2006 GP2 Series season
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The 2006 GP2 Series season began at Valencia, Spain on April 8, 2006 and ended in Monza, Italy on September 10, 2006. The season was won by Briton Lewis Hamilton, with Brazilian Nelson Angelo Piquet finishing second.

2006 GP2 car modifications

The chassis

The 2006 specification GP2 Car has been designed by Dallara Automobili. The 2006 GP2 car features a biplane rear wing, with the triplane rear wing used in 2005 only to be used at the Monaco race. The front upper and lower wishbones have been reinforced, as have the front and rear suspension uprights.

Engine

The 4 litre V8 engine features internal, cartographic and software upgrades designed to improve performance and fuel consumption.

The gearbox

The 2006 gearbox has been manufactured by GearTek, and features an 8 position barrel, with ratchet body and software upgrades, as well as a new transverse shafts fixing system designed to facilitate improved gear selection.

The tyres

The tyres supplied by Bridgestone for the 2006 season are slick, not featuring the grooves seen in the 2005 season. Bridgestone will supply a soft, medium, and hard compound tire, with the tyre choice being made by Bridgestone and the GP2 Series prior to each event. The wet specification tyre remains the same as 2005.

Other parts

Brembo is supplying a new development of monobloc brake calipers and disc bells, which are exclusive to GP2.

The car also features internal cooling upgrades, a new water radiator, radiator duct, oil/water heat exchanger, modified oil degazer, new oil and water pipes and new heat exchanger fixing brackets.

Sporting regulations changes

The only change to the sporting regulations for the 2006 season is that drivers will only be awarded a single point for fastest lap in a race, rather than the two points that were awarded in 2005. The driver must now also start the race from his allocated grid position to be eligible to claim the fastest lap.

Drivers and constructors

Team	Car #	Driver	Race weekends
ART Grand Prix	1	Alexandre Prémat	All
	2	Lewis Hamilton	All
Arden International	3	Michael Ammermüller	All
	4	Nicolas Lapierre	1-5, 8-11
		Neel Jani	6-7
Super Nova Racing	5	José María López	All
	6	Fairuz Fauzy	All
iSport International	7	Ernesto Viso	All
	8	Tristan Gommendy	1-5
		Timo Glock	6-11
Racing Engineering	9	Adam Carroll	All
	10	Javier Villa	All
Piquet Sports	11	Nelson Angelo Piquet	All
	12	Alexandre Negrão	All
DAMS	14	Ferdinando Monfardini	All
	15	Franck Perera	All
Petrol Ofisi FMS International	16	Luca Filippi	1-3
		Giorgio Pantano	4-11
	17	Jason Tahincioglu	All
BCN Competicion	18	Hiroki Yoshimoto	All
	19	Timo Glock	1-5
		Luca Filippi	6-11
DPR Direxiv	20	Olivier Pla	1-5, 7
		Mike Conway	6
		Vitaly Petrov	8-11
	21	Clivio Piccione	All
Durango	22	Lucas Di Grassi	All
	23	Sergio Hernández	All
Campos Racing	24	Adrián Vallés	All
	25	Félix Porteiro	All
Trident Racing	26	Gianmaria Bruni	All
	27	Andreas Zuber	All

Race calendar

Round	Location	Circuit	Date	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	Valencia, Spain	Circuit de Valencia	April 8	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Piquet Sports
2			April 9	Michael Ammermüller	Arden International
3	Imola, Italy	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	April 22	Gianmaria Bruni	Trident Racing
4			April 23	Ernesto Viso	iSport International
5	Nürburg, Germany	Nürburgring	May 6	Lewis Hamilton	ART Grand Prix
6			May 7	Lewis Hamilton	ART Grand Prix
7	Barcelona, Spain	Circuit de Catalunya	May 13	Alexandre Prémat	ART Grand Prix
8			May 14	Ernesto Viso	iSport International
9	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Circuit de Monaco	May 27	Lewis Hamilton	ART Grand Prix
10	Silverstone, Great Britain	Silverstone Circuit	June 10	Lewis Hamilton	ART Grand Prix
11			June 11	Lewis Hamilton	ART Grand Prix
12	Magny-Cours, France	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	July 15	Timo Glock	iSport International
13			July 16	Giorgio Pantano	Petrol Ofisi FMS International
14	Hockenheim, Germany	Hockenheimring	July 29	Gianmaria Bruni	Trident Racing
15			July 30	Timo Glock	iSport International
16	Budapest, Hungary	Hungaroring	August 5	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Piquet Sports
17			August 6	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Piquet Sports
18	Istanbul, Turkey	Istanbul Racing Circuit	August 26	Nelson Angelo Piquet	Piquet Sports
19			August 27	Andreas Zuber	Trident Racing
20	Monza, Italy	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	September 9	Giorgio Pantano	Petrol Ofisi FMS International
21			September 10	Giorgio Pantano	Petrol Ofisi FMS International

Current point standings

• Points in Feature Race 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1
• Points in Sprint Race 6-5-4-3-2-1
• 2 Bonus Points for Feature Race Pole Position
• 1 Bonus Point for Fastest Race Lap - Driver must complete 90% of the race laps and have started from their assigned grid position.

