Contents

• Entry list
• Race calendar
• Race results
• Championship standings
• Drivers' championship
• References

The 2025-26 Toyota GR86 Championship (known for commercial reasons as the 2026 Bridgestone GR86 Championship New Zealand) was the thirteenth running of the one-make sports car racing series and the second using the newer Toyota GR86 model following its debut in the 2024–25 season. ^[1] The championship was 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.

The championship was won by Chris White while rookie of the year honours went to Lee Zeltwanger.

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] All Right Karts by M2 Competition 7 Thomas Mallard 2 32 Josh Bethune [4] All 42 Simon Hunter [5] 1–4 43 Cameron Hill [6] All 186 Cooper Barnes [7] All Mackenzie Motorsport 10 Ajay Giddy [8] All 50 Nathan Grammer R 5–6 73 Harry Townshend [9] All 90 Zach Blincoe [10] All 222 Arthur Broughan [11] All 861 Nieko Scoles R 4 Action Motorsport 18 Conley Webley R 6 39 Jack Szewczuk 3–4 CareVets Racing 22 Lee Zeltwanger [12] R All James Marshall Motorsport 25 Lucas McGill [13] R All SkunkWorks Racing 63 Cooper Cooley R 6 Syndicate Motorsport 81 Cormac Murphy [14] 1–2 99 Justin Allen [15] All Neale Motorsport 88 Chris White [16] All 92 Mac Templeton [17] R All

Race calendar

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

Round		Circuit	Date	Map
1	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park	1 November 2025	Taupo Hampton Downs Highlands Manfeild Teretonga
	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

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	Hugo Allan	Ajay Giddy	Hugo Allan	iMac Engineering
	R2			Ajay Giddy	Cameron Hill	Right Karts by M2 Competition

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 1 Chris White 6 5 4 2 3 1 1 6 1 3 5 3 2 9 4 7 2 871 2 Zach Blincoe 3 1 5 3 4 5 3 2 5 5 4 7 6 2 6 3 5 825 3 Hugo Allan 7 6 2 4 15 7 4 7 3 1 7 4 1 5 1 1 7 798 4 Josh Bethune 2 8 3 1 7 3 8 3 13 8 1 6 3 7 7 5 4 771 5 Arthur Broughan 1 15 1 7 14 2 15 11 4 2 8 1 4 3 3 4 8 766 6 Ajay Giddy 4 4 9 5 2 6 2 5 2 Ret 11 8 8 6 2 2 6 708 7 Cooper Barnes 8 2 8 8 1 8 14 8 7 6 3 2 10 8 10 6 3 680 8 Lee Zeltwanger 5 3 7 9 8 10 9 10 9 7 2 9 5 4 5 DSQ 11 661 9 Justin Allen 13 12 10 10 9 12 5 1 8 4 6 5 7 1 8 9 Ret 651 10 Harry Townshend 10 7 6 6 10 4 13 12 10 14 10 11 9 11 9 10 9 528 11 Cameron Hill 11 11 14 13 16 13 10 9 6 13 9 13 12 10 12 8 1 447 12 Mac Templeton 14 10 13 12 6 9 6 Ret 15 9 14 12 14 14 11 13 10 425 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 11 13 270 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 14 14 84 18 Nieko Scoles 12 13 14 78 19 Thomas Mallard 15 11 15 74 Cooper Cooley 12 12 Conley Webley 15 15 Pos. Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 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