2006 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0

The 2006 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the sixteenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Zolder on 29 April and finished at the Barcelona on 29 October, after fourteen rounds.^[1]

Motopark Academy's Filipe Albuquerque who took a pair of double wins at Nürburgring and Barcelona clinched the championship title in the final round at Barcelona by eight points ahead of JD Motorsport's Chris van der Drift, who won two races during the season at Misano and Donington Park. Van der Drift also finished as top rookie. Carlo van Dam finished in third for SG Formula, after win at Le Mans and another four podiums. Another driver who won on Bugatti Circuit was Bertrand Baguette who finished two points behind van Dam for Epsilon Euskadi. Kasper Andersen completed the top five without scoring a win. Laurent Groppi won two races of the opening round at Zolder, but contested just six races, as well as Donington winner Sébastien Buemi. Dani Clos won at Istanbul Park and Misano, but due to disqualification in the second race at Misano he managed only seventh place in the series' standings.

Teams and drivers

2006 Entry List[2]
Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Prema Powerteam	0	Edoardo Mortara	All
	2	Henkie Waldschmidt	All
	3	Martin Plowman	All
Comtec Team	1	Pippa Mann	All
SG Formula	4	Tom Dillmann	All
	5	Sten Pentus	1-4
		Yann Clairay	6
	6	Carlo van Dam	All
	12	Alexandre Marsoin	7
	64	Jean Karl Vernay	4
	65	Julien Jousse	4
Epsilon Euskadi	7	Salman bin Rashid Al-Khalifa	All
	8	Bertrand Baguette	All
	9	Jacky Ferre	1
		Nelson Panciatici	6-7
Motopark Academy	10	Filipe Albuquerque	All
	11	Nathan Antunes	1
		Sébastien Buemi	2-3, 5
		Robert Wickens	4
		Stefano Coletti	6-7
Motorsport Arena	12	John Michael Edwards	All
	14	Brendon Hartley	All
Cram Competition	15	Jaime Alguersuari	All
	16	Edoardo Piscopo	All
	17	Adrian Zaugg	1-3
		Stefano Coletti	4
		Oliver Oakes	5-7
Team Jenzer	18	Walter Grubmüller	1-4
		Claudio Cantelli	5-6
		Mariano Werner	7
	19	Marco Frezza	1-4
		Oliver Campos-Hull	5-7
Jenzer Motorsport	20	Junior Strous	1-2
		Atte Mustonen	5-7
	21	Rahel Frey	All
	22	Dani Clos	All
	52	Cem Kent	2
JD Motorsport	24	Kasper Andersen	All
	25	Chris van der Drift	All
	26	Xavier Maassen	All
Koiranen Bros Motorsport	27	Atte Mustonen	1-4
		Facundo Crovo	7
	28	Tomi Limmonen	1, 3-4
		Duarte Félix da Costa	7
SL Formula Racing	29	Frédéric Vervisch	1-2
		Bruno Rudolf Fechner	5
	30	Johan Charpilienne	1
		Anton Nebylitskiy	2, 5-6
Graff Racing	31	Laurent Groppi	1, 4, 6
	32	Mathieu Arzeno	1
		Claudio Cantelli	4
		Julien Canal	6
AR Motorsport	34	Duarte Félix da Costa	1-2, 4-5
	35	Mervyn Kool	1, 4
BVM Motorsport	36	Pablo Sánchez López	All
	37	Frederico Muggia	All
	41	Daniele Zampieri	3-4, 7
MRD Motorsport	38	Joonas Mannerjarvi	1-6
	58	Qing Hua Ma	3
Twincam Motorsport	44	Oliver Campos-Hull	1-4
		Walter Grubmüller	5-7
	45	Daniel Campos-Hull	2
Euronova Racing	53	Alberto Costa	3
	59	Filippo Ponti	3
IT Loox	54	Valentino Sebastiani	3
	55	Nicki Sebastiani	3
	56	Riccardo Cinti	3
RP Motorsport	57	Matteo Chinosi	3
CO2 Motorsport	60	Andrea Caldarelli	3
Hexis Racing	61	Sébastien Chardonnet	4
	62	Malo Olivier	4
	63	Ulric Amado de Carvalho	4
BVM Minardi Team	66	Frankie Provenzano	6
Pole Services	67	Johan Charpilienne	6
	68	Pierre Combot	6
RSC	70	Aleix Alcaraz	7
	71	José Luis López-Pamplo	7

