# 2006 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0

The 2006 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the sixteenth Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season began at Zolder on 29 April and finished at the Barcelona on 29 October, after fourteen rounds.
Motopark Academy's Filipe Albuquerque who took a pair of double wins at Nürburgring and Barcelona clinched the championship title in the final round at Barcelona by eight points ahead of JD Motorsport's Chris van der Drift, who won two races during the season at Misano and Donington Park. Van der Drift also finished as top rookie. Carlo van Dam finished in third for SG Formula, after win at Le Mans and another four podiums. Another driver who won on Bugatti Circuit was Bertrand Baguette who finished two points behind van Dam for Epsilon Euskadi. Kasper Andersen completed the top five without scoring a win. Laurent Groppi won two races of the opening round at Zolder, but contested just six races, as well as Donington winner Sébastien Buemi. Dani Clos won at Istanbul Park and Misano, but due to disqualification in the second race at Misano he managed only seventh place in the series' standings.

## Teams and drivers

2006 Entry List :
| Team | No. | Driver name | Rounds |
| Prema Powerteam | 0 | Edoardo Mortara | All |
| Prema Powerteam | 2 | Henkie Waldschmidt | All |
| Prema Powerteam | 3 | Martin Plowman | All |
| Comtec Team | 1 | Pippa Mann | All |
| SG Formula | 4 | Tom Dillmann | All |
| SG Formula | 5 | Sten Pentus | 1–4 |
| SG Formula | 5 | Yann Clairay | 6 |
| SG Formula | 6 | Carlo van Dam | All |
| SG Formula | 12 | Alexandre Marsoin | 7 |
| SG Formula | 64 | Jean Karl Vernay | 4 |
| SG Formula | 65 | Julien Jousse | 4 |
| Epsilon Euskadi | 7 | Salman bin Rashid Al-Khalifa | All |
| Epsilon Euskadi | 8 | Bertrand Baguette | All |
| Epsilon Euskadi | 9 | Jacky Ferre | 1 |
| Epsilon Euskadi | 9 | Nelson Panciatici | 6–7 |
| Motopark Academy | 10 | Filipe Albuquerque | All |
| Motopark Academy | 11 | Nathan Antunes | 1 |
| Motopark Academy | 11 | Sébastien Buemi | 2–3, 5 |
| Motopark Academy | 11 | Robert Wickens | 4 |
| Motopark Academy | 11 | Stefano Coletti | 6–7 |
| Motorsport Arena | 12 | John Michael Edwards | All |
| Motorsport Arena | 14 | Brendon Hartley | All |
| Cram Competition | 15 | Jaime Alguersuari | All |
| Cram Competition | 16 | Edoardo Piscopo | All |
| Cram Competition | 17 | Adrian Zaugg | 1–3 |
| Cram Competition | 17 | Stefano Coletti | 4 |
| Cram Competition | 17 | Oliver Oakes | 5–7 |
| Team Jenzer | 18 | Walter Grubmüller | 1–4 |
| Team Jenzer | 18 | Claudio Cantelli | 5–6 |
| Team Jenzer | 18 | Mariano Werner | 7 |
| Team Jenzer | 19 | Marco Frezza | 1–4 |
| Team Jenzer | 19 | Oliver Campos-Hull | 5–7 |
| Jenzer Motorsport | 20 | Junior Strous | 1–2 |
| Jenzer Motorsport | 20 | Atte Mustonen | 5–7 |
| Jenzer Motorsport | 21 | Rahel Frey | All |
| Jenzer Motorsport | 22 | Dani Clos | All |
| Jenzer Motorsport | 52 | Cem Kent | 2 |
| JD Motorsport | 24 | Kasper Andersen | All |
| JD Motorsport | 25 | Chris van der Drift | All |
| JD Motorsport | 26 | Xavier Maassen | All |
| Koiranen Bros Motorsport | 27 | Atte Mustonen | 1–4 |
| Koiranen Bros Motorsport | 27 | Facundo Crovo | 7 |
| Koiranen Bros Motorsport | 28 | Tomi Limmonen | 1, 3–4 |
| Koiranen Bros Motorsport | 28 | Duarte Félix da Costa | 7 |
| SL Formula Racing | 29 | Frédéric Vervisch | 1–2 |
| SL Formula Racing | 29 | Bruno Rudolf Fechner | 5 |
| SL Formula Racing | 30 | Johan Charpilienne | 1 |
| SL Formula Racing | 30 | Anton Nebylitskiy | 2, 5–6 |
| Graff Racing | 31 | Laurent Groppi | 1, 4, 6 |
| Graff Racing | 32 | Mathieu Arzeno | 1 |
| Graff Racing | 32 | Claudio Cantelli | 4 |
| Graff Racing | 32 | Julien Canal | 6 |
| AR Motorsport | 34 | Duarte Félix da Costa | 1–2, 4–5 |
| AR Motorsport | 35 | Mervyn Kool | 1, 4 |
| BVM Motorsport | 36 | Pablo Sánchez López | All |
| BVM Motorsport | 37 | Frederico Muggia | All |
| BVM Motorsport | 41 | Daniel Zampieri | 3–4, 7 |
| MRD Motorsport | 38 | Joonas Mannerjarvi | 1–6 |
| MRD Motorsport | 58 | Qing Hua Ma | 3 |
| Twincam Motorsport | 44 | Oliver Campos-Hull | 1–4 |
| Twincam Motorsport | 44 | Walter Grubmüller | 5–7 |
| Twincam Motorsport | 45 | Daniel Campos-Hull | 2 |
| Euronova Racing | 53 | Alberto Costa | 3 |
| Euronova Racing | 59 | Filippo Ponti | 3 |
| IT Loox | 54 | Valentino Sebastiani | 3 |
| IT Loox | 55 | Niki Sebastiani | 3 |
| IT Loox | 56 | Riccardo Cinti | 3 |
| RP Motorsport | 57 | Matteo Chinosi | 3 |
| CO2 Motorsport | 60 | Andrea Caldarelli | 3 |
| Hexis Racing | 61 | Sébastien Chardonnet | 4 |
| Hexis Racing | 62 | Malo Olivier | 4 |
| Hexis Racing | 63 | Ulric Amado de Carvalho | 4 |
| BVM Minardi Team | 66 | Frankie Provenzano | 6 |
| Pole Services | 67 | Johan Charpilienne | 6 |
| Pole Services | 68 | Pierre Combot | 6 |
| RSC | 70 | Aleix Alcaraz | 7 |
| RSC | 71 | José Luis López-Pamplo | 7 |

