	18	2
Ret	17	Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki	12	Retirement	12
Ret	6	Makoto Tamada	Honda	10	Accident	9
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	KR211V	10	Accident	2
Ret	66	Alex Hofmann	Ducati	2	Retirement	16
DNS	27	Casey Stoner	Honda		Did not start
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

Championship standings after the race

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Nicky Hayden 169 2 Valentino Rossi 143 3 Dani Pedrosa 140 4 Marco Melandri 134 5 Loris Capirossi 118

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 221 2 Yamaha 172 3 Ducati 127 4 Suzuki 81 5 Kawasaki 71

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

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	29	41:30.350	2	25
2	7	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	29	+0.058	5	20
3	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Aprilia	29	+1.013	1	16
4	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	29	+4.021	8	13
5	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	29	+9.384	3	11
6	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	29	+19.242	4	10
7	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	29	+26.457	7	9
8	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	KTM	29	+26.607	6	8
9	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	29	+26.741	10	7
10	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	29	+30.621	11	6
11	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	29	+44.754	12	5
12	9	Franco Battaini	Aprilia	29	+45.063	18	4
13	54	Manuel Poggiali	KTM	29	+48.793	13	3
14	96	Jakub Smrž	Aprilia	29	+52.317	15	2
15	42	Aleix Espargaró	Honda	29	+52.369	19	1
16	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	29	+52.577	14
17	37	Fabricio Perren	Honda	29	+1:00.025	20
18	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	29	+1:12.090	25
19	45	Dan Linfoot	Honda	28	+1 lap	23
20	24	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	28	+1 lap	21
21	22	Luca Morelli	Aprilia	28	+1 lap	26
22	78	Meik Kevin Minnerop	Honda	28	+1 lap	30
23	17	Franz Aschenbrenner	Honda	28	+1 lap	29
Ret	67	Nicklas Cajback	Aprilia	21	Retirement	27
Ret	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	14	Accident	9
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	11	Retirement	24
Ret	79	Andreas Mårtensson	Aprilia	7	Accident	28
Ret	36	Martín Cárdenas	Honda	5	Accident	16
Ret	23	Arturo Tizón	Honda	4	Retirement	17
Ret	8	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	3	Accident	22
WD	85	Alessio Palumbo	Aprilia		Withdrew
OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	27	39:44.091	3	25
2	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	27	+0.010	2	20
3	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	27	+0.111	1	16
4	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	27	+9.298	10	13
5	24	Simone Corsi	Gilera	27	+9.372	9	11
6	1	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	27	+10.570	13	10
7	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	27	+11.835	5	9
8	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	27	+11.905	4	8
9	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	27	+26.017	16	7
10	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	27	+26.172	12	6
11	32	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	27	+26.361	6	5
12	38	Bradley Smith	Honda	27	+26.389	14	4
13	11	Sandro Cortese	Honda	27	+26.480	11	3
14	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	27	+26.606	7	2
15	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Malaguti	27	+27.068	15	1
16	54	Randy Krummenacher	KTM	27	+27.192	21
17	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	27	+46.145	23
18	17	Stefan Bradl	KTM	27	+46.201	18
19	95	Georg Fröhlich	Honda	27	+56.274	28
20	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	27	+56.549	25
21	26	Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	27	+56.782	31
22	12	Federico Sandi	Aprilia	27	+57.073	27
23	15	Michele Pirro	Aprilia	27	+57.474	22
24	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	27	+57.707	20
25	7	Alexis Masbou	Malaguti	27	+1:04.698	37
26	16	Michele Conti	Honda	27	+1:04.793	32
27	45	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	27	+1:07.754	19
28	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	27	+1:17.323	30
29	23	Lorenzo Baroni	Honda	27	+1:17.507	26
30	21	Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	27	+1:20.583	29
31	34	Esteve Rabat	Honda	27	+1:24.772	39
32	98	Toni Wirsing	Honda	26	+1 lap	42
Ret	61	Robin Lässer	KTM	17	Retirement	36
Ret	44	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	16	Retirement	33
Ret	13	Dino Lombardi	Aprilia	13	Retirement	41
Ret	37	Joey Litjens	Honda	11	Retirement	38
Ret	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	9	Retirement	8
Ret	83	Clément Dunikowski	Honda	7	Retirement	40
Ret	53	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	6	Accident	35
Ret	72	Eric Hübsch	Aprilia	5	Retirement	34
Ret	20	Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	4	Accident	24
Ret	10	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	1	Retirement	17
DNS	97	Joshua Sommer	Aprilia		Did not start
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

References

• "MotoGP official website – Results & Statistics – betandwin.com Motorrad GP Deutschland 2006". Retrieved 2010-06-25.