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2006 Champ Car season
Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford
Season
Races14
Start dateApril 9
End dateNovember 12
Awards
Drivers' championFrance Sébastien Bourdais
Nations' CupFrance France
Rookie of the YearAustralia Will Power
← 2005
2007 →

The 2006 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford was the 28th season of the Champ Car World Series, the third season of the series under the sanctioning of Open Wheel Racing Series, and encompassed the 95th season of premier American open-wheel car racing alongside the rivaling 2006 IRL IndyCar Series. The season spanned 14 races, beginning in Long Beach, California on April 9 and ending in Mexico City, Mexico on November 12. The Drivers' Championship was won by Sébastien Bourdais and the Nations' Cup by France.

Reigning two-time champion Bourdais won the series championship for the third consecutive time with Newman/Haas Racing, becoming the first driver to win three American open wheel National Championships in a row since Ted Horn in 1948, and the first non-American driver in history to win three titles. For this season the Lola B02/00 chassis (which the series had introduced under its' previous CART identity in 2002 continued as the sole chassis for the series for a second consecutive season in what would prove to be the final season of usage for this particular chassis as Champ Car would replace it with a new spec chassis - the Panoz DP01 for 2007. This was also the last CART/Champ Car season prior to the 2008 re-unification of American open-wheel racing to feature a round held on a oval track as the only round on the 2006 Champ Car schedule held on oval at Milwaukee would be dropped for what would prove to be Champ Cars' final season in 2007.

Teams and drivers

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Sébastien Bourdais (pictured in 2011) earned his third consecutive Drivers' Championship, becoming the first driver to do so in American open-wheel car racing since Ted Horn in 1948.

The following teams and drivers competed in the 2006 Champ Car World Series. All teams competed with the Lola B02/00 chassis, the Ford-Cosworth XFE engine, and tires supplied by Bridgestone.[1]

Team No. Driver Rounds
United States Newman/Haas Racing 1 France Sébastien Bourdais All
2 Brazil Bruno Junqueira All
United States Forsythe Racing 3 Canada Paul Tracy 1–13
Mexico David Martínez 14
7 Mexico Mario Domínguez 1–4
United States A. J. Allmendinger 5–13
United States Buddy Rice 14
United States CTE Racing-HVM 4 France Nelson Philippe All
14 United Kingdom Dan Clarke All
Australia Team Australia 5 Australia Will Power All
15 Canada Alex Tagliani All
United States PKV Racing 6 Spain Oriol Servià All
12 United States Jimmy Vasser 1
20 United Kingdom Katherine Legge All
United States Rocketsports Racing 8 Brazil Antônio Pizzonia 1
Netherlands Nicky Pastorelli 2–6, 8–11
Mexico Mario Domínguez 12–14
18 Estonia Tõnis Kasemets 5–8, 12
Brazil Antônio Pizzonia 11, 13–14
United States RuSPORT 9 United Kingdom Justin Wilson All
10 United States A. J. Allmendinger 1–4
Brazil Cristiano da Matta 5–9
Australia Ryan Briscoe 13–14
United States Dale Coyne Racing 11 Belgium Jan Heylen All
19 Brazil Cristiano da Matta 1–4
Mexico Mario Domínguez 5–11
Uruguay Juan Cáceres 12
Germany Andreas Wirth 13–14
United States Conquest Racing 27 Canada Andrew Ranger All
34 Netherlands Charles Zwolsman Jr. All
Source:[1]

Team changes

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Every team that fielded cars on a full-time basis in 2005 returned for the new season. In early 2005, two-time Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi began reorganizing his Fittipaldi Racing team after it was temporarily shut down at the end of the 2003 season.[2] The team was rumored to debut in 2006, but seemingly ceased operations sometime in 2005.[3] After a twelve-year absence from the series, EuroInternational announced their intentions to enter at least ten races in 2006 before fielding two full-time entries in 2007, when the series was set to introduce their new Panoz DP01 chassis.[4][5] The announcement was met with uncertainty from fans, which was only heightened by the lack of confirmation by the series.[6] Eventually, EuroInternational revealed they would not compete in the Champ Car World Series in 2006 because of how hard it was for them to acquire a Lola chassis, though they did race in the second-tier Atlantic Championship Series.[7] Several teams from the Indy Racing League, including Panther Racing, were reportedly planning to enter the Champ Car World Series in 2006, but ultimately never did.[8]

Driver changes

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Katherine Legge (pictured in 2009) was the first female driver to race full-time in the Champ Car World Series.