## Calendar

| Round | Round | Circuit | Date | Pole Position | Fastest Lap | Winning Driver | Winning Team |
| 1 | R1 | Circuit Zolder | 29 April | Laurent Groppi | Laurent Groppi | Laurent Groppi | Graff Racing |
| 1 | R2 | Circuit Zolder | 30 April | | Laurent Groppi | Laurent Groppi | Graff Racing |
| 2 | R1 | Istanbul Park | 17 June | Dani Clos | Edoardo Piscopo | Dani Clos | Jenzer Motorsport |
| 2 | R2 | Istanbul Park | 18 June | | Dani Clos | Dani Clos | Jenzer Motorsport |
| 3 | R1 | Misano World Circuit | 15 July | Dani Clos | Adrian Zaugg | Dani Clos | Jenzer Motorsport |
| 3 | R2 | Misano World Circuit | 16 July | | Chris van der Drift | Chris van der Drift | JD Motorsport |
| 4 | R1 | Nürburgring | 5 August | Filipe Albuquerque | Filipe Albuquerque | Filipe Albuquerque | Motopark Academy |
| 4 | R2 | Nürburgring | 6 August | | Tom Dillmann | Filipe Albuquerque | Motopark Academy |
| 5 | R1 | Donington Park | 9 September | Chris van der Drift | Kasper Andersen | Sébastien Buemi | Motopark Academy |
| 5 | R2 | Donington Park | 10 September | | Atte Mustonen | Chris van der Drift | JD Motorsport |
| 6 | R1 | Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans | 30 September | Carlo van Dam | Bertrand Baguette | Bertrand Baguette | Epsilon Euskadi |
| 6 | R2 | Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans | 1 October | | Laurent Groppi | Carlo van Dam | SG Formula |
| 7 | R1 | Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona | 28 October | Filipe Albuquerque | Carlo van Dam | Filipe Albuquerque | Motopark Academy |
| 7 | R2 | Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona | 29 October | | Tom Dillmann | Filipe Albuquerque | Motopark Academy |

