2015–16 Toyota Finance 86 Championship season

2015–16 Toyota Finance 86 Championship season
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The 2015–2016 Toyota Finance 86 Championship is the third running of the Toyota Finance 86 Championship. The championship will begin on 7 November 2015 at Pukekohe Park Raceway and will finish on 27 March 2016 at Taupo Motorsport Park after eighteen races held at six meetings.^[1]

Teams and Drivers

All teams were New-Zealand registered.

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Ascent Motorsport	4	Reid Harker	1-4
Post Haste Racing	5	Craig Innes	2-3
Post Haste Racing	5	Jamie McNee	4
TS Racing	6	Thomas Stokes	1-4
Alex Sherie Racing	8	Alex Sherie	1-2
Auckland City Toyota		Rick Armstrong	3
		Carsten Kahler	4
WKS/Lightingplus - Christchurch	9	Tiffany Chittenden	1-4
Ken Smith Motor Racing	11	Ken Smith	1-2
Ken Smith Motor Racing	11	Miles Cockram	3–4
West City Motorsport	15	Bruce Thomlinson	1-2
	15	Jayden Dodge	3
	66	Ash Blewett	1-4
CareVets New Zealand	17	Michael Scott	1-4
CareVets New Zealand	18	Ryan Yardley	1-4
Neil Allport Motorsport	22	John Penny	1-4
Jacob Smith Racing	27	Jacob Smith	1-4
Paul Kelly Motorsport	90	Paul Kelly	1
Quin Motorsport	91	Callum Quin	1-4
Lightfoot Motorsport	96	Mike Lightfoot	3
Lightfoot Motorsport	96	Grant Aitken	4
Stealth Motosport	98	Jaxon Evans	3–4
Neale Motorsport Auckland City Toyota	99	Matt Hamilton	1-2, 4
Neale Motorsport Auckland City Toyota	99	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	8 November		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	29 November		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	17 January		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	24 January		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	14 February		Ash Blewett	Ash Blewett	Ash Blewett	West City Motorsport
6	R1	26 March	Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park, Taupo
	R2	27 March
	R3	27 March

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			848
2	Callum Quin	2	2	2	3	4	2	5	6	4	1	5	3			715
3	John Penny (M)	3	4	4	2	2	4	3	2	5	2	2	5			714
4	Michael Scott	5	5	3	15†	Ret	7	1	7	8	3	8	1			552
5	Ryan Yardley (R)	4	7	5	12	Ret	11	8	9	2	9	1	6			504
6	Jacob Smith (R)	7	6	7	9	6	15†	4	4	6	Ret	11	9			451
7	Reid Harker (R)	5	DNS	DNS	5	3	5	6	5	13	5	9	10			396
8	Matt Hamilton	6	3	6	4	Ret	3				Ret	7	7			348
9	Mike Lightfoot (M)	9	9	8	7	5	6	7	17	9						343
10	Thomas Stokes (R)	13	13	13	14	Ret	13	9	15	12	Ret	12	11			272
11	Caleb Cross (R)	11	11	12	6	11†	14	Ret	11	14						243
12	Tiffany Chittenden (R)	14	14	11	10	9	9	Ret	13	11	Ret	Ret	Ret			237
13	Ken Smith (M)	10	8	9	8	10	8									219
14	Jaxon Evans (R)							Ret	10	10	6	4	8			204
15	Bruce Thomlinson (M)	12	12	14	13	8	12									173
16	Marcus Armstrong							11	3	3						150
17	Paul Kelly (M)	8	10	10							7	Ret	DNS			141
18	Craig Innes				11	7	10	Ret	14	Ret						129
19	Grant Aitken										8	10	12			103
20	Jamie McNee										WD	5	4			99
21	Jayden Dodge (R)							Ret	8	7						81
22	Rick Armstrong (M)							10	12	Ret						61
23	Miles Cockram (R)							Ret	16	Ret	Ret	13	Ret			46
24	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

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
Blank	Excluded (EX)

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

References

1 2 "PREMIER RACING CALENDAR UNITES KIWI MOTORSPORT". MotorSport New Zealand. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.

External links

Official website of the Toyota Finance 86 Championship

Toyota Racing Series / Toyota Finance 86 Championship

Toyota Racing Series	2005 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

New Zealand Grand Prix at TRS	2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Toyota Finance 86 Championship	2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

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