The 2006 World Touring Car Championship season was the third season of FIA
World Touring Car Championship
The FIA World Touring Car Championship was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It has had several different incarnations, including a sin ...
motor racing. It featured a ten event, twenty race series which commenced on 2 April 2006 and ended on 19 November. The series was open to
Super 2000,
Diesel 2000
Diesel 2000 is an FIA circuit racing classification for modified production based touring cars using turbodiesel engines.
Like its counterpart, Super 2000, the category is open to large-scale series production touring cars modified by a kit. Car ...
and Super Production Cars, with two titles awarded, the FIA World Touring Car Champion for Drivers and the FIA World Touring Car Champion for Manufacturers.
[2006 World Touring Car Championship Sporting Regulations, 22 March 2006]
Retrieved via web.archive.org on 27 April 2014 Andy Priaulx
Andrew Graham Priaulx, MBE ( born 8 August 1974) is a British professional racing driver from Guernsey. In 2019 he raced for Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and Cyan Racing Lynk & Co in the FIA World Tou ...
won the Drivers title and
BMW won the Manufacturers award.
Teams and drivers
The following drivers and teams contested the 2006 World Touring Car Championship.
2006 WTCC Entry List, fiawtcc.com
Retrieved via web.archive.org on 27 April 2014
Drivers changes
Changed Teams
* Gabriele Tarquini
Gabriele Tarquini (born 2 March 1962) is an Italian racing driver. He participated in 78 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on May 3, 1987. He scored a single championship point, and holds the record for the most failed attempts to qualify. He h ...
: Alfa Romeo Racing Team → SEAT Sport
* James Thompson: Alfa Romeo Racing Team → SEAT Sport
Entering WTCC including those who entered one-off rounds in 2005
* Yvan Muller
Yvan Muller (born 16 August 1969 in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin) is a French auto racing driver most noted for success in touring car racing. He is a four-time World Touring Car Champion, winning the title in 2008 with SEAT, in 2010 and 2011 with Chevro ...
: British Touring Car Championship → SEAT Sport
* Marcel Costa: No full-time drive → BMW Team Italy-Spain
* Gianni Morbidelli
Gianni Morbidelli (born 13 January 1968) is an Italian racing driver. He participated in 70 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 11 March 1990. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 8.5 championship points. He currently competes in the T ...
: FIA GT Championship → N-Technology
* Salvatore Tavano
Salvatore Tavano (born 13 March 1980 in Siracusa) is an Italian racing driver, winner of the TCR Italy Touring Car Championship 2018, 2019 and 2020 and who has had several seasons in the WTCC, ETCC and TCR Italy championships.
Career
After start ...
: Italian Superturismo Championship → N-Technology
* Maurizio Ceresoli: Italian Formula Three Championship → GR Asia
* Pierre-Yves Corthals: No full-time drive → Jas Motorsport
* Ryan Sharp
Ryan Sharp (born 29 April 1979 in Newtonhill, Scotland) is a race car driver and team manager. He raced in the FIA GT Championship in 2007 with JetAlliance Racing in their lead No. 33 Aston Martin DBR9 – with ex-F1 Driver Karl Wendlinger as ...
: Formula Renault 3.5 Series → Jas Motorsport
* Luca Rangoni
Luca Rangoni (born 23 September 1968 in Bologna) is an Italian auto racing driver. He is a married man with one son.
Early career
Like many racing drivers, Rangoni's first taste of racing was in karts, where he spent four years. He made his deb ...
: No full-time drive → Proteam Motorsport
* Emmet O'Brien
Emmet O'Brien (born 7 March 1981, in Dublin) is an Irish auto racing driver.
Career
O'Brien started competing in the Irish Karting championships at a young age, he finished 2nd in the National Irish Formula A karting championship for PCR in 1998 ...
: European Alfa Romeo 147 Challenge → Wiechers-Sport
* Diego Romanini
Diego Romanini (born 30 December 1978 in Pietrasanta) is an Italian auto racing driver. He has competed in the World Touring Car Championship and was the Austria Formula 3 Cup champion in 2001 and 2003.
Career
After starting his career in karting ...
: FIA GT Championship → Wiechers-Sport
Leaving WTCC
* Fabrizio Giovanardi
Fabrizio Giovanardi (born 14 December 1966 in Sassuolo) is an Italian racing driver. During his career he has won ten touring car titles, including European and British crowns making him the most successful touring car driver worldwide. He has ...
: Alfa Romeo Racing Team → British Touring Car Championship
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* Antonio García: BMW Team Italy-Spain → No full-time drive
* Thomas Klenke: Ford Hotfiel Sport → No full-time drive
* Michael Funke: Ford Hotfiel Sport → ADAC GT Masters
* Roberto Colciago
Roberto Colciago (born 4 April 1968) is a racing driver from Saronno, Italy. He has spent most of his career in touring car racing – first in Super Touring and then in Super 2000 – followed by the World Touring Car Championship and cur ...
: Jas Motorsport → Italian Superturismo Championship
* Adriano de Micheli: Jas Motorsport → No full-time drive
* Giuseppe Cirò: Proteam Motorsport → Ferrari Challenge
* Marc Hennerici
Marc Hennerici (born 10 May 1982 in Mayen) is a German auto racing driver. He is best known for being the first winner of the World Touring Car Championship's Independents Trophy, in 2005.
Racing career
Hennerici competed in Formula BMW from 1999 ...
: Wiechers-Sport → Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenpokal Nürburgring
Calendar
Each event comprised two races of 50 kilometres distance.[ The starting grid for the first race was determined by the results of the qualifying session and the grid for the second race by the provisional results of the first race, with the top eight positions reversed.][
]
Results and standings
Races
Standings
Drivers' Championship
Championship points were awarded on a 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis for the first eight positions in each race.[
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.
]
Manufacturers' Championship
Championship points were awarded on a 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis for the first eight positions in each race. However, only the two best placed cars per manufacturer were eligible to score points and all other cars from that manufacturer were considered invisible as far as point scoring was concerned.[
]
Yokohama Independents' Trophy
Points were awarded on a 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis for the first eight finishers of those entries which were classified as Independents.
; Dead-heat
* 10p: 14th Edman (4th x 2), 15th A. Chi Hong (4th x 1)
* 5p: 17th L. Molo (4th x 1), 18th O. Hidalgo (5th x 1)
* 2p: 21st M. De Villota (7th x 1), 22nd P. Geipel (7th x 1), 23rd D. Roda (7th x 1), 24th S. Valli (8th x 2)
Yokohama Teams' Trophy
Points were awarded on a 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis for the first eight finishers of those entries which were classified as Independents.
Notes
References
External links
FIA World Touring Car Championship official website as archived at web.archive.org on 23 December 2006
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