2006 Hungarian Grand Prix

September 2020 F1 Hungary Hungarian 2006 German Grand Prix 2006 Turkish Grand Prix 2006 Hungarian GP https://www.chicanef1.com/racetit.pl?year=2006&gp=Hungarian%20GP&r=1 ChicaneF1 8 June 2022 8 June 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220608081016/https://www.chicanef1.com/racetit.pl?year=2006&gp=Hungarian%20GP&r=1 dead2006 Hungarian Grand Prix https://www.racing-reference.info/race-results/2006_Hungarian_Grand_Prix/F/ Racing-Reference 8 June 2022 6 August 2006 Hungaroring.svg The Hungaroring after being modified in 2003. 13 18 Formula 1 Magyar Nagydíj 2006 Hungaroring, Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary2006 Hungarian Grand Prix https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/2006-hungarian-grand-prix/ Motor Sport 8 June 2022 Permanent racing facility 2.722 4.381 70 190.552 306.663 Cool and rainy with temperatures reaching up to 20 C FWeather info for the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix at Weather Underground Kimi Räikkönen Finland McLaren-Mercedes 1:19.599 Felipe Massa Brazil Ferrari 1:23.516 65 Jenson Button UK Honda Pedro de la Rosa Spain McLaren-Mercedes Nick Heidfeld Germany BMW Sauber HUN The 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Magyar Nagydíj 2006)http://www.formula1.com/race/circuitdetail/763.html Hungarian Formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20061020083907/http://www.formula1.com/race/circuitdetail/763.html 3 January 2021 20 October 2006 was a Formula One motor race held on 6 August 2006 at the Hungaroring, Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary. It was the 13th race of the 2006 Formula One season. Jenson Button won the race driving a Honda, the first victory of his career, the first race win for a British driver since David Coulthard won the Australian Grand Prix three years previously, and the first by an Englishman since Johnny Herbert won the 1999 European Grand Prix nearly seven years previously, in similarly changeable weather circumstances. Pedro de la Rosa finished second for McLaren-Mercedes, the only podium finish of his career, and Nick Heidfeld finished third, giving BMW Sauber their first podium. It was the first win for Honda as a constructor since John Surtees' victory in the 1967 Italian Grand Prix 39 years prior, the first win for a Honda engine since Gerhard Berger's full-works Honda-powered McLaren triumphed in the 1992 Australian Grand Prix, 14 years and 231 races earlier and the first win for a non-European constructor since Jody Scheckter won with Canadian team Wolf in the 1977 Canadian Grand Prix. The race would also prove to be Honda's only win in their second stint in Formula One as a full constructor, ending in late 2008 after Honda decided to pull out of F1 due to the Great Recession. It was the last victory for a Honda engine in Formula One until Max Verstappen won the 2019 Austrian Grand Prix for Red Bull. It was also the last victory for Honda as a full constructor entry in Formula One to date. It was also the last all-Michelin podium to date. This was the only race of the season in which neither Renault nor Ferrari took a win or a podium finish. Meanwhile, Robert Kubica became the first Polish driver to enter Formula One. Report Friday drivers The bottom 6 teams in the 2005 Constructors' Championship and Super Aguri were entitled to run a third car in free practice on Friday. These drivers drove on Friday but did not compete in qualifying or the race. Fabrizio del Monte was originally announced as Midland's third driver.http://www.formula1.com/news/4497.html Del Monte begins Midland's Silverstone test Formula1.com 3 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20061018004651/http://www.formula1.com/news/4497.html 18 October 2006 dead Constructor Nat Driver Williams-Cosworth Austria Alexander Wurz Honda UK Anthony Davidson Red Bull-Ferrari Netherlands Robert Doornbos BMW Sauber - MF1-Toyota Germany Markus Winkelhock Toro Rosso-Cosworth Switzerland Neel Jani Super Aguri-Honda - Practice During Friday practice Fernando Alonso was given a two-second qualifying penalty by the stewards for dangerous driving and overtaking under a yellow flag condition.http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/5237288.stm Alonso penalty adds to team woes 2006-08-04 BBC Sport Benson, Andrew 2006-10-25 This meant that two seconds would be added to his times in each part of qualifying. Christijan Albers was given a ten-place grid penalty for an engine change, his second in as many weekends. Jenson Button received the same penalty after having an engine change when his let go in the final practice session.http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4775/763.html Provisional grid - Button, Speed, Albers drop Formula 1.com 2006-10-25 2006-08-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20060818024834/http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4775/763.html 2006-08-18 live In a similar situation to Alonso's penalty, Michael Schumacher was given a two-second penalty for overtaking Robert Kubica and Alonso under "red flag" conditions at the end of Saturday's last free practice session. The decision left Schumacher "fuming," with him saying "I blame myself partly for what did happen, but I didn't expect this kind of penalty."http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/5248988.stm Schumacher anger at time penalty 2006-08-05 2007-04-19 BBC Sport Qualifying In qualifying, Kimi Räikkönen achieved pole position with a time of 1:19.599 seconds. Felipe Massa qualified second, with Rubens Barrichello starting the race in third.http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/5248048.stm Schumi woe as