2006 Grand Prix of Houston
Appearance
Race details | |
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Race 2 of 14 in the 2006 Champ Car season | |
Date | May 13, 2006 |
Official name | Grand Prix of Houston |
Location | Reliant Park Street Course Houston, Texas, United States |
Course | Temporary street circuit 1.690 mi / 2.720 km |
Distance | 96 laps 162.240 mi / 261.099 km |
Weather | Partly cloudy with temperatures hovering around 72.3 °F (22.4 °C); wind speeds reaching up to 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)[1] |
Pole position | |
Driver | Mario Domínguez (Forsythe Championship Racing) |
Time | 58.026 |
Fastest lap | |
Driver | Sébastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) |
Time | 1:00.176 (on lap 25 of 96) |
Podium | |
First | Sébastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) |
Second | Paul Tracy (Forsythe Championship Racing) |
Third | Mario Domínguez (Forsythe Championship Racing) |
The 2006 Grand Prix of Houston was the second round of the 2006 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season, held on May 13, 2006, on the streets around Reliant Park in Houston, Texas. It was the first event in Houston since a race on a downtown circuit in 2001. Mario Domínguez won the pole, his first and only of his career, but Sébastien Bourdais came from fifth on the grid to win his second consecutive race of the season.
Qualifying results
[edit]Pos | Nat | Name | Team | Qual 1 | Qual 2 | Best |
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1 | Mario Domínguez | Forsythe Racing | 1:00.134 | 58.026 | 58.026 | |
2 | Bruno Junqueira | Newman/Haas Racing | 59.617 | 58.918 | 58.918 | |
3 | Paul Tracy | Forsythe Racing | 1:00.032 | 58.426 | 58.426 | |
4 | A. J. Allmendinger | RuSPORT | 1:00.047 | 58.572 | 58.572 | |
5 | Sébastien Bourdais | Newman/Haas Racing | —* | 58.627 | 58.627 | |
6 | Alex Tagliani | Team Australia | 1:00.047 | 58.765 | 58.765 | |
7 | Justin Wilson | RuSPORT | 1:00.149 | 58.829 | 58.829 | |
8 | Oriol Servià | PKV Racing | 1:00.268 | 59.062 | 59.062 | |
9 | Nelson Philippe | CTE Racing-HVM | 1:01.260 | 59.232 | 59.232 | |
10 | Will Power | Team Australia | 1:00.690 | 59.302 | 59.302 | |
11 | Charles Zwolsman Jr. | Mi-Jack Conquest Racing | 1:01.903 | 59.385 | 59.385 | |
12 | Dan Clarke | CTE Racing-HVM | — | 59.550 | 59.550 | |
13 | Andrew Ranger | Mi-Jack Conquest Racing | 1:03.165 | 59.740 | 59.740 | |
14 | Cristiano da Matta | Dale Coyne Racing | 1:01.612 | 1:00.195 | 1:00.195 | |
15 | Katherine Legge | PKV Racing | 1:01.831 | 1:00.265 | 1:00.265 | |
16 | Nicky Pastorelli | Rocketsports Racing | 1:04.091 | 1:00.269 | 1:00.269 | |
17 | Jan Heylen | Dale Coyne Racing | — | 1:00.839 | 1:00.839 |
* The first round qualifying time for Sébastien Bourdais was disallowed after his car failed technical inspection.
Race
[edit]Pos | No | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 1 | Sébastien Bourdais | Newman/Haas Racing | 96 | 1:59:57.021 | 5 | 33 |
2 | 3 | Paul Tracy | Forsythe Racing | 96 | +1.238 secs | 3 | 27 |
3 | 7 | Mario Domínguez | Forsythe Racing | 96 | +2.287 secs | 1 | 27 |
4 | 4 | Nelson Philippe | CTE Racing-HVM | 96 | +3.667 secs | 9 | 23 |
5 | 9 | Justin Wilson | RuSPORT | 96 | +4.040 secs | 2 | 21 |
6 | 27 | Andrew Ranger | Mi-Jack Conquest Racing | 96 | +5.351 secs | 13 | 20 |
7 | 5 | Will Power | Team Australia | 96 | +5.986 secs | 10 | 17 |
8 | 10 | A. J. Allmendinger | RuSPORT | 96 | +7.689 secs | 4 | 15 |
9 | 19 | Cristiano da Matta | Dale Coyne Racing | 95 | + 1 Lap | 14 | 13 |
10 | 2 | Bruno Junqueira | Newman/Haas Racing | 93 | + 3 Laps | 2 | 12 |
11 | 15 | Alex Tagliani | Team Australia | 90 | Contact | 6 | 10 |
12 | 6 | Oriol Servià | PKV Racing | 87 | Contact | 8 | 9 |
13 | 11 | Jan Heylen | Dale Coyne Racing | 82 | + 14 Laps | 17 | 8 |
14 | 20 | Katherine Legge | PKV Racing | 81 | + 15 Laps | 15 | 7 |
15 | 34 | Charles Zwolsman Jr. | Mi-Jack Conquest Racing | 69 | Contact | 11 | 6 |
16 | 14 | Dan Clarke | CTE Racing-HVM | 33 | Suspension | 12 | 5 |
17 | 8 | Nicky Pastorelli | Rocketsports Racing | 29 | Brakes | 16 | 4 |
Caution flags
[edit]Laps | Cause |
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27-32 | Track problems |
32-33 | Yellow restart |
34-36 | Pastorelli (8) & Heylen (11) crash |
43-46 | Legge (20) crash |
71-76 | Power (5) & Zwolsman (34) crash |
88-95 | Servià (6) crash; Tagliani (15) crash |
Notes
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- New Track Record Mario Domínguez 58.026 (Qualifying Session #2)
- New Race Lap Record Sébastien Bourdais 1:00.176
- New Race Record Sébastien Bourdais 1:59:57.021
- Average Speed 81.154 mph
Championship standings after the race
[edit]- Drivers' Championship standings
Pos | Driver | Points | |
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1 | Sébastien Bourdais | 68 | |
2 | 2 | Mario Domínguez | 50 |
1 | 3 | Justin Wilson | 48 |
2 | 4 | Andrew Ranger | 40 |
2 | 5 | Alex Tagliani | 35 |
- Note: Only the top five positions are included.
References
[edit]- ^ "Weather information for the 2006 Grand Prix of Houston". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
External links
[edit]- Thursday Qualifying Results Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Friday Qualifying Results Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Race Results
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