# 2006 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2006 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixteenth race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 13–15 October 2006 at the Estoril circuit. This was the last race won by a non-factory team before the 2016 Dutch TT.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 24 | Toni Elías | Fortuna Honda | Honda | 28 | 46:08.739 | 11 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Camel Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +0.002 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Roberts | KR211V | 28 | +0.176 | 13 | 16 |
| 4 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Camel Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +0.864 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | Makoto Tamada | Konica Minolta Honda | Honda | 28 | +18.419 | 14 | 11 |
| 6 | 21 | John Hopkins | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 28 | +25.181 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Tech 3 Yamaha | Yamaha | 28 | +29.348 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Fortuna Honda | Honda | 28 | +31.813 | 15 | 8 |
| 9 | 71 | Chris Vermeulen | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 28 | +40.117 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 17 | Randy de Puniet | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 28 | +41.496 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Pramac d'Antin MotoGP | Ducati | 28 | +41.533 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 28 | +44.776 | 10 | 4 |
| 13 | 77 | James Ellison | Tech 3 Yamaha | Yamaha | 28 | +1:19.113 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 30 | José Luis Cardoso | Pramac d'Antin MotoGP | Ducati | 28 | +1:40.716 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 8 | Garry McCoy | Ilmor SRT | Ilmor X3 | 24 | +4 laps | 20 | 1 |
| Ret | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 4 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 4 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 27 | Casey Stoner | Honda LCR | Honda | 1 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 1 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 0 | Accident | 7 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 26 | 44:30.727 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | KTM | 26 | +0.015 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 7 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 26 | +0.348 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 26 | +1.842 | 1 | 13 |
| 5 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Aprilia | 26 | +6.402 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 55 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 26 | +9.619 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Gilera | 26 | +14.303 | 3 | 9 |
| 8 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 26 | +17.222 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 14 | Anthony West | Aprilia | 26 | +34.819 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 26 | +37.976 | 5 | 6 |
| 11 | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Aprilia | 26 | +41.584 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | KTM | 26 | +42.929 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 42 | Aleix Espargaró | Honda | 26 | +43.022 | 8 | 3 |
| 14 | 52 | José David de Gea | Honda | 26 | +43.040 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 | 8 | Andrea Ballerini | Aprilia | 26 | +43.935 | 16 | 1 |
| 16 | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 26 | +59.454 | 17 | |
| 17 | 37 | Fabricio Perren | Honda | 26 | +1:10.952 | 20 | |
| 18 | 44 | Taro Sekiguchi | Aprilia | 26 | +1:15.390 | 19 | |
| 19 | 24 | Jordi Carchano | Aprilia | 26 | +1:17.577 | 21 | |
| 20 | 23 | Arturo Tizón | Honda | 26 | +1:32.205 | 23 | |
| 21 | 22 | Luca Morelli | Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| 22 | 85 | Alessio Palumbo | Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 26 | |
| 23 | 75 | Luke Lawrence | Yamaha | 25 | +1 lap | 29 | |
| 24 | 32 | João Fernandes | Aprilia | 24 | +2 laps | 27 | |
| Ret | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 25 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 73 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 15 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Aprilia | 13 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret | 45 | Dan Linfoot | Honda | 11 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 65 | Alessandro Brannetti | Honda | 4 | Retirement | 25 | |
| DNQ | 59 | Ho Chi Fung | Aprilia | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 56 | Su Rong Zai | Aprilia | | Did not qualify | | |

## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 23 | 40:48.792 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 23 | +15.098 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 23 | +15.112 | 11 | 16 |
| 4 | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Derbi | 23 | +15.745 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | 60 | Julián Simón | KTM | 23 | +15.778 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Malaguti | 23 | +27.588 | 7 | 10 |
| 7 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Honda | 23 | +27.609 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 14 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 23 | +27.652 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Gilera | 23 | +31.877 | 18 | 7 |
| 10 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Honda | 23 | +38.878 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 44 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 23 | +39.265 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 42 | Pol Espargaró | Derbi | 23 | +44.501 | 23 | 4 |
| 13 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 23 | +44.543 | 22 | 3 |
| 14 | 12 | Federico Sandi | Aprilia | 23 | +46.069 | 21 | 2 |
| 15 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 23 | +48.087 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 54 | Randy Krummenacher | KTM | 23 | +59.731 | 27 | |
| 17 | 34 | Esteve Rabat | Honda | 23 | +59.788 | 19 | |
| 18 | 45 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 23 | +1:07.489 | 17 | |
| 19 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Aprilia | 23 | +1:07.519 | 26 | |
| 20 | 49 | Kazuma Watanabe | Honda | 23 | +1:21.367 | 34 | |
| 21 | 16 | Michele Conti | Honda | 23 | +1:21.417 | 32 | |
| 22 | 13 | Dino Lombardi | Aprilia | 23 | +1:26.874 | 40 | |
| 23 | 21 | Mateo Túnez | Aprilia | 23 | +1:29.379 | 36 | |
| 24 | 43 | Manuel Hernández | Aprilia | 23 | +1:29.402 | 29 | |
| 25 | 37 | Joey Litjens | Honda | 23 | +1:29.420 | 35 | |
| 26 | 25 | Dominique Aegerter | Aprilia | 23 | +1:30.416 | 28 | |
| 27 | 67 | Blake Leigh-Smith | KTM | 23 | +1:33.029 | 33 | |
| 28 | 73 | Kazuya Otani | Malaguti | 23 | +1:33.112 | 39 | |
| 29 | 95 | Georg Fröhlich | Honda | 23 | +1:33.183 | 38 | |
| 30 | 69 | Michal Šembera | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 41 | |
| Ret | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Derbi | 19 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 20 | Roberto Tamburini | Aprilia | 19 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret | 53 | Simone Grotzkyj | Aprilia | 19 | Retirement | 31 | |
| Ret | 90 | Hiroaki Kuzuhara | Aprilia | 19 | Retirement | 30 | |
| Ret | 38 | Bradley Smith | Honda | 15 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 12 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 9 | Michael Ranseder | KTM | 10 | Accident | 25 | |
| Ret | 6 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 3 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 1 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 3 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Honda | 1 | Accident | 9 | |
| DNS | 87 | Roberto Lacalendola | Aprilia | 0 | Did not start | 37 | |
| DNS | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | | Did not start | | |

## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 244 |
| 2 | Nicky Hayden | 236 |
| 3 | Marco Melandri | 217 |
| 4 | Loris Capirossi | 209 |
| 5 | Dani Pedrosa | 202 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 344 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 282 |
| 3 | Ducati | 223 |
| 4 | Suzuki | 146 |
| 5 | KR211V | 126 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.