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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.[1]

Teams and Drivers edit

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 edit

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, 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 edit

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

References edit

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

External links edit

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