The 2006 Portuguese Grand Prix remains🌺 one of the most dramatic races of t🐎he MotoGP era.

The 16th and penultimate round of the 2006 world championship, Estoril was action-packed from start to finish - culminating in a thrilling three-way last lap victor🔜y battle between Ken🌄ny Roberts, Valentino Rossi and Toni Elias.

The significance of what happened in that race has si𝓰nce grown, with many of the landmarks set that day still in place.

Ahead of the 2009 Portuguese Grand Prix, which takes plac𝕴e﷽ next weekend, here is a summary of the most significant moments from the 2006 race:

o The motorsport world was 🦹stunned when Nicky Hayden got taken out by Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa on lap 5 of 28, costing the American the world championship lead he had held since round three in Turkey. The significance ☂of the clash even caught the attention of mainstream media.

o The accident m✤arked Hayden's only DNF of his title winning season.

o Toni Elias took his first and so far only MotoGP win, and with it his first ever premier-class podium. The Spaniard began the last lap in third place, but overtook both Rossi and Roberts into turn one. Rossi then got back in front, but Elias shot past him out of the 💃final turn.

o Elias' victory remains the last time that a satel🐻lite rider has won a MotoGP race. Elias, who was riding for Gresini Honda, looked set to lose his seat for 2007 until he took that win.

o Th꧙e next time a MotoGP race was won by a last lap pass was at Catalunya in 2009 - when Rossi was the wꦫinner.

o Second place at Estoril meant Rossi took the title lead for the first (and last) time during the entire 2006 season, having ꦅbeen as far as 51 points behind Hayden after round 11 of 17.

o Rossi lost the race by just 0.002sec to Elias ♎and went on to lose the 2006 world championship by five points when he fell at the Valencia season finale - the same number of points he lost by finishing second to Elias at Estoril.

o Robeꦿrts Jr took third, marking the 22nd and final podium of his grand prix career and the last by Team R🌠oberts, which withdrew at the end of 2007.

o Roberts Jr took the lead on the penultimate lap, having thought the race was over one lap early. Unlike Julian Simon at Catalunya 2009, Roberts kept on the throttꦡle when he failed to see a chequered flag.

o KR JR's Estoril performance with the Honda-power🐭ed KR211V marked the last time a bike built by a privateer team has led a MotoGP race or taken a MotoGP podium.

o Casey Stoner crashed on lap 2 of the race, bringing down factory Ducati rider Sete Gibernau. Gibernau hit the Aust🍨ralian's LCR Honda, causing the Spaniard to once again injure his collarbone.

o That injury ruled Gibernau out of Valencia, where he was replaced by Troy Bayliss - who sensationally won the race. In a further twist, Stoner took Gibernau's Ducati seat for 2007 and won th༺e world championship.

o Estoril marked Gibernau's last MotoGP ꦗstart before he announced his retirement. The Spaniard later made an ill-fated return with the Grupo Francisco Hernando team 🃏in 2009.

o Estoril 2006 saw the debut of the new Ilmor team, whose rider Garry McCoy was credited with 15th despite being classified fo♔ur laps down after pitting with electrical problems.

o The Australian and his X3 motorcycle therefore claimed the first ever MotoGP point for an 800cc machine, which officially replaced 990cc bikes from the fo🔯꧅llowing year.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:CLICK HERE to read ltxcn.top's full Estoril 2006 race report and see below for more pictures from theꦫ race.