## Championship standings
### Drivers

Points are awarded to the drivers as follows:
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | PP* |
| Points | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
* – only awarded to race one polesitters
| Pos | Driver | ZOL | ZOL | IST | IST | MIS | MIS | NÜR | NÜR | DON | DON | LMS | LMS | CAT | CAT | Points |
| Pos | Driver | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Points |
| 1 | Filipe Albuquerque | 9 | 6 | 28† | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 11 | Ret | 1 | 1 | 99 |
| 2 | Chris van der Drift | 2 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 1 | Ret | 11 | 22 | 6 | 91 |
| 3 | Carlo van Dam | 5 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | Ret | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 90 |
| 4 | Bertrand Baguette | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 23 | 30 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 88 |
| 5 | Kasper Andersen | 6 | Ret | Ret | 7 | 3 | Ret | 5 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | Ret | 3 | 3 | 78 |
| 6 | Laurent Groppi | 1 | 1 | | | | | 2 | 2 | | | 7 | 4 | | | 75 |
| 7 | Dani Clos | 11 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | DSQ | 4 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Ret | Ret | 19 | 70 |
| 8 | Tom Dillmann | 24 | 4 | 9 | 27 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 34 | 4 | Ret | Ret | NC | 2 | 2 | 61 |
| 9 | Atte Mustonen | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | Ret | Ret | 16 | 16 | 9 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 54 |
| 10 | Edoardo Piscopo | Ret | 18 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 16 | Ret | Ret | 13 | 4 | 34 |
| 11 | Sébastien Buemi | | | 4 | 8 | Ret | 9 | | | 1 | 6 | | | | | 33 |
| 12 | Jaime Alguersuari | 31 | 21 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 31 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 5 | 16 | 24 |
| 13 | Xavier Maassen | 26* | 3 | 10 | 19 | Ret | Ret | 12 | 9 | Ret | 5 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 21 |
| 14 | Brendon Hartley | 19 | Ret | 6 | 28 | 29 | 5 | 7 | 6 | Ret | 12 | 12 | Ret | Ret | 17 | 21 |
| 15 | Henkie Waldschmidt | 16 | 23 | 21 | 23 | 14 | 29 | 14 | 12 | Ret | 18 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 19 |
| 16 | Adrian Zaugg | 12 | 8 | Ret | 16 | Ret* | 3 | | | | | | | | | 14 |
| 17 | John Michael Edwards | Ret | 16 | 7 | Ret | Ret | 18 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 13 | Ret | DNS | 21 | Ret | 14 |
| 18 | Frederico Muggia | 8 | 7 | Ret | 15 | Ret | 19 | 32 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 14 | Ret | Ret | 9 | 10 |
| 19 | Walter Grubmüller | 17 | 27 | 12 | 18 | 22 | 16 | Ret | DNS | 5 | 8 | 17 | 18 | Ret | 15 | 9 |
| 20 | Johan Charpilienne | 7 | NC | | | | | | | | | 8 | Ret | | | 9 |
| 21 | Rahel Frey | 13 | 14 | 27† | 12 | Ret | 17 | Ret | 26 | 8 | 14 | 18 | Ret | 6 | DSQ | 8 |
| 22 | Edoardo Mortara | 15 | Ret | Ret | 20 | 26 | 12 | 17 | 20 | Ret | 9 | Ret | 7 | Ret | 27 | 8 |
| 23 | Martin Plowman | 22 | 17 | 22 | Ret | NC | 23 | 21 | 35 | 16 | 11 | 21 | 10 | 9 | 24 | 7 |
| 24 | Mervyn Kool | 28 | 9 | | | | | 13 | 15 | | | | | | | 2 |
| 25 | Oliver Campos-Hull | 32† | Ret | 23 | Ret | 11 | 14 | 15 | 13 | DNS | DNS | 16 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 2 |
| 26 | Junior Strous | 10 | 12 | 14 | 13 | | | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| 27 | Marco Frezza | Ret | Ret | 17 | 14 | 10 | Ret | 22 | 22 | | | | | | | 1 |
| 28 | Daniel Zampieri | | | | | 19 | 25 | Ret | Ret | | | | | 11 | Ret | 1 |
| 29 | Claudio Cantelli | | | | | | | 30 | 28 | 14 | 17 | 23 | 15 | | | 1 |
| 30 | Sten Pentus | 27 | 11 | 25 | 22 | 20 | 28 | 24 | 23 | | | | | | | 0 |
| 31 | Pablo Sánchez López | 25 | 15 | 24 | 21 | 13 | Ret | 25 | 21 | 12 | 19 | 19 | Ret | 12 | 20 | 0 |
| 32 | Duarte Félix da Costa | Ret | 19 | 20 | 17 | | | Ret | 19 | 13 | Ret | | | 15 | 18 | 0 |