After spending six months recovering from injuries sustained in a crash during the 2005 Indianapolis 500, Bruno Junqueira completed over 200 laps during a three-day testing session at Sebring International Raceway in December 2005 and announced his return to Newman/Haas Racing car for 2006.[9] Junqueira's teammate, two-time and defending series champion Sébastien Bourdais, signed a one-year contract extension with Newman/Haas Racing which included an exit clause if an opportunity arose to compete in Formula One.[10] Bourdais admitted that he initially held off on extending his contract because he had attempted to secure a seat with Formula One's BMW Sauber team, though the costs of terminating Jacques Villeneuve's contract were too expensive for the team.[11][12]

Newman/Haas Racing failed to gain enough funding to field a third entry for Oriol Servià, who substituted for Junqueira for the last eleven races of the 2005 season and finished second in the Drivers' Championship standings.[13] Meanwhile, Jimmy Vasser opted to solely compete in the season-opening Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach before retiring from American open-wheel car racing, forcing PKV Racing to find a replacement driver.[14] The team tested with Ryan Briscoe, Franck Montagny, Giorgio Pantano, and Ryan Dalziel,[15] but ultimately chose Servià as he had more experience in the series.[16] Servià was teamed with Katherine Legge, a three-time winner in the Atlantic Championship Series who became the first female driver to compete in the series since Lyn St. James in the 1995 Marlboro 500 and the first female driver in history to race full-time in the series.[17][18]

Legge and Servià's hirings at PKV Racing left Cristiano da Matta without a ride for 2006, as he had already fell out with the team's management following a string of poor results towards the latter half of the 2005 season. Da Matta later joined Dale Coyne Racing, though he was essentially forced to drive for the team without a salary.[19] Reigning Eurocup Mégane Trophy champion Jan Heylen initially sought an opportunity to race for Conquest Racing,[20] but the team's seats were occupied by 2005 Atlantic Championship Series champion Charles Zwolsman Jr. and Andrew Ranger,[21] the latter of whom intended only to compete at Long Beach and the three races in Canada before obtaining enough sponsorship to complete the entire season in May.[22] After partaking in a test session with Dale Coyne Racing along with Nicky Pastorelli at California Speedway, Heylen was selected as da Matta's teammate for 2006. Dale Coyne Racing announced Heylen's hiring only hours prior to the first practice session for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.[23]

As his contract with Forsythe Racing was set to expire at the end of the 2005 season, series veteran Paul Tracy expressed interest in competing in NASCAR.[24] In August 2005, he tested an ARCA car owned by Richard Childress at Michigan International Speedway,[25] and later declared his intentions to drive part-time in the second-tier Busch Series in 2006 before fully switching to NASCAR in 2007.[26] Despite doubts that Tracy would return to the Champ Car World Series in 2006, he opted to continue racing in the series that year alongside teammate Mario Domínguez.[27] By April 2006, Tracy spoke to the media about talks for an extension of his current contract with Forsythe Racing,[28] and a new five-year deal with the team was announced the next month.[29]

Ahead of the previous season's Lexmark Indy 300, Will Power signed a three-year contract with Team Australia and subsequently replaced the outgoing Marcus Marshall, as he was let go by the team near the end of the 2005 season because of their straining relationship with him,[30] while Alex Tagliani remained with the team.[31][32] Rumors circulated that Team Australia planned on running a third car for Australian driver Ryan Briscoe;[33] however, Briscoe only wound up competing with the team in the final three races of the 2005–06 A1 Grand Prix season.[34]

