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2006 BTCC season
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The 2006 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season will be the 49th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season. As in 2005, there will be ten racing weekends at nine different circuits; each round comprising three races, making a thirty round competition in total. Image File history File links Soccerball. ... Children playing soccer (English football). ... Image File history File links Btcc_logo. ... The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom. ... People whose family name is or was Dunlop include James Dunlop (1793-1848), Scottish-Australian astronomer John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor and founder of the Dunlop rubber company John Thomas Dunlop, United States administrator Sir Edward Weary Dunlop, Australian war hero Douglas Morton Dunlop, Scottish-American professor of history and... The current BTCC logo The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ...

Changes for 2006

• In 2006, the number of grid places to be reversed for race three’s starting grid will vary between six and ten. The actual number will be unknown at each race meeting until it is randomly drawn by the winner of race two, immediately after that race.
• The base-weight of BTC-spec cars will increase to 1175kg (although the difference in base weight between BTC and S2000-spec cars will be the same as existed at the end of 2005)
• Cars of those who enter the BTCC late, or dip in and out of the championship, with be penalised with a maximum success ballast at their first meeting or on their return. The ballast amount will subsequently reduce in the second and third meeting in which that car comeptes

Teams and Drivers (provisional)

WSR plan to race 2 RAC-backed MGs in 2006

Mike Jordan's proposed Eurotech Honda Integra livery for 2006

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I = Independent team
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No.	Driver	Nat.	Cl.	Team	Car	Spec	Notes
#	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ...	M	VX Racing Vauxhall Motors is a UK car company. ...	Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch The Astra is a General Motors (GM) small family car, badged as an Opel in continental Europe, a Vauxhall in the United Kingdom, a Holden in Australasia, and a Chevrolet in Latin America. ...
5	Tom Chilton	Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ...	M	VX Racing	Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch
2	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller is a French auto racing driver, born on 16 August 1969. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ...	M	VX Racing	Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch
#	Jason Plato		M	Seat Sport UK	Seat Leon	E
#	James Thompson / Darren Turner		M	Seat Sport UK	Seat Leon	E	Thompson and Turner to share drive throughout the season
1	Matt Neal		I	Team Halfords	Honda Integra
#	TBA		I	Team Halfords	Honda Integra
#	TBA		I	Team RAC	MG ZS
#	TBA		I	Team RAC	MG ZS
#	Richard Williams		I	HPI Racing with Friends Reunited	Lexus IS200	E
12	Mark Proctor		I	Fast-Tec Motorsport Ltd	Honda Civic Type-R
36	Jason Hughes		I	Kartworld Racing	MG ZS
82	Fiona Leggate		I	Tech-Speed Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé
99	Mike Jordan		I	Team Eurotech	Honda Integra
#	Mark Smith		I	Infront Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	E
#	Martyn Bell		I	Geoff Steel Racing	BMW 320i E46	E
#	Dave Pinkney		I	Motorbase Performance	Honda Integra

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