2006 Turkish motorcycle Grand Prix

  2006 Turkish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 3 of 17 races in the 2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	April 30, 2006
Location	Istanbul Park
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.340 km (3.318 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Chris Vermeulen
Time	2:04.617
Fastest lap
Rider	Toni Elías
Time	1:52.877
Podium
First	Marco Melandri
Second	Casey Stoner
Third	Nicky Hayden
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Jorge Lorenzo
Time	1:57.841
Fastest lap
Rider	Alex de Angelis
Time	1:58.469
Podium
First	Hiroshi Aoyama
Second	Héctor Barberá
Third	Andrea Dovizioso
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Álvaro Bautista
Time	2:04.035
Fastest lap
Rider	Joan Olivé
Time	2:03.825
Podium
First	Héctor Faubel
Second	Álvaro Bautista
Third	Sergio Gadea

The 2006 Turkish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of April 28–30, 2006, at the Istanbul Park circuit. The thrilling race saw Australian Casey Stoner almost grab his first win before being beaten at the final corner by Marco Melandri. The 250cc race saw a number of riders eliminated at the first corner.

Moto GP classification

Pos	No	Driver	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	33	Marco Melandri	Honda	22	41:54.065	14	25
2	27	Casey Stoner	Honda	22	+0.200	7	20
3	69	Nicky Hayden	Honda	22	+5.458	2	16
4	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	22	+6.209	11	13
5	24	Toni Elías	Honda	22	+6.587	12	11
6	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati	22	+16.682	4	10
7	71	Chris Vermeulen	Suzuki	22	+16.777	1	9
8	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki	22	+21.537	8	8
9	5	Colin Edwards	Yamaha	22	+22.847	9	7
10	6	Makoto Tamada	Honda	22	+30.483	13	6
11	15	Sete Gibernau	Ducati	22	+30.543	3	5
12	17	Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki	22	+34.284	6	4
13	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	KR211V	22	+45.112	10	3
14	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	22	+53.525	16	2
15	7	Carlos Checa	Yamaha	22	+59.855	15	1
16	66	Alex Hofmann	Ducati	22	+1:01.241	17
17	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki	22	+1:38.628	5
18	77	James Ellison	Yamaha	21	+1 Lap	19
NC	30	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	15	+7 Laps	18
OFFICIAL MOTOGP REPORT

250cc classification

Pos	No	Driver	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	KTM	20	40:02.376	6	25
2	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	20	+0.401	5	20
3	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	20	+0.467	3	16
4	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	20	+0.641	13	13
5	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	20	+2.555	4	11
6	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	20	+10.554	8	10
7	96	Jakub Smrž	Aprilia	20	+12.534	10	9
8	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	20	+16.887	16	8
9	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	20	+17.348	12	7
10	19	Sebastián Porto	Honda	20	+20.910	9	6
11	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	20	+28.425	7	5
12	7	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	20	+35.956	2	4
13	36	Martín Cárdenas	Honda	20	+48.291	22	3
14	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	20	+1:00.604	15	2
15	54	Manuel Poggiali	KTM	20	+1:03.888	18	1
16	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	20	+1:09.340	19
17	24	Jordi Carchano	Honda	20	+1:38.360	25
18	22	Luca Morelli	Aprilia	20	+1:59.179	23
19	40	Sinan Sofuoğlu	Honda	19	+1 Lap	26
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	8	Accident	11
Ret	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	8		20
Ret	23	Arturo Tizón	Honda	7		21
Ret	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	1	Accident	14
Ret	41	Michele Danese	Aprilia	0	Accident	24
Ret	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Aprilia	0	Accident	1
Ret	8	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	0	Accident	17
Ret	85	Alessio Palumbo	Aprilia	0		27
OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT

125cc classification

Pos	No	Driver	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	19	39:30.095	4	25
2	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	19	+0.243	1	20
3	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	19	+7.240	16	16
4	24	Simone Corsi	Gilera	19	+8.340	3	13
5	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	19	+9.127	9	11
6	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	19	+10.749	6	10
7	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	19	+18.258	10	9
8	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	19	+22.800	12	8
9	29	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Malaguti	19	+23.224	20	7
10	10	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	19	+23.240	14	6
11	61	Julián Simón	KTM	19	+23.521	7	5
12	1	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	19	+23.639	11	4
13	32	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	19	+23.656	13	3
14	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	19	+23.716	8	2
15	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	19	+36.240	18	1
16	11	Sandro Cortese	Honda	19	+36.311	22
17	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	19	+42.922	2
18	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	19	+43.248	24
19	17	Stefan Bradl	KTM	19	+55.975	29
20	7	Alexis Masbou	Malaguti	19	+56.027	25
21	41	Aleix Espargaró	Honda	19	+56.352	30
22	44	Karel Abrahám	Aprilia	19	+56.753	32
23	16	Michele Conti	Honda	19	+57.435	33
24	35	Raffaele de Rosa	Aprilia	19	+59.703	19
25	21	Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	19	+59.842	34
26	9	Michael Ranseder	KTM	19	+1:00.567	31
27	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	19	+1:00.793	21
28	23	Lorenzo Baroni	Honda	19	+1:09.219	27
29	45	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	19	+1:20.747	23
30	53	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	19	+1:22.635	35
31	20	Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	19	+1:28.342	39
32	26	Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	19	+1:29.066	36
33	13	Dino Lombardi	Aprilia	19	+1:33.910	38
34	37	Joey Litjens	Honda	19	+1:34.580	37
35	12	Federico Sandi	Aprilia	19	+1:42.683	17
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	16		5
Ret	38	Bradley Smith	Honda	12	Accident	26
Ret	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	10	Accident	15
Ret	15	Michele Pirro	Aprilia	3		28
DNQ	81	Robert Mureşan	Aprilia
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

References

• "MotoGP Official Website - Results & Statistics - 2006 Grand Prix of Turkey". http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2006/TUR/.