2025–26 Toyota GR86 Championship

2025-26 Toyota GR86 Championship

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The 2025-26 Bridgestone Toyota GR86 Championship is the thirteenth running of the one-make sports car racing series, the second using the newer Toyota GR86 model following its debut in the 2024–25 season. ^[1]

The championship is scheduled to be held in New Zealand over six weekends, starting at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park in October 2025, going through to Taupo International Motorsport Park in April 2026.

Entry list

All drivers compete with identical Toyota GR86 cars on the Bridgestone Potenza RE-71RS tyres. ^[2]

Team No. Driver Status Rounds iMac Engineering 1 Hugo Allan [3] 1–5 Right Karts by M2 Competition 7 Thomas Mallard 2 32 Josh Bethune [4] 1–5 42 Simon Hunter [5] 1–4 43 Cameron Hill [6] 1–5 186 Cooper Barnes [7] 1–5 Mackenzie Motorsport 10 Ajay Giddy [8] 1–5 50 Nathan Grammer 5 73 Harry Townshend [9] 1–5 90 Zach Blincoe [10] 1–5 222 Arthur Broughan [11] 1–5 861 Nieko Scoles R 4 CareVets Racing 22 Lee Zeltwanger [12] R 1–5 James Marshall Motorsport 25 Lucas McGill [13] R 1–5 Action Motorsport 39 Jack Szewczuk 3–4 Syndicate Motorsport 81 Cormac Murphy [14] 1–2 99 Justin Allen [15] 1–5 Neale Motorsport 88 Chris White [16] 1–5 92 Mac Templeton [17] R 1–5

Race calendar

The 2025–26 season takes place across six rounds visiting five circuits across New Zealand ^[18]

Round		Circuit	Date
1	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park	1 November 2025
	R2		2 November 2025
	R3
2	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park	10 January 2026
	R2		11 January 2026
	R3
3	R1	Teretonga Park	24 January 2026
	R2		25 January 2026
	R3
4	R1	Highlands Motorsport Park	31 January 2026
	R2		1 February 2026
	R3
5	R1	Manfeild: Circuit Chris Amon	28 February 2026
	R2		1 March 2026
	R3
6	R1	Taupo International Motorsport Park	10 April 2026
	R2		11 April 2026
R3	12 April 2026

Race results

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park	Chris White	Chris White	Arthur Broughan	Mackenzie Motorsport
	R2			Chris White	Zach Blincoe	Mackenzie Motorsport
	R3		Arthur Broughan	Arthur Broughan	Arthur Broughan	Mackenzie Motorsport
2	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park	Chris White	Ajay Giddy	Josh Bethune	Right Karts by M2 Competition
	R2			Mac Templeton	Cooper Barnes	Right Karts by M2 Competition
	R3		Chris White	Josh Bethune	Chris White	Neale Motorsport
3	R1	Teretonga Park	Ajay Giddy	Ajay Giddy	Chris White	Neale Motorsport
	R2			Zach Blincoe	Justin Allen	Syndicate Motorsport
	R3		Ajay Giddy	Josh Bethune	Chris White	Neale Motorsport
4	R1	Highlands Motorsport Park	Hugo Allan	Hugo Allan	Hugo Allan	iMac Engineering
	R2			Arthur Broughan	Josh Bethune	Right Karts by M2 Competition
	R3		Arthur Broughan	Mac Templeton	Arthur Broughan	Mackenzie Motorsport
5	R1	Manfeild: Circuit Chris Amon	Arthur Broughan	Hugo Allan	Hugo Allan	iMac Engineering
	R2			Lee Zeltwanger	Justin Allen	Syndicate Motorsport
	R3		Ajay Giddy	Arthur Broughan	Hugo Allan	iMac Engineering
6	R1	Taupo International Motorsport Park
	R2
	R3

Championship standings

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver HMP1 HMP2 TER HIG MAN TAU Points R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 1 Chris White 6 5 4 2 3 1 1 6 1 3 5 3 2 9 4 871 2 Zach Blincoe 3 1 5 3 4 5 3 2 5 5 4 7 6 2 6 825 3 Hugo Allan 7 6 2 4 15 7 4 7 3 1 7 4 1 5 1 798 4 Josh Bethune 2 8 3 1 7 3 8 3 13 8 1 6 3 7 7 771 5 Arthur Broughan 1 15 1 7 14 2 15 11 4 2 8 1 4 3 3 766 6 Ajay Giddy 4 4 9 5 2 6 2 5 2 Ret 11 8 8 6 2 708 7 Cooper Barnes 8 2 8 8 1 8 14 8 7 6 3 2 10 8 10 680 8 Lee Zeltwanger 5 3 7 9 8 10 9 10 9 7 2 9 5 4 5 661 9 Justin Allen 13 12 10 10 9 12 5 1 8 4 6 5 7 1 8 651 10 Harry Townshend 10 7 6 6 10 4 13 12 10 14 10 11 9 11 9 528 11 Cameron Hill 11 11 14 13 16 13 10 9 6 13 9 13 12 10 12 447 12 Mac Templeton 14 10 13 12 6 9 6 Ret 15 9 14 12 14 14 11 425 13 Simon Hunter 9 13 12 11 5 11 7 4 14 10 DNS 10 385 14 Lucas McGill 15 14 15 16 13 16 11 DSQ 11 Ret DNS DNS 13 13 14 270 15 Cormac Murphy 12 9 11 14 12 14 170 16 Jack Szewczuk 12 13 12 11 12 15 162 17 Nathan Grammer 11 12 13 84 18 Nieko Scoles 12 13 14 78 19 Thomas Mallard 15 11 15 74 Pos. Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Points HMP1 HMP2 TER HIG MAN TAU

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (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 † — Did not finish, but classified Rookie

References

1. "2025/26 Bridgestone GR86 Championship". Toyota NZ. 20 December 2025. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
2. "GR86 Car". Toyota NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
3. "Hugo Allan". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
4. "Josh Bethune". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
5. "Simon Hunter". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
6. "Cameron Hill". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
7. "Cooper Barnes". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
8. "Ajay Giddy". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
9. "Harry Townshend". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
10. "Zach Blincoe". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
11. "Arthur Boughan". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
12. "Lee Zeltwanger". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
13. "Lucas McGill". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
14. "Cormac Murphy". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
15. "Justin Allen". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
16. "Chris White". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
17. "Mac Templeton". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
18. "2025-26 Calendar". Toyota GAZOO Racing NZ. Retrieved 20 December 2025.