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2006 Sidecarcross world championship 

For main article, see Sidecarcross world championship.
2006 Sidecarcross world championship season
Season
Grand Prix 8
Start date 23 April
End date 24 September
Drivers
Champions Flag of the Netherlands Daniël Willemsen

Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge

Sidecarcross des Nations Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands
Chronology
Previous season Next season
2005 2007


The 2006 FIM Sidecarcross world championship started on 23 April and finished after eight race weekends on 17 September 2006 with Daniël Willemsen taking out the title once more.

Contents

Overview

The 2006 season was the 27th edition of the sidcarcross 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 a 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 seasons runner-up Kristers Serģis not to finish in the top ten. Due to injury, the Latvian only took part in four races but still archived three podium finishes.

The eight races of the season were held in six countries, France, Germany, Croatia, Belgium, Latvia and the Netherlands.

Calendar

The 2006 season had sixteen races:

Date Place Race number Winner Race 1 Winner Race 2 Overall GP winner
23 April Flag of the Netherlands Oss 1 + 2 Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge
21 May Flag of Croatia Zabok 3 + 4 Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge
4 June Flag of France Brou 5 + 6 Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge
18 June Flag of Latvia Kegums 7 + 8 Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge
2 July Flag of Belgium Neeroeteren 9 + 10 Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge
20 August Flag of Germany Teutschenthal 11 + 12 Flag of Latvia Maris Rupeiks / Haralds Kurpnieks Flag of Germany Josef Brustmann / Stefan Urich Flag of Latvia Maris Rupeiks / Haralds Kurpnieks
13 September Flag of France Saint-Jean-d'Angle 13 + 14 Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge
17 September Flag of Germany Rudersberg 15 + 16 Flag of Germany Marco Happich / Flag of the United Kingdom Mark Watson Flag of the Netherlands Daniel Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Flag of Sweden Henrik Soderqvist / Flag of the United Kingdom Collin Dunkley
24 September Flag of Latvia Kegums N/A not a championship event not a championship event Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands
  • The last event on the list is the Sidecarcross des Nations, a team competition which is not part of the world championship as such.
  • Passengers in italics.

Final standings

The final standings in the overall table of the 2006 season were:

Position Team Equipment Points Wins Second Third
1 Flag of the Netherlands Daniël Willemsen / Flag of Belgium Sven Verbrugge Zabel-VMC 341 13
2 Flag of Russia Evgeny Scherbinin / Sergei Sosnovskikh MTH-APZ 258 5 3
3 Flag of Germany Marco Happich / Flag of Switzerland Meinrad Schelbert * Zabel-VMC 243 1 1 2
4 Flag of Latvia Maris Rupeiks / Haralds Kurpnieks KTM-AYR 231 1 4 2
5 Flag of Belgium Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx Zabel-VMC 217 1
6 Flag of Switzerland Andy Burgler / Martin Betschart KTM-VMC 211 2 2
7 Flag of Belgium Joris Hendrickx / Eli Piccart KTM-AYR 180 1
8 Flag of the United Kingdom Stuart Brown / Luke Peters Zabel-VMC 165 1
9 Flag of the Czech Republic Vaclav Rozehnal / Marek Rozehnal Zabel-VMC 157 1
10 Flag of the Netherlands Marcel Willemsen / Bjorn Roes Zabel-VMC 137
11 Flag of Germany Josef Brustmann / Stefan Urich KTM-NPH 117 1
12 Flag of Latvia Janis Daiders / Lauris Daiders Zabel-VMC 115
13 Flag of Belgium Nicky Pulinx / Ludo Somers KTM-AYR 113
14 Flag of the Netherlands Jarno van den Boomen / Henry van de Wiel MTH-VMC 100 1 1
15 Flag of the Netherlands Carlo van Duijnhoven / Christian Verhagen MTH-VMC 100
16 Flag of Switzerland Ueli Müller / Reto Grütter Zabel-MTH 100
17 Flag of the Netherlands Eric Schrijver / Ramon van Mil MTH-VMC 93
18 Flag of the Czech Republic Tomas Cermak / Ondrej Cermak JAWA-VMC 68
19 Flag of Latvia Kristers Sergis / Kaspars Stupelis KTM-Mefo 64 2 1
20 Flag of the United Kingdom John Watson / Mark Watson Zabel-VMC 57
21 Flag of Austria Bertram Martin / Flag of Switzerland Bruna Kaelin Zabel-VMC 57
22 Flag of Germany Martin Walter / Andre Saam Zabel-VMC 54
23 Flag of Sweden Henrik Söderqvist / Flag of the United Kingdom Collin Dunkley Husaberg-VMC 52 1 1
24 Flag of the United Kingdom Scott Wilkinson / Gary Burt Zabel-VMC 52
25 Flag of Belgium Kristof Santermans / Flag of the Netherlands Patrick Nieuwenhuizen Yamaha-VMC 47
26 Flag of the United Kingdom John Lyne / Michael Turner Zabel-VMC 26
27 Flag of France Laurent Devoldre / Sebastian Devoldre Husaberg-VMC 20
28 Flag of the Netherlands Thijs Derks / Roy Derks Husaberg-BSU 17
29 Flag of France Michael Poirier / Bertrand Poirier KTM-VMC 14
30 Flag of Belgium Geert Devoldere / Flag of France Guennady Auvray Honda-EML 13
31 Flag of Germany Werner Wittmann / Mario Wohlfart Zabel-AYR 10
32 Flag of Belgium Andreas Clohse / Guido Schlabertz Zabel-VMC 10
33 Flag of the Netherlands Marcel Grondman / Martijn Geerdink Zabel-VMC 9
34 Flag of Switzerland Roland Sutter / Sandro Michelleto KTM-VMC 9
35 Flag of Sweden Patrick Fagerberg / Daniel Fagerberg KTM-AYR 9
36 Flag of the Netherlands Wim Janssen / Henk Roenhorst Zabel-VMC 8
37 Flag of the Netherlands Maikel Kuster / Wilfried Keuben Zabel-VMC 8
38 Flag of the Netherlands Johan Smit / Bart Notten Husaberg-BSU 7
39 Flag of the Netherlands Patrick Greup / Marc van Deutekom KTM-VMC 7
40 Flag of Latvia Imantas Tamuliunas / Egidijus Karaliunas KTM-AYR 6
41 Flag of Germany Jens Bochmann / Stefan Progscha Zabel-AYR 6
42 Flag of France Jean Marie Ains / Bernard Jayet Zabel-VMC 5
43 Flag of France Baptiste Bigand / Julien Bigand MTH-BSU 5
44 Flag of Estonia Andrus Vaks / Raimo Kaul KTM-AYR 4
45 Flag of Belgium Boudewijn Gommeren / Steve van Tongerlo KTM-AYR 4
46 Flag of the United Kingdom David Keane / Andy Heighes MTH-VMC 3
47 Flag of France David Surcin / Landry Tessier Zabel-VMC 3
48 Flag of Latvia Otomars Skreija / Gastons Skreija MTH-BSU 2
49 Flag of France Herve Boursaud / Edouard Chereau KTM-VMC 1
50 Flag of France 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.

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:

Place Points
1 25
2 22
3 20
4 18
5 16
6 15
7 14
8 13
9 12
10 11
Place Points
11 10
12 9
13 8
14 7
15 6
16 5
17 4
18 3
19 2
20 1

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