2006 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season

2006 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season
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Alx Danielsson won the title by just five points.

The 2006 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season began on April 29 at Zolder, Belgium and finished in Barcelona, Spain on October 29 after 17 races.

Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Epsilon Euskadi	1	Steven Kane	All
Epsilon Euskadi	2	Davide Valsecchi	All
Draco Multiracing USA	3	Pastor Maldonado	All
	4	Tomas Kostka	1-6
	4	Miloš Pavlović	7-9
KTR	5	Robbie Kerr	All
KTR	6	Sean McIntosh	All
Carlin Motorsport	7	Mikhail Aleshin	All
	8	Colin Fleming	1-3
		Sebastian Vettel	4-5
		Adrian Zaugg	6-7, 9
		Gavin Cronje	8
Pons Racing	9	Celso Míguez	1-6
	9	Tristan Gommendy	8-9
	10	James Rossiter	All
Cram Competition	11	Ben Hanley	All
	12	Miloš Pavlović	1-4
	12	Pasquale Di Sabatino	5-9
Jenzer Motorsport	14	Álvaro Barba	All
	15	Alessandro Bonetti	1-6
	15	Marco Barba	7-9
Victory Engineering	16	Álvaro Parente	All
	18	Hayanari Shimoda	1-8
	18	Oliver Jarvis	9
GD Racing	19	Matteo Meneghello	1-5
	19	Carlos Iaconelli	7-9
	20	Patrick Pilet	1-5
	20	Miguel Molina	7-9
Interwetten.com	21	Eric Salignon	1-8
	21	Franck Perera	9
	22	Andy Soucek	All
Eurointernational	23	Enrico Toccacelo	1-4
		Miloš Pavlović	5-6
		Richard Keen	7
		Mehdi Bennani	8
		Alberto Valério	9
	24	Pascal Kochem	1
		Mehdi Bennani	2
		Jason Tahinci	3
		Carlos Iaconelli	4-5
		Marcos Martínez	6-8
		Nil Montserrat	9
RC Motorsport	25	Borja García	All
RC Motorsport	26	Bruce Jouanny	All
Comtec Racing	27	Alx Danielsson	All
	28	Edwin Jowsey	1
		Jaap van Lagen	2-3, 5
		Carlos Iaconelli	6
		Celso Míguez	7-9
Prema Powerteam	29	Gregory Franchi	All
Prema Powerteam	30	Christian Montanari	All
Tech 1 Racing	31	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	1-4
		Marco Bonanomi	5-6
		Patrick Pilet	7-9
	32	Ryo Fukuda	All

Calendar and race winners

Eight rounds formed meetings of the 2006 World Series by Renault season, with an additional round supporting the 2006 Monaco Grand Prix.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Circuit Zolder	29 April	Christian Montanari	Pastor Maldonado	Eric Salignon	Interwetten.com
1	R2	Circuit Zolder	30 April	Davide Valsecchi	Ben Hanley	Eric Salignon	Interwetten.com
2		Circuit de Monaco	28 May	Christian Montanari	Pastor Maldonado	Pastor Maldonado	Draco Multiracing USA
3	R1	Istanbul Park	17 June	Andy Soucek	Pastor Maldonado	Andy Soucek	Interwetten.com
3	R2	Istanbul Park	18 June	Pastor Maldonado	Enrico Toccacelo	Álvaro Parente	Victory Engineering
4	R1	Circuito Internazionale di Misano	15 July	Pastor Maldonado	Ben Hanley	Sebastian Vettel	Carlin Motorsport
4	R2	Circuito Internazionale di Misano	16 July	Sebastian Vettel	Christian Montanari	Sebastian Vettel	Carlin Motorsport
5	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	28 July	Pastor Maldonado	Pastor Maldonado	Pastor Maldonado	Draco Multiracing USA
5	R2	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	29 July	Pastor Maldonado	Miloš Pavlović	Borja García	RC Motorsport
6	R1	Nürburgring	5 August	Mikhail Aleshin	Eric Salignon	Álvaro Parente	Victory Engineering
6	R2	Nürburgring	6 August	Pastor Maldonado	Ben Hanley	Christian Montanari	Prema Powerteam
7	R1	Donington Park	9 September	Adrian Zaugg	Pastor Maldonado	Alx Danielsson	Comtec Racing
7	13	Donington Park	10 September	Alx Danielsson	Alx Danielsson	Alx Danielsson	Comtec Racing
8	R1	Bugatti Circuit	30 September	Alx Danielsson	Steven Kane	Alx Danielsson	Comtec Racing
8	R2	Bugatti Circuit	1 October	Tristan Gommendy	Pastor Maldonado	Pastor Maldonado	Draco Multiracing USA
9	R1	Circuit de Catalunya	28 October	Alx Danielsson	Alx Danielsson	Alx Danielsson	Comtec Racing
9	R2	Circuit de Catalunya	29 October	Sean McIntosh	Robbie Kerr	Álvaro Parente	Victory Engineering

