# 2006 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2006 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 27–29 October 2006 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. The MotoGP riders' championship was decided at this race, as Nicky Hayden's third place ensured he completed the season with more points than his rival, and polesitter for the race, Valentino Rossi, who finished down in thirteenth after he fell during the race.
The race was also notable for two lasts; the last race with the 990cc (60.4 cu in) engines which débuted in 2002, and the last race for the Honda RC211V, as the engines switched to 800cc (48.8 cu in) in capacity and Honda would field the RC212V from 2007.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 12 | Troy Bayliss | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 30 | 46:55.415 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 30 | +1.319 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +9.230 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 30 | +12.065 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Fortuna Honda | Honda | 30 | +16.306 | 12 | 11 |
| 6 | 24 | Toni Elías | Fortuna Honda | Honda | 30 | +17.390 | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 30 | +19.329 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Roberts | KR211V | 30 | +23.174 | 14 | 8 |
| 9 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Camel Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 30 | +26.072 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Tech 3 Yamaha | Yamaha | 30 | +28.194 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | John Hopkins | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 30 | +29.364 | 9 | 5 |
| 12 | 6 | Makoto Tamada | Konica Minolta Honda | Honda | 30 | +29.707 | 15 | 4 |
| 13 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Camel Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 30 | +38.546 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | 77 | James Ellison | Tech 3 Yamaha | Yamaha | 30 | +1:20.013 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 8 | Garry McCoy | Ilmor SRT | Ilmor X3 | 23 | +7 laps | 20 | 1 |
| Ret | 27 | Casey Stoner | Honda LCR | Honda | 23 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 71 | Chris Vermeulen | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 13 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 30 | José Luis Cardoso | Pramac d'Antin MotoGP | Ducati | 12 | Retirement | 18 | |
| Ret | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Pramac d'Antin MotoGP | Ducati | 9 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 17 | Randy de Puniet | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 5 | Accident | 11 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 7 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 27 | 43:52.247 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 27 | +4.524 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 27 | +9.551 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Aprilia | 27 | +11.366 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 27 | +14.957 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 73 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 27 | +17.621 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 27 | +18.505 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | KTM | 27 | +18.846 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 52 | José David de Gea | Honda | 27 | +20.362 | 9 | 7 |
| 10 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 27 | +24.257 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Aprilia | 27 | +36.071 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 27 | +40.323 | 17 | 4 |
| 13 | 42 | Aleix Espargaró | Honda | 27 | +49.222 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 37 | Fabricio Perren | Honda | 27 | +51.787 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 8 | Andrea Ballerini | Aprilia | 27 | +53.194 | 23 | 1 |
| 16 | 44 | Taro Sekiguchi | Aprilia | 27 | +57.940 | 21 | |
| 17 | 31 | Álvaro Molina | Aprilia | 27 | +1:16.334 | 19 | |
| 18 | 23 | Arturo Tizón | Honda | 27 | +1:29.704 | 22 | |
| 19 | 14 | Anthony West | Aprilia | 27 | +1:30.923 | 14 | |
| 20 | 65 | Alessandro Brannetti | Honda | 27 | +1:31.558 | 25 | |
| 21 | 57 | Chaz Davies | Honda | 27 | +1:31.982 | 26 | |
| 22 | 24 | Jordi Carchano | Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| 23 | 53 | Santiago Barragán | Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| 24 | 22 | Luca Morelli | Aprilia | 26 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| Ret | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | KTM | 20 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Gilera | 12 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 10 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 45 | Dan Linfoot | Honda | 8 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 85 | Alessio Palumbo | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 28 | |
| Ret | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Aprilia | 1 | Retirement | 20 | |
| WD | 55 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | | Withdrew | | |

## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 24 | 40:15.460 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 24 | +1.764 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 24 | +1.938 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 24 | +8.646 | 1 | 13 |
| 5 | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Derbi | 24 | +8.673 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 42 | Pol Espargaró | Derbi | 24 | +12.428 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 24 | +18.925 | 19 | 9 |
| 8 | 14 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 24 | +22.058 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 24 | +22.102 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 1 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 24 | +25.405 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Derbi | 24 | +25.605 | 11 | 5 |
| 12 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Honda | 24 | +28.700 | 23 | 4 |
| 13 | 34 | Esteve Rabat | Honda | 24 | +36.206 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Malaguti | 24 | +41.651 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 24 | +41.748 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 21 | Mateo Túnez | Aprilia | 24 | +45.893 | 26 | |
| 17 | 20 | Roberto Tamburini | Aprilia | 24 | +46.005 | 22 | |
| 18 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Honda | 24 | +47.510 | 9 | |
| 19 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Gilera | 24 | +52.287 | 16 | |
| 20 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 24 | +54.531 | 21 | |
| 21 | 43 | Manuel Hernández | Aprilia | 24 | +56.966 | 27 | |
| 22 | 12 | Federico Sandi | Aprilia | 24 | +57.995 | 24 | |
| 23 | 16 | Michele Conti | Honda | 24 | +1:01.336 | 35 | |
| 24 | 9 | Michael Ranseder | KTM | 24 | +1:02.918 | 28 | |
| 25 | 37 | Joey Litjens | Honda | 24 | +1:02.992 | 38 | |
| 26 | 30 | Pere Tutusaus | Derbi | 24 | +1:04.324 | 33 | |
| 27 | 90 | Hiroaki Kuzuhara | Aprilia | 24 | +1:07.021 | 30 | |
| 28 | 53 | Simone Grotzkyj | Aprilia | 24 | +1:08.649 | 29 | |
| 29 | 25 | Dominique Aegerter | Aprilia | 24 | +1:08.682 | 32 | |
| 30 | 49 | Kazuma Watanabe | Honda | 24 | +1:08.809 | 36 | |
| 31 | 13 | Dino Lombardi | Aprilia | 24 | +1:09.140 | 34 | |
| 32 | 67 | Blake Leigh-Smith | KTM | 24 | +1:19.944 | 42 | |
| 33 | 45 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 24 | +1:20.568 | 31 | |
| 34 | 87 | Roberto Lacalendola | Aprilia | 24 | +1:31.922 | 43 | |
| 35 | 40 | Nico Vivarelli | Malaguti | 24 | +1:31.995 | 31 | |
| 36 | 77 | Daniel Sáez | Aprilia | 24 | +1:38.898 | 40 | |
| 37 | 83 | Clément Dunikowski | Honda | 23 | +1 lap | 39 | |
| Ret | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Honda | 18 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 60 | Julián Simón | KTM | 6 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 44 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 6 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 54 | Randy Krummenacher | KTM | 5 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 78 | Hugo van den Berg | Aprilia | 3 | Accident | 37 | |

## 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 | Nicky Hayden | 252 |
| 2 | Valentino Rossi | 247 |
| 3 | Loris Capirossi | 229 |
| 4 | Marco Melandri | 228 |
| 5 | Dani Pedrosa | 215 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 360 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 289 |
| 3 | Ducati | 248 |
| 4 | Suzuki | 151 |
| 5 | KR211V | 134 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.