Formula One

2006 San Marino Grand Prix - Imola

Season 1, Episode 4, Aired 4/23/06

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Ferrari's Michael Schumacher won the 2006 San Marino GP, with Renault's Fernando Alonso coming second. McLaren's Juan Pablo Montoya occupied third place on the podium.

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Steve Rider

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Martin Brundle

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Mark Blundell

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Michael Shumacher took his eighty fifth career win, the seventh at Imola. It was also the first win of the season for Ferari and the perfect homecoming at Imola

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By antheastothard, Apr 24, 2006 Report Abuse

The race started cleanly but the safety car made an appearance on lap 1 after Christian Albers rolled his car across the gravel trap, but emerged unhurt.

After the first round of pit stops it became clear that Michael's car was not doing well as he dropped off the pace dramatically and found Alonso suddenly right behind him. Alonso played it safe and Renault opted to bring him slightly earlier than scheduled, a ploy that would ultimately not pay off.

Juan Pablo Montoya and Kimi Raikkonen had uneventful races, taking 3rd. and 5th. places respectively with Felipe Massa in between them in 4th.

Jenson Button failed to live up to the promise of Honda when he attempted to leave his pit with fuel hose attached. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, but the delay put paid to any chance he might have had.moreless

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Well is was really painful to watch until we got to the last 20 laps.

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By shaman_freak, Apr 23, 2006 Report Abuse

Imola was just hard to watch for me as Kimi Raikkonen fell back tp places at the start from 8th to 10th. The first lap in general was a bit crazy as a Midland car rolled off the track. As the first set of stops began things looked a bit better for Kimi and then after his one he was back out somewhere between 8th and 10th places, but the main focus of the race at this time was the top three runners Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso. When the second round of pit stops began things looked much better for Raikkonen as moved up to 3rd at the end of them, some of the biggest things in the second pits included Buttons crazy pit stop where it was mad, which cost him dearly and the tactical change by Renault to pit Alonso, backfired right in their face when Michael Shumacher took the lead by making it ahead of Fernando leaving the pit lane, ironically for Alonso this was the exact same situation last year but it was him who was winning with Michael chasing him. When it came to Kimi's stop he came back to 5th and wasn't able to pass Felipe Massa. All in all it was a good race in McLaren's view as Alonso got 2nd, helping to keep his lead from growing to big and Montoya managed to get a podium.moreless

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Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

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Trivia
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- The design of the San Marino track incorporates 16 corners (10 left and six right-handers) with a 237 metre long start/finish straight. Edit
- The 1st world championship race to be held at Imola was the 1980 Italian Grand Prix. Since then the race has been known as the San Marino Grand Prix. Edit
- Imola is one of only three anti-clockwise circuits on the F1 calendar. Interlagos and Istanbul are the other two. Edit
Notes
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- Fernando Alonso set the fastest lap of the race with a 1:24:569 Edit
- Super Aguri's Yuji Ide was oficially reprimanded by race stewards following his first-lap accident with MF1's Christijan Albers. Edit
- Michael Schumacher's Imola victory was the 85th career victory of his career. Edit
Quotes
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- After examining video footage of the Ide/Alberst first-lap crash, the race stewards reprimanded Ide and released the following statement, warning Ide against further transgressions. Stewards: The competitor is to be reminded of the possible effect of incurring a second reprimand. Edit
- Michael Schumacher: (on winning the 2006 San Marino GP) I am very happy! The result shows that work pays off and that the effort put in by everyone - the team and our partners - has delivered its reward. The key moment was staying ahead after the second pit stop. As we saw last year, overtaking at this track it's almost impossible, unless the guy in front makes a mistake. With all my years of experience, I knew that what I wanted to do was keep Alonso behind me, but at my pace, not pushing flat out and that's what I did. At this time I had a bit of graining, as had been the case in free practice and now we must work out what caused it. I hope we can keep up this standard in the coming races and I think that from now on, we will be very competitive. Edit
- Fernando Alonso: (on finishing 2nd in the 2006 San Marino GP) Second place and eight points is a perfect result for me this afternoon. We suspected that we had qualified with more fuel than the others, and the race showed we were right to pick that strategy. At a normal circuit, we could have won but this is Imola where overtaking is almost impossible. I could see that I was much faster than Michael in the second stint, and I was just trying to put pressure on him, hoping he would make a mistake. We did not plan to make our second stop when we did - we pitted early to try and overtake him but it didn't quite work. So I stayed in his slipstream and in the last five laps, put all the revs on the engine and tried to overtake. But the Ferrari was a lot quicker again at the end, and it didn't happen. Looking at the championship, though, this is perfect. My closest rivals at the start of the weekend were Fisichella and Raikkonen, and I have taken points from both of them. I am happy with this, and I know we will be stronger again in the Nurburgring. Edit
Allusions
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- Driver Championship Points - Progressive Fernando Alonso 36 Michael Schumacher 21 Kimi Räikkönen 18 Juan Pablo Montoya 15 Giancarlo Fisichella 15 Jenson Button 13 Felipe Massa 9 Ralf Schumacher 7 Mark Webber 6 Jacques Villeneuve 5 Nick Heidfeld 5 Nico Rosburg 2 Rubens Barrichello 2 Christian Klien 1 David Coulthard 1 Vitantonio Liuzzi 0 Scott Speed 0 Jarno Trulli 0 Tiago Monterio 0 Takuma Sato 0 Yuji Ide 0 Christijan Albers 0 Edit
- Constructor Championship Points - Progressive Renault 51 McLaren-Mercedes 33 Ferrari 30 Honda 15 BMW-Sauber 10 Williams-Cosworth 8 Toyota 7 Red Bull Racing-Ferrari 2 STR-Cosworth 0 Midland F1-Toyota 0 Super Aguri 0 Edit
- 2006 San Marino Grand Prix result (62 laps) 01 M. Schumacher Ferrari 1:31:06.486 02 F. Alonso Renault + 2.096 03 JP. Montoya McLaren + 15.868 04 F. Massa Ferrari + 17.096 05 K. Räikkönen McLaren + 17.524 06 M. Webber Williams + 37.739 07 J. Button Honda + 39.635 08 G. Fisichella Renault + 40.200 09 R. Schumacher Toyota + 45.511 10 R. Barrichello Honda + 1:17.851 11 N. Rosberg Williams + 1:19.675 12 J. Villeneuve BMW + 1:22.370 13 N. Heidfeld BMW + 1 laps 14 V. Liuzzi Scuderia Toro Rosso + 1 laps 15 S. Speed Scuderia Toro Rosso + 1 laps 16 T. Monteiro Midland F1 + 2 laps Did not finish 17 D. Coulthard Red Bull + 15 laps 18 T. Sato Super Aguri + 18 laps 19 C. Klien Red Bull + 22 laps 20 Y. Ide Super Aguri + 39 laps 21 J. Trulli Toyota + 57 laps 22 C. Albers Midland F1 + 62 laps Edit