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2006 GP2 Series Season
The 2006 GP2 Series season was the second season of the Formula One feeder championship GP2 Series. The season began at Circuit de Valencia, Spain on 8 April 2006 and ended in Monza, Italy on 10 September 2006. The championship was won by ART Grand Prix driver Lewis Hamilton, over Piquet Sports driver Nelson Piquet Jr. 2006 GP2 car modifications Chassis The 2006 specification GP2 Car was designed by Dallara Automobili. The 2006 GP2 car featured a biplane rear wing, with the triplane rear wing used in 2005 only to be used at the Monaco race. The front upper and lower wishbones were reinforced, as were the front and rear suspension uprights. Engine The 4 litre V8 engine featured internal, cartographic and software upgrades designed to improve performance and fuel consumption. Gearbox The 2006 gearbox was manufactured by GearTek, and featured an 8 position barrel, with ratchet body and software upgrades, as well as a new transverse shafts fixing system designed to facilitate i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Hamilton
Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton (born 7 January 1985) is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari, Ferrari. Hamilton has won a joint-record seven Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles—tied with Michael Schumacher—and holds the List of Formula One driver records, records for most List of Formula One Grand Prix winners, wins (), List of Formula One polesitters, pole positions (), and List of Formula One driver records#Total podium finishes, podium finishes (), among List of career achievements by Lewis Hamilton#Records, others. Born and raised in Stevenage, Hamilton began his career in kart racing, karting aged six, winning several national titles and attracting the attention of Ron Dennis, who signed him to the McLaren Young Driver Programme, McLaren-Mercedes Young Driver Programme in 1998. After winning the KF1, direct-drive Karting World Cup and Karting European Championship, European Championship in 2000, Hamilton progressed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brembo
Brembo N.V. is an Italian manufacturer of automotive parts that most notably produces braking systems, for high-performance cars and for the sim racing series Gran Turismo. Its operational head office is in Curno, Bergamo, Italy, while Amsterdam, Netherlands, is the company's legal seat. History Brembo was established in Paladina, Italy, on January 11, 1961, by Emilio Bombassei and Italo Breda (father and uncle, respectively, to the current Chairman Alberto Bombassei). The company was named after the Brembo river. Bombassei lived in a village on the coast of the river before moving to Milan. Soon after Brembo was formed, it specialized in disc brakes, which were imported from the UK at the time. The company entered into a supply contract with Alfa Romeo in 1964 and became Moto Guzzi's brake component supplier in 1966. In the 1980s, Brembo also began supplying brakes to BMW, Chrysler, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Porsche. Brembo went public on the Milan Stock Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallara
Dallara Group S.r.l. is the largest multi-national Italian race car manufacturer, founded by its current President, Giampaolo Dallara. After working for Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini and De Tomaso, in 1972 in his native village of Varano de' Melegari (Parma), he created Dallara Automobili. Dallara is the sole manufacturer of racing cars for the IndyCar Series, Indy NXT, FIA Formula 2, FIA Formula 3 and Super Formula Championships. The company also produces cars for endurance races such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Daytona. Dallara has also been involved in the development and production of both Formula E cars and Haas F1 Team cars. Early years The company was founded by designer Giampaolo Dallara in 1972 in Varano de' Melegari, near Parma, Italy, and started building chassis for sports car racing and hillclimbing, racing in the smaller engine classes. Dallara designed his first Formula Three car for Walter Wolf Racing in 1978. Dallara also had a bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Zuber
Andreas "Andi" Zuber (born 9 October 1983 in Judenburg, Austria) is a former Auto racing, motor racing driver. An Austrian by birth, he is based in Dubai and once raced under a licence issued by the United Arab Emirates. Career Formula König Despite beginning his karting career in 1998, 2000 saw his debut in the Formula König championship with Team Böhm Sport. Zuber finished twelfth in the championship with 39 points. Formula Renault The 2001 Formula Renault seasons, following season, Zuber competed in both the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, Formula Renault 2.0 Germany and Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 championships for Motopark Academy. He finished sixth in the German series standings. In the Eurocup, he took 54th place in the championship, with a best finish of seventeenth at the Österreichring#The A1-Ring, A1-Ring. For 2002 Formula Renault seasons, 2002, the Austrian driver remained in the German championship with Motopark Academy. He finished second behind Neth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María López
José María "Pechito" López (born 26 April 1983) is a Argentine race car driving, driver who is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Akkodis ASP. He is three-time World Touring Car Championship, World Touring Champion with Citroën World Touring Car Team, Citroën in 2014 World Touring Car Championship, 2014, 2015 World Touring Car Championship, 2015 and 2016 World Touring Car Championship, 2016, and two-time World Endurance Champion with Toyota Gazoo Racing in 2019–20 FIA World Endurance Championship, 2020 and 2020–21 FIA World Endurance Championship, 2021, also becoming that last year the second Argentine driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans since José Froilán González in 1954. López raced in the 2006 GP2 Series season, 2006 GP2 Series for the Super Nova Racing, Super Nova team, and previously for the DAMS team, and the CMS team in International Formula 3000, Formula 3000. He was also at Renault F1 as a test driver. He was supposed to mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timo Glock
Timo Glock (; born 18 March 1982) is a German racing driver, who competes in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for Dörr Motorsport. Glock competed in Formula One between and . Glock raced in Formula One for Jordan, Toyota, Virgin and Marussia, finishing 10th in the World Drivers' Championship in both and , amongst three podium finishes. After leaving Formula One at the end of the season, Glock became a factory driver for BMW in the 2013 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, achieving his first DTM podium at the Red Bull Ring, and a first win at the season finale at the Hockenheimring. Early career Born in Lindenfels, West Germany, Glock began his motorsport career in 1998 at the age of 15. He won several karting championships as well as the BMW ADAC Formula Junior Cup in 2000 and the Formula BMW ADAC Championship in 2001. In his first German Formula Three Championship season in 2002, he finished third in the standings en route to rookie of the year honours. In 2003, he competed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Pantano
