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]

Teams and Drivers

All teams were New-Zealand registered.

Team No. Driver Rounds
Ascent Motorsport 4 New Zealand Reid Harker All
Post Haste Racing 5 New Zealand Craig Innes 2–3
New Zealand Jamie McNee 4
TS Racing 6 New Zealand Thomas Stokes All
Alex Sherie Racing 8 New Zealand Alex Sherie 1–2
Auckland City Toyota New Zealand Rick Armstrong 3
Denmark Carsten Kahler 4
WKS/Lightingplus - Christchurch 9 United Kingdom Tiffany Chittenden 1–5
Ken Smith Motor Racing 11 New Zealand Ken Smith 1–2
New Zealand Miles Cockram 3–4
West City Motorsport 15 New Zealand Bruce Thomlinson 1–2
New Zealand Jayden Dodge 3, 5–6
66 New Zealand Ash Blewett All
CareVets New Zealand 17 New Zealand Michael Scott All
18 New Zealand Ryan Yardley All
Neil Allport Motorsport 22 New Zealand John Penny All
Jacob Smith Racing 27 New Zealand Jacob Smith All
Paul Kelly Motorsport 90 New Zealand Paul Kelly 1
Quin Motorsport 91 New Zealand Callum Quin All
Lightfoot Motorsport 96 New Zealand Mike Lightfoot 1–3, 5–6
New Zealand Grant Aitken 4
Stealth Motosport 98 New Zealand Jaxon Evans 3–5
Neale Motorsport
Auckland City Toyota 		99 New Zealand Matt Hamilton 1–2, 4–5
New Zealand Marcus Armstrong 3
EC Motorsport 111 New Zealand 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 New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport New Zealand Ash Blewett
R2 8 November New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
R3 New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Callum Quin New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
2 R1 28 November Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Waikato New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport New Zealand Ash Blewett
R2 29 November New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
R3 New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
2016
3 R1 16 January Mike Pero Motorsport Park, Christchurch New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Jayden Dodge New Zealand Michael Scott CareVets New Zealand New Zealand Ash Blewett
R2 17 January New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
R3 New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Marcus Armstrong New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
4 R1 23 January Teretonga Park, Invercargill New Zealand Callum Quin Australia Jaxon Evans New Zealand Callum Quin Quin Motorsport New Zealand Callum Quin
R2 24 January New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ryan Yardley CareVets New Zealand
R3 New Zealand Callum Quin New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Michael Scott CareVets New Zealand
5 R1 13 February Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport New Zealand Ash Blewett
R2 14 February New Zealand Callum Quin New Zealand John Penny Neil Allport Motorsport
R3 New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport
6 R1 26 March Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park, Taupō New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Ryan Yardley New Zealand Ash Blewett West City Motorsport New Zealand Ryan Yardley
R2 27 March New Zealand Taylor Cockerton New Zealand Ryan Yardley CareVets New Zealand
R3 New Zealand Ash Blewett New Zealand Callum Quin New Zealand 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 New Zealand Ash Blewett 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 3 2 1 3 '1' 1 4 DNS 1163
2 New Zealand Callum Quin 2 2 2 3 4 2 5 6 4 1 5 3 2 4 2 8 5 4 1044
3 New Zealand John Penny (M) 3 4 4 2 2 4 3 2 5 2 2 5 3 1 6 7 4 6 1036
4 New Zealand Michael Scott 5 5 3 15† Ret 7 1 7 8 3 8 1 4 5 10 4 6 1 862
5 New Zealand Ryan Yardley (R) 4 7 5 12 Ret 11 8 9 2 9 1 6 6 6 9 2 1 3 832
6 New Zealand Jacob Smith (R) 7 6 7 9 6 15† 4 4 6 Ret 11 9 8 2 3 3 11 2 772
7 New Zealand Reid Harker (R) 5 DNS DNS 5 3 5 6 5 13 5 9 10 7 12 8 6 3 9 646
8 New Zealand Mike Lightfoot (M) 9 9 8 7 5 6 7 17 9 12 Ret 12 11 9 7 512
9 New Zealand Matt Hamilton 6 3 6 4 Ret 3 Ret 7 7 9 11 5 463
10 New Zealand Thomas Stokes (R) 13 13 13 14 Ret 13 9 15 12 Ret 12 11 13 8 13 12 10 11 454
11 New Zealand Jayden Dodge (R) Ret 8 7 12 9 7 5 2 5 352
12 New Zealand Jaxon Evans (R) Ret 10 10 6 4 8 5 10 4 340
13 United Kingdom Tiffany Chittenden (R) 14 14 11 10 9 9 Ret 13 11 Ret Ret Ret 11 7 11 339
14 New Zealand Caleb Cross (R) 11 11 12 6 11† 14 Ret 11 14 243
15 New Zealand Ken Smith (M) 10 8 9 8 10 8 219
16 New Zealand Bruce Thomlinson (M) 12 12 14 13 8 12 173
17 New Zealand Marcus Armstrong 11 3 3 150
18 New Zealand Paul Kelly (M) 8 10 10 7 Ret DNS 141
19 New Zealand Craig Innes 11 7 10 Ret 14 Ret 129
20 New Zealand Taylor Cockerton (R) 9 7 8 117
21 New Zealand Martin Short (R) 10 8 10 105
22 Australia Grant Aitken 8 10 12 103
23 New Zealand Jamie McNee WD 5 4 99
24 New Zealand Rick Armstrong (M) 10 12 Ret 61
25 New Zealand Miles Cockram (R) Ret 16 Ret Ret 13 Ret 46
26 New Zealand Alex Sherie (R) 15 Ret DNS WD DNS WD 22
Guest drivers ineligible for points
Denmark Carsten Kahler 10 14 Ret 0
Pos. Driver PUK HMP RUA TER MAN BRU Points
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

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

References

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