2006 Australian Drivers' Championship

2006 Australian Drivers' Champion Ben Clucas at the Mallala round of the championship

The 2006 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title open to Formula 3 cars.[1] The title was contested over an eight-round, 16 race series,[2] with the winner being awarded the 2006 CAMS Gold Star.[1] The series was organised and administered by Formula 3 Australia Inc. and was officially known as the "2006 Khumo Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship for the Australian Drivers' Championship".[3] It is recognised by CAMS as the 50th Australian Drivers' Championship[4] and as the 6th Australian Formula 3 Championship.[5]

British driver Ben Clucas dominated the series driving a Team BRM Dallara F304-Spiess Opel.[6] Clucas won eleven of the twelve races he contested, finishing 52 points ahead of Tim Macrow (Dallara F301-Spiess Opel). Michael Trimble finished third in the points standings, driving a Dallara F304-Renault. Macrow was the only driver to defeat Clucas for a race win before the British driver left the series after Round 6 with an unassailable lead in the points. Macrow also won three of the other four races with Trimble winning the first of the two races held at Queensland Raceway.

  1. ^ a b CAMS Australian Championships, 2006 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, page 17-2
  2. ^ Grant Rowley, Stars and Stripes, The Annual - Australian Motorsport, Number 2/2006, pages 84-90
  3. ^ Sporting Regulations for the 2006 Australian Formula 3 Championship Retrieved on 15 July 2011
  4. ^ www.camsmanual.com.au > About CAMS > Titles – CAMS Gold Star Archived 30 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 15 July 2011
  5. ^ www.camsmanual.com.au > About CAMS > Titles – Australian Titles Archived 30 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 15 July 2011
  6. ^ "Gold Star Winners - 1957 - 2009". formula3.com.au. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2010.