The 2006 Australian Performance Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned

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name with similar titles having been run in 2003 and 2004 as the

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.Records, Titles and Awards, 2006 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 14-10 GT Performance Racing Pty Ltd was appointed by CAMS as the Category Manager for the 2006 championship. The championship was won by Gary Holt driving a Mitsubishi Lancer RS Evo VIII. It was Holt's first title after racing in various categories of high performance sedans from

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to Production Cars since 1999. Beric Lynton was second in a

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with defending champion Peter Floyd third in a HSV GTS.

Calendar

The championship was contested over a seven round series.Grant Rowley, Performing Arts, The Annual – Australian Motorsport, Number 2 / 2006, pages 138-142

Classes

Car competed in two classes, Outright and Privateer. The latter class was for non-current model vehicles running on a control tyre.

Points system

Championship points were awarded on the results of each race as per the following table: In addition, 3 points were awarded to the driver gaining Pole Position for Race 1 at each round. The same points score structure was applied for the Privateers Cup award.

Results

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, Bruce Lynton BMW/Donut King , align="center" , 425.5 , - ! 3 , Peter Floyd , align="center" , 300 & 98 , HSV VYII GTS , www.kawasaki-fp.com , align="center" , 413 , - ! 4 , Barry Morcom , align="center" , 11 , Mitsubishi Lancer RS Evo VIII , Rondo Building Services , align="center" , 396.5 , - ! 5 , Dean Lillie , align="center" , 15 , HSV VYII GTS , LPGAS 1 , align="center" , 342 , - ! 6 , Steve Cramp , align="center" , 19 , HSV VYII GTS , Manta Racing Services , align="center" , 308.5 , - ! 7 , Graham Alexander , align="center" , 57 , Mitsubishi Lancer RS Evo VIII , Corio Auto Parts , align="center" , 280.5 , - ! 8 , Tony Alford , align="center" , 12 , HSV VY GTS Coupe , Donut King , align="center" , 158.5 , - ! 9 , Andrew Moffat , align="center" , 9 , FPV BF F6 Typhoon , Australian Motor Finance , align="center" , 156 , - ! 10 , James Philip , align="center" , 3 , FPV BF GT , First Auto Parts Plus , align="center" , 130 , - ! 11 , Barrie Nesbitt , align="center" , 5 , HSV VY GTS Coupe , Donut King Racing , align="center" , 115 , - ! 12 , Sam Walter , align="center" , 99 , HSV VYII GTS , www.kawasaki-fp.com , align="center" , 46 , - ! 13 , Gary Young , align="center" , 8 ,

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, Salta / Westgate , align="center" , 43.5 , - ! 14 , Adam Beechey , align="center" , 60 , Nissan 200SX GT , Beechey's Service Centre , align="center" , 18 , - ! 15 , John Falk , align="center" , 87 , FPV BA GT , Fiberglass International , align="center" , 15 , - ! colspan=6 , Privateer's Cup , - ! Position ! Driver ! No. ! Car ! Entrant ! Points , - ! 1 , Drew Russell , align="center" , 27 ,

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References

External links

Century 21 Racing and Gary Holt champions, news.driverdb.com, as archived at web.archive.org
Australian Performance Car Championship Performance Car Championship