After 2005 Rookie of the Year Timo Glock left the Champ Car World Series to race in the GP2 Series,[35] DHL pulled their sponsorship of Rocketsports Racing and the team was left scrambling to find another driver.[36] They planned to hire Franck Montagny before being approached with a sponsorship effort headed by four Brazilian businessmen, which called for Brazilian drivers Antônio Pizzonia and Enrique Bernoldi to race under the name of Team Brazil.[37][38] The two drivers completed a testing session at Houston Motorsports Ranch in March, but a deal was not reached in time for the start of the season, forcing Rocketsports Racing to field a single entry for Pizzonia at Long Beach.[39] Negotiations continued throughout the season, although nothing ever materialized.[40]

Comedian and actor Cedric the Entertainer joined the Champ Car World Series as a co-owner of HVM Racing, which had been renamed to CTE-HVM Racing to commemorate his partnership with the team.[41] Although Ronnie Bremer had signed a contract to remain with the team for 2006,[42] a lack of sponsorship led to the deal being voided less than two weeks before the start of the season.[43] CTE-HVM Racing's two seats were taken by Nelson Philippe, who spent the last two seasons racing for Conquest Racing,[44] and rookie Dan Clarke, who finished fifth in the 2005 British Formula 3 International Series.[45]

Mid-season

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Schedule

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The initial 15-race schedule was released by Champ Car on August 13, 2005.[72]

Round Date Race Track Location
1 April 9 United States Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach  S  Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California
2 May 13 United States Grand Prix of Houston  S  Reliant Park Houston, Texas
3 May 21 Mexico Tecate Grand Prix of Monterrey  R  Fundidora Park Monterrey, Mexico
4 June 4 United States Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225  O  Milwaukee Mile West Allis, Wisconsin
5 June 18 United States Grand Prix of Portland  R  Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
6 June 25 United States Champ Car Grand Prix of Cleveland  R  Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport Cleveland, Ohio
7 July 9 Canada Molson Grand Prix of Toronto  S  Exhibition Place Toronto, Canada
8 July 23 Canada West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix  R  Rexall Speedway Edmonton, Canada
9 July 30 United States Canary Foundation Grand Prix of San José  S  Streets of San Jose San Jose, California
10 August 13 United States Grand Prix of Denver  S  Denver Civic Center Denver, Colorado
11 August 27 Canada Champ Car Grand Prix de Montréal  R  Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Montreal, Canada
12 September 24 United States Grand Prix of Road America  R  Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
13 October 22 Australia Lexmark Indy 300  S  Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Surfers Paradise, Queensland
14 November 12 Mexico Gran Premio Telmex  R  Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez Mexico City, Mexico
Sources:[73][74][75]
Key
Symbol Track type
 O  Oval track
 R  Road course
 S  Street circuit

The following rounds were included on the provisional calendars but later cancelled:

Original date Race Track Location
September 23 United States Champ Car Las Vegas 400  O  Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, Nevada
October 15 South Korea Ansan Champ Car Grand Prix  S  Streets of Ansan Ansan, South Korea
— China —  R  Goldenport Park Circuit Beijing, China

Schedule changes

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In March 2005, Champ Car World Series co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven announced the series' debut in China, specifically at the Goldenport Park Circuit in Beijing, for the 2006 season,[76] with Beijing State-owned Assets Management Company Chairman Li Aiqing taking the role of the event's promoter.[77] The race was to be held either in May or September 2006,[78] but was excluded from the provisional calendar because the event hadn't been finalized and eventually cancelled.[79]

Among the races included in the provisional calendar was the inaugural Ansan Champ Car Grand Prix at the streets of Ansan, South Korea,[72] which was deferred from the 2005 season because of a lack of preparation for the event.[80] The race was again called off in July 2006 because of troubles with the circuit's construction,[81] and it was finally abandoned after two consecutive cancellations.[82]

