2015–16 Toyota Finance 86 Championship

2015–16 Toyota Finance 86 Championship season
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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

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 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 Miles Cockram 3–4 West City Motorsport 15 Bruce Thomlinson 1–2 Jayden Dodge 3 66 Ash Blewett 1–4 CareVets New Zealand 17 Michael Scott 1–4 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 Grant Aitken 4 Stealth Motosport 98 Jaxon Evans 3–4 Neale Motorsport Auckland City Toyota 99 Matt Hamilton 1–2, 4 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 R2 27 March R3 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 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 participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap (M) – Driver aged 40 over (R) – Rookie References "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