The 2006 Race-by-Race Review
The 2006 season featured more on-track battles between the main championship protagonists than any other season in recent years, and the action on and off the track offered fans and media plenty to talk about. Matt Beer looks back at each of the 18 rounds with the hindsight of how it all ended
Michael Schumacher's departure ensured that 2006 will forever be remembered as the end of a remarkable era in Formula One.
The astonishing list of broken records only tell half the story of Schumacher's reign. Never has one driver enjoyed such a margin of superiority over the majority of his peers for so long. It was entirely appropriate that Juan Pablo Montoya and Jacques Villeneuve - two men who earned heroic reputations precisely because they dared to challenge Schumacher from the moment they arrived on the grid - also said farewell to F1 in 2006, albeit in less elegant fashion.
Share Or Save This Story
Subscribe and access Autosport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.