2006 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
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Long Beach, California, United States
1.968 mi / 3.167 km
| Race details | |||||
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| Race 1 of 14 in the 2006 Champ Car season | |||||
 Long Beach Track Layout | |||||
| Date | April 9, 2006 | ||||
| Official name | Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach | ||||
| Location | Long Beach Street Circuit Long Beach, California, United States | ||||
| Course | Temporary street circuit 1.968 mi / 3.167 km | ||||
| Distance | 74 laps 145.632 mi / 234.358 km | ||||
| Weather | Temperatures reaching up to 68 °F (20 °C); wind speeds reaching up to 11.1 miles per hour (17.9 km/h)[1] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver |  Sébastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) | ||||
| Time | 1:06.886 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver | Sébastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) | ||||
| Time | 1:07.931 (on lap 71 of 74) | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Sébastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) | ||||
| Second |  Justin Wilson (RuSPORT) | ||||
| Third |  Alex Tagliani (Team Australia) | ||||
| Chronology | |||||
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The 2006 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the first round of the 2006 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season, held on April 9, 2006, on the streets of Long Beach, California. The pole and race win were both captured by the two-time running Champ Car champion, Sébastien Bourdais.[2][3]
The race marked Bruno Junqueira's return to the series after his 2005 Indianapolis 500 crash, which resulted in a concussion and a fractured vertebrae, sidelined him for the 2005 season.[4] The race was also billed at the time as Jimmy Vasser's final Champ Car race, ending a 15-year career that featured 10 wins and the series championship in 1996,[5] though he would later make a come out of retirement to drive in the 2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the final race run under Champ Car sanction.