| 33 | Mathieu Arzeno | 18 | 13 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 34 | Nathan Antunes | 14 | Ret | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 35 | Pippa Mann | 29 | Ret | 15 | Ret | 16 | 21 | 31 | 25 | Ret | 15 | 20 | 20 | Ret | 21 | 0 |
| 36 | Robert Wickens | | | | | | | 18 | 17 | | | | | | | 0 |
| 37 | Joonas Mannerjarvi | 20 | 22 | 19 | 24 | 18 | 20 | 33 | 27 | 18 | Ret | 25 | 19 | | | 0 |
| 38 | Anton Nebylitskiy | | | 18 | 29 | | | | | 19 | Ret | 22 | Ret | | | 0 |
| 39 | Stefano Coletti | | | | | | | 26 | 18 | | | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 0 |
| 40 | Salman bin Rashid Al-Khalifa | Ret | 26 | Ret | 25 | 28 | 27 | Ret | 32 | 20 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 20 | 25 | 0 |
| 41 | Jacky Ferre | 21 | 25 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 42 | Frédéric Vervisch | 23 | Ret | DSQ | Ret | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 43 | Tomi Limmonen | 30 | Ret | | | Ret | Ret | 27 | 24 | | | | | | | 0 |
| 44 | Cem Kent | | | 26 | 26 | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| The following drivers are guest ineligible to final standing |||||||||||||||||
| | Yann Clairay | | | | | | | | | | | 26 | 2 | | | - |
| | Nelson Panciatici | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | 3 | 18 | 13 | - |
| | Pierre Combot | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | 14 | | | - |
| | Jean Karl Vernay | | | | | | | 8 | 7 | | | | | | | - |
| | Oliver Oakes | | | | | | | | | Ret | Ret | Ret | 8 | 19 | 8 | - |
| | Alexandre Marsoin | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 | Ret | - |
| | Daniel Campos-Hull | | | 11 | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | - |
| | Niki Sebastiani | | | | | 27 | 10 | | | | | | | | | - |
| | Filippo Ponti | | | | | 12 | 15 | | | | | | | | | - |
| | Julien Canal | | | | | | | | | | | 15 | 12 | | | - |
| | Valentino Sebastiani | | | | | 25 | 13 | | | | | | | | | - |
| | Julien Jousse | | | | | | | 19 | 14 | | | | | | | - |
| | Matteo Chinosi | | | | | 15 | 26 | | | | | | | | | - |
| | Frankie Provenzano | | | | | | | 24 | 17 | | | | | | | - |
| | Riccardo Cinti | | | | | 17 | Ret | | | | | | | | | - |
| | Bruno Rudolf Fechner | | | | | | | | | 17 | Ret | | | | | - |
| | Qing Hua Ma | | | | | 21 | 22 | | | | | | | | | - |
| | Facundo Crovo | | | | | | | | | | | | | NC | 22 | - |
| | Aleix Alcaraz | | | | | | | | | | | | | 24 | 23 | - |
| | Mariano Werner | | | | | | | | | | | | | 23 | 28† | - |
| | Andrea Caldarelli | | | | | 23 | Ret | | | | | | | | | - |
| | Alberto Costa | | | | | 24 | 24 | | | | | | | | | - |
| | José Luis López-Pamplo | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ret | 26 | - |
| | Ulric Amado de Carvalho | | | | | | | 28 | Ret | | | | | | | - |
| | Sébastien Chardonnet | | | | | | | 29 | 33 | | | | | | | - |
| | Malo Olivier | | | | | | | NC | 29 | | | Ret | DNS | | | - |
| Pos | Driver | ZOL | ZOL | IST | IST | MIS | MIS | NÜR | NÜR | DON | DON | LMS | LMS | CAT | CAT | Points |
| Colour | Result |
| Gold | Winner |
| Silver | Second place |
| Bronze | Third place |
| Green | Points finish |
| Blue | Non-points finish |
| Blue | Non-classified finish (NC) |
| Purple | Retired (Ret) |
| Red | Did not qualify (DNQ) |
| Red | Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) |
| Black | Disqualified (DSQ) |
| White | Did not start (DNS) |
| White | Withdrew (WD) |
| White | Race cancelled (C) |
| Blank | Did not practice (DNP) |
| Blank | Did not arrive (DNA) |
| Blank | Excluded (EX) |
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

### Teams

| Pos | Team | Points |
| 1 | JD Motorsport | 170 |
| 2 | SG Formula | 151 |
| 3 | Motopark Academy | 132 |
| 4 | Jenzer Motorsport | 89 |
| 5 | Epsilon Euskadi | 88 |
| 6 | Graff Racing | 75 |
| 7 | Cram Competition | 54 |
| 8 | Koiranen Bros | 36 |
| 9 | Motorsport Arena | 35 |
| 10 | Prema Powerteam | 25 |
| 11 | BVM Minardi Team | 10 |
| 12 | SL Formula Racing | 9 |
| 13 | Twincam Motorsport | 9 |
| 14 | Team Jenzer | 4 |
| 15 | AR Motorsport | 2 |