  • The lone addition to the schedule was the return of the Grand Prix of Houston, to be held on a 1.7 mile street course around the Reliant Park venue that differed from the course used between 1998 and 2001 adjacent to the George R. Brown Convention Center. It was scheduled for Saturday, May 13, the same day as the Indianapolis 500 Pole Day time trials, complicating matters for teams that potentially aimed to race at the Brickyard. In the end, no Champ Car teams entered the Indy 500 in 2006.[72]
  • The race at Las Vegas, one of just two oval events on the schedule, was included on a provisional basis, as a new contract had not been signed at the time of release, but both parties eventually failed to reach an agreement. On November 29, 2005, it was announced that the race would be replaced by a return to Road America, who last held a Champ Car event in 2004, using the same September weekend allocated for Las Vegas.[83]
  • On March 22, 2006, it was announced that the Mexico City finale had been moved from November 5 to November 12 at the request of the promoter, in order to avoid conflict with the Dia de Muertos week, the traditional national holiday of remembrance in Mexico.[84]

Background and series news

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The Ford–Cosworth XFE engine continued to be the exclusive power plant for the series. Bridgestone also continued as the exclusive series tire supplier. The two companies continued the marketing agreement that branded the series Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.

All teams ran the Lola B02/00 chassis, the final year these chassis would be run as a de-facto spec chassis in the series. A new bespoke formula for the series was announced on August 3, 2006 with the unveiling of the Panoz DP01, which would feature the same engine package. The car was slated to weigh 100 pounds less, have onboard starters and paddle shifting, as well as refined aerodynamics.[85]

Results and standings

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Races

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Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Race winner Report
Driver Team
1 United States Long Beach France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais Newman/Haas Racing Report
2 United States Houston Mexico Mario Domínguez France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais Newman/Haas Racing Report
3 Mexico Monterrey France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais Newman/Haas Racing Report
4 United States Milwaukee France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais Newman/Haas Racing Report
5 United States Portland Brazil Bruno Junqueira Australia Will Power United States A. J. Allmendinger Forsythe Racing Report
6 United States Cleveland United States A. J. Allmendinger France Nelson Philippe United States A. J. Allmendinger Forsythe Racing Report
7 Canada Toronto United Kingdom Justin Wilson Canada Alex Tagliani United States A. J. Allmendinger Forsythe Racing Report
8 Canada Edmonton France Sébastien Bourdais United Kingdom Justin Wilson United Kingdom Justin Wilson RuSPORT Report
9 United States San José France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais Newman/Haas Racing Report
10 United States Denver France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais United States A. J. Allmendinger Forsythe Racing Report
11 Canada Montréal France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais Newman/Haas Racing Report
12 United States Road America United Kingdom Dan Clarke France Sébastien Bourdais United States A. J. Allmendinger Forsythe Racing Report
13 Australia Surfers Paradise Australia Will Power Canada Paul Tracy France Nelson Philippe CTE Racing-HVM Report
14 Mexico Mexico City United Kingdom Justin Wilson France Sébastien Bourdais France Sébastien Bourdais Newman/Haas Racing Report

