2006 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season
2006 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season | |||
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Support series: Formula 3 Euro Series |
The 2006 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season was the seventh Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season after the series' was resumed in 2000. The number of race weekends was reduced, from eleven in 2005, to ten for the 2006 season. Each track hosted one race, with the exception of Hockenheim, which hosted two. As in 2005, each event consisted of one race of approximately one hour, with two compulsory pit stops for each car. The Championship was won by Bernd Schneider driving a AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2006 for the HWA Team.
Changes for 2006
- Opel exited the series, leaving Audi and Mercedes as remaining manufacturers. Audi and Mercedes respectively increased their number of entries from eight to ten cars each to fill up the four empty spots left by Opel.
- Older 2004 models became cheaper, allowing privateer teams to buy them.
- The rounds in Belgium at Spa-Francorchamps and Turkey at Istanbul Park were dropped in favour of Le Mans in France and Barcelona in Spain.
- The rounds in Czech Republic at Brno were removed from the schedule.
Teams and drivers
Make | Team | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Audi | Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline | Audi A4 DTM 2006 | 4 | Martin Tomczyk | All |
5 | Mattias Ekström | All | |||
6 | Heinz-Harald Frentzen | All | |||
7 | Tom Kristensen | All | |||
Audi Sport Team Phoenix | Audi A4 DTM 2005 | 12 | Christian Abt | All | |
14 | Pierre Kaffer | All | |||
Audi Sport Team Rosberg | Audi A4 DTM 2005 | 15 | Timo Scheider | All | |
16 | Frank Stippler | All | |||
Futurecom TME | Audi A4 DTM 2004 | 19 | Olivier Tielemans | 1–3* | |
Jeroen Bleekemolen | 4–5** | ||||
Nicolas Kiesa | 6–8*** | ||||
Thed Björk | 9–10 | ||||
20 | Vanina Ickx | All | |||
Mercedes-Benz | HWA Team | AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2006 | 2 | Bernd Schneider | All |
3 | Jamie Green | All | |||
8 | Mika Häkkinen | All | |||
9 | Bruno Spengler | All | |||
Persson Motorsport | AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2005 | 10 | Jean Alesi | All | |
11 | Alexandros Margaritis | All | |||
AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2004 | 21 | Mathias Lauda | All | ||
Mücke Motorsport | AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2005 | 17 | Stefan Mücke | All | |
18 | Daniel la Rosa | All | |||
AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2004 | 22 | Susie Stoddart | All |
* Olivier Tielemans was replaced by Jeroen Bleekemolen
** Jeroen Bleekemolen was replaced by Nicolas Kiesa after problems between the team of Collin Kolles where he drove and the main sponsor of Bleekemolen
*** Nicolas Kiesa was replaced by Thed Björk after being injured in a motocross accident
Race calendar and winners
Championship standings
Scoring system
Points are awarded to the top 8 classified finishers.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Drivers' championship
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Bold – Pole |
- † — Driver retired, but was classified as they completed 90% of the winner's race distance.
Teams' championship
Pos. | Team | No. | HOC |
LAU |
OSC |
BRH |
NOR |
NÜR |
ZAN |
CAT |
BUG |
HOC |
Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Vodafone / Salzgitter AMG Mercedes | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 102 |
3 | Ret | 4 | 3 | 2 | Ret | 9 | 8 | Ret | 6 | 2 | |||
2 | DaimlerChrysler Bank AMG Mercedes | 8 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 2 | Ret | 88 |
9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||
3 | Audi Sport Team Abt | 6 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 17† | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 14† | 80 |
7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 18† | 5 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | |||
4 | Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 16† | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 63 |
5 | Ret | DSQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 4 | Ret | 12† | |||
5 | stern / Easy Rent AMG Mercedes | 10 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | Ret | 4 | Ret | 14 | 11 | 8 | 26 |
11 | 5 | 6 | 20† | 8 | Ret | 15 | Ret | 8 | 7 | 13† | |||
6 | Audi Sport Team Rosberg | 15 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | Ret | 8 | 6 | 15 |
16 | 12 | 11 | 13 | Ret | 9 | Ret | 14 | 6 | Ret | Ret | |||
7 | TV-Spielfilm / TrekStor AMG Mercedes | 17 | Ret | 12 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 15 | Ret | 9 |
18 | 14 | Ret | 11 | 12 | 15† | 16 | 10 | 7 | Ret | Ret | |||
8 | Audi Sport Team Phoenix | 12 | Ret | Ret | 17 | 5 | 10 | 10 | Ret | 10 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
14 | Ret | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 9 | Ret | 12 | NC | |||
9 | AutoScout24 / Junge Gebrauchte AMG Mercedes | 21 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 15 | Ret | 13 | 15 | 13 | Ret | 10 | 0 |
22 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 14† | Ret | 12 | 15 | 13 | 9 | |||
10 | Futurecom TME | 19 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 16 | Ret | 14 | 15† | 0 |
20 | 15 | 16 | 18 | Ret | 13 | 18 | Ret | Ret | 16 | 11 | |||
Pos. | Team | No. | HOC |
LAU |
OSC |
BRH |
NOR |
NÜR |
ZAN |
CAT |
BUG |
HOC |
Points |
External links
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