2006 Atlantic Championship

2006 Champ Car Atlantic season
Yokohama Presents the Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda
Season
Races	12
Start date	April 9
End date	September 2
Awards
Drivers' champion	Simon Pagenaud
Teams' champion	Forsythe Championship Racing
Rookie of the Year	Simon Pagenaud

The 2006 Champ Car Atlantic season was the 33rd season of the Champ Car Atlantic Championship. It began April 9 at Long Beach and concluded September 24 at Road America. The Yokohama Presents the Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda Drivers' Champion was Simon Pagenaud driving for Team Australia.

Teams and drivers

Team	No	Drivers	Races
Condor Motorsports	1	Danilo Dirani (R)	All
Jensen MotorSport	2	Tim Bridgman (R)	All
	22	Steve Ott (R)	2, 4-6
		Ricardo Vassmer (R)	9-10
Forsythe Racing	3	James Hinchcliffe (R)	All
	7	Leonardo Maia (R)	All
	33	Richard Philippe (R)	All
	37	Andreas Wirth	All
US RaceTronics	4	David Martínez	All
Team Australia	5	James Davison (R)	1-10
		Michael Patrizi (R)	11-12
	15	Simon Pagenaud (R)	All
Sierra Sierra Enterprises	6	Raphael Matos (R)	All
Brooks Associates Racing	8	Luis Schiavo (R)	1-3
		Carlos Mastretta	3-9
		Antoine Bessette	11
	10	Norbert Siedler (R)	1-3
		Alex Sperafico (R)	4-12
McAtee Motorsports	9	Kyle Kelley	1, 4
	19	Brian McAtee	1, 9-10
		Brian Thienes	11-12
Polestar Racing Group	12	Alan Sciuto (R)	All
	21	Alex Barron	1-10
		Ronnie Bremer	11
		Antoine Bessette	12
Gelles Racing	14	Stephen Simpson (R)	1-3
		Antoine Bessette	4
		Colin Fleming (R)	9-12
	28	Robbie Pecorari (R)	All
	31	Casey Neal (R)	11
	42	Phil Giebler (R)	9
Transnet Racing	16	Charles Hall	1-3
		Alex García	4-6
	17	Barton Mawer	2-4
Mi-Jack Conquest Racing	18	Graham Rahal (R)	All
	30	Al Unser III	1-3
		Ryan Lewis (R)	4-12
PR1 Motorsports	23	Jonathan Bomarito	All
	32	Mike Forest (R)	1, 7-8, 10, 12
NCDL Tech	25	Ryan Spencer-Smith (R)	1-2
Mathiasen Motorsports	26	Justin Sofio	All
Newman Wachs Racing	34	Joe D'Agostino (R)	All
	35	Daniel Gaunt (R)	1-6
		Steve Ott (R)	7-11
	36	J. R. Hildebrand (R)	12
The Room Store	49	Dan Selznick	1-2, 10
Bite Racing	55	Duncan Ende (R)	1, 4-7
	56	Chris Souliotis	2-3

Schedule

Rd	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	April 9	2006 Imperial Capital Bank Atlantic Race	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California
2	May 13	2006 Fast Trac 100	Streets of Houston	Houston, Texas
3	May 21	2006 Atlantic Grand Prix of Monterrey	Fundidora Park	Monterrey, Mexico
4	June 18	2006 Trinity Carpet 100K	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
5	June 24	2006 Gehl Atlantic Championship of Cleveland	Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Cleveland, Ohio
6	June 25
7	July 9	2006 Atlantic Grand Prix of Toronto	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario
8	July 23	2006 Atlantic Grand Prix of Edmonton	Edmonton City Centre Airport	Edmonton, Alberta
9	July 30	2006 Atlantic Grand Prix of San José	Streets of San Jose	San Jose, California
10	August 13	2006 Atlantic Grand Prix of Denver	Streets of Denver	Denver, Colorado
11	August 27	2006 Atlantic Grand Prix of Montréal	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Montreal, Quebec
12	September 24	2006 Gehl Championship Finale	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin

Race results

Rd	Race Name	Pole position	Fastest lap	Race winner
				Driver	Team
1	Streets of Long Beach	Andreas Wirth	Raphael Matos	Andreas Wirth	Forsythe Championship Racing
2	Streets of Houston	Raphael Matos	Jonathan Bomarito	Andreas Wirth	Forsythe Championship Racing
3	Fundidora Park	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
4	Portland International Raceway	Graham Rahal	Joe D'Agostino	James Hinchcliffe	Forsythe Championship Racing
5	Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Andreas Wirth	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
6		Simon Pagenaud	Andreas Wirth	Graham Rahal	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
7	Exhibition Place	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Robbie Pecorari	Gelles Racing
8	Edmonton City Centre Airport	Raphael Matos	Simon Pagenaud	Simon Pagenaud	Team Australia
9	Streets of San Jose	Raphael Matos	Graham Rahal	Raphael Matos	Sierra Sierra Enterprises
10	Streets of Denver	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Graham Rahal	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
11	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	James Hinchcliffe	Antoine Bessette	Graham Rahal	Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
12	Road America	Raphael Matos	Raphael Matos	Jonathan Bomarito	PR1 Motorsports

