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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.

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