2006 Spanish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 1 of 17 races in the 2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	26 March 2006
Official name	Gran Premio betandwin.com de España[1]
Location	Circuito de Jerez
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.423 km (2.748 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:39.064 Fastest lap Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:41.248 Podium First Loris Capirossi Second Dani Pedrosa Third Nicky Hayden
250 cc
Pole position Rider Jorge Lorenzo Time 1:43.270 Fastest lap Rider Héctor Barberá Time 1:45.037 Podium First Jorge Lorenzo Second Alex de Angelis Third Andrea Dovizioso
125 cc
Pole position Rider Mattia Pasini Time 1:46.937 Fastest lap Rider Lukáš Pešek Time 1:47.404 Podium First Álvaro Bautista Second Lukáš Pešek Third Mattia Pasini

The 2006 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the first race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 24–26 March 2006 at the Jerez circuit.

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	65	Loris Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	27	45:57.733	1	25
2	26	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	+4.375	5	20
3	69	Nicky Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	27	+9.996	4	16
4	24	Toni Elías	Fortuna Honda	Honda	27	+10.135	6	13
5	33	Marco Melandri	Fortuna Honda	Honda	27	+19.547	7	11
6	27	Casey Stoner	Honda LCR	Honda	27	+21.237	15	10
7	56	Shinya Nakano	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	27	+21.372	3	9
8	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	KR211V	27	+32.414	13	8
9	21	John Hopkins	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	27	+32.659	12	7
10	6	Makoto Tamada	Konica Minolta Honda	Honda	27	+35.983	16	6
11	5	Colin Edwards	Camel Yamaha Team	Yamaha	27	+37.930	10	5
12	71	Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	27	+39.514	11	4
13	7	Carlos Checa	Tech 3 Yamaha	Yamaha	27	+42.829	14	3
14	46	Valentino Rossi	Camel Yamaha Team	Yamaha	27	+1:05.766	9	2
15	66	Alex Hofmann	Pramac d'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	27	+1:23.300	19	1
16	77	James Ellison	Tech 3 Yamaha	Yamaha	26	+1 lap	18
Ret	30	José Luis Cardoso	Pramac d'Antin MotoGP	Ducati	13	Retirement	17
Ret	17	Randy de Puniet	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki	6	Retirement	8
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	2	Retirement	2
Sources: [2][3][4]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	48	Jorge Lorenzo	Aprilia	26	45:57.390	1	25
2	7	Alex de Angelis	Aprilia	26	+4.919	5	20
3	34	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	26	+8.865	11	16
4	55	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	26	+8.922	2	13
5	80	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	26	+9.515	3	11
6	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	KTM	26	+23.622	7	10
7	15	Roberto Locatelli	Aprilia	26	+34.520	10	9
8	36	Martín Cárdenas	Honda	26	+50.898	17	8
9	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia	26	+56.314	19	7
10	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	26	+1:04.082	20	6
11	54	Manuel Poggiali	KTM	26	+1:09.312	18	5
12	23	Arturo Tizón	Honda	26	+1:27.801	14	4
13	57	Chaz Davies	Aprilia	26	+1:30.466	16	3
14	31	Álvaro Molina	Aprilia	26	+1:34.877	24	2
15	28	Dirk Heidolf	Aprilia	26	+1:39.114	12	1
16	41	Michele Danese	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	25
17	66	Hans Smees	Aprilia	25	+1 lap	28
18	24	Jordi Carchano	Honda	20	+6 laps	23
Ret	14	Anthony West	Aprilia	22	Retirement	6
Ret	96	Jakub Smrž	Aprilia	20	Accident	13
Ret	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	18	Accident	8
Ret	85	Alessio Palumbo	Aprilia	17	Accident	27
Ret	19	Sebastián Porto	Honda	7	Retirement	22
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	4	Accident	9
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	2	Accident	21
Ret	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	1	Accident	4
Ret	22	Luca Morelli	Aprilia	1	Retirement	26
DNS	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	0	Did not start	15
DNS	44	Taro Sekiguchi	Aprilia		Did not start
DNQ	40	Sinan Sofuoğlu	Honda		Did not qualify
[5]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	23	41:42.761	2	25
2	52	Lukáš Pešek	Derbi	23	+3.072	3	20
3	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	23	+6.491	1	16
4	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	23	+6.693	6	13
5	60	Julián Simón	KTM	23	+6.877	4	11
6	55	Héctor Faubel	Aprilia	23	+7.137	5	10
7	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	23	+7.291	8	9
8	14	Gábor Talmácsi	Honda	23	+19.931	7	8
9	6	Joan Olivé	Aprilia	23	+22.886	10	7
10	22	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	23	+27.176	9	6
11	24	Simone Corsi	Gilera	23	+28.951	13	5
12	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Malaguti	23	+37.653	15	4
13	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	23	+42.814	19	3
14	12	Federico Sandi	Aprilia	23	+42.909	24	2
15	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	23	+42.998	16	1
16	11	Sandro Cortese	Honda	23	+46.381	21
17	38	Bradley Smith	Honda	23	+50.685	25
18	43	Manuel Hernández	Honda	23	+51.169	31
19	18	Nicolás Terol	Derbi	23	+51.260	23
20	9	Michael Ranseder	KTM	23	+51.803	18
21	63	Mike Di Meglio	Honda	23	+52.726	11
22	23	Lorenzo Baroni	Honda	23	+55.698	22
23	44	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	23	+1:01.202	32
24	79	Enrique Jerez	Aprilia	23	+1:03.282	36
25	26	Vincent Braillard	Aprilia	23	+1:12.858	29
26	45	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	23	+1:17.040	28
27	78	Hugo van den Berg	Aprilia	23	+1:24.686	30
28	21	Mateo Túnez	Aprilia	23	+1:28.944	27
29	16	Michele Conti	Honda	23	+1:31.226	33
30	80	Esteve Rabat	Honda	23	+1:35.989	34
31	53	Simone Grotzkyj	Aprilia	23	+1:44.938	37
32	77	Daniel Sáez	Aprilia	23	+1:49.656	35
33	37	Joey Litjens	Honda	22	+1 lap	38
34	20	Roberto Tamburini	Aprilia	22	+1 lap	40
Ret	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Aprilia	20	Retirement	12
Ret	10	Ángel Rodríguez	Aprilia	19	Accident	14
Ret	1	Thomas Lüthi	Honda	12	Accident	17
Ret	41	Aleix Espargaró	Honda	10	Retirement	20
Ret	32	Fabrizio Lai	Honda	8	Retirement	26
Ret	76	Iván Maestro	Honda	6	Retirement	39
DNS	7	Alexis Masbou	Malaguti		Did not start
DNQ	17	Stefan Bradl	KTM		Did not qualify
[6]

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.^[7]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Loris Capirossi 25 2 Dani Pedrosa 20 3 Nicky Hayden 16 4 Toni Elías 13 5 Marco Melandri 11

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Ducati 25 2 Honda 20 3 Kawasaki 9 4 KR211V 8 5 Suzuki 7

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