# 2006 French motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2006 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 2006 Motorcycle Grand Prix season. It took place on the weekend of 19–21 May 2006 at the Le Mans Bugatti circuit.

## MotoGP classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 33 | Marco Melandri | Fortuna Honda | Honda | 28 | 44:57.369 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 28 | +1.929 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | +2.269 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 27 | Casey Stoner | Honda LCR | Honda | 28 | +5.494 | 11 | 13 |
| 5 | 69 | Nicky Hayden | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 28 | +5.709 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | Colin Edwards | Camel Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 28 | +11.519 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | Makoto Tamada | Konica Minolta Honda | Honda | 28 | +16.692 | 13 | 9 |
| 8 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Ducati Marlboro Team | Ducati | 28 | +18.142 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 24 | Toni Elías | Fortuna Honda | Honda | 28 | +23.645 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 71 | Chris Vermeulen | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 28 | +39.362 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Tech 3 Yamaha | Yamaha | 28 | +47.730 | 14 | 5 |
| 12 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 28 | +47.782 | 2 | 4 |
| 13 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Pramac d'Antin MotoGP | Ducati | 28 | +1:09.092 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 77 | James Ellison | Tech 3 Yamaha | Yamaha | 28 | +1:16.172 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 21 | John Hopkins | Rizla Suzuki MotoGP | Suzuki | 26 | +2 laps | 3 | 1 |
| Ret | 30 | José Luis Cardoso | Pramac d'Antin MotoGP | Ducati | 21 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Camel Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 20 | Mechanical | 7 | |
| Ret | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Roberts | KR211V | 1 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 17 | Randy de Puniet | Kawasaki Racing Team | Kawasaki | 0 | Accident | 4 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 55 | Yuki Takahashi | Honda | 26 | 43:42.773 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 34 | Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 26 | +0.098 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 73 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 26 | +2.215 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Hiroshi Aoyama | KTM | 26 | +2.484 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 7 | Alex de Angelis | Aprilia | 26 | +11.270 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 26 | +14.597 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 80 | Héctor Barberá | Aprilia | 26 | +16.829 | 3 | 9 |
| 8 | 58 | Marco Simoncelli | Gilera | 26 | +17.041 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 26 | +17.589 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 96 | Jakub Smrž | Aprilia | 26 | +17.805 | 6 | 6 |
| 11 | 14 | Anthony West | Aprilia | 26 | +39.032 | 13 | 5 |
| 12 | 8 | Andrea Ballerini | Aprilia | 26 | +41.728 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 36 | Martín Cárdenas | Honda | 26 | +45.150 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 19 | Sebastián Porto | Honda | 26 | +46.545 | 10 | 2 |
| 15 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Honda | 26 | +55.747 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 23 | Arturo Tizón | Honda | 26 | +55.846 | 17 | |
| 17 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | KTM | 26 | +57.241 | 15 | |
| 18 | 28 | Dirk Heidolf | Aprilia | 26 | +1:16.941 | 20 | |
| 19 | 25 | Alex Baldolini | Aprilia | 26 | +1:25.856 | 16 | |
| 20 | 31 | Álvaro Molina | Aprilia | 26 | +1:28.715 | 23 | |
| 21 | 22 | Luca Morelli | Aprilia | 26 | +1:31.926 | 26 | |
| 22 | 24 | Jordi Carchano | Aprilia | 26 | +1:39.853 | 25 | |
| 23 | 85 | Alessio Palumbo | Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| Ret | 48 | Jorge Lorenzo | Aprilia | 6 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 16 | Jules Cluzel | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 45 | Dan Linfoot | Honda | 0 | Accident | 24 | |
| Ret | 57 | Chaz Davies | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 19 | |
| DNQ | 47 | Marc-Antoine Scaccia | Aprilia | | Did not qualify | | |

## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Thomas Lüthi | Honda | 24 | 42:54.555 | 9 | 25 |
| 2 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 24 | +3.380 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 32 | Fabrizio Lai | Honda | 24 | +9.807 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 19 | Álvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 24 | +10.789 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Aprilia | 24 | +14.850 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa | Aprilia | 24 | +17.226 | 22 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | Joan Olivé | Aprilia | 24 | +20.577 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 33 | Sergio Gadea | Aprilia | 24 | +21.818 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | 24 | +27.038 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 24 | Simone Corsi | Gilera | 24 | +30.171 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 10 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 24 | +30.555 | 20 | 5 |
| 12 | 60 | Julián Simón | KTM | 24 | +30.815 | 14 | 4 |
| 13 | 71 | Tomoyoshi Koyama | Malaguti | 24 | +30.890 | 19 | 3 |
| 14 | 55 | Héctor Faubel | Aprilia | 24 | +31.450 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Honda | 24 | +31.872 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 9 | Michael Ranseder | KTM | 24 | +39.061 | 27 | |
| 17 | 14 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 24 | +45.468 | 4 | |
| 18 | 17 | Stefan Bradl | KTM | 24 | +45.717 | 23 | |
| 19 | 23 | Lorenzo Baroni | Honda | 24 | +46.078 | 29 | |
| 20 | 45 | Imre Tóth | Aprilia | 24 | +46.299 | 21 | |
| 21 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Honda | 24 | +46.581 | 25 | |
| 22 | 43 | Manuel Hernández | Aprilia | 24 | +49.294 | 30 | |
| 23 | 15 | Michele Pirro | Aprilia | 24 | +1:00.773 | 24 | |
| 24 | 37 | Joey Litjens | Honda | 24 | +1:01.128 | 28 | |
| 25 | 44 | Karel Abraham | Aprilia | 24 | +1:05.340 | 31 | |
| 26 | 78 | Hugo van den Berg | Aprilia | 24 | +1:05.989 | 26 | |
| 27 | 63 | Mike Di Meglio | Honda | 24 | +1:15.109 | 16 | |
| 28 | 26 | Vincent Braillard | Aprilia | 24 | +1:36.501 | 39 | |
| 29 | 7 | Alexis Masbou | Malaguti | 23 | +1 lap | 33 | |
| 30 | 13 | Dino Lombardi | Aprilia | 23 | +1 lap | 40 | |
| 31 | 85 | Yannick Deschamps | Honda | 23 | +1 lap | 37 | |
| Ret | 53 | Simone Grotzkyj | Aprilia | 13 | Retirement | 35 | |
| Ret | 18 | Nicolás Terol | Derbi | 7 | Retirement | 18 | |
| Ret | 20 | Roberto Tamburini | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 32 | |
| Ret | 52 | Lukáš Pešek | Derbi | 1 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 16 | Michele Conti | Honda | 0 | Accident | 36 | |
| Ret | 21 | Mateo Túnez | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 34 | |
| Ret | 75 | Mattia Pasini | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 8 | Lorenzo Zanetti | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 82 | Matthieu Lussiana | Honda | 0 | Accident | 38 | |
| DNS | 83 | Clément Dunikowski | Honda | | Did not start | | |
| DNS | 84 | Mathieu Olagnon | Honda | | Did not start | | |
| DNQ | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Honda | | Did not qualify | | |
| DNQ | 12 | Federico Sandi | Aprilia | | Did not qualify | | |

## Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.
| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| 1 | Nicky Hayden | 83 |
| 2 | Marco Melandri | 79 |
| 3 | Loris Capirossi | 79 |
| 4 | Dani Pedrosa | 73 |
| 5 | Casey Stoner | 65 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 115 |
| 2 | Ducati | 79 |
| 3 | Yamaha | 69 |
| 4 | Suzuki | 35 |
| 5 | Kawasaki | 32 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.