Calendar

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Circuit Zolder	29 April	Laurent Groppi	Laurent Groppi	Laurent Groppi	Graff Racing
	R2		30 April		Laurent Groppi	Laurent Groppi	Graff Racing
2	R1	Istanbul Park	17 June	Dani Clos	Edoardo Piscopo	Dani Clos	Jenzer Motorsport
	R2		18 June		Dani Clos	Dani Clos	Jenzer Motorsport
3	R1	Misano World Circuit	15 July	Dani Clos	Adrian Zaugg	Dani Clos	Jenzer Motorsport
	R2		16 July		Chris van der Drift	Chris van der Drift	JD Motorsport
4	R1	Nürburgring	5 August	Filipe Albuquerque	Filipe Albuquerque	Filipe Albuquerque	Motopark Academy
	R2		6 August		Tom Dillmann	Filipe Albuquerque	Motopark Academy
5	R1	Donington Park	9 September	Chris van der Drift	Kasper Andersen	Sébastien Buemi	Motopark Academy
	R2		10 September		Atte Mustonen	Chris van der Drift	JD Motorsport
6	R1	Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans	30 September	Carlo van Dam	Bertrand Baguette	Bertrand Baguette	Epsilon Euskadi
	R2		1 October		Laurent Groppi	Carlo van Dam	SG Formula
7	R1	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona	28 October	Filipe Albuquerque	Carlo van Dam	Filipe Albuquerque	Motopark Academy
	R2		29 October		Tom Dillmann	Filipe Albuquerque	Motopark Academy

Championship standings

Drivers

Points are awarded to the drivers as follows:

