# 2006 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2006 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 2–4 June 2006 at the Mugello Circuit.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Camel Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 23 | 42:39.610 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 23 | +0.575 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 23 | +0.735 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 23 | +2.007 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 23 | +3.070 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Fortuna Honda | Honda | 23 | +11.793 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 24 | Toni Elías | Fortuna Honda | Honda | 23 | +18.999 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Roberts | KR211V | 23 | +19.172 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 6 | Makoto Tamada | Konica Minolta Honda | Honda | 23 | +19.231 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 21 | John Hopkins | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 23 | +19.821 | 7 | 6 |
| 11 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 23 | +19.863 | 5 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Camel Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 23 | +30.678 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 17 | Randy de Puniet | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 23 | +37.198 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 71 | Chris Vermeulen | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 23 | +41.712 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Tech 3 Yamaha | Yamaha | 23 | +56.256 | 13 | 1 |
| 16 | 77 | James Ellison | Tech 3 Yamaha | Yamaha | 23 | +1:13.387 | 17 | |
| 17 | 30 | José Luis Cardoso | Pramac d'Antin MotoGP | Ducati | 22 | +1 lap | 19 | |
| Ret | 27 | Casey Stoner | Honda LCR | Honda | 8 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Pramac d'Antin MotoGP | Ducati | 8 | Accident | 18 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Aprilia | 21 | 40:35.185 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 21 | +0.111 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 21 | +0.320 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 55 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 21 | +0.334 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 21 | +3.315 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 21 | +3.327 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Gilera | 21 | +7.930 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 14 | Anthony West | Aprilia | 21 | +26.048 | 14 | 8 |
| 9 | 73 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 21 | +26.616 | 9 | 7 |
| 10 | 8 | Andrea Ballerini | Aprilia | 21 | +30.570 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 21 | +32.854 | 16 | 5 |
| 12 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | KTM | 21 | +33.743 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 19 | Sebastián Porto | Honda | 21 | +1:13.549 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 23 | Arturo Tizón | Honda | 21 | +1:16.159 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 37 | Fabricio Perren | Honda | 21 | +1:18.533 | 24 | 1 |
| 16 | 64 | Omar Menghi | Aprilia | 21 | +1:48.079 | 31 | |
| 17 | 45 | Dan Linfoot | Honda | 21 | +1:48.388 | 27 | |
| 18 | 85 | Alessio Palumbo | Aprilia | 20 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| 19 | 17 | Franz Aschenbrenner | Aprilia | 20 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| Ret | 36 | Martín Cárdenas | Honda | 18 | Accident | 17 | |
| Ret | 65 | Alessandro Brannetti | Honda | 18 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 22 | Luca Morelli | Aprilia | 13 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 67 | Nicklas Cajback | Aprilia | 12 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Aprilia | 8 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 24 | Jordi Carchano | Aprilia | 5 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 9 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 2 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Honda | 0 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | KTM | 0 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 0 | Retirement | 7 | |

## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 20 | 40:00.412 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 20 | +0.001 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Derbi | 20 | +0.052 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 20 | +1.203 | 15 | 13 |
| 5 | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 20 | +1.234 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 20 | +1.378 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | 60 | Julián Simón | KTM | 20 | +2.303 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 14 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 20 | +13.320 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 1 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 20 | +13.337 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Gilera | 20 | +13.376 | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Honda | 20 | +13.865 | 4 | 5 |
| 12 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 20 | +14.759 | 6 | 4 |
| 13 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 20 | +17.288 | 21 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 20 | +29.463 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Malaguti | 20 | +29.553 | 16 | 1 |
| 16 | 17 | Stefan Bradl | KTM | 20 | +34.174 | 23 | |
| 17 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Aprilia | 20 | +35.827 | 19 | |
| 18 | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Derbi | 20 | +39.480 | 22 | |
| 19 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Honda | 20 | +51.225 | 32 | |
| 20 | 90 | Hiroaki Kuzuhara | Honda | 20 | +1:15.251 | 33 | |
| 21 | 88 | Daniele Rossi | Honda | 20 | +1:18.215 | 31 | |
| 22 | 91 | Luca Verdini | Aprilia | 20 | +1:20.267 | 34 | |
| 23 | 87 | Roberto Lacalendola | Honda | 20 | +1:22.356 | 36 | |
| 24 | 53 | Simone Grotzkyj | Aprilia | 20 | +1:22.570 | 43 | |
| 25 | 45 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 20 | +1:22.572 | 28 | |
| 26 | 26 | Vincent Braillard | Aprilia | 20 | +1:22.588 | 42 | |
| 27 | 13 | Dino Lombardi | Aprilia | 20 | +1:23.590 | 37 | |
| 28 | 20 | Roberto Tamburini | Aprilia | 20 | +1:54.909 | 35 | |
| 29 | 16 | Michele Conti | Honda | 18 | +2 laps | 29 | |
| Ret | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Honda | 19 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Honda | 17 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Honda | 13 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 10 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 9 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 15 | Michele Pirro | Aprilia | 9 | Retirement | 30 | |
| Ret | 89 | Nico Vivarelli | Honda | 9 | Retirement | 40 | |
| Ret | 9 | Michael Ranseder | KTM | 7 | Accident | 25 | |
| Ret | 44 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 7 | Alexis Masbou | Malaguti | 3 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 37 | Joey Litjens | Honda | 3 | Retirement | 39 | |
| Ret | 23 | Lorenzo Baroni | Honda | 2 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret | 12 | Federico Sandi | Aprilia | 1 | Accident | 38 | |
| DSQ | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 8 | Black flag | 20 | |
| DSQ | 43 | Manuel Hernández | Aprilia | 2 | Black flag | 41 | |

## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round six has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Loris Capirossi | 99 |
| 2 | Nicky Hayden | 99 |
| 3 | Marco Melandri | 89 |
| 4 | Dani Pedrosa | 86 |
| 5 | Valentino Rossi | 65 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 131 |
| 2 | Ducati | 99 |
| 3 | Yamaha | 94 |
| 4 | Suzuki | 41 |
| 5 | Kawasaki | 37 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.