2006 Sidecarcross World Championship
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Overview
The 2006 season was the 27th edition of the sidecarcross world championship. It resulted in a fifth world championship for Daniël Willemsen, his fourth in a row and the second with his passenger Sven Verbrugge from Belgium.
The two clearly dominated the season with 13 wins in the 16 races and an 83-point gap to the second placed Evgeny Scherbinin / Sergei Sosnovskikh from Russia. A close third came Marco Happich / Meinrad Schelbert, the German-Swiss combination.
After ten seasons in the top ten and five world championships, it was the first time since 1995 for last season's runner-up Kristers Serģis not to finish in the top ten. Due to injury, the Latvian only took part in four races but still achieved three podium finishes. The eight races of the season were held in six countries, France, Germany, Croatia, Belgium, Latvia and the Netherlands.
Format
Every Grand Prix weekend is split into two races, both held on the same day. This means, the 2006 season with its eight Grand Prix had sixteen races. Each race is currently 30 minutes plus 2 rounds long.
Teams go through a qualifying, usually on Saturday. Typically, around 50 teams compete for 30 spots on the starting grid, meaning around 20 teams miss out on the race altogether. Some teams did not actually get a race start all season, failing in qualifying each time.
The first twenty teams of each race scored competition points, allocated accordingly to the following system:
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Retirements
At the end of the 2006 season a number of long-term competitors retired from the World Championship, the longest standing of those being German Josef Brustmann with 19 seasons in the competition and Belgian Geert Devoldere with 18 seasons, both first having raced in the World Championship in 1988.[1][2][3]
Calendar
The 2006 season had sixteen races:[4]
- The Sidecarcross des Nations in Ķegums on 24 September 2006 is a non-championship event but part of the calendar and is denoted by a light blue background in the table above.
- Passengers in italics.
Classification
Riders
The final standings in the overall table of the 2006 season were:[5]
| Position | Driver / Passenger | Equipment | Points | Wins | Second | Third |
| 1 | Template:Flagicon Daniël Willemsen / Template:Flagicon Sven Verbrugge | Zabel-VMC | 341 | 13 | — | — |
| 2 | Template:Flagicon Evgeny Scherbinin / Sergei Sosnovskikh | MTH-APZ | 258 | — | 5 | 3 |
| 3 | Template:Flagicon Marko Happich / Template:Flagicon Meinrad Schelbert * | Zabel-VMC | 243 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Template:Flagicon Māris Rupeiks / Haralds Kurpnieks | KTM-AYR | 231 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 5 | Template:Flagicon Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx | Zabel-VMC | 217 | — | — | 1 |
| 6 | Template:Flagicon Andy Burgler / Martin Betschart | KTM-VMC | 211 | — | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Template:Flagicon Joris Hendrickx / Eli Piccart | KTM-AYR | 180 | — | — | 1 |
| 8 | Template:Flagicon Stuart Brown / Luke Peters | Zabel-VMC | 165 | — | — | 1 |
| 9 | Template:Flagicon Vaclav Rozehnal / Marek Rozehnal | Zabel-VMC | 157 | — | — | 1 |
| 10 | Template:Flagicon Marcel Willemsen / Bjorn Roes | Zabel-VMC | 137 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Template:Flagicon Josef Brustmann / Stefan Urich | KTM-NPH | 117 | 1 | — | — |
| 12 | Template:Flagicon Jānis Daiders / Lauris Daiders | Zabel-VMC | 115 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Template:Flagicon Nicky Pulinx / Ludo Somers | KTM-AYR | 113 | — | — | — |
| 14 | Template:Flagicon Jarno van den Boomen / Henry van de Wiel | MTH-VMC | 100 | — | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Template:Flagicon Carlo van Duijnhoven / Christian Verhagen | MTH-VMC | 100 | — | — | — |
| 16 | Template:Flagicon Ueli Müller / Reto Grütter | Zabel-MTH | 100 | — | — | — |