Raikkonen nets pole BBC Sport 2006-10-25 2006-10-25 Race left|thumb|200px|Button returns to the pit lane having won the race. The track was wet at the start of the race, making it the first wet Hungarian Grand Prix. All drivers started the race on intermediate tyres with the exception of Barrichello, who was on wets. Polesitter Kimi Räikkönen took the lead early on. Alonso and Schumacher made their way through the field with Schumacher up into 6th place from 11th into the first corner, and Alonso climbing from 15th place with a spectacular first hard-fought lap. He went on to pass Schumacher on the outside of turn 5 after a straight fight for several laps and reached 3rd place. He then took the lead after the McLarens of Pedro de la Rosa and Räikkönen pitted. Bridgestone wet-tyres used to dictate the field in non-dry conditions but today it seemed a one-off for the Japanese rubber. All Bridgestone-drivers, including the Ferraris, were seen struggling and seriously down on pace compared to their competitors. Schumacher fell right back in the clutches of Giancarlo Fisichella and lost his front wing battling for 5th place, hitting the Italian mid-corner fighting off snap-oversteer. This forced the German to pit, going a lap down. Soon after Jenson Button overtook Massa, Fisichella and Schumacher in just under the space of 2 laps. Räikkönen struggled on his second set of tyres and ended up crashing into the back of Vitantonio Liuzzi's Toro Rosso, vaulting the car and bringing out the safety car. Alonso then pitted, allowing Schumacher to get back on the lead lap. Another beneficiary of the safety car was Jenson Button, who decided not to pit during the safety car period and climbed up to 2nd place behind Alonso. After the period was over Button began to challenge Alonso, but soon had to pit for fuel. Alonso led, but after a pitstop for dry tyres his right-rear wheel nut detached, causing the Spaniard to lose control and crash. Button inherited the lead and was never challenged from then on. Schumacher made his way up to 2nd by staying on intermediate tyres as others around him pitted for dry weather ones, but this gamble backfired as the cars on drys caught him in the final laps. Schumacher defended his position, including controversially cutting a chicane on consecutive laps without penalty,http://www.paddocktalk.com/news/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=38767 2006 Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix Lap-by-Lap Chart 2008-09-07 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20071013002558/http://paddocktalk.com/news/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=38767 October 13, 2007 but Pedro de la Rosa and Nick Heidfeld both ultimately passed him. Whilst he was being overtaken Schumacher banged wheels with Heidfeld, damaging his Ferrari's suspension and forcing him out of the race three laps short of the finish. thumb|right|Pedro de la Rosa scored the only podium finish of his career in second position. Button won the race despite beginning in 14th place through relentless driving with de la Rosa scoring his only career's podium with second place, and Heidfeld getting BMW Sauber's first podium with 3rd.http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/5250126.stm Button takes first Grand Prix win 2006-08-06 BBC Sport 2006-10-25 Debutant driver Robert Kubica finished in seventh place and would have scored two points, but was later disqualified as his car was found to be underweight due to excessive tyre wear.Kubica disqualified, Schumacher scores http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4783/763.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060813120526/http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4783/763.html 2006-08-13 2006-10-25 Formula 1.com This coincidentally meant that Michael Schumacher earned a point despite not finishing, as he was elevated to 8th place in the final results. Post-race In a 2020 watch along of the race on Sky Sports F1 with Jenson Button, Anthony Davidson and Andrew Shovlin then BBC Radio 5 Live Formula One commentator David Croft said "In the BBC 5 live commentary box in my first season in Formula One after starting the day doing a piece on our breakfast show where they said has Jenson Button got any chance of winning and I said no, no chance what so ever. At this stage (15 laps to go) I'm getting irked because they keep asking me to get a score flash for the football or the rugby or the cricket as used to do on 5 Live and I'm like no we got to stick with this Jenson Button can win this race and they finally came over into the talkback, my producer saying no more interruptions Crofty, take it to the chequered flag, bring him home."Jenson Button’s watches his first F1 win! 🏁 - 2006 Hungarian GP watchalong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Nw_BF90_4 2024-10-13 2020-04-29 Sky Sports F1 Classification Qualifying Pos. Qualifying position No. Car number Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Q3 Grid Final grid position 1 3 Finland Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 1:20.080 1:19.704 1:19.599 1 2 6 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:19.742 1:19.504 1:19.886 2 3 11 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:21.141 1:19.783 1:20.085 3 4 12 United Kingdom Jenson Button Honda 1:20.820 1:19.943 1:20.092 141 1 5 4 Spain Pedro de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.288 1:19.991 1:20.117 4 6 9 Australia Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth 1:21.335 1:20.047 1:20.266 5 7 7 Germany Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:21.112 1:20.243 1:20.759 6 8 2 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:21.370 