2006 French motorcycle Grand Prix

  2006 French Grand Prix

Race details
Race 5 of 17 races in the 2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	21 May 2006
Official name	Alice Grand Prix de France
Location	Bugatti Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.180 km (2.597 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Dani Pedrosa Time 1:33.990 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:35.087 Podium First Marco Melandri Second Loris Capirossi Third Dani Pedrosa
250cc
Pole position Rider Andrea Dovizioso Time 1:39.733 Fastest lap Rider Hiroshi Aoyama Time 1:39.964 Podium First Yuki Takahashi Second Andrea Dovizioso Third Shuhei Aoyama
125cc
Pole position Rider Mattia Pasini Time 1:44.515 Fastest lap Rider Sergio Gadea Time 1:44.637 Podium First Thomas Lüthi Second Mika Kallio Third Fabrizio Lai

The 2006 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 May 2006 at the Le Mans Bugatti circuit.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Honda	Honda	28	44:57.369	5	25
2	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+1.929	6	20
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+2.269	1	16
4	27	Casey Stoner	Honda LCR	Honda	28	+5.494	11	13
5	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+5.709	10	11
6	5	Colin Edwards	Camel Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+11.519	9	10
7	6	Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	28	+16.692	13	9
8	15	Sete Gibernau	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+18.142	8	8
9	24	Toni Elías	Fortuna Honda	Honda	28	+23.645	16	7
10	71	Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+39.362	12	6
11	7	Carlos Checa	Tech 3 Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+47.730	14	5
12	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	28	+47.782	2	4
13	66	Alex Hofmann	Pramac d'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	28	+1:09.092	18	3
14	77	James Ellison	Tech 3 Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+1:16.172	17	2
15	21	John Hopkins	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	26	+2 laps	3	1
Ret	30	José Luis Cardoso	Pramac d'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	21	Retirement	19
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Camel Yamaha Team	Yamaha	20	Mechanical	7
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	KR211V	1	Retirement	15
Ret	17	Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	0	Accident	4
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	26	43:42.773	4	25
2	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	26	+0.098	1	20
3	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	26	+2.215	5	16
4	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	KTM	26	+2.484	7	13
5	7	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+11.270	2	11
6	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	26	+14.597	9	10
7	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	26	+16.829	3	9
8	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	26	+17.041	11	8
9	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	26	+17.589	12	7
10	96	Jakub Smrž	Aprilia	26	+17.805	6	6
11	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	26	+39.032	13	5
12	8	Andrea Ballerini	Aprilia	26	+41.728	14	4
13	36	Martín Cárdenas	Honda	26	+45.150	18	3
14	19	Sebastián Porto	Honda	26	+46.545	10	2
15	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	26	+55.747	22	1
16	23	Arturo Tizón	Honda	26	+55.846	17
17	54	Manuel Poggiali	KTM	26	+57.241	15
18	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+1:16.941	20
19	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	26	+1:25.856	16
20	31	Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	26	+1:28.715	23
21	22	Luca Morelli	Aprilia	26	+1:31.926	26
22	24	Jordi Carchano	Aprilia	26	+1:39.853	25
23	85	Alessio Palumbo	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	27
Ret	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Aprilia	6	Accident	8
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	0	Accident	21
Ret	45	Dan Linfoot	Honda	0	Accident	24
Ret	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	0	Accident	19
DNQ	47	Marc-Antoine Scaccia	Aprilia		Did not qualify

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	24	42:54.555	9	25
2	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	24	+3.380	6	20
3	32	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	24	+9.807	8	16
4	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	24	+10.789	2	13
5	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+14.850	7	11
6	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	24	+17.226	22	10
7	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	24	+20.577	10	9
8	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	+21.818	12	8
9	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	24	+27.038	11	7
10	24	Simone Corsi	Gilera	24	+30.171	13	6
11	10	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	24	+30.555	20	5
12	60	Julián Simón	KTM	24	+30.815	14	4
13	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Malaguti	24	+30.890	19	3
14	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	24	+31.450	15	2
15	11	Sandro Cortese	Honda	24	+31.872	17	1
16	9	Michael Ranseder	KTM	24	+39.061	27
17	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	24	+45.468	4
18	17	Stefan Bradl	KTM	24	+45.717	23
19	23	Lorenzo Baroni	Honda	24	+46.078	29
20	45	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	24	+46.299	21
21	38	Bradley Smith	Honda	24	+46.581	25
22	43	Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	24	+49.294	30
23	15	Michele Pirro	Aprilia	24	+1:00.773	24
24	37	Joey Litjens	Honda	24	+1:01.128	28
25	44	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	24	+1:05.340	31
26	78	Hugo van den Berg	Aprilia	24	+1:05.989	26
27	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	24	+1:15.109	16
28	26	Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	24	+1:36.501	39
29	7	Alexis Masbou	Malaguti	23	+1 lap	33
30	13	Dino Lombardi	Aprilia	23	+1 lap	40
31	85	Yannick Deschamps	Honda	23	+1 lap	37
Ret	53	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	13	Retirement	35
Ret	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	7	Retirement	18
Ret	20	Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	4	Accident	32
Ret	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	1	Accident	3
Ret	16	Michele Conti	Honda	0	Accident	36
Ret	21	Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	0	Accident	34
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	0	Accident	1
Ret	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	0	Accident	5
Ret	82	Matthieu Lussiana	Honda	0	Accident	38
DNS	83	Clément Dunikowski	Honda		Did not start
DNS	84	Mathieu Olagnon	Honda		Did not start
DNQ	41	Aleix Espargaró	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	12	Federico Sandi	Aprilia		Did not qualify

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Nicky Hayden	83
2	Marco Melandri	79
3	Loris Capirossi	79
4	Dani Pedrosa	73
5	Casey Stoner	65

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	115
2	Ducati	79
3	Yamaha	69
4	Suzuki	35
5	Kawasaki	32

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