2006 Canary Foundation Grand Prix of San Jose


The 2006 Canary Foundation Grand Prix of San Jose was the ninth round of the 2006 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season, held on July 30, 2006 on the streets of San Jose, California. Sébastien Bourdais dominated the weekend, taking the pole, fastest lap and race win. Finishing second was 2002 CART champion Cristiano da Matta in what turned out to be his final Champ Car event. On August 3 da Matta was severely injured while testing at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin when he collided with a deer on the track. While da Matta recovered to return to racing in 2008, competing in the Rolex Sports Car Series, he has not competed in open wheel racing since. The race is also notable for a shoving match between Canadians Paul Tracy and Alex Tagliani in the pits after Tracy crashed into Tagliani while trying to return to the race course from an escape road, ending both their races.

Qualifying results

Race

PosNoDriverTeamLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
11 Sébastien BourdaisNewman/Haas Racing971:38:00.168134
210 Cristiano da MattaRuSPORT97+6.686 secs427
39 Justin WilsonRuSPORT97+8.100 secs1226
44 Nelson PhilippeCTE Racing-HVM97+11.059 secs1123
519 Mario DomínguezDale Coyne Racing97+12.147 secs1021
65 Will PowerTeam Australia97+12.957 secs619
77 A. J. AllmendingerForsythe Racing97+13.288 secs317
86 Oriol ServiàPKV Racing97+15.920 secs516
934 Charles ZwolsmanMi-Jack Conquest Racing97+16.458 secs1414
108 Nicky PastorelliRocketsports Racing97+21.580 secs1711
1111 Jan HeylenDale Coyne Racing97+25.360 secs1610
1220 Katherine LeggePKV Racing90+ 7 Laps159
1327 Andrew RangerMi-Jack Conquest Racing80Contact88
1415 Alex TaglianiTeam Australia52Contact137
153 Paul TracyForsythe Racing51Contact20*
1614 Dan ClarkeCTE Racing-HVM49Gearbox95
172 Bruno JunqueiraNewman/Haas Racing2Contact74

* Paul Tracy was penalized 7 points and fined an undisclosed amount for causing avoidable contact and bringing the sport into disrepute for his part in the accident and subsequent shoving match with Alex Tagliani. He was also placed on probation for the following 3 races. Tagliani was also fined an undisclosed amount.

Caution flags

Championship standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings
PosDriverPoints
1 Sébastien Bourdais255
2 Justin Wilson224
3 A. J. Allmendinger210
24 Mario Domínguez141
5 Andrew Ranger135