2006 Formula Ford 2000 Championship Series

The 2006 Cooper Tires Formula Ford 2000 Championship Series was the sixth and final season of the USF2000 Ford Zetec championship. It proved to be the ultimate USF2000 championship until the relaunch in 2010. J.R. Hildebrand won the championship in a Cape Motorsports entered Van Diemen RF05.

Race calendar and results

Round	Circuit	Location	Date	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winner
1[1]	Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia	May 13	Dane Cameron	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand
2[2]	Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia	May 13	J.R. Hildebrand	Dominik Jackson	J.R. Hildebrand
3[3]	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	May 20	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand
4[4]	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	May 21	no pole awarded		J.R. Hildebrand
5[5]	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon	June 17	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand
6[6]	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon	June 18	J.R. Hildebrand	Andy Knight	J.R. Hildebrand
7[7]	Grand Prix of Cleveland	Cleveland, Ohio	June 24	Dane Cameron	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand
8[8]	Grand Prix of Cleveland	Cleveland, Ohio	June 25	J.R. Hildebrand	Dane Cameron	Dane Cameron
9[9]	Honda Indy Toronto	Toronto	July 8	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand
10[10]	Honda Indy Toronto	Toronto	July 9	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand
11[11]	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	September 16	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand
12[12]	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	September 17	Dane Cameron	Dane Cameron	J.R. Hildebrand
13[13]	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin	September 23	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand	Dane Cameron
14[14]	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin	September 24	Dane Cameron	J.R. Hildebrand	J.R. Hildebrand

Final standings

Rank	Driver	ATL1	ATL2	MDO1	MDO2	PIR1	PIR2	CLE1	CLE2	TOR1	TOR1	MDO3	MDO4	ROA1	ROA2	Points
1	J.R. Hildebrand	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	13	1	381
2	Dane Cameron[15]	2	2	26	3	8	9	2	1	2	2	2	17	1	11	272
3	Ricardo Vassmer[16]	3	7	6	13	5	22	4	3	3	3	3	4	3	5	233
4	Jason Byers[17]	16	6	2	2	7	3	5	5	15	5	5	6	4	2	228
5	Chris Meredith[18]	5	17	3	21	21	7	3	11	5	8	4	3	23	6	176
6	Noah Bystrom[19]	15	26	7	6	17	13	10	7	4	4	8	9	6	4	165
7	Slade Miller[20]	7	24	27	11	6	6	8	8			7	2	5	8	150
8	Andy Knight[21]	4	4	8	4	2	12	6	4							138
9	Philip Metzger[22]	24	28	11	7	11	10	12	10	6	14	6	5	21	25	121
10	Juliana Gonzalez[23]	9	25	14	26	16	18	18	15	14	7	14	8	8	10	101
11	Scott Rubenzer[24]	25	8	12	14			11	12			9	7	16	9	92
12	Nick Haye[25]			4	5	4	4									74
13	Clark Cambern[26]	8	5	17	8			9	6	18	20					74
14	Jim Hallman[27]	14	19	25	28			17	16	7	9	12	13	15	22	69
15	Olivier Comeau[28]	22	16					7	8			16	6	9	27	62
16	Gerald Kraut[29]	6	15	13	9	20	8	26	30					24	24	58
17	Alexis Sabet[30]	13	14	23	16	19	11	13	14			13	18	27	DNS	52
18	Doug Kniffin[31]	28	12	28	27			30	26	8	10	15	12			52
19	Chuck Lessick[32]	23	20	19	19			15	18	10	12	11	14			52
20	Dwight Rider[33]	11	9	24	24	23	16	29	19	18	18			10	17	50
21	Robert Podlesni[34]					3	2									47
22	Steve Welk[35]													2	3	47
23	Dominik Jackson[36]	20	3	5	25											41
24	Wladimir Genovesi, Jr.[37]	21	27	9	10	12	26	21	25							37
25	Chris Hundley[38]	10	10			9	20									35
26	Manuel Gutierrez[39]					25	24	25	13	13	16	18	10			34
27	Dan Denison[40]	17	22	18	17			19	24	12	11					34
28	Ira Fierberg[41]	27	11			26	17	16	20	17	15					29
29	Shaun Modisette[42]					10	5									28
30	Steve Thomson[43]													7	7	28
31	John Lombardo[44]					13	15	31	31							14
32	Chris Spreitzer[45]					14	14									14
33	Patrick Barrett[46]													17	12	13
34	Fiorenzo Tirinnanzi[47]					27	25			19	19			30	15	9
35	Todd McNaughton[48]					15	21									7
36	Scott Foutch[49]				18	27										4
37	Charles Finelli[50]			22	22			22	28							4
38	Andrew King[51]					22	23									2
	Mike Beauchamp[52]													25	23
	Mark Defer[53]	19	18	15	23			20	29
	Brent Gilkes[54]	18	21	21	20			27	21	11	17
	Bill Jordan[55]	26	23	20	18			24	22					18	26
	Cole Morgan[56]	12	13	10	12	24	19	14	17			10	11	11	29
	Seth Ravndal[57]			16	15			28	23	9	13	16	15
	Mike Wettstein[58]													28	28

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