Full Series Results

Drivers

Pos Driver VAL FEA VAL SPR SAN FEA SAN SPR EUR FEA EUR SPR ESP FEA ESP SPR MCO FEA GBR FEA GBR SPR FRA FEA FRA SPR GER FEA GER SPR HUN FEA HUN SPR TUR FEA TUR SPR ITA FEA ITA SPR Points 1 Hamilton 2 6 DSQ 10 1* 1 2 4 1 1* 1* 19* 5 2 3 10 2 2 2* 3* 2* 114 2 Piquet 1 4* 5 2 Ret 19 4 2 Ret 4 5 4 2 13 DNS 1* 1* 1* 5 2 6 102 3 Prémat 9 Ret 4 Ret 2 17 1 3 3 6 Ret 2 3 19* Ret 6 3 3 7 5 Ret 66 4 Glock 16 8 7 4 17 Ret 11 10 Ret 2 6 1 4* 3 1 2 5 4 4 Ret DNS 58 5 Pantano 9 7 Ret 5 4 6 1 4 5 3 13 Ret Ret 1 1 44 6 Viso 8 2 6 1* 6 11 8 1 Ret Ret 8 10 Ret 5 4 4 4 Ret 13 Ret 10 42 7 Bruni 6 5 1* Ret Ret 16* Ret 17* Ret Ret 15 Ret Ret 1 6 Ret 8 Ret 15 Ret 9 33 8 Carroll 14 Ret Ret 12 3 5 10 12 Ret 3 2 20 14 6 8 7 Ret 6 3 Ret Ret 33 9 Lapierre 4* 3 3 7 5 2 Ret Ret Ret 20 7 Ret Ret 14 6 6 4 32 10 López 5 Ret Ret Ret 4 3 Ret Ret Ret Ret 14 3 Ret 7 2* 8 Ret 9 11 Ret Ret 30 11 Ammermüller 7 1 2 Ret 10 6 3 8 7 Ret Ret 12 8 9 Ret Ret 11 13 Ret 12 Ret 25 12 Piccione Ret Ret Ret 16 11 8 16 Ret 4 7 3 13 Ret 8 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 7 3 18 13 Negrão 13 7 Ret 11 7 7 7 18 Ret Ret 12 5 Ret 16 9 5 Ret 8 Ret Ret Ret 13 14 Zuber Ret 13 Ret 8 14 Ret Ret 11 5 Ret Ret Ret 18 Ret 14 14 9 7 1 Ret Ret 12 15 Yoshimoto Ret 12 8 3 8 4 Ret Ret Ret Ret 17 9 Ret 23 Ret Ret Ret Ret 19 8 5 12 16 Vallés 3 Ret 9 Ret Ret 14 18* 16 Ret 9 Ret 15 13 18 Ret Ret 7 Ret 14 Ret 11 9 17 Perera 11 14 Ret 14 Ret 15 13 Ret 2 Ret 10 Ret 12 14 11 9 Ret 12 8 15 15 8 18 Di Grassi 17 16 Ret Ret 18 13 12 9 11* Ret EX 7 6 Ret Ret 13 Ret 5 9 10 14 8 19 Filippi Ret Ret 11 5 Ret Ret Ret 9 Ret Ret 21 16 12 Ret 10 Ret 4 7 7 20 Gommendy Ret 11 Ret 17 13 12 5 5 Ret 6 21 Monfardini 12 Ret 12 9 Ret 10 6 6 9 Ret DNS 8 Ret Ret 12 11 6 Ret 12 Ret Ret 6 22 Porteiro Ret Ret 10 6 16 Ret 17 Ret 6 8 DSQ 18 10 12 18 Ret 12 Ret Ret Ret Ret 5 23 Hernández Ret Ret Ret 13 12 Ret Ret 13 8 10 EX 14 11 10 Ret Ret Ret 11 10 13 Ret 1 24 Fauzy 15 10 Ret 15 19 9 Ret 14 10 12 7 Ret 15 22 10 16 Ret Ret Ret 14 10 0 25 Jani Ret Ret 11 7 0 26 Villa 18 9 13 18 9 20 14 15 Ret 14 13 17 16 11 13 Ret 15 15 16 9 Ret 0 27 Pla 10 15 Ret Ret 15 Ret DSQ 20 Ret 16 9 0 28 Petrov 15 15 15 10 16 18 Ret 12 0 29 Conway 11 11 0 30 Tahinci Ret Ret Ret Ret DNS 18 15 19 Ret 13 16 Ret 17 17 17 Ret 14 17 17 11 13 0 Pos Driver VAL FEA VAL SPR SAN FEA SAN SPR EUR FEA EUR SPR ESP FEA ESP SPR MCO FEA GBR FEA GBR SPR FRA FEA FRA SPR GER FEA GER SPR HUN FEA HUN SPR TUR FEA TUR SPR ITA FEA ITA SPR Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Finished, in points Blue Finished, no points Purple Did not finish (Ret) Not classified (NC) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Injured (INJ) Excluded (EX)

Polesitter for the feature race on bold. Driver with asterisk has been awarded point for fastest lap.

Notes

• Lewis Hamilton was disqualified during the first race at Imola for passing the safety car. Team McLaren's statement on this is that he was following the Campos Racing cars which led him past the car. [1]

• Olivier Pla was disqualified in Barcelona from 8th place for car being under weight limit

• Durango cars were excluded from second Silverstone race for illegal rear wing which caused di Grassi's accident in first race.

• Felix Porteiro was disqualified from 2nd place in Silverstone sprint race for illegal position of steering rack.

External links

• The official GP2 Series website
• Changes For 2006
• Alle uitslagen van de GP2 klasse