| 17 | Template:Flagicon Eric Schrijver / Ramon van Mil | MTH-VMC | 93 | — | — | — |
| 18 | Template:Flagicon Tomas Cermak / Ondrej Cermak | JAWA-VMC | 68 | — | — | — |
| 19 | Template:Flagicon Kristers Serģis / Kaspars Stupelis | KTM-Mefo | 64 | — | 2 | 1 |
| 20 | Template:Flagicon John Watson / Mark Watson | Zabel-VMC | 57 | — | — | — |
| 21 | Template:Flagicon Bertram Martin / Template:Flagicon Bruno Kaelin | Zabel-VMC | 57 | — | — | — |
| 22 | Template:Flagicon Martin Walter / Andre Saam | Zabel-VMC | 54 | — | — | — |
| 23 | Template:Flagicon Henrik Söderqvist / Template:Flagicon Collin Dunkley | Husaberg-VMC | 52 | — | 1 | 1 |
| 24 | Template:Flagicon Scott Wilkinson / Gary Burt | Zabel-VMC | 52 | — | — | — |
| 25 | Template:Flagicon Kristof Santermans / Template:Flagicon Patrick Nieuwenhuizen | Yamaha-VMC | 47 | — | — | — |
| 26 | Template:Flagicon John Lyne / Michael Turner | Zabel-VMC | 26 | — | — | — |
| 27 | Template:Flagicon Laurent Devoldre / Sebastian Devoldre | Husaberg-VMC | 20 | — | — | — |
| 28 | Template:Flagicon Thijs Derks / Roy Derks | Husaberg-BSU | 17 | — | — | — |
| 29 | Template:Flagicon Michael Poirier / Bertrand Poirier | KTM-VMC | 14 | — | — | — |
| 30 | Template:Flagicon Geert Devoldere / Template:Flagicon Guennady Auvray | Honda-EML | 13 | — | — | — |
| 31 | Template:Flagicon Werner Wittmann / Mario Wohlfart | Zabel-AYR | 10 | — | — | — |
| 32 | Template:Flagicon Andreas Clohse / Guido Schlabertz | Zabel-VMC | 10 | — | — | — |
| 33 | Template:Flagicon Marcel Grondman / Martijn Geerdink | Zabel-VMC | 9 | — | — | — |
| 34 | Template:Flagicon Roland Sutter / Sandro Michelleto | KTM-VMC | 9 | — | — | — |
| 35 | Template:Flagicon Patrick Fagerberg / Daniel Fagerberg | KTM-AYR | 9 | — | — | — |
| 36 | Template:Flagicon Wim Janssen / Henk Roenhorst | Zabel-VMC | 8 | — | — | — |
| 37 | Template:Flagicon Maikel Kuster / Wilfried Keuben | Zabel-VMC | 8 | — | — | — |
| 38 | Template:Flagicon Johan Smit / Bart Notten | Husaberg-BSU | 7 | — | — | — |
| 39 | Template:Flagicon Patrick Greup / Marc van Deutekom | KTM-VMC | 7 | — | — | — |
| 40 | Template:Flagicon Imantas Tamuliūnas / Egidijus Karaliūnas | KTM-AYR | 6 | — | — | — |
| 41 | Template:Flagicon Jens Bochmann / Stefan Progscha | Zabel-AYR | 6 | — | — | — |
| 42 | Template:Flagicon Jean Marie Ains / Bernard Jayet | Zabel-VMC | 5 | — | — | — |
| 43 | Template:Flagicon Baptiste Bigand / Julien Bigand | MTH-BSU | 5 | — | — | — |
| 44 | Template:Flagicon Andrus Vaks / Raimo Kaul | KTM-AYR | 4 | — | — | — |
| 45 | Template:Flagicon Boudewijn Gommeren / Steve van Tongerlo | KTM-AYR | 4 | — | — | — |
| 46 | Template:Flagicon David Keane / Andy Heighes | MTH-VMC | 3 | — | — | — |
| 47 | Template:Flagicon David Surcin / Landry Tessier | Zabel-VMC | 3 | — | — | — |
| 48 | Template:Flagicon Otomārs Skreija / Gastons Skreija | MTH-BSU | 2 | — | — | — |
| 49 | Template:Flagicon Herve Boursaud / Edouard Chereau | KTM-VMC | 1 | — | — | — |
| 50 | Template:Flagicon Guillaume Martin / Jacques Pilleir | Zabel-VMC | 1 | — | — | — |
- Equipment listed is motor and frame.
- Marko Happichs only win of the season came with Mark Watson as passenger, who raced at the German GP with him.
References
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- ↑ Official World Championship classification 2000–present Template:Webarchive FIM website, accessed: 9 November 2014
- ↑ JOSEF BRUSTMANN GP RECORD The John Davey Pages, accessed: 9 November 2014
- ↑ GEERT DEVOLDERE GP RECORD The John Davey Pages, accessed: 9 November 2014
- ↑ FIM Sidecarcross World Championship – 2006 Calendar Template:Webarchive FIM website, accessed: 5 August 2011
- ↑ FIM SIDECAR MOTOCROSS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: Classification 2006 Template:Webarchive FIM website, accessed: 13 August 2011
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External links
- The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com
- The John Davey Grand Prix Pages – Results of all GP's up until 2005
- FIM Sidecar Motocross World Championship 2010
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