2015–16 Toyota Finance 86 Championship

The 2015–2016 Toyota Finance 86 Championship was the third running of the Toyota Finance 86 Championship. The championship began on 7 November 2015 at Pukekohe Park Raceway and finished on 27 March 2016 at Taupo Motorsport Park after eighteen races held at six meetings.[1]

2015–16 Toyota Finance 86 Championship
Previous: 2014–15 Next: 2016–17

Teams and Drivers

All teams were New-Zealand registered.

Team No. Driver Rounds
Ascent Motorsport 4 Reid Harker All
Post Haste Racing 5 Craig Innes 2–3
Jamie McNee 4
TS Racing 6 Thomas Stokes All
Alex Sherie Racing 8 Alex Sherie 1–2
Auckland City Toyota Rick Armstrong 3
Carsten Kahler 4
WKS/Lightingplus - Christchurch 9 Tiffany Chittenden 1–5
Ken Smith Motor Racing 11 Ken Smith 1–2
Miles Cockram 3–4
West City Motorsport 15 Bruce Thomlinson 1–2
Jayden Dodge 3, 5–6
66 Ash Blewett All
CareVets New Zealand 17 Michael Scott All
18 Ryan Yardley All
Neil Allport Motorsport 22 John Penny All
Jacob Smith Racing 27 Jacob Smith All
Paul Kelly Motorsport 90 Paul Kelly 1
Quin Motorsport 91 Callum Quin All
Lightfoot Motorsport 96 Mike Lightfoot 1–3, 5–6
Grant Aitken 4
Stealth Motosport 98 Jaxon Evans 3–5
Neale Motorsport
Auckland City Toyota		 99 Matt Hamilton 1–2, 4–5
Marcus Armstrong 3
EC Motorsport 111 Caleb Cross 1–3

Race calendar and results

All rounds were held in New Zealand. The round one in Pukekohe Park Raceway was held in support of the V8 Supercars. Rounds 3, 4 and 5 were held with the Toyota Racing Series.[1]

Round Date Circuit Pole position Fastest Lap Winning driver Winning team Round winner(s)
2015
1 R1 7 November Pukekohe Park Raceway, Pukekohe Ash Blewett Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport Ash Blewett
R2 8 November Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
R3 Ash Blewett Callum Quin Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
2 R1 28 November Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Waikato Ash Blewett Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport Ash Blewett
R2 29 November Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
R3 Ash Blewett Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
2016
3 R1 16 January Mike Pero Motorsport Park, Christchurch Ash Blewett Jayden Dodge Michael Scott CareVets New Zealand Ash Blewett
R2 17 January Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
R3 Ash Blewett Marcus Armstrong Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
4 R1 23 January Teretonga Park, Invercargill Callum Quin Jaxon Evans Callum Quin Quin Motorsport Callum Quin
R2 24 January Ash Blewett Ryan Yardley CareVets New Zealand
R3 Callum Quin Ash Blewett Michael Scott CareVets New Zealand
5 R1 13 February Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding Ash Blewett Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport Ash Blewett
R2 14 February Callum Quin John Penny Neil Allport Motorsport
R3 Ash Blewett Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
6 R1 26 March Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park, Taupo Ash Blewett Ryan Yardley Ash Blewett West City Motorsport Ryan Yardley
R2 27 March Taylor Cockerton Ryan Yardley CareVets New Zealand
R3 Ash Blewett Callum Quin Michael Scott CareVets New Zealand

Championship standings

In order for a driver to score championship points, they had to complete at least 75% of the race winner's distance, and be running at the finish. All races counted towards the final championship standings.

Scoring system
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th
Points 75 67 60 54 49 45 42 39 36 33 30 28 26 24 22 20 18
Pos. Driver PUK HMP RUA TER MAN BRU Points
1 Ash Blewett 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 3 2 1 3 '1' 1 4 DNS 1163
2 Callum Quin 2 2 2 3 4 2 5 6 4 1 5 3 2 4 2 8 5 4 1044
3 John Penny (M) 3 4 4 2 2 4 3 2 5 2 2 5 3 1 6 7 4 6 1036
4 Michael Scott 5 5 3 15† Ret 7 1 7 8 3 8 1 4 5 10 4 6 1 862
5 Ryan Yardley (R) 4 7 5 12 Ret 11 8 9 2 9 1 6 6 6 9 2 1 3 832
6 Jacob Smith (R) 7 6 7 9 6 15† 4 4 6 Ret 11 9 8 2 3 3 11 2 772
7 Reid Harker (R) 5 DNS DNS 5 3 5 6 5 13 5 9 10 7 12 8 6 3 9 646
8 Mike Lightfoot (M) 9 9 8 7 5 6 7 17 9 12 Ret 12 11 9 7 512
9 Matt Hamilton 6 3 6 4 Ret 3 Ret 7 7 9 11 5 463
10 Thomas Stokes (R) 13 13 13 14 Ret 13 9 15 12 Ret 12 11 13 8 13 12 10 11 454
11 Jayden Dodge (R) Ret 8 7 12 9 7 5 2 5 352
12 Jaxon Evans (R) Ret 10 10 6 4 8 5 10 4 340
13 Tiffany Chittenden (R) 14 14 11 10 9 9 Ret 13 11 Ret Ret Ret 11 7 11 339
14 Caleb Cross (R) 11 11 12 6 11† 14 Ret 11 14 243
15 Ken Smith (M) 10 8 9 8 10 8 219
16 Bruce Thomlinson (M) 12 12 14 13 8 12 173
17 Marcus Armstrong 11 3 3 150
18 Paul Kelly (M) 8 10 10 7 Ret DNS 141
19 Craig Innes 11 7 10 Ret 14 Ret 129
20 Taylor Cockerton (R) 9 7 8 117
21 Martin Short (R) 10 8 10 105
22 Grant Aitken 8 10 12 103
23 Jamie McNee WD 5 4 99
24 Rick Armstrong (M) 10 12 Ret 61
25 Miles Cockram (R) Ret 16 Ret Ret 13 Ret 46
26 Alex Sherie (R) 15 Ret DNS WD DNS WD 22
Guest drivers ineligible for points
Carsten Kahler 10 14 Ret 0
Pos. Driver PUK HMP RUA TER MAN BRU Points
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap
(M) – Driver aged 40 over
(R) – Rookie

References
  1. "PREMIER RACING CALENDAR UNITES KIWI MOTORSPORT". MotorSport New Zealand. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
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