2025–26 Toyota GR86 Championship

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.

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

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

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park	Chris White Jr.	Chris White Jr.	Arthur Broughan	Mackenzie Motorsport
	R2			Chris White Jr.	Zach Blincoe	Mackenzie Motorsport
	R3		Arthur Broughan	Arthur Broughan	Arthur Broughan	Mackenzie Motorsport
2	R1	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park	Chris White Jr.	Ajay Giddy	Josh Bethune	Right Karts by M2 Competition
	R2			Mac Templeton	Cooper Barnes	Right Karts by M2 Competition
	R3		Chris White Jr.	Josh Bethune	Chris White Jr.	Neale Motorsport
3	R1	Teretonga Park	Ajay Giddy	Ajay Giddy	Chris White Jr.	Neale Motorsport
	R2			Zach Blincoe	Justin Allen	Syndicate Motorsport
	R3		Ajay Giddy	Josh Bethune	Chris White Jr.	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
	R2
	R3
6	R1	Taupo International Motorsport Park
	R2
	R3

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 Jr. 6 5 4 2 3 1 350 2 Zach Blincoe 3 1 5 3 4 5 347 3 Josh Bethune 2 8 3 1 7 3 343 4 Ajay Giddy 4 4 9 5 2 6 305 5 Arthur Broughan 1 15 1 7 14 2 305 6 Cooper Barnes 8 2 8 8 1 8 298 7 Hugo Allan 7 6 2 4 15 7 272 8 Lee Zeltwanger 5 3 7 9 8 10 259 9 Harry Townshend 10 7 6 6 10 4 252 10 Simon Hunter 9 13 12 11 5 11 199 11 Mac Templeton 14 10 13 12 6 9 192 12 Justin Allen 13 12 10 10 9 12 184 13 Cormac Murphy 12 9 11 14 12 14 170 14 Cameron Hill 11 11 14 13 16 13 156 15 Lucas McGill 15 14 15 16 13 16 134 16 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