* CASCAR Super Series 1981 – 2006 ; now NASCAR Canadian Tire Series

From 2001 to 2006, the race alternated between FOX and NBC under the terms of a six-year, $ 2. 48 billion NASCAR television contract, with FOX broadcasting the Daytona 500 in odd-numbered years ( 2001, 2003, 2005 ) and the Pepsi 400 in even-numbered years ( 2002, 2004, 2006 ), with NBC broadcasting the opposite race in that year.

In the 2006 movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby starring Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen, Cohen's character is reading a copy of L ' Etranger while he is driving his NASCAR race car.

* Doc Hudson, an animated version of the Fabulous Hudson Hornet of early-1950's NASCAR racing, appears in the 2006 Disney / Pixar film Cars

Bryan is the birthplace of 2006 Indianapolis 500 champion — and current NASCAR driver -- Sam Hornish, Jr., Bob Hartman, founder of the Christian rock pioneer group " Petra ", and of Mark Winegardner, chosen to be the author of the novel The Godfather Returns.

On October 31, 2005, Penske Racing announced after the 2006 IRL season, they would consolidate IRL and NASCAR operations at the team's Mooresville, North Carolina facility ; with the flooding in Pennsylvania in 2006, the team's operations were moved to Mooresville earlier than expected.

Opened in 2006, Miller Motorsports Park hosts many of the world ’ s most significant racing series, including the American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, NASCAR Grand National West Series, AMA Superbike and Supersport Championship and, new for 2008, the FIM Superbike World Championship, one of the top three racing series in the world.

In December 2006, NASCAR officials confirmed that Anheuser-Busch, parent company for Busch Beer, would not renew its sponsorship of NASCAR's No. 2 series after the end of the 2007 Season.

NASCAR conducted a three-race test of unleaded fuel in this series that began with the July 29, 2006 race at Gateway International Raceway.

Following further speculation that he could start racing in the NASCAR series as early as 2006, Dennis publicly offered Montoya an early exit from his contract with McLaren-Mercedes, provided that he resigned from receiving any payout to terminate his contract.

On July 9, 2006, Montoya announced his plans to compete in the NASCAR Nextel Cup series beginning with the 2007 season, racing for Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates ' NASCAR operation, Chip Ganassi Racing, in the No. 42 Texaco / Havoline Car.

" Southern Sun " became a smashing hit as it was then released as the A-Side of " Ready Steady Go " in mid-2002, " Ready Steady Go " was featured in Saab commercials, the EA Sports game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003, THQ game Juiced, the pilot for the television program Las Vegas, and as the NASCAR theme song for 2006.

In Pixar's Cars ( 2006 ), sponsors of the original NASCAR vehicles were replaced with fictional or parody brands.

2006 looked to be a transitional year for Tracy, with a five-race deal run in the NASCAR Busch Series possibly becoming a full-season contract in 2007.

* Charlotte Bobcats – blue alternates from 2006 to 2009 ; another blue alternate with a checkered flag design was used for NASCAR week from 2008 to 2011

A typical NASCAR-specific truck, in this case Mike Skinner ( NASCAR ) | Mike Skinner's 2006 Toyota Tundra

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995

After 2006, FX also no longer broadcast NASCAR, as sister channel Speed Channel became the new cable partner for NASCAR on Fox.

Every January since 2006 at the Lake Placid, New York track, a charity run is held with the US bobsled team and NASCAR drivers to raise money for the sled project.

However, in recent years ESPN2 has broadcast increasingly more mainstream sporting events, including Major League Baseball games, the East-West Shrine Game, much of the 2006 World Baseball Classic, many Major League Soccer and NCAA basketball games, the WNBA, the Arena Football League, and NASCAR Nationwide Series races on Saturday afternoons.

On 17 October 2006, the NSW Parliament passed legislation abolishing the rule against double jeopardy in cases where:

Additionally, Benton claimed in the early 1990s that he would commit suicide at the age of 33 to " mirror " a lifespan opposite that of Jesus Christ ( however, he passed that age in 2000 and did not commit suicide, rebutting in 2006 that these statements had been " asinine remarks " and that " only cowards and losers " choose to kill themselves ).

Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.

US economic engagement under the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement ( HOPE ) Act, passed in December 2006, has boosted apparel exports and investment by providing duty-free access to the US.

A law was passed 11 October 2006 by a unanimous vote with only 138 of 275 representatives present, with the remaining representatives boycotting the vote.

Cannon is the second-longest continuously serving Republican Speaker in history, having been surpassed by fellow Illinoisan Dennis Hastert, who passed him on June 1, 2006.

The controversial Directive on services in the internal market ( aka " Bolkestein Directive ") was then passed in 2006.

Furthermore, the reports states that the military government passed guidelines in February 2006, which formalized Burma's restrictive policies.

On the 31st July, 2006 it was announced at SIGGRAPH that control of the OpenGL specification would be passed to the Khronos group.

In the General Assembly gathering of June 2006, Presbyterian voting Commissioners passed an " authoritative interpretation ", recommended by the Theological Task Force, of the Book of Order ( the church constitution ).

The Government of the Republic of Macedonia enacted a statute of the national holiday in October 2006 and the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia passed a corresponding law at the beginning of 2007.

The debate continues because in November 2006, Michigan voters passed Proposal 2, banning most affirmative action in university admissions.

The bill, which removed most of the changes from the Senate version, passed Congress on March 2, 2006, and was signed into law by President George W. Bush on March 9 and 10, 2006.

In November 2006, the Estonian government passed a law banning the display of Nazi symbols.

In 2006, a new Education Act was passed within Queensland, Australia.

In July 2006, 41 years after the Voting Rights Act passed, renewal of the temporary provisions enjoyed bi-partisan support.

2389 was passed by the House of Representatives in July 2006, but failed after the Senate did not take up the bill.

In 2006, an estimated of oil passed through the strait per day, out of a world total of about moved by tankers.

These included sunitinib ( Sutent ), which was approved for human use by the FDA in January 2006, passed $ 1 bn in annual revenues for Pfizer in 2010.

On June 12, 2006, President Néstor Kirchner brought into force the Defence Law, which had been passed in 1988 as a means to modernize the doctrine of the armed forces and define their role, though successive governments had failed to put it into effect.

No final judgement has been passed yet by the ICJ but the denial of preliminary measures in July 2006 allowed the mills to began functioning.

In 2006, a bond was passed to allow approximately $ 40, 000, 000 worth of construction on the three schools.

Bradley's 42 goals gave Tampa Bay fans optimism for the next season ; it would be a team record until the 2006 – 07 season when Vincent Lecavalier passed it with a career high 52 goals.

During the season 2006 2. 5 million nights have been passed in the department compared to 2. 7 million in 2002 ( source: Committee for Tourism in the Department of Ain, 2006 ).