2006 TURKISH GRAND PRIX

The '2006 Turkish Grand Prix' was the fourteenth race of the 2006 Formula One season. It was held on 25 August–27 August at Istanbul Park, Istanbul.
The race marked the first pole position for Ferrari driver Felipe Massa.
The start of the race was affected by a multi-car accident entering the first corner. Massa, Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso and Giancarlo Fisichella all battled for position entering the first corner, but Fisichella (in fourth place) spun, causing a chain reaction behind him.
During the chain reaction, Scott Speed collided with the McLaren of Kimi Räikkönen, causing a puncture to one of Räikkönen's rear tires. Räikkönen pitted for a new tire, but he had another rear tire issue, due to damaged bodywork affecting his rear tires, the next lap that sent him straight off the outside of turn 4 and into a barrier.
Nick Heidfeld, Fisichella and Scott Speed all needed repairs from the incident, as did Ralf Schumacher and the Midland of Tiago Monteiro, who retired.
At lap 13, Vitantonio Liuzzi, who had climbed to seventh place in the first corner chaos but was dropping back, lost control entering the first turn and spun, stalling the engine. The car was left stranded on the racing line at the exit of the corner, and the Safety Car was deployed. Massa, Michael Schumacher, Alonso, Jenson Button, Robert Kubica and Mark Webber all came in to make pit stops whilst the Safety Car circulated. The first four drivers stayed at the front, but Webber and Kubica dropped to near the back of the pack. Alonso, however, was able to jump Schumacher, as his title rival was forced to 'stack' behind Massa before the mechanics could set to work on his car.
The final 15 laps of the race were focused on Alonso and Michael Schumacher, who fought for second place as part of their championship battle. Schumacher pursued Alonso for the last laps, but was unable to catch Alonso until the final corners of the final lap. Schumacher was right on the gearbox of Alonso exiting the last corner, but did not get past.
The winner of the race was Ferrari driver Felipe Massa. This was Massa's first career Formula One victory, making it the second Formula One race in a row with a first-time winner (following Jenson Button's first win, at Hungary three weeks earlier). The previous time this has happened was in 2003, when the Malaysian Grand Prix was won by Kimi Räikkönen and the following race, the Brazilian Grand Prix was won by Giancarlo Fisichella.

Contents

Podium display becomes international political incident

Friday Drivers

Qualifying results

Race results

References

External links

Podium display becomes international political incident

The podium display after the race caused a controversy, when winner Felipe Massa received the trophy from Mehmet Ali Talat, who was referred to as the "President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus." This breakaway area of the island of Cyprus is only recognized by Turkey. The government of the Republic of Cyprus filed an official complaint with the FIA, the body governing the Formula One world championship. After investigating the incident, the FIA fined the organizers of the Grand Prix $5 million on September 19, 2006.^[1]

Friday Drivers

Team	Nat	Driver
Williams-Cosworth		Alexander Wurz
Honda		Anthony Davidson
Red Bull-Ferrari		Robert Doornbos
BMW Sauber-BMW		Sebastian Vettel
MF1-Toyota		Giorgio Mondini
Toro Rosso-Cosworth		Neel Jani
Super Aguri-Honda		Franck Montagny

Qualifying results

Pos	Nat	Name	Team/Engine	Part 3	Part 2	Part 1
1		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	'1:26.907'	1:27.059	'1:27.306'
2		Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1:27.284	'1:25.850'	1:27.385
3		Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:27.321	1:26.917	1:27.861
4		Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	1:27.564	1:27.346	1:28.175
5		Ralf Schumacher ★	Toyota	1:27.569	1:27.062	1:27.668
6		Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber-BMW	1:27.785	1:27.251	1:28.200
7		Jenson Button	Honda	1:27.790	1:26.872	1:28.222
8		Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:27.866	1:27.202	1:28.236
9		Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber-BMW	1:28.167	1:27.405	1:28.212
10		Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth	1:29.436	1:27.608	1:28.307
11		Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari		1:27.852	1:28.271
12		Pedro de la Rosa	McLaren-Mercedes		1:27.897	1:28.403
13		Jarno Trulli	Toyota		1:27.973	1:28.549
14		Rubens Barrichello	Honda		1:28.257	1:28.411
15		Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth		1:28.386	1:28.889
16		Christijan Albers ★	MF1-Toyota		1:28.639	1:29.021
17		David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari			1:29.136
18		Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth			1:29.158
19		Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth			1:29.250
20		Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota			1:29.901
21		Sakon Yamamoto	Super Aguri-Honda			1:30.607
22		Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda			1:30.850

★ : Ralf Schumacher and Christijan Albers both received 10 place grid penalties due to engine changes, therefore Ralf started 15th, and Albers started 22nd.

Race results

Pos	No	Nat	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6		'Felipe Massa'	'Ferrari'	58	1:28:51.082	1	'10'
2	1		'Fernando Alonso'	'Renault'	58	+5.575 secs	3	'8'
3	5		'Michael Schumacher'	'Ferrari'	58	+5.656 secs	2	'6'
4	12		'Jenson Button'	'Honda'	58	+12.334 secs	6	'5'
5	4		'Pedro de la Rosa'	'McLaren-Mercedes'	58	+45.908 secs	11	'4'
6	2		'Giancarlo Fisichella'	'Renault'	58	+46.594 secs	4	'3'
7	7		'Ralf Schumacher'	'Toyota'	58	+59.337 secs	15	'2'
8	11		'Rubens Barrichello'	'Honda'	58	+60.034 secs	13	'1'
9	8		Jarno Trulli	Toyota	57	+1 lap	12
10	9		Mark Webber	Williams-Cosworth	57	+1 lap	9
11	15		Christian Klien	Red Bull-Ferrari	57	+1 lap	10
12	17		Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber-BMW	57	+1 lap	8
13	21		Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	57	+1 lap	17
14	16		Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber-BMW	56	+2 laps	5
15	14		David Coulthard	Red Bull-Ferrari	55	Gearbox	16
Ret	19		Christijan Albers	MF1-Toyota	46	Spin	22
NC	22		Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	41	+17 laps	21
Ret	10		Nico Rosberg	Williams-Cosworth	25	Water leak	14
Ret	23		Sakon Yamamoto	Super Aguri-Honda	23	Spin	20
Ret	20		Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Cosworth	12	Spin	18
Ret	3		Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren-Mercedes	1	Accident	7
Ret	18		Tiago Monteiro	MF1-Toyota	0	Accident	19

References

1. http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns17474.html

External links

★ Detailed Turkish Grand Prix results