en 2006 Rolex Sports Car Series

The 2006 Rolex Sports Car Series season was the seventh season of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve. The 15-race championship was competed with Daytona Prototype (DP) and Grand Touring (GT) class cars. It began January 28, 2006 and ended September 2, 2006. Infineon Raceway was added, breaking the record for most races. Mont Tremblant was dropped for Miller Motorsports Park, leaving Hermanos Rodríguez as the only race outside the US. Long Beach Street Circuit was added.

Schedule

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Rolex 24 at Daytona	Daytona International Speedway	January 28 January 29
2	Mexico City 400 km	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	March 4
3	Linder-Komatsu Grand Prix of Miami	Homestead-Miami Speedway	March 25
4	Crown Royal Grand American Challenge ¹	Long Beach Street Circuit	April 8
5	VIRginia 400 km	Virginia International Raceway	April 23
6	U.S. Sportscar Invitational	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	May 7
7	The GAINSCO Grand Prix	Phoenix International Raceway	May 13
8	Rolex GT Series Challenge ²	Lime Rock Park	May 29
9	Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen	Watkins Glen International	June 3
10	EMCO Gears Classic	Mid-Ohio	June 24
11	Brumos Porsche 250	Daytona International Speedway	June 29
12	Porsche 250	Barber Motorsports Park	July 30
13	Crown Royal 200 at The Glen ¹	Watkins Glen International	August 11
14	Sonoma 400 km	Infineon Raceway	August 26
15	Discount Tire Sunchaser (9 Hours)	Miller Motorsports Park	September 2

¹: Only the DP class participated in this event, no GT class.
²: Only the GT class participated in this event, no DP class.

Season results

Rnd	Circuit	DP Winning Team	GT Winning Team	Results
Rnd	Circuit	DP Winning Drivers	GT Winning Drivers	Results
1	Daytona	#02 Chip Ganassi Racing	#36 TPC Racing	Results
1	Daytona	Casey Mears Dan Wheldon Scott Dixon	Randy Pobst Ian Baas Spencer Pumpelly Michael Levitas	Results
2	Mexico City	#01 Chip Ganassi Racing	#64 The Racer's Group	Results
2	Mexico City	Scott Pruett Luis Diaz	Kelly Collins Paul Edwards	Results
3	Homestead	#23 Alex Job Racing	#64 The Racer's Group	Results
3	Homestead	Mike Rockenfeller Patrick Long	Kelly Collins Paul Edwards	Results
4	Long Beach	#01 Chip Ganassi Racing	Did Not Participate	Results
4	Long Beach	Scott Pruett Luis Diaz		Results
5	Virginia	#23 Alex Job Racing	#65 The Racer's Group	Results
5	Virginia	Mike Rockenfeller Patrick Long	Andy Lally R.J. Valentine Marc Bunting	Results
6	Laguna Seca	#10 SunTrust Racing	#72 Tafel Racing	Results
6	Laguna Seca	Max Angelelli Jan Magnussen Wayne Taylor	Wolf Henzler Robin Liddell	Results
7	Phoenix	#01 Chip Ganassi Racing	#64 The Racer's Group	Results
7	Phoenix	Scott Pruett Luis Diaz	Kelly Collins Paul Edwards	Results
8	Lime Rock	Did Not Participate	#65 The Racer's Group	Results
8	Lime Rock		Andy Lally R.J. Valentine Marc Bunting	Results
9	Watkins Glen	#76 Krohn Racing	#72 Tafel Racing	Results
9	Watkins Glen	Boris Said Jörg Bergmeister	Wolf Henzler Robin Liddell	Results
10	Mid-Ohio	#12 Fernández Racing	#72 Tafel Racing	Results
10	Mid-Ohio	Adrian Fernández Mário Haberfeld	Wolf Henzler Robin Liddell	Results
11	Daytona	#76 Krohn Racing	#65 The Racer's Group	Results
11	Daytona	Jörg Bergmeister Colin Braun	Andy Lally R.J. Valentine Marc Bunting	Results
12	Barber	#76 Krohn Racing	#65 The Racer's Group	Results
12	Barber	Jörg Bergmeister Colin Braun	Andy Lally R.J. Valentine Marc Bunting	Results
13	Watkins Glen	#01 Chip Ganassi Racing	Did Not Participate	Results
13	Watkins Glen	Scott Pruett Luis Diaz		Results
14	Infineon	#01 Chip Ganassi Racing	#72 Tafel Racing	Results
14	Infineon	Scott Pruett Luis Diaz	Wolf Henzler Robin Liddell	Results
15	Miller	#60 Michael Shank Racing	#65 The Racer's Group	Results
15	Miller	Mark Patterson Oswaldo Negri Scott Pruett	Andy Lally Marc Bunting Spencer Pumpelly Paul Edwards	Results

Championship standings

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Daytona Prototypes

Drivers (Top 20)

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Jörg Bergmeister	462
2	Scott Pruett	446
2	Luis Díaz	446
3	Max Angelelli	431
4	Colin Braun	382
5	Mike Rockenfeller	380
6	Mark Patterson	379
7	Michael McDowell	377
8	Oswaldo Negri	364
9	Rob Finlay	362
9	Michael Valiante	362
10	Patrick Long	359
11	Alex Gurney	355
12	Butch Leitzinger	341
12	Andy Wallace	341
13	Mario Haberfeld	332
14	Darren Law	332
14	David Donohue	332
15	Adrián Fernández	326
16	Ryan Dalziel	324
16	Alex Figge	324
17	Mike Borkowski	318
18	Christian Fittipaldi	313
19	Jon Fogarty	308
20	Harrison Brix	287

Grand Touring

Drivers (Top 10)

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Andy Lally	509
1	Marc Bunting	509
2	Wolf Henzler	498
2	Robin Liddell	498
3	Paul Edwards	451
3	Kelly Collins	451
4	Eric Lux	365
5	Leh Keen	363
5	David Murry	363
6	Andrew Davis	351
7	Robert Nearn	335
7	Steve Johnson	335
8	Jim Tafel	332
9	Peter MacLeod	296
9	Gene Sigal	296
10	Ian James	295

References

^ 2006 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series - Driver Point Standings Archived 2012-06-17 at the Wayback Machine

External links

The official website of Grand-Am

[Standings-1] 2006 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series - Driver Point Standings Archived 2012-06-17 at the Wayback Machine

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