Note:

Pastor Maldonado originally won the first race at Misano, but was disqualified for a technical infringement. His team, Draco Multiracing USA, appealed the decision, but on January 24, 2007 the Italian National Court of Appeal for Motorsport upheld the original ruling.^[1]
Borja García originally won the second race at Spa, but was disqualified for a technical infringement. However, on October 27, 2006 a court decided to revoke the disqualification and returned the win and points to both the driver and the team. His team, RC Motorsport, did however receive a financial penalty for the infringement.^[2]

Points system

Points were awarded at the end of each race according to the following system:

1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
15	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

In addition:

One point was awarded for Pole position for each race
One point was awarded for fastest lap for each race

The maximum number of points a driver could earn each weekend (except Monaco) was 34 and the maximum number for a team was 58.

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Pos	Driver	ZOL 1	ZOL 2	MON 1	IST 1	IST 2	MIS 1	MIS 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	DON 1	DON 2	LMS 1	LMS 2	BAR 1	BAR 2	Points
1	Alx Danielsson	4	10	Ret	6	Ret	5	7	Ret	Ret	5	2	1	1	1	NC	1	5	113
2	Borja García	3	2	DNQ	2	Ret	4	17	4	1	2	6	6	3	11	3	23†	9	109
3	Pastor Maldonado	8	3	1	11	Ret	DSQ	Ret	1	2	6	22†	8	Ret	Ret	1	10	2	103
4	Andy Soucek	Ret	5	10	1	12	2	5	3	3	12	3	4	5	7	Ret	2	NC	101
5	Álvaro Parente	DNS	DNQ	6	3	1	3	4	Ret	4	1	Ret	17	Ret	12	11	3	1	96
6	Sean McIntosh	25†	DNQ	11	4	6	Ret	10	2	Ret	7	4	5	13	9	Ret	5	3	63
7	Christian Montanari	2	16	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	21	11	1	11	Ret	3	14	7	4	58
8	Eric Salignon	1	1	20	17	23†	22	8	9	5	NC	7	14	11	18	9			48
9	Ben Hanley	10	17†	Ret	Ret	4	6	2	Ret	7	10	13	10	6	10	20†	16	7	45
10	Davide Valsecchi	DNS	15	DNQ	5	3	Ret	3	8	Ret	8	12	16	7	17	5	15	Ret	43
11	Miloš Pavlović	20	6	9	13	21	17	14	15	23	4	Ret	3	8	2	Ret	Ret	18†	41
12	Mikhail Aleshin	13	Ret	15	23†	2	7	16	Ret	6	3	21	7	9	19	Ret	8	13	41
13	Adrian Zaugg										17	8	2	2			6	Ret	33
14	James Rossiter	5	Ret	2	Ret	5	9	6	Ret	24	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	16	17	9	Ret	33
15	Sebastian Vettel						1	1	Ret	DNS									31
16	Ryo Fukuda	11	Ret	17	12	10	12	9	12	13	16	5	19	4	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	25
17	Robbie Kerr	7	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	22†	DSQ	15	10	12	10	4	21†	Ret	Ret	20
18	Colin Fleming	6	DNQ	4	8	8													19
19	Tristan Gommendy														8	2	NC	Ret	16
20	Steven Kane	22	4	16	20	18	14	18	10	10	Ret	20	15	17	21	10	12	8	15
21	Patrick Pilet	21†	Ret	13	Ret	7	15	12	21†	14			13	14	5	7	14	19†	14