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
Points	31	27	25	23	21	19	17	15	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

• The fastest driver in each qualifying session was awarded one additional point.
• The driver who set the fastest lap in a race was awarded one additional point
• The driver that gained the most positions from his starting spot was awarded one additional point.

Pos Driver LBH HOU MTY POR CLE TOR EDM SJO DEN MTL ROA Pts 1 Simon Pagenaud  RY  4 2 2 23 2 5 4 1 9 3 2 17 258 2 Graham Rahal  R  5 15 1 27 1 1 15 2 12 1 1 20 242 3 Andreas Wirth 1 1 6 3 3 18 16 3 18 5 12 3 227 4 Raphael Matos  R  2 11 23 6 5 22 9 20 1 2 7 2 205 5 David Martínez 12 8 3 7↑ 10 10 8 12 6 10 4 9 179 6 Jonathan Bomarito 23 3 4 14 4 8 2 6 16 16 15 1 178 7 Danilo Dirani  R  6 5 14 5 8 23 14 5 3 8 13 6 178 8 Alan Sciuto  R  10 6 7 4 15 9↑ 17 11 15 4 6 8 167 9 Leonardo Maia  R  9 9 10 9 7 6 10 17 5 12 5 12 161 10 James Hinchcliffe  R  3 4 16 1 17 19 6 23 25 7 3 16 160 11 Robbie Pecorari  R  7 18 18 15 24 4 1 10 21 6 11 4 147 12 Joe D'Agostino  R  11↑ 12 9 24 9 7 7 7 22 18 16 7 123 13 Ryan Lewis  R  2 19 15 3↑ 22 2 24 24 5 110 14 Alex Barron 8 22 8 16 14 11 5 15 14 11 96 15 Richard Philippe  R  28 20 17 21 11 2 18 4 17 20 9 23 86 16 Tim Bridgman  R  24 19 24 10 12↑ 20 19 8 4 21 17↑ 18 72 17 James Davison  R  13 10 21 25 13 13 12 13 7 22 69 18 Justin Sofio 27 25 19 17 20 16 13 19 8↑ 13↑ 22 14 54 19 Steve Ott  R  7↑ 20 23 3 21 21 20 23 18 48 20 Colin Fleming  R  9 24 9 10 13 45 21 Carlos Mastretta  R  13 6 24 20 18 10 42 22 Alex Sperafico  R  22 16 12 11 16 23 25 19 11 41 23 Mike Forest  R  DNS DNS 14↑ 14 10↑ 27 24 Daniel Gaunt  R  20 DNS 15 8 22 21 22 25 Stephen Simpson  R  25 27 5 21 26 Michael Patrizi  R  8 15 21 27 Barton Mawer  R  14 20 11 18 28 Luis Schiavo  R  15 26 11 16 29 Norbert Siedler  R  18 21 12↑ 13 30 Charles Hall 22 16 13 13 31 Alex García 18 18 14 13 32 Brian McAtee 21 13 17 12 33 Phil Giebler  R  11 10 34 Antoine Bessette 12 21 21 10 35 Dan Selznick 17 24 15 10 36 Kyle Kelley 14 19 9 37 Duncan Ende  R  16 26 21 17 DNS 9 38 Ryan Spencer-Smith  R  26 13 8 39 Ronnie Bremer 14 7 40 Chris Souliotis 17 22 4 41 Ricardo Vassmer  R  19 19 4 42 J. R. Hildebrand  R  19 2 43 Al Unser III 19 23 Wth 2 44 Brian Thienes  R  20 22 1 Casey Neal  R  23 0 Pos Driver LBH HOU MTY POR CLE TOR EDM SJO DEN MTL ROA Pts

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place Light Blue 6th–10th place Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrawn (Wth) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Not competing In-line notation Bold Pole position (1 point) Italics Ran fastest race lap ↑ Improved the most places  R  Rookie  RY  Rookie of the Year

See also

• 2006 Champ Car season
• 2006 Indianapolis 500
• 2006 IndyCar Series season
• 2006 Indy Pro Series season

External links

• ChampCarStats.com