2006 European Grand Prix

The 2006 European Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 2006 Formula One World Championship. It was held on the weekend of May 5th–7th 2006 at the Nürburgring. Franck Montagny made his Formula One debut, becoming the first French F1 driver for 18 months.

The qualifying session was affected by a red flag situation appearing on the timing monitors with 3 1/2 minutes left. Unfortunately, this was due to a timing glitch, and the session was quickly restarted. Christian Klien felt that he lost out through it, having abandoned a lap thinking it they would not count. Initially Jacques Villeneuve was outside the top 16, however the time for his lap (which he continued on during the red flag) was later recalled and placed him 7th in the session.

Qualifying results

Pos	Nat	Name	Team/Engine	Part 3	Part 2	Part 1
1		Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:29.816	1:30.336	1:31.138
2		Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1:30.028	1:30.013	1:31.235
3		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:30.407	1:30.732	1:31.921
4		Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:30.754	1:30.469	1:31.671
5		Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:30.933	1:30.203	1:31.263
6		Jenson Button	Honda	1:30.940	1:30.755	1:31.420
7		Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:31.419	1:30.733	1:31.809
8*		Jacques Villeneuve	BMW Sauber-BMW	1:31.542	1:30.865	1:31.545
9		Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren-Mercedes	1:31.880	1:30.671	1:31.774
10†		Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth	1:33.405	1:30.892	1:31.712
11		Ralf Schumacher	Toyota		1:30.944	1:31.470
12†		Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth		1:31.194	1:32.053
13		Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault		1:31.197	1:31.574
14		David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari		1:31.227	1:31.742
15		Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber-BMW		1:31.422	1:31.457
16		Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth		1:31.728	1:32.651
17		Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari			1:32.901
18		Christijan Albers	MF1-Toyota			1:32.936
19		Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth			1:32.992
20		Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota			1:33.658
21		Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda			1:35.239
22		Franck Montagny	Super Aguri-Honda			1:46.505

Notes

• * Jacques Villeneuve's fastest three laps from the 3rd qualifying session have been cancelled due to his impeding the progress of Giancarlo Fisichella. As a result of this, Villeneuve was demoted to 9th place for the start of the race.
• † Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg both had their engines changed, and were both dropped ten places on the grid on Sunday. They started the race in 19th and 22nd places respectively.

Race

1	5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	60	1:35:58.765	2	10
2	1	Fernando Alonso	Renault	60	+3.7 secs	1	8
3	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	60	+4.4 secs	3	6
4	3	Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	60	+4.8 secs	5	5
5	11	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	60	+72.5 secs	4	4
6	2	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	60	+74.1 secs	11	3
7	10	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth	60	+74.5 secs	22	2
8	17	Jacques Villeneuve	BMW Sauber-BMW	60	+89.3 secs	9	1
9	8	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	59	+1 Lap	7
10	16	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber-BMW	59	+1 Lap	13
11	21	Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	59	+1 Lap	17
12	18	Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota	59	+1 Lap	18
13	19	Christijan Albers	MF1-Toyota	59	+1 Lap	16
Ret	7	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	52	Engine	10
Ret	4	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren-Mercedes	52	Engine	8
Ret	22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	45	Hydraulics	20
Ret	23	Franck Montagny	Super Aguri-Honda	29	Hydraulics	21
Ret	12	Jenson Button	Honda	28	Engine	6
Ret	15	Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari	28	Gearbox	15
Ret	9	Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth	12	Hydraulics	19
Ret	14	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari	2	Accident damage	12
Ret	20	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	0	Accident damage	14

Notes

• Fastest Lap: Michael Schumacher: 1:32.099
• Lap Leaders: Fernando Alonso 1–16, 24–37; Michael Schumacher 17–18, 38–41, 45–60; Kimi Räikkönen 19–23, 42–44.

External links

• Detailed European Grand Prix results