2006 Atlantic Championship

2006 Champ Car Atlantic season
Yokohama Presents the Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda
Season
Races	12
Start date	April 9
End date	September 2
Awards
Drivers' champion	Simon Pagenaud
Teams' champion	Forsythe Championship Racing
Rookie of the Year	Simon Pagenaud
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The 2006 Champ Car Atlantic season was the 33rd season of the Champ Car Atlantic Championship. It began April 9 at Long Beach and concluded September 24 at Road America. The Yokohama Presents the Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda Drivers' Champion was Simon Pagenaud driving for Team Australia.

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1 Teams and drivers
2 Schedule
3 Season Summary
- 3.1 Race results
- 3.2 Final driver standings
4 See also
5 External links

Teams and drivers

Team	No	Drivers	Races
Condor Motorsports	1	Danilo Dirani (R)	All
Jensen MotorSport	2	Tim Bridgman (R)	All
	22	Steve Ott (R)	2, 4-6
	22	Ricardo Vassmer (R)	9-10
Forsythe Racing	3	James Hinchcliffe (R)	All
	7	Leonardo Maia (R)	All
	33	Richard Philippe (R)	All
	37	Andreas Wirth	All
US RaceTronics	4	David Martínez	All
Team Australia	5	James Davison (R)	1-10
	5	Michael Patrizi (R)	11-12
	15	Simon Pagenaud (R)	All
Sierra Sierra Enterprises	6	Raphael Matos (R)	All
Brooks Associates Racing	8	Luis Schiavo (R)	1-3
		Carlos Mastretta	3-9
		Antoine Bessette	11
	10	Norbert Siedler (R)	1-3
	10	Alex Sperafico (R)	4-12
McAtee Motorsports	9	Kyle Kelley	1, 4
	19	Brian McAtee	1, 9-10
	19	Brian Thienes	11-12
Polestar Racing Group	12	Alan Sciuto (R)	All
	21	Alex Barron	1-10
		Ronnie Bremer	11
		Antoine Bessette	12
Gelles Racing	14	Stephen Simpson (R)	1-3
		Antoine Bessette	4
		Colin Fleming (R)	9-12
	28	Robbie Pecorari (R)	All
	31	Casey Neal (R)	11
	42	Phil Giebler (R)	9
Transnet Racing	16	Charles Hall	1-3
	16	Alex García	4-6
	17	Barton Mawer	2-4
Mi-Jack Conquest Racing	18	Graham Rahal (R)	All
	30	Al Unser III	1-3
	30	Ryan Lewis (R)	4-12
PR1 Motorsports	23	Jonathan Bomarito	All
PR1 Motorsports	32	Mike Forest (R)	1, 7-8, 10, 12
NCDL Tech	25	Ryan Spencer-Smith (R)	1-2
Mathiasen Motorsports	26	Justin Sofio	All
Newman Wachs Racing	34	Joe D'Agostino (R)	All
	35	Daniel Gaunt (R)	1-6
	35	Steve Ott (R)	7-11
	36	J. R. Hildebrand (R)	12
The Room Store	49	Dan Selznick	1-2, 10
Bite Racing	55	Duncan Ende (R)	1, 4-7
Bite Racing	56	Chris Souliotis	2-3

Schedule

Round	Date	Race Name	Circuit	City/Location
1	April 9	2006 Imperial Capital Bank Atlantic Race	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California
2	May 13	2006 Fast Trac 100	Streets of Houston	Houston, Texas
3	May 21	2006 Monterrey	Fundidora Park	Monterrey, Mexico
4	June 18	2006 Trinity Carpet 100K	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
5	June 24	2006 Gehl Atlantic Championship of Cleveland 1	Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Cleveland, Ohio
6	June 25	2006 Gehl Atlantic Championship of Cleveland 2	Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Cleveland, Ohio
7	July 9	2006 Toronto	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario
8	July 23	2006 Edmonton	Edmonton City Centre Airport	Edmonton, Alberta
9	July 30	2006 San José	Streets of San Jose	San Jose, California
10	August 13	2006 Denver	Streets of Denver	Denver, Colorado
11	August 27	2006 Montréal	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Montreal, Quebec
12	September 24	2006 Gehl Championship Finale	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin

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Season Summary

Race results

Round	Race Name	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning Team
1	2006 Imperial Capital Bank Atlantic Race	Andreas Wirth	Raphael Matos	Andreas Wirth	Forsythe Championship Racing
2	2006 Fast Trac 100	Raphael Matos	Jonathan Bomarito	Andreas Wirth	Forsythe Championship Racing
3	2006 Monterrey	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
4	2006 Trinity Carpet 100K	Graham Rahal	Joe D'Agostino	James Hinchcliffe	Forsythe Championship Racing
5	2006 Gehl Atlantic Championship of Cleveland 1	Andreas Wirth	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
6	2006 Gehl Atlantic Championship of Cleveland 2	Simon Pagenaud	Andreas Wirth	Graham Rahal	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
7	2006 Toronto	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Robbie Pecorari	Gelles Racing
8	2006 Edmonton	Raphael Matos	Simon Pagenaud	Simon Pagenaud	Team Australia
9	2006 San José	Raphael Matos	Graham Rahal	Raphael Matos	Sierra Sierra Enterprises
10	2006 Denver	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
11	2006 Montréal	James Hinchcliffe	Antoine Bessette	Graham Rahal	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
12	2006 Gehl Championship Finale	Raphael Matos	Raphael Matos	Jonathan Bomarito	PR1 Motorsports

Final driver standings

Pos	Driver	LBH	HOU	MTY	POR	CLE 1	CLE 2	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	ROA	Pts
1	Simon Pagenaud (RY)	4	2	2	23	2	5	4	1	9	3	2	17	258
2	Graham Rahal (R)	5	15	1	27	1	1	15	2	12	1	1	20	242
3	Andreas Wirth	1	1	6	3	3	18	16	3	18	5	12	3	227
4	Raphael Matos (R)	2	11	23	6	5	22	9	20	1	2	7	2	205
5	David Martínez	12	8	3	7↑	10	10	8	12	6	10	4	9	179
6	Jonathan Bomarito	23	3	4	14	4	8	2	6	16	16	15	1	178
7	Danilo Dirani (R)	6	5	14	5	8	23	14	5	3	8	13	6	178
8	Alan Sciuto (R)	10	6	7	4	15	9↑	17	11	15	4	6	8	167
9	Leonardo Maia (R)	9	9	10	9	7	6	10	17	5	12	5	12	161
10	James Hinchcliffe (R)	3	4	16	1	17	19	6	23	25	7	3	16	160
11	Robbie Pecorari (R)	7	18	18	15	24	4	1	10	21	6	11	4	147
12	Joe D'Agostino (R)	11↑	12	9	24	9	7	7	7	22	18	16	7	123
13	Ryan Lewis (R)				2	19	15	3↑	22	2	24	24	5	110
14	Alex Barron	8	22	8	16	14	11	5	15	14	11			96
15	Richard Philippe (R)	28	20	17	21	11	2	18	4	17	20	9	23	86
16	Tim Bridgman (R)	24	19	24	10	12↑	20	19	8	4	21	17↑	18	72
17	James Davison (R)	13	10	21	25	13	13	12	13	7	22			69
18	Justin Sofio	27	25	19	17	20	16	13	19	8↑	13↑	22	14	54
19	Steve Ott (R)		7↑		20	23	3	21	21	20	23	18		48
20	Colin Fleming (R)								9	24	9	10	13	45
21	Carlos Mastretta (R)				13	6	24	20	18	10				42
22	Alex Sperafico (R)				22	16	12	11	16	23	25	19	11	41
23	Mike Forest (R)	DNS						DNS	14↑		14		10↑	27
24	Daniel Gaunt (R)	20	DNS	15	8	22	21							22
25	Stephen Simpson (R)	25	27	5										21
26	Michael Patrizi (R)											8	15	21
27	Barton Mawer (R)		14	20	11									18
28	Luis Schiavo (R)	15	26	11										16
29	Norbert Siedler (R)	18	21	12↑										13
30	Charles Hall	22	16	13										13
31	Alex García				18	18	14							13
32	Brian McAtee	21								13	17			12
33	Phil Giebler (R)									11				10
34	Antoine Bessette				12							21	21	10
35	Dan Selznick	17	24								15			10
36	Kyle Kelley	14			19									9
37	Duncan Ende (R)	16			26	21	17	DNS						9
38	Ryan Spencer-Smith (R)	26	13											8
39	Ronnie Bremer											14		7
40	Chris Souliotis		17	22										4
41	Ricardo Vassmer (R)									19	19			4
42	J. R. Hildebrand (R)												19	2
43	Al Unser III	19	23	Wth										2
44	Brian Thienes (R)											20	22	1
	Casey Neal (R)											23		0
Pos	Driver	LBH	HOU	MTY	POR	CLE 1	CLE 2	TOR	EDM	SJO	DEN	MTL	ROA	Pts

Color	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	4th & 5th place
Light Blue	6th–10th place
Dark Blue	Finished (Outside Top 10)
Purple	Did not finish
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Brown	Withdrawn (Wth)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did Not Start (DNS)
White	Race abandoned (C)
Blank	Did not participate

In-line notation
Bold	Pole position
Italics	Ran fastest race lap
*	Led race laps
↑	Improved the most places
(RY)	Rookie of the Year
(R)	Rookie

External links

ChampCarStats.com

Preceded by 2005 Toyota Atlantic Championship season	2006 Champ Car Atlantic season	Succeeded by 2007 Champ Car Atlantic season

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