2006 Champ Car Grand Prix de Montreal
| Race details | |
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| Race 11 of 14 in the 2006 Champ Car season | |
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Track Layout
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| Date | August 28, 2006 |
| Official name | Champ Car Grand Prix de Montreal |
| Location |
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Course | Permanent Road Course 2.709 mi / 4.360 km |
| Distance | 67 laps 181.503 mi / 292.120 km |
| Weather | Monsoonal Rain (Sunday)/Overcast (Monday) |
| Pole position | |
| Driver | Sébastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) |
| Time | 1:20.005 |
| Fastest lap | |
| Driver | Sébastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) |
| Time | 1:22.325 (on lap 58 of 67) |
| Podium | |
| First | Sébastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) |
| Second | Paul Tracy (Forsythe Championship Racing) |
| Third | Nelson Philippe (CTE Racing-HVM) |
The 2006 Champ Car Grand Prix de Montreal was the eleventh round of the 2006 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season, held on August 27 and August 28, 2006 on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The race began on Sunday the 27th, but the race was red flagged due to excessive rain after only 6 laps were completed. The remainder of the race was rescheduled for 10:00am the following day, with all retired cars allowed to restart in the positions they held at the time of the red flag, albeit laps down if they were on the Sunday. The final 61 laps were completed without further weather stoppages. Sébastien Bourdais took the race win from the pole as well as a stranglehold on his third consecutive season championship with his closest competitors A. J. Allmendinger and Justin Wilson both finishing well back.
The restart order on Monday was as follows:
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