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2006 French motorcycle Grand Prix

Field	Value
Grand Prix	French
flag	France
Official_Name	Alice Grand Prix de France
Location	Bugatti Circuit
Image	Bugatti Circuit.svg
Course_mi	2.597
Course_km	4.180
Race_No	5
Season_No	17
Date	21 May
Year	2006
Pole_Rider_MotoGP	Dani Pedrosa
Pole_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Pole_Time_MotoGP	1:33.990
Fast_Rider_MotoGP	Valentino Rossi
Fast_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Fast_Time_MotoGP	1:35.087
First_Rider_MotoGP	Marco Melandri
First_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Second_Rider_MotoGP	Loris Capirossi
Second_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Italy
Third_Rider_MotoGP	Dani Pedrosa
Third_Rider_MotoGP_Country	Spain
Pole_Rider_250	Andrea Dovizioso
Pole_Rider_250_Country	Italy
Pole_Time_250	1:39.733
Fast_Rider_250	Hiroshi Aoyama
Fast_Rider_250_Country	Japan
Fast_Time_250	1:39.964
First_Rider_250	Yuki Takahashi
First_Rider_250_Country	Japan
Second_Rider_250	Andrea Dovizioso
Second_Rider_250_Country	Italy
Third_Rider_250	Shuhei Aoyama
Third_Rider_250_Country	Japan
Pole_Rider_125	Mattia Pasini
Pole_Rider_125_Country	Italy
Pole_Time_125	1:44.515
Fast_Rider_125	Sergio Gadea
Fast_Rider_125_Country	Spain
Fast_Time_125	1:44.637
First_Rider_125	Thomas Lüthi
First_Rider_125_Country	Switzerland
Second_Rider_125	Mika Kallio
Second_Rider_125_Country	Finland
Third_Rider_125	Fabrizio Lai
Third_Rider_125_Country	Italy

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
33	ITA Marco Melandri	Fortuna Honda	Honda	28	44:57.369	5	25
65	ITA Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+1.929	6	20
26	ESP Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+2.269	1	16
27	AUS Casey Stoner	Honda LCR	Honda	28	+5.494	11	13
69	USA Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	28	+5.709	10	11
5	USA Colin Edwards	Camel Yamaha Team	Yamaha	28	+11.519	9	10
6	JPN Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	28	+16.692	13	9
15	ESP Sete Gibernau	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	28	+18.142	8	8
24	ESP Toni Elías	Fortuna Honda	Honda	28	+23.645	16	7
71	AUS Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	28	+39.362	12	6
7	ESP Carlos Checa	Tech 3 Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+47.730	14	5
56	JPN Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	28	+47.782	2	4
66	DEU Alex Hofmann	Pramac d'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	28	+1:09.092	18	3
77	GBR James Ellison	Tech 3 Yamaha	Yamaha	28	+1:16.172	17	2
21	USA John Hopkins	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	26	+2 laps	3	1
30	ESP José Luis Cardoso	Pramac d'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	21	Retirement	19
46	ITA Valentino Rossi	Camel Yamaha Team	Yamaha	20	Mechanical	7
10	USA Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	KR211V	1	Retirement	15
17	FRA Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	0	Accident	4

250 cc classification

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

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid
1	CHE Thomas Lüthi	Honda	24	42:54.555	9	25
36	FIN Mika Kallio	KTM	24	+3.380	6	20
32	ITA Fabrizio Lai	Honda	24	+9.807	8	16
19	ESP Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	24	+10.789	2	13
22	ESP Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	24	+14.850	7	11
35	ITA Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	24	+17.226	22	10
6	ESP Joan Olivé	Aprilia	24	+20.577	10	9
33	ESP Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	+21.818	12	8
29	ITA Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	24	+27.038	11	7
24	ITA Simone Corsi	Gilera	24	+30.171	13	6
10	ESP Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	24	+30.555	20	5
60	ESP Julián Simón	KTM	24	+30.815	14	4
71	JPN Tomoyoshi Koyama	Malaguti	24	+30.890	19	3
55	ESP Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	24	+31.450	15	2
11	DEU Sandro Cortese	Honda	24	+31.872	17	1
9	AUT Michael Ranseder	KTM	24	+39.061	27
14	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	24	+45.468	4
17	DEU Stefan Bradl	KTM	24	+45.717	23
23	ITA Lorenzo Baroni	Honda	24	+46.078	29
45	HUN Imre Tóth	Aprilia	24	+46.299	21
38	GBR Bradley Smith	Honda	24	+46.581	25
43	ESP Manuel Hernández	Aprilia	24	+49.294	30
15	ITA Michele Pirro	Aprilia	24	+1:00.773	24
37	NLD Joey Litjens	Honda	24	+1:01.128	28
44	CZE Karel Abraham	Aprilia	24	+1:05.340	31
78	NLD Hugo van den Berg	Aprilia	24	+1:05.989	26
63	FRA Mike Di Meglio	Honda	24	+1:15.109	16
26	CHE Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	24	+1:36.501	39
7	FRA Alexis Masbou	Malaguti	23	+1 lap	33
13	ITA Dino Lombardi	Aprilia	23	+1 lap	40
85	FRA Yannick Deschamps	Honda	23	+1 lap	37
53	ITA Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	13	Retirement	35
18	ESP Nicolás Terol	Derbi	7	Retirement	18
20	ITA Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	4	Accident	32
52	CZE Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	1	Accident	3
16	ITA Michele Conti	Honda	0	Accident	36
21	ESP Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	0	Accident	34
75	ITA Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	0	Accident	1
8	ITA Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	0	Accident	5
82	FRA Matthieu Lussiana	Honda	0	Accident	38
83	FRA Clément Dunikowski	Honda		Did not start
84	FRA Mathieu Olagnon	Honda		Did not start
41	ESP Aleix Espargaró	Honda		Did not qualify
12	ITA 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	USA Nicky Hayden	83
2	ITA Marco Melandri	79
3	ITA Loris Capirossi	79
4	ESP Dani Pedrosa	73
5	AUS Casey Stoner	65

;Constructors' Championship standings

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

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

References

| Previous_year's_race = 2005 French Grand Prix | Next_year's_race = 2007 French Grand Prix

References

(13 June 2017). "2006 French MotoGP".
Mitchell, Malcolm. "2006 MotoGP Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
"Le Mans {{!}} The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project".
(13 June 2017). "2006 French MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database".
"2006 French Grand Prix : Classifications : MotoGP".
"ALICE GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE · MotoGP Race Classification 2006".
"2006 French Grand Prix : Classifications : 250cc".
"2006 French Grand Prix : Classifications : 125cc".
(2006). "Standings".

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