Giorgio Pantano (born 4 February 1979) is an Italian former professional racing driver who drove for the Jordan Grand Prix, Jordan Formula One team for much of the 2004 Formula One season, 2004 season before being replaced by Timo Glock. He also raced in International Formula 3000, Formula 3000. He retired from racing at the end of 2014. He raced in the GP2 Series from its inaugural year in 2005 GP2 Series season, 2005 until his championship campaign in 2008 GP2 Series season, 2008, holding the record for most races competed and most races won in the series. As of 2011 GP2 Series season, 2011, these records have been taken over by Luca Filippi (86 starts) and Pastor Maldonado (10 wins) respectively. Career Early years Born in Conselve, near Padua, Pantano is the holder of one of the best records ever in karting, where he started at age nine. Nico Rosberg grew up with a poster of Pantano on his bedroom wall and later would describe the Italian as being "probably the best of all t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clivio Piccione
Clivio Piccione (born February 24, 1984, in Monte Carlo, Monaco) is a Monaco, Monégasque race car driving, driver. He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series season for the Durango team and David Price Racing for 2006 GP2 Series season, 2006. Career Piccione's career started in karting in 1997, where he stayed until 2001 before moving up to British Formula Ford. He only spent one season there, debuting in British Formula 3's B-Class in 2002 for the T-Sport team. 2003 saw him move up to the main class with the Manor Motorsport, Manor team, where he won the a race at Knockhill. For 2004, he joined Carlin Motorsport and won two races at Donington Park. In 2005 the Monegasque driver drove in the inaugural GP2 Series season, driving for the Durango team, winning the sprint race at the 2005_Nürburgring_GP2_Series_round, Nürburgring round. However, results were not in his favour for the remainder of the season and for 2006 he would switch to David Price Racing, DPR Direxiv. He would score two po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Pla
Olivier Pla (born 21 October 1981) is a French racing driver who competed in the Asian Le Mans Series for AF Corse. Career French Formula Campus and Formula Three Born in Toulouse, Pla started his career in 2000 in French Formula Campus before moving on to French Formula Three Championship in 2001 with the Saulnier Racing team. He finished eighth in the series standings, taking nine points-scoring positions in eleven races, including a podium in the penultimate race of the season at Magny-Cours. In 2002, Pla stayed in the series but switched to the ASM team. He finished third, behind Renaud Derlot and Tristan Gommendy, taking nine podium places from fourteen races, including wins at Croix-en-Ternois and Bugatti Circuit. In 2003, Pla joined the Formula 3 Euro Series with ASM. He finished third, behind Christian Klien and Ryan Briscoe, taking nine podium places from twenty races. World Series by Nissan 2004 saw Pla leave the Euroseries, joining the World Series by Nissan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Lapierre
Nicolas Camile Bernard Lapierre (born 2 April 1984) is a retired French professional racing driver and team principal. Notable for winning the LMP2 class four times at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Lapierre was a factory driver at Toyota during the early days of the WEC before becoming a staple of the Alpine team until his retirement in 2024. He is also a two-time winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 2003 champion at the Macau Grand Prix. Nicolas is married and has 3 children. Early career Formative years Born in Thonon-les-Bains, Lapierre started his career in 1993 in karting, finishing 3rd in the French championship in 1996, 6th in the European Championships in 1997 and reaching the finals of the European Junior Championship in 1998 before moving to French Formula Renault in 1999. He stayed there for 2000 and 2001, 2001 also seeing two races in Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup. He again raced in French Formula Renault in 2002, also driving a full season of 2000 Eurocup and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Prémat
Alexandre Prémat (born 5 November 1982) is a French racing driver. He won the Pirtek Enduro Cup for Triple Eight Race Engineering alongside Shane van Gisbergen in 2016. He also won the 2019 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 with Scott McLaughlin (racing driver), Scott McLaughlin, driving for DJR Team Penske. Career Karting & French Formula Renault Campus Born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, In 1999, Alex Prémat showcased his exceptional talent by winning the Coupe du Monde de Karting 125cc ICC, solidifying his place among the sport’s top drivers. That same year, he finished as vice-champion in the Formule France de Karting ICC, clinching six victories. His success continued in 2000, when Prémat captured the Champion de France FC 125cc title, proving his dominance in French karting and setting the stage for a promising career in motorsport. He continued karting until 2000 when he moved up to French F4 Eurocup 1.6, Formula Campus,Prémat began his single-seater career in Formule C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianmaria Bruni
Gianmaria "Gimmi" Bruni (born 30 May 1981) is an Italian Porsche factory auto racing driver who drove in the 2004 Formula One World Championship for Minardi. He is a GP2 Series race winner and is now racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship, in which he gained the 2013 and 2014 GT Drivers' Titles whilst driving as a factory Ferrari driver. He won the 2008 FIA GT Championship, 2011 Le Mans Series and 2012 International GT Open and took three class victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in 2008, 2012 and 2014. He also was successful at the 2009 and 2015 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, 2010 12 Hours of Sebring and 2011 Petit Le Mans. Career First wins in single-seaters Born in Rome, at age ten Bruni lied about his age to the director of ''La Pista d'Oro'', a Go kart track in Italy, in order to begin an amateur Karting career (twelve was the minimum age to compete). His first experience with racing cars was in the Italian Formula Renault Campus in 1997; he won the Tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