1:20.154 1:20.924 7 9 8 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:21.434 1:20.231 1:21.132 8 10 17 Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:20.891 1:20.256 1:22.049 9 11 16 Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:21.437 1:20.623 10 12 5 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:21.4403 3 1:20.8753 3 11 13 14 United Kingdom David Coulthard Red Bull-Ferrari 1:21.163 1:20.890 12 14 15 Austria Christian Klien Red Bull-Ferrari 1:22.027 1:21.207 13 15 1 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault 1:21.7923 3 1:21.3643 3 15 16 18 Portugal Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota 1:22.009 1:23.767 16 17 20 Italy Vitantonio Liuzzi Toro Rosso-Cosworth 1:22.068 17 18 10 Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth 1:22.084 18 19 21 United States Scott Speed Toro Rosso-Cosworth 1:22.317 202 2 20 22 Japan Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:22.967 19 21 19 Netherlands Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota 1:23.146 221 1 22 23 Japan Sakon Yamamoto Super Aguri-Honda 1:24.016 21 Source:Formula One Yearbook 2006-2007 Domenjoz Luc February 2007 Chronosports S.A. 978-2-84707-110-8 166 etal Notes 1 1 – Jenson Button and Christijan Albers both received a ten-place grid penalty because of earlier engine changes. 2 2 – The Grand Prix stewards declared that Scott Speed had impeded another driver during the qualifying session, and penalised him by deleting his three fastest qualifying times. His qualifying time became 1:23.005 instead of 1:22.317, setting him one position back on the grid. 3 3 – Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher both had two seconds added to their lap times for each part of qualifying; the times shown here include the two-second penalties. Race thumb|right|Nick Heidfeld scored the BMW Sauber team's first podium finish in third position. Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Constructor Tyre Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 12 UK Jenson Button Honda Michelin 70 1:52:20.941 14 10 2 4 Spain Pedro de la Rosa McLaren-Mercedes Michelin 70 +30.837 4 8 3 16 Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber Michelin 70 +43.822 10 6 4 11 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Honda Michelin 70 +45.205 3 5 5 14 UK David Coulthard Red Bull-Ferrari Michelin 69 +1 lap 12 4 6 7 Germany Ralf Schumacher Toyota Bridgestone 69 +1 lap 6 3 7 6 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari Bridgestone 69 +1 lap 2 2 8 5 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari Bridgestone 67 Collision damage 11 1 9 18 Portugal Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota Bridgestone 67 +3 laps 16 10 19 Netherlands Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota Bridgestone 67 +3 laps 22 11 21 United States Scott Speed Toro Rosso-Cosworth Michelin 66 +4 laps 20 12 8 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota Bridgestone 65 Engine 8 13 22 Japan Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda Bridgestone 65 +5 laps 19 Ret Retired 1 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault Michelin 51 Wheel nut/driveshaft 15 Ret Retired 3 Finland Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes Michelin 25 Collision 1 Ret Retired 20 Italy Vitantonio Liuzzi Toro Rosso-Cosworth Michelin 25 Collision damage 17 Ret Retired 10 Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth Bridgestone 19 Electrical/Accident 18 Ret Retired 2 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Renault Michelin 18 Accident damage 7 Ret Retired 15 Austria Christian Klien Red Bull-Ferrari Michelin 6 Spun off 13 Ret Retired 9 Australia Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth Bridgestone 1 Spun off 5 Ret Retired 23 Japan Sakon Yamamoto Super Aguri-Honda Bridgestone 0 Engine 21 DSQ Disqualified 17 Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber Michelin 69 Underweight (+1 lap)4 4 9Source:Formula One Yearbook 2006-2007 Domenjoz Luc February 2007 Chronosports S.A. 978-2-84707-110-8 173 etal Notes 4 4 – Robert Kubica originally finished seventh, but was disqualified after the race, as his car was 2 kg underweight at the end of the race due to excessive tyre wear. Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 ESP Fernando Alonso* 100 10px 2 GER Michael Schumacher* 90 10px 3 BRA Felipe Massa* 52 10px 4 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella 49 10px 5 FIN Kimi Räikkönen 49Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2006/hongrie/championnat.aspx Hungary 2006 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 18 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 FRA Renault* 149 10px 2 ITA Ferrari* 142 10px 3 GBR McLaren-Mercedes* 85 10px 4 JPN Honda 52 10px 1 5 GER BMW Sauber 26Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Bold text and an asterisk indicates competitors who still had a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion. Awards ITV's coverage of this race won a BAFTA in 2006, in the category "Best Sport". The awards took place May 20, 2007.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6543947.stm Bafta TV Awards 2007: The Winners 2007-05-20 2007-06-30 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20070704102748/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6543947.stm 4 July 2007 live See also 2006 Hungaroring GP2 Series round References 2 External links Race report at the BBC Hungarian Grand Prix 2006 2006 German Grand Prix 2006 Turkish Grand Prix 2005 Hungarian Grand Prix 2007 Hungarian Grand Prix 47 34 44 N 19 14 55 E source:kolossus-nowiki title Hungarian Grand Prix Category:Hungarian Grand Prix Grand Prix Hungarian