2015–16 Toyota Finance 86 Championship

2015–16 Toyota Finance 86 Championship

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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.

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.

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, Taupō	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

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

External links

• Official website of the Toyota Finance 86 Championship