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.

Race calendar Round Circuit Date Map 1 R1 Pukekohe Park Raceway(Pukekohe, Auckland Region) 7 November 2015 R2 8 November 2015 R3 2 R1 Hampton Downs Motorsport Park(Hampton Downs, North Waikato) 28 November 2015 R2 29 November 2015 R3 3 R1 Mike Pero Motorsport Park(Christchurch, Canterbury Region) 16 January 2016 R2 17 January 2016 R3 4 R1 Teretonga Park(Invercargill, Southland Region) 23 January 2016 R2 24 January 2016 R3 5 R1 Manfeild Autocourse(Feilding, Manawatū District) 13 February 2016 R2 14 February 2016 R3 6 R1 Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park(Taupō, Waikato) 26 March 2016 R2 27 March 2016 R3

Teams and drivers All teams were New-Zealand registered. Team 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 MotorsportAuckland City Toyota 99 Matt Hamilton 1–2, 4–5 Marcus Armstrong 3 EC Motorsport 111 Caleb Cross 1–3

Results and standings Season summary 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 Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team 2015 1 R1 Pukekohe Park Raceway Ash Blewett Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport Ash Blewett R2 Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport R3 Ash Blewett Callum Quin Ash Blewett West City Motorsport 2 R1 Hampton Downs Motorsport Park Ash Blewett Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport Ash Blewett R2 Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport R3 Ash Blewett Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport 2016 3 R1 Mike Pero Motorsport Park Ash Blewett Jayden Dodge Michael Scott CareVets New Zealand Ash Blewett R2 Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport R3 Ash Blewett Marcus Armstrong Ash Blewett West City Motorsport 4 R1 Teretonga Park Callum Quin Jaxon Evans Callum Quin Quin Motorsport Callum Quin R2 Ash Blewett Ryan Yardley CareVets New Zealand R3 Callum Quin Ash Blewett Michael Scott CareVets New Zealand 5 R1 Manfeild Autocourse Ash Blewett Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport Ash Blewett R2 Callum Quin John Penny Neil Allport Motorsport R3 Ash Blewett Ash Blewett Ash Blewett West City Motorsport 6 R1 Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park Ash Blewett Ryan Yardley Ash Blewett West City Motorsport Ryan Yardley R2 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

Driver PUK HAM RUA TER MAN TAU Pts R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 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 Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Pts PUK HAM RUA TER MAN TAUBold – PoleItalics – Fastest Lap(M) – Driver aged 40 over(R) – Rookie

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