2006 World Rally Championship season
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The 2006 World Rally Championship season began on January 20 with the 74th Monte Carlo Rally. Finland's Marcus Grönholm, in a Ford Focus WRC, took the win ahead of France's Sébastien Loeb. After the Swedish Rally ended with the same top-two, Loeb and Kronos Total Citroën went on to win five rallies in a row. Despite an injury in a mountain-biking accident before the Rally of Turkey, Loeb secured his third drivers' title, whereas Ford won their first manufacturers' title since 1979.

Rule changes banned active differentials as well as water injection, as well as mandating that teams must re-use cars and engines on selected ‘pairs’ of events.¹

Points

2006 Manufacturers Championship Points

Rank	Manufacturer	Event																Total
1	BP Ford World Rally Team	14	12	4	12	14	1	8	16	10	16	14	14	18	14	18	10	195
2	Kronos Total Citroën	11	13	10	10	15	10	16	11	18	8	10	10	3	5	9	6	166
3	Subaru World Rally Team	5	3	12	11	7	13	7	5	0	2	9	5	4	11	3	6	103
4	OMV Peugeot Norway	6	4	11	0	0	10	5	5	0	9	0	9	8	6	7	8	88
5	Stobart VK M-Sport Ford	0	7	2	1	0	5	0	2	3	4	5	1	5	2	2	5	44
6	Red Bull Škoda	3	0	0	5	3	0	3	0	8	0	0	0	1	-	-	1	24

2006 World Rally Car Championship Points

Rank	Driver	Event																Total
1	Sébastien Loeb	8	8	10	10	10	10	10	8	10	8	10	10	-	-	-	-	112
2	Marcus Grönholm	10	10	1	6	8	0	0	10	6	10	8	8	10	4	10	10	111
3	Mikko Hirvonen	2	0	0	0	5	0	8	6	0	6	6	6	8	10	8	-	65
4	Manfred Stohl	5	0	6	0	2	5	2	0	4	0	4	5	1	6	6	8	54
5	Dani Sordo	1	0	5	8	6	4	6	3	8	0	0	0	2	0	4	2	49
6	Petter Solberg	0	0	8	2	0	8	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	8	3	6	40
7	Xavier Pons	0	2	0	0	3	0	5	1	0	0	-	2	5	5	5	4	32
8	Henning Solberg	0	1	4	-	-	2	0	4	0	5	-	3	6	0	-	-	25
9	Toni Gardemeister	6	-	-	0	-	-	-	5	5	0	-	4	0	-	-	-	20
10	Chris Atkinson	3	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	5	0	3	0	-	3	20
11	Gigi Galli	0	5	-	-	0	6	0	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	15
12	Alex Bengué	0	-	-	5	4	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9
13	Jari-Matti Latvala	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	1	5	9
14	Kosti Katajamäki	-	3	-	-	-	-	0	0	-	0	-	-	4	-	-	-	7
15	Jan Kopecký	0	0	-	4	0	-	0	0	2	1	-	-	0	-	-	-	7
16	Daniel Carlsson	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
17	Jussi Valimäki	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	0	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
18	Stéphane Sarrazin	4	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
19	Francois Duval	0	-	-	3	0	-	1	0	0	-	-	-	0	-	-	1	5
20	Thomas Rådström	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
21	Gareth MacHale	0	-	3	0	-	0	0	-	0	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	3
22	Andreas Aigner	0	0	-	0	0	-	0	0	3	-	-	0	0	-	-	-	3
23	Janne Tuohino	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
24	Toshi Arai	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	0	-	-	3
25	Kristian Sohlberg	-	0	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
26	Luis Perez Companc	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	2
27	Mirco Baldacci	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	2
28	Matthew Wilson	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	1
29	Fumio Nutahara	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	0	-	-	1
30	Dean Herridge	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1

Events

References

1. ^ Subaru World Rally Team