* - only awarded to race one polesitters

Pos Driver ZOL 1 ZOL 2 IST 1 IST 2 MIS 1 MIS 2 NÜR 1 NÜR 2 DON 1 DON 2 LMS 1 LMS 2 CAT 1 CAT 2 Points 1 Filipe Albuquerque 9 6 28† 5 6 4 1 1 15 4 11 Ret 1 1 99 2 Chris van der Drift 2 20 8 4 4 1 3 3 11 1 Ret 11 22 6 91 3 Carlo van Dam 5 24 2 3 8 6 6 8 Ret 2 3 1 10 7 90 4 Bertrand Baguette 3 2 13 11 9 8 23 30 2 3 1 6 4 5 88 5 Kasper Andersen 6 Ret Ret 7 3 Ret 5 5 3 7 2 Ret 3 3 78 6 Laurent Groppi 1 1 2 2 7 4 75 7 Dani Clos 11 10 1 1 1 DSQ 4 4 10 10 10 Ret Ret 19 70 8 Tom Dillmann 24 4 9 27 2 7 11 34 4 Ret Ret NC 2 2 61 9 Atte Mustonen 4 5 3 2 Ret Ret 16 16 9 20 9 5 17 11 54 10 Edoardo Piscopo Ret 18 5 6 5 11 10 11 7 16 Ret Ret 13 4 34 11 Sébastien Buemi 4 8 Ret 9 1 6 33 12 Jaime Alguersuari 31 21 16 9 7 2 20 31 Ret Ret Ret Ret 5 16 24 13 Xavier Maassen 26* 3 10 19 Ret Ret 12 9 Ret 5 13 16 16 12 21 14 Brendon Hartley 19 Ret 6 28 29 5 7 6 Ret 12 12 Ret Ret 17 21 15 Henkie Waldschmidt 16 23 21 23 14 29 14 12 Ret 18 5 9 7 10 19 16 Adrian Zaugg 12 8 Ret 16 Ret* 3 14 17 John Michael Edwards Ret 16 7 Ret Ret 18 9 10 6 13 Ret DNS 21 Ret 14 18 Frederico Muggia 8 7 Ret 15 Ret 19 32 Ret Ret Ret 14 Ret Ret 9 10 19 Walter Grubmüller 17 27 12 18 22 16 Ret DNS 5 8 17 18 Ret 15 9 20 Johan Charpilienne 7 NC 8 Ret 9 21 Rahel Frey 13 14 27† 12 Ret 17 Ret 26 8 14 18 Ret 6 DSQ 8 22 Edoardo Mortara 15 Ret Ret 20 26 12 17 20 Ret 9 Ret 7 Ret 27 8 23 Martin Plowman 22 17 22 Ret NC 23 21 35 16 11 21 10 9 24 7 24 Mervyn Kool 28 9 13 15 2 25 Oliver Campos-Hull 32† Ret 23 Ret 11 14 15 13 DNS DNS 16 13 14 14 2 26 Junior Strous 10 12 14 13 1 27 Marco Frezza Ret Ret 17 14 10 Ret 22 22 1 28 Daniele Zampieri 19 25 Ret Ret 11 Ret 1 29 Claudio Cantelli 30 28 14 17 23 15 1 30 Sten Pentus 27 11 25 22 20 28 24 23 0 31 Pablo Sánchez López 25 15 24 21 13 Ret 25 21 12 19 19 Ret 12 20 0 32 Duarte Félix da Costa Ret 19 20 17 Ret 19 13 Ret 15 18 0 33 Mathieu Arzeno 18 13 0 34 Nathan Antunes 14 Ret 0 35 Pippa Mann 29 Ret 15 Ret 16 21 31 25 Ret 15 20 20 Ret 21 0 36 Robert Wickens 18 17 0 37 Joonas Mannerjarvi 20 22 19 24 18 20 33 27 18 Ret 25 19 0 38 Anton Nebylitskiy 18 29 19 Ret 22 Ret 0 39 Stefano Coletti 26 18 Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 40 Salman bin Rashid Al-Khalifa Ret 26 Ret 25 28 27 Ret 32 20 Ret Ret Ret 20 25 0 41 Jacky Ferre 21 25 0 42 Frédéric Vervisch 23 Ret DSQ Ret 0 43 Tomi Limonen 30 Ret Ret Ret 27 24 0 44 Cem Kent 26 26 0 The following drivers are guest ineligible to final standing Yann Clairay 26 2 - Nelson Panciatici 4 3 18 13 - Pierre Combot 6 14 - Jean Karl Vernay 8 7 - Oliver Oakes Ret Ret Ret 8 19 8 - Alexandre Marsoin 8 Ret - Daniel Campos-Hull 11 10 - Nicki Sebastiani 27 10 - Filippo Ponti 12 15 - Julien Canal 15 12 - Valentino Sebastiani 25 13 - Julien Jousse 19 14 - Matteo Chinosi 15 26 - Frankie Provenzano 24 17 - Riccardo Cinti 17 Ret - Bruno Rudolf Fechner 17 Ret - Qing Hua Ma 21 22 - Facundo Crovo NC 22 - Aleix Alcaraz 24 23 - Mariano Werner 23 28† - Andrea Caldarelli 23 Ret - Alberto Costa 24 24 - José Luis López-Pamplo Ret 26 - Ulric Amado de Carvalho 28 Ret - Sébastien Chardonnet 29 33 - Malo Olivier NC 29 Ret DNS - Pos Driver ZOL 1 ZOL 2 IST 1 IST 2 MIS 1 MIS 2 NÜR 1 NÜR 2 DON 1 DON 2 LMS 1 LMS 2 CAT 1 CAT 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) Bold - Pole Italics - Fastest Lap

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Teams

Pos	Team	Points
1	JD Motorsport	170
2	SG Formula	151
3	Motopark Academy	132
4	Jenzer Motorsport	89
5	Epsilon Euskadi	88
6	Graff Racing	75
7	Cram Competition	54
8	Koiranen Bros	36
9	Motorsport Arena	35
10	Prema Powerteam	25
11	BVM Minardi Team	10
12	SL Formula Racing	9
13	Twincam Motorsport	9
14	Team Jenzer	4
15	AR Motorsport	2

References

External links

• Official website of the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 championship