22	Franck Perera																4	6	13
23	Hayanari Shimoda	24†	13	5	7	17	Ret	Ret	14	11	Ret	9	Ret	12	14	13			12
24	Celso Míguez	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	13	11	13	16	13	15	Ret	18	6	6	Ret	Ret	11
25	Gregory Franchi	15	12	3	Ret	19	11	Ret	18	15	18	16	23	15	23	Ret	17	Ret	10
26	Álvaro Barba	Ret	7	Ret	22	Ret	Ret	13	6	12	Ret	14	22	23	15	Ret	Ret	15	9
27	Enrico Toccacelo	9	8	DNQ	15	20	8	15											9
28	Jaap van Lagen			Ret	Ret	9			5	Ret									8
29	Bruce Jouanny	17	9	14	19	13	21	Ret	Ret	22	14	11	9	19	20	8	13	11	7
30	Tomáš Kostka	14	14	8	Ret	15	20	Ret	20†	9	Ret	17							5
31	Marco Bonanomi								Ret	8	9	Ret							5
32	Miguel Molina												18	22	13	15	11	10	1
33	Carlos Iaconelli						Ret	21	11	17	Ret	19	21	16	26†	12	21	14	0
34	Pascal Kochem	12	11																0
35	Matteo Meneghello	16	DNQ	18	18	11	18	20	17	18									0
36	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	19	19†	12	14	22	16	19											0
37	Oliver Jarvis																20	12	0
38	Alessandro Bonetti	18	18†	19	16	14	19	Ret	19	20	19	Ret							0
39	Pasquale Di Sabatino								16	19	20	18	24	20	25	16	24	Ret	0
40	Jason Tahinci				21	16													0
41	Marco Barba												Ret	Ret	22	18	18	17	0
42	Nil Montserrat																22	17	0
43	Mehdi Bennani			DNQ											Ret	19			0
44	Alberto Valerio																19	Ret	0
45	Richard Keen												20	21					0
46	Edwin Jowsey	23	DNQ																0
47	Gavin Cronje														24	Ret			0
	Marcos Martínez										NC	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNS	Ret			0
Pos	Driver	ZOL 1	ZOL 2	MON 1	IST 1	IST 2	MIS 1	MIS 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	DON 1	DON 2	LMS 1	LMS 2	BAR 1	BAR 2	Points

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Did not finish (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate
Blank	Excluded (EX)

Polesitter for feature race in bold
Driver in italics has been awarded two points for fastest lap
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Notes:

Miloš Pavlović set the fastest lap in the sprint race at Donington Park, but was not awarded the two bonus points because of a yellow flag infringement

Teams

Pos	Team	Points	Wins	F/laps
1	Interwetten.com	160	3	1
2	Draco Multiracing USA	132	3	6
3	Comtec Racing	130	4	2
4	Carlin Motorsport	121	1
5	RC Motorsport	116	1
6	Victory Engineering	106	3
7	KTR	83		1
8	Prema Powerteam	68	1	1
9	Cram Competition	62	1	3
10	Epsilon Euskadi	58		1
11	Pons Racing	50
12	Tech 1 Racing	40
13	Eurointernational	18		2
14	Jenzer Motorsport	9
15	GD Racing	5

References

↑ "Danielsson finally confirmed as champion.". crash.net. 2007-01-25. Retrieved 2007-01-25.
↑ "Garcia back on top after appeal win.". crash.net. 2006-10-27. Retrieved 2007-01-25.

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