2006 Sidecarcross world championship

:For main article, see "Sidecarcross world championship".Sidecarcross world championship seasons
year = 2006
Grand_Prix = 8
start_date = 23 April
end_date = 24 September
season_champ = flagicon|NED Daniël Willemsen flagicon|BEL Sven Verbrugge
Sidecarcross_des_Nations= flagicon|NED Netherlands
previous = 2005
next = 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.

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:|

ources

* [http://www.sidecarcross.com/ The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com]
* [http://www.thejohndaveypages.org/JD_GP/JD_GP___Index.htm The John Davey Grand Prix Pages - Results of all GP's up until 2006]