The 2006 V8 Supercar Championship Series was an Australian based motor racing competition for V8 Supercars. It began on 25 March 2006 in Adelaide and ended on 10 December 2006 at Phillip Island after 13 rounds. The 2006 Championship was the eighth V8 Supercar Championship Series.

The Drivers Championship was won by Rick Kelly, the Teams Championship by the Toll HSV Dealer Team and the Manufacturers Championship by Ford.^[1] As the winner of the Drivers Championship, Kelly was also awarded the 47th Australian Touring Car Championship title by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.

The 2006 V8 Supercar Championship Series was contested over 13 rounds. The Betta Electrical 500 and the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 were endurance events which were contested over a single race with two drivers per car. The round at Winton Motor Raceway was organised as a late replacement for the cancelled V8 Supercars China Round.

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Rd.	Race title	Circuit	Location	Date	Format	Winner	Team	Report
1	Clipsal 500 Adelaide	Adelaide Street Circuit	Adelaide, South Australia	23–26 Mar	Two races	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Report
2	PlaceMakers V8 International	Pukekohe Park Raceway	Pukekohe, New Zealand	21–23 Apr	Three races	Mark Skaife	Holden Racing Team	Report
3	Perth V8 400	Barbagallo Raceway	Wanneroo, Western Australia	12–14 May	Three races	Steven Richards	Perkins Engineering	Report
4	Winton	Winton Motor Raceway	Benalla, Victoria	2–4 Jun	Three races	Craig Lowndes	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Report
5	Skycity Triple Crown	Hidden Valley Raceway	Darwin, Northern Territory	30 Jun – 2 Jul	Three races	Craig Lowndes	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Report
6	BigPond 400	Queensland Raceway	Ipswich, Queensland	21–23 Jul	Three races	Garth Tander	HSV Dealer Team	Report
7	Oran Park	Oran Park Raceway	Sydney, New South Wales	11–13 Aug	Three races	Craig Lowndes	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Report
8	Betta Electrical 500	Sandown Raceway	Melbourne, Victoria	1–3 Sep	One race	Mark Winterbottom Jason Bright	Ford Performance Racing	Report
9	Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000	Mount Panorama	Bathurst, New South Wales	5–8 Oct	One race	Craig Lowndes Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Report
10	Gillette V8 Supercar Challenge	Surfers Paradise Street Circuit	Surfers Paradise, Queensland	19–22 Oct	Three races	Todd Kelly	Holden Racing Team	Report
11	Ferodo Tasmania Challenge	Symmons Plains Raceway	Launceston, Tasmania	10–12 Nov	Three races	Garth Tander	HSV Dealer Team	Report
12	Desert 400	Bahrain International Circuit	Manama, Bahrain	23–25 Nov	Three races	Jason Bright	Ford Performance Racing	Report
13	Caterpillar Grand Finale	Phillip Island	Phillip Island, Victoria	8–10 Dec	Three races	Todd Kelly	Holden Racing Team	Report

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Adelaide Perth Winton Darwin Ipswich Oran Park Sandown Bathurst Gold Coast Launceston Phillip Island Australian rounds

Pukekohe New Zealand rounds

Sakhir Bahrain rounds

The following teams and drivers competed in the 2006 V8 Supercar Championship Series.

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Manufacturer	Car	Team	No.	Drivers	Events		Endurance Event Drivers
Ford	Falcon BA	Stone Brothers Racing	1	Russell Ingall	All		Luke Youlden
			4	James Courtney	All		Glenn Seton
		Ford Performance Racing	5	Mark Winterbottom	All		Matthew Halliday Cameron McLean* David Brabham**
			6	Jason Bright	All
		WPS Racing	8	Max Wilson	All		David Besnard
			10	Jason Bargwanna	All		Craig Baird
		Brad Jones Racing	12	John Bowe	All		Dale Brede Mark Porter* Michael Caruso**
			14	Brad Jones	All
		Dick Johnson Racing	17	Steven Johnson	All		Alex Davison Grant Denyer
			18	Will Davison	All
		Paul Cruickshank Racing	20	Marcus Marshall	All		Jonathon Webb
		A.N.T. Racing^1	021	Tony Evangelou	13
		Britek Motorsport	25	Warren Luff	All		Adam Macrow
			26	José Fernández	1, 4, 6–10, 12–13		Tony Ricciardello
				Tony Ricciardello	3, 5, 11
		Triple Eight Race Engineering	88	Jamie Whincup	All		Allan Simonsen Richard Lyons
			888	Craig Lowndes	All
Holden	Commodore VZ	Holden Racing Team	2	Mark Skaife	All		Garth Tander
			22	Todd Kelly	1–7, 10–13		Jim Richards
				Ryan Briscoe	8–9
		Tasman Motorsport	3	Jason Richards	All		Mark Noske Owen Kelly
			23	Andrew Jones	All
		Perkins Engineering	7	Steven Richards	All		Shane Price Jack Perkins
			11	Paul Dumbrell	All
		HSV Dealer Team (HRT)	15	Rick Kelly	All		Todd Kelly
			16	Garth Tander	1–7, 10–13		Anthony Tratt
				Tony D'Alberto	8–9
		Team Kiwi Racing	021	Paul Radisich	1–9		Fabian Coulthard
				Craig Baird	11
				Chris Pither	12
		MSport^2	26	Mark Porter	2
		Garry Rogers Motorsport	33	Lee Holdsworth	All		Greg Ritter Phillip Scifleet* Cameron McLean**
			34	Dean Canto	All
		Paul Morris Motorsport	39	Alan Gurr	1, 3, 8–10		Kayne Scott
				Fabian Coulthard	2, 4, 7
				Steven Ellery	5–6
				Shane Price	11, 13
				Jack Perkins	12
			67	Paul Morris	All		Steven Ellery
		Paul Weel Racing	50	Cameron McConville	All		Nathan Pretty Paul Weel
			51	Greg Murphy	All
		Rod Nash Racing	55	Steve Owen	All		Tony Longhurst

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* = Drove in Sandown 500 only

** = Drove in Bathurst 1000 only

• ^1 – Leased Team Kiwi entry at final round after Team Kiwi's only Commodore was destroyed at Bathurst.
• ^2 – Leased Britek entry at Pukekohe round.

Championship points were awarded on the following basis:^[2]

• First 3-race format, normal race: Used for races 1 and 3 for Pukekohe through Oran Park.
• First 3-race format, reverse grid: Used for race 2 for Pukekohe through Oran Park.
• Second 3-race format: Used for all races from the Surfers Paradise round onward.
• 2-race format: Used for the Clipsal 500 Adelaide.
• Endurance format: Used for the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000.

Drivers were required to drop the points from their worst round up to and including Bathurst.^[2]