End of an era in a lot of ways; Schuey's final race for Ferrari, Raikkonen's final race for McLaren, Renault with Mild Seven, Webber with Williams, Honda/BAR with Lucky Strike, Ferrari sponsored by Vodafone before they moved to McLaren. And the last race for Michelin.
This shows how artificial tyre wars are for influencing performance. The Super Aguri SA06, that Super Aguri used from Germany to Brazil in 2006, was (not being disrespectful) the slowest car of 2006. Sakon Yamamoto and Takuma Sato set the 7th and 9th fastest race laps of this race. Was this an amazing upturn in performance by the team?
No. The Bridgestone tyres they were using were superior to Michelin that weekend. It was a sign of how dominant Bridgestone was that the slowest cars on the grid set the 7th and 9th fastest laps of the race