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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]

[edit] Points

2006 Manufacturers Championship Points
Rank	Manufacturer	Event																Total
Rank	Manufacturer																	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
Rank	Driver																	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

[edit] Events

Rally Name	Start-End Date	Podium Drivers (Finishing Time)	Podium Cars
74ème Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo— Results	20 January-22 January	Marcus Grönholm (4h:11m:43.9s) Sébastien Loeb (4h:12m:45.7s) Toni Gardemeister (4h:13m:07.0s)	Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Citroën Xsara Peugeot 307
55th Uddeholm Swedish Rally— Results	3 February-5 February	Marcus Grönholm (3h:09m:01.9s) Sébastien Loeb (3h:09m:32.8s) Daniel Carlsson (3h:11m:58.7s)	Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Citroën Xsara Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution
20º Corona Rally México— Results	3 March-5 March	Sébastien Loeb (3h:47m:08.8s) Petter Solberg (3h:47m:57.7s) Manfred Stohl (3h:51m:47.9s)	Citroën Xsara Subaru Impreza Peugeot 307
42º Rally RACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada— Results	24 March-26 March	Sébastien Loeb (3h:22m:01.7s) Dani Sordo (3h:22m:49.9s) Marcus Grönholm (3h:23m:47.5s)	Citroën Xsara Citroën Xsara Ford Focus RS WRC 06
50ème Tour de Corse - Rallye de France— Results	7 April-9 April	Sébastien Loeb (3h:43m:05.4s) Marcus Grönholm (3h:43m:34.4s) Dani Sordo (3h:44m:54.1s)	Citroën Xsara Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Citroën Xsara
26º Rally Argentina— Results	28 April-30 April	Sébastien Loeb (4h:06m:51.3s) Petter Solberg (4h:07m:35.9s) Gianluigi Galli (4h:10m:15.6s)	Citroën Xsara Subaru Impreza Peugeot 307
3º Supermag Rally Italia Sardinia— Results	19 May-21 May	Sébastien Loeb (3h:54m:18.9s) Mikko Hirvonen (3h:57m:00.3s) Dani Sordo (3h:57m:46.6s)	Citroën Xsara Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Citroën Xsara
53rd Acropolis Rally— Results	2 June-4 June	Marcus Grönholm (3h:56m:26.8s) Sébastien Loeb (3h:58m:53.2s) Mikko Hirvonen (4h:00m:10.2s)	Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Citroën Xsara Ford Focus RS WRC 06
25. OMV ADAC Rallye Deutschland	11 August-13 August	Sébastien Loeb (3h:28m:34.1s) Dani Sordo (3h:29m:07.9s) Marcus Grönholm (3h:30m:53.3s)	Citroën Xsara Citroën Xsara Ford Focus RS WRC 06
56th Neste Oil Rally Finland	18 August-20 August	Marcus Grönholm (2h:52m:50.3s) Sébastien Loeb (2h:53m:57.0s) Mikko Hirvonen (2h:54m:24.8s)	Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Citroën Xsara Ford Focus RS WRC 06
3rd Rally Japan	1 September-3 September	Sébastien Loeb (3h:22m:20.4s) Marcus Grönholm (3h:22m:26.0s) Mikko Hirvonen (3h:25m:06.9s)	Citroën Xsara Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Ford Focus RS WRC 06
34th Cyprus Rally	22 September-24 September	Sébastien Loeb (4h:40m:50.4s) Marcus Grönholm (4h:41m:01.6s) Mikko Hirvonen (4h:46m:06.19s)	Citroën Xsara Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Ford Focus RS WRC 06
7th Rally of Turkey	13 October-15 October	Marcus Grönholm (3h:28m:16.3s) Mikko Hirvonen (3h:30m:39.7s) Henning Solberg (3h:31m:22.3s)	Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Peugeot 307
19th Telstra Rally Australia	27 October-29 October	Mikko Hirvonen (3h:15m:11.8s) Petter Solberg (3h:15m:48.9s) Manfred Stohl (3h:19m:10.4s)	Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Subaru Impreza Peugeot 307
36th Propecia Rally New Zealand	17 November-19 November	Marcus Grönholm (4h:02m:30.7s) Mikko Hirvonen (4h:03m:26.7s) Manfred Stohl (4h:05m:10.0s)	Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Peugeot 307
62nd Wales Rally of Great Britain	1 December-3 December	Marcus Grönholm (3h:20m:24.8s) Manfred Stohl (3h:22m:0.3s) Petter Solberg (3h:22m:20.0s)	Ford Focus RS WRC 06 Peugeot 307 Subaru Impreza

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