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The 2006 World Rally Championship season began on January 20 with the 74th Monte Carlo Rally. Finland's Marcus Grönholm, in a Ford Focus RS WRC, took the win ahead of France's Sébastien Loeb. After the Swedish Rally ended with the same top-two, Loeb and Kronos Citroën went on to win five rallies in a row. Despite an injury in a mountain-biking accident before the Rally of Turkey, Loeb secured his third drivers' title, whereas Ford won their first manufacturers' title since 1979. Rule changes banned active differentials and water injection, as well as mandating that teams must re-use cars and engines on selected ‘pairs’ of events. ==Rule changes== Since 2006 ''manufacturer'' is understood to mean a manufacturer, a team designated by a manufacturer, or a privateer team taking part with a single make of car. Two categories were created to compete for the Manufacturer's championship: Manufacturer 1 (M1) *undertakes to take part in all the rallies of the Championship *must enter only cars corresponding to the latest homologated version of a World Rally Car in conformity with the 2006 Appendix J *must inform the FIA of the name of the first driver entered for the season at the time of registration for the Championship. No change of the first driver is authorised, except in a case of force majeure. The driver of the second car may be changed for each of the rallies in the Championship *In order to score points in the Championship, a Manufacturer 1 must take part with two cars of the same make in the 16 rallies of the calendar Manufacturer 2 (M2) *undertakes to take part in 10 or more Championship rallies which it has nominated *cannot enter World Rally Cars homologated during the year 2006 and cannot use parts homologated after 2 January 2006 *cannot enter a driver who has been classified among the first six in the final classification of the FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers in the last five years *In order to score points in the Championship, a Manufacturer 2 must take part with two cars of the same make in 10 or more rallies it nominated on registering for the Championship. The Manufacturer can only score points in the events it nominated on registering 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2006 World Rally Championship season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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