Motor Racing
- Formula One –
- Fernando Alonso clinches the World Driver's Championship.
- Renault F1 clinches the Formula One constructors title.
- 7 Time World Champion Michael Schumacher announces his retirement from the sport after 15 years.
- World Rally Championship won by Sébastien Loeb for the Citroën Total World Rally Team.
- World Touring Car Championship won by Andy Priaulx
- Stock car racing (NASCAR):
- Daytona 500 won by Jimmie Johnson in the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet
- UAW Ford 500 won by Brian Vickers in the #25 Ditech Chevrolet
- Allstate 400 at the Brickyard won by Jimmie Johnson in the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet
- 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Champion – Jimmie Johnson
- Indy Racing League –
- March 26 – Paul Dana is killed and Ed Carpenter is injured in an accident during the final practice before the Toyota Indy 300. Dana's teammates, Buddy Rice and Danica Patrick, withdraw from the race following the crash.
- Indianapolis 500 won by Sam Hornish, Jr..
- 2006 IRL IndyCar Series champion – Sam Hornish, Jr..
- 24 hours of Le Mans won by
- 2006 Australian V8 Supercar champion – Rick Kelly.
Read more about this topic: 2006 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“The motor idles.
Over the immense upland
the pulse of their blossoming
thunders through us.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)