Augusto Farfus and Alfa Romeo collected their trophies for claiming third place in Drivers' and Manufacturers' cups respectively in the 2006 FIA World Touring Car Championship, during the traditional Macau Grand Prix party at the Macau Fishermen's Wharf. Andy Priaulx’s championship-winning BMW 320si was exhibited on the stage.

After a spectacular film that included highlights of the season, KSO president Jacques Behar delivered a brief speech. The awarding of the trophies followed immediately, starting with the Yokohama Trophies. Tom Coronel (GR Asia), Luca Rangoni (Proteam Motorsport) and Stefano D'Aste (Proteam Motorsport) filled the Independents' podium, while Teams' trophies were awarded to GR Asia (represented by team principal Tim Huxley), Proteam Motorsport (represented by team manager Samuel Francalanci) and JAS Motorsport (represented by team principal Alessandro Mariani).
 

The ceremony culminated with the Manufacturers' Championship – BMW (represented by BMW Motorsport director Mario Theissen), SEAT (represented by SEAT Sport director Jaime Puig) and Alfa Romeo (represented by N.technology director Mauro Sipsz) – and the Drivers' Championship podiums – Andy Priaulx (BMW Team UK), Jörg Müller (BMW Team Germany) and Augusto Farfus (N.technology). The soirée came to an end with spectacular fireworks. The 2006 FIA World Touring Car Championship is placed in the archives with the same winner as for 2005: Andy Priaulx as Drivers’ champion. However the season was extremely exciting and only the chequered flag at the end of the second and final race in Macau sanctioned Priaulx’s second world title.

The 2006 FIA World Touring Car Championship season involved fifty drivers coming from seventeen different countries and three continents, at the wheel of cars built by seven different manufacturers, with an average participation of 27.5 cars per event. Eleven drivers managed to win at least one of the 20 races, with only three of them being capable of winning more than one (Priaulx 5, Jörg Müller 4, Augusto Farfus 3); 16 drivers led at least one lap during the season, 20 achieved podium results and 23 scored championship points.

Priaulx emerged as the most effective driver, topping the statistics for race victories (5), pole positions (3, like Rickard Rydell; while Gabriele Tarquini and Jordi Gené took 2 apiece) and laps led (65, or 25.7 pct of the 253 laps run during the whole season; J. Müller and Farfus led 45 and 39 respectively). The 20 fastest laps during the races were clocked by 14 different drivers; only Farfus, Tarquini, Alain Menu, Gené and Yvan Muller though set more than one fastest lap during the season. Only two drivers were given drive through penalties: Yvan Muller and Jordi Gené, both due to jump starts. 16 drivers were dropped 10 grid positions due to engine changes or incidents; Luca Rangoni had the dubious honour to top this list having been dropped 30 positions.