2006 Formula Renault 3.5 Series

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 was the second Formula Renault 3.5 Series season. It 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
	2	Davide Valsecchi	All
Draco Multiracing USA	3	Pastor Maldonado	All
	4	Tomas Kostka	1-6
		Miloš Pavlović	7-9
KTR	5	Robbie Kerr	All
	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
		Tristan Gommendy	8-9
	10	James Rossiter	All
Cram Competition	11	Ben Hanley	All
	12	Miloš Pavlović	1-4
		Pasquale Di Sabatino	5-9
Jenzer Motorsport	14	Álvaro Barba	All
	15	Alessandro Bonetti	1-6
		Marco Barba	7-9
Victory Engineering	16	Álvaro Parente	All
	18	Hayanari Shimoda	1-8
		Oliver Jarvis	9
GD Racing	19	Matteo Meneghello	1-5
		Carlos Iaconelli	7-9
	20	Patrick Pilet	1-5
		Miguel Molina	7-9
Interwetten.com	21	Eric Salignon	1-8
		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 Tahincioglu	3
		Carlos Iaconelli	4-5
		Marcos Martínez	6-8
		Nil Montserrat	9
RC Motorsport	25	Borja García	All
	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
	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
	R2		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
	R2		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
	R2		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
	R2		29 July	Pastor Maldonado	Miloš Pavlović	Borja García	RC Motorsport
6	R1	Nürburgring	5 August	Mikhail Aleshin	Eric Salignon	Álvaro Parente	Victory Engineering
	R2		6 August	Pastor Maldonado	Ben Hanley	Christian Montanari	Prema Powerteam
7	R1	Donington Park	9 September	Adrian Zaugg	Pastor Maldonado	Alx Danielsson	Comtec Racing
	13		10 September	Alx Danielsson	Alx Danielsson	Alx Danielsson	Comtec Racing
8	R1	Bugatti Circuit	30 September	Alx Danielsson	Steven Kane	Alx Danielsson	Comtec Racing
	R2		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
	R2		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 Tahincioglu 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 Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) 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

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