2006 Sidecarcross World Championship
| 2006 Sidecarcross World Championship | |
|---|---|
| Season | |
| Grands Prix | 8 |
| Start date | 23 April |
| End date | 24 September |
| Drivers | |
| Champions |
 Daniël Willemsen
|
| Sidecarcross des Nations |
Netherlands
|
| Chronology | |
| Previous season | Next season |
| 2005 | 2007 |
The 2006 FIM Sidecarcross world championship, the 27th edition of the competition, started on 23 April and finished after eight race weekends on 17 September 2006 with Daniël Willemsen taking out the title once more.
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 an 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.
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.
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