2006 World Touring Car Championship


The 2006 World Touring Car Championship season was the third season of FIA World Touring Car Championship 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 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. Andy Priaulx 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.

Drivers changes

Changed Teams
Entering WTCC including those who entered one-off rounds in 2005
Leaving WTCC
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
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.