Drivers' Championship standings

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Further information: List of American Championship car racing point scoring systems
Pos Driver LBH United States HOU United States FUN Mexico MIL United States POR United States CLE United States TOR Canada EDM Canada SJO United States DEN United States CGV Canada ROA United States SUR Australia MXC Mexico Pts
1 France Sébastien Bourdais 1* 1 1* 1* 3 18 3 2* 1* 7 1* 3* 8 1 387
2 United Kingdom Justin Wilson 2 5 2 2 2 13 4 1 3 8 14 5 Wth 5 2* 298
3 United States A. J. Allmendinger 16 8 3 4 1* 1* 1* 3 7 1* 17 1 16 285
4 France Nelson Philippe 13 4 17 3 8 10 13 14 4 5 3 14 1* 7 231
5 Brazil Bruno Junqueira 15 10 10 15 4 2 8 15 17 2 12 2 6 4 219
6 Australia Will Power  RY  9 7 11 11 18 9 7 6 6 4 5 13 12 3 213
7 Canada Paul Tracy 17 2 4 16 7 16 2 5 15 3 6 4 2 10 4 209
8 Canada Alex Tagliani 3 11 5 Wth 1 11 4 6 12 14 16 7 11 3 5 205
9 Mexico Mario Domínguez 4 3* 6 14 2 14 6 11 8 5 13 10 12 2 17 202
10 Canada Andrew Ranger 6 6 7 7 9 11 10 7 13 14 15 8 5 8 200
11 Spain Oriol Servià 18 12 8 5 10 3 12 4 8 15 16 4 13 6 197
12 United Kingdom Dan Clarke  R  11 16 13 8 6 7 17 9 16 3 4 6 17 18 175
13 Netherlands Charles Zwolsman Jr.  R  12 15 12 9 12 15 9 10 9 10 8 7 7 11 162
14 Belgium Jan Heylen  R  7 13 16 12 15 5 16 16 11 11 9 9 14 13 140
15 Brazil Cristiano da Matta 5 9 9 13 5 14 5 18 2 134
16 United Kingdom Katherine Legge  R  8 14 14 6 13 8 14 13 12 9 13 16 15 16 133
17 Netherlands Nicky Pastorelli  R  17 15 10 17 17 17 10 12 6 73
18 Brazil Antônio Pizzonia  R  10 11 10 12 43
19 Estonia Tõnis Kasemets  R  16 12 15 11 17 34
20 Germany Andreas Wirth  R  9 15 19
21 Australia Ryan Briscoe  R  11 14 17
22 Mexico David Martínez  R  9 13
23 United States Buddy Rice  R  10 11
24 United States Jimmy Vasser 14 7
25 Uruguay Juan Cáceres  R  15 6
Pos Driver LBH United States HOU United States FUN Mexico MIL United States POR United States CLE United States TOR Canada EDM Canada SJO United States DEN United States CGV Canada ROA United States SUR Australia MXC Mexico Pts
Color Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green 4th & 5th place
Light Blue 6th-10th place
Dark Blue Finished
(Outside Top 10)
Purple Did not finish
Red Did not qualify
(DNQ)
Brown Withdrawn
(Wth)
Black Disqualified
(DSQ)
White Did not start
(DNS)
Blank Did not
participate
(DNP)
Not competing
In-line notation
Bold Pole position
Italics Ran fastest race lap
* Led most race laps
 RY  Rookie of the Year
 R  Rookie

Notes:

Nations' Cup standings

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  • Top result per race counts towards the Nations' Cup
Pos Country LBH United States HOU United States FUN Mexico MIL United States POR United States CLE United States TOR Canada EDM Canada SJO United States DEN United States CGV Canada ROA United States SUR Australia MXC Mexico Pts
1 France France 1 1 1 1 3 10 3 2 1 5 1 3 1 1 397
2 United Kingdom United Kingdom 2 5 2 2 2 7 4 1 3 3 4 5 15 2 331
3 United States United States 14 8 3 4 1 1 1 3 7 1 17 1 16 10 292
3 Canada Canada 3 2 4 7 7 4 2 5 13 6 2 8 3 5 292
5 Brazil Brazil 5 9 9 13 4 2 5 15 2 2 11 2 6 4 266
6 Mexico Mexico 4 3 6 141 14 6 11 8 5 13 10 12 2 9 209
7 Australia Australia 9 7 11 11 18 9 7 6 6 4 5 13 11 3 209
8 Spain Spain 18 12 8 5 10 3 12 4 8 15 16 4 13 6 192
9 Netherlands Netherlands 12 15 12 9 12 15 9 10 9 10 6 7 7 11 163
10 Belgium Belgium 7 13 16 12 15 5 16 16 11 11 9 9 14 13 137
11 Estonia Estonia 16 12 15 11 17 34
12 Germany Germany 9 15 19
12 Uruguay Uruguay 15 6
Pos Country LBH United States HOU United States FUN Mexico MIL United States POR United States CLE United States TOR Canada EDM Canada SJO United States DEN United States CGV Canada ROA United States SUR Australia MXC Mexico Pts

Notes

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1 Mexico was penalized 7 points as a result of a penalty applied to Mario Domínguez in Milwaukee[87]

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