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2025 Racetreads.com GT Radial 86Cup Rd. 2 – Chuckwalla CCW – Event Results

Round 2 was a fun day with absolutely fantastic weather! It was definitely a nice break from the bipolar weather SoCal has been seeing recently, especially with the rain last week.

The 86Cup community fire is burning bright only two rounds in as we had 20+ drivers join us for both rounds so far! For this particular round, we had 27 drivers after everything was said and done.

STOCK Class

It seems we have a return to form for Luke Daley. Two rounds in and two wins/records broken! What a feat. Luke lays down a blistering fast 2:07.074(* after time penalty assessed) in his 2024 Subaru BRZ to take home the top prize for Round 2 at Chuckwalla

Chasing after him is last year’s Stock class champion, Sean Irwin. Who comes home nearly a second behind to take second place.

Lastly for this class, we have Harry Galbraith in a 2019 Toyota 86. As we mentioned in the last round’s writeup, we’ve been seeing Harry move up and up the timecharts over the years and it’s awesome to see him grab another podium here. Nicely done!

STREET Class

Ethan Lawrie claims another victory this round but also claims a record for Street Class. We saw the speed developing last year when he joined us briefly and we’re keeping the magnifying glass close on him this year!

86Cup veteran Brian Guan joins us for this round. Brian rocked a 2:04.824 at the end of Saturday’s adventures.

Speaking of developing speed, Bobby Tisher comes home with another podium as well. It’s been great to see Bobby rise over the years through his participation with 86Cup. That’s ultimately what this community is all about!

MODIFIED Class

Still the loneliest class in 86Cup it seems…

BUT, we had Garrett Wilson join us for Chuckwalla festivities.

Despite the record breaking lap times, lengthy class lists, etc. at the end of the day we’re in it for the fun and the community and that’s what’s ultimately important. Hope you can join us for more rounds Garrett, and don’t be scared, we’re friendly!

UNLIMITED Class

In Unlimited class we had the usual suspects but also some new faces! Both literally and figuratively.

Jonathan Geisinger takes home the final podium spot for Round 2, just getting oh so close to the magical sub-2 at Chuckwalla.

No stranger to 86Cup but making the jump to Unlimited finally, we have Jeff Flogerzi taking home second by laying down a 1:59.349 in his first gen.

And with the top spot, 86Cup’s resident fast man at the top, we have Jared Ramirez taking home pole with a 1:57.542 for the class. This man is on a rocket ship and he is not to be threatened with!

EXHIBITION Class

Last, but certainly not least, we have our sponsor, CounterSpace Garage in their 2022 Toyota GR86 shop car for Exhibition class sporting some new mods for to test out. Looks like things panned out for them as they bring home a 1:56.410 for the day.

Event results will be posted shortly to our website. Points standings will be updated soon, we’re currently just figuring out the best way to display them to you all!

Next up is Round 3 where we FINALLY get to tackle “The Circuit” at Buttonwillow! We’ll be there Saturday, April 26th with Speed Ventures. Event poster flyer and details to come tomorrow.

Reminder we also have our 2024 Awards Ceremony coming up on Sunday, March 30th at the K1 Circuit in Winchester. We hope you all can make it out! Even if you’re not driving the karts, or won an award last year, or even drove with us last year, we hope you can come on through and just hang!

Also coming up at the end of this month is the final days for contingency forms with Racetreads/GT Radial. The deadline is March 31st. Do not wait, do it NOW before you forget!

Thank you all for coming out to Round 2!

86Cup Admin Announcements

2025 Racetreads.com GT Radial 86Cup Tire Contingency and Championship Prize Programs

86Cup’s tire contingency program and championship cash prizes have returned for 2025 with a new look!

Race Treads (Racetreads.com) will be organizing the GT Radial Tire Contingency Redemption and Championship Prizes for 2025.

If you’re participating in GT Radial Stock or GT Radial Street Class you have the chance to take home up to a $1000 prize for earning the top spot at the end of the year!

For those looking to participate in the GT Radial Tire Contingency Program, for every ten (10) championship points earned on GT Radials, you are eligible for one (1) free tire. There is a maximum redemption of eight (8) tires for the 2025 season.

Race Treads can only assure the sizes of SX2 tires in 215/45R17, 225/45R17, or 245/40R17 at any given time but any SX2, SX2 RS or HPY qualify for contingency claims.

Requirements that span across both programs:
– Fender, quarter panel and windshield decals will need to be run at every event for those registered in the programs. All decals will be provided at no cost to competitors. Specific guidelines in the graphics below.

– Purchase GT Radial SX2 or SX2 RS tires exclusively through Racetreads.com after February 15th, 2025. GT Radial tires that are previous 86Cup redemptions or were purchased before the aforementioned date but after January 1st, 2023 are still eligible to be used for competition for the 2025 season. Proof of purchase will be required.

– Compete EXCLUSIVELY on GT Radial SX2 or SX2 RS tires for events in the 2025 Racetreads.com 86Cup region and class that you registered for.

It is imperative that you have reviewed all of the details shown in the photos below for the complete details on 2025 programs from Race Treads/GT Radial.

Registration for any and all programs is due by March 31st, 2025. You must submit THIS form to the organizers by this deadline in order to be accepted.


***SPECIAL NOTE***
For any competitors looking to claim tires for the 2024 season tire contingency, please continue to reach out to the established points of contact for previous seasons, thank you.

86Cup Admin Announcements

2025 Racetreads.com GT Radial 86Cup – Round 2 – Chuckwalla Valley Raceway CCW

Round 2 of the 2025 Racetreads GT Radial 86Cup takes us to the desert to visit Chuckwalla Valley Raceway on Saturday, March 15th.

Registration for the track day portion will be via Speed Ventures. The 86Cup Driver Registration Form for this round will open a week before the event.

Cabins are sold out for this weekend so either bunk up with someone who has one or look to amenities in the nearby area.

We don’t get to go out to Chuckwalla too often in the year so now’s the time to get some practice for the later rounds here, even if we’re going the opposite direction.

See you out there!

86Cup Admin 2025 Event Results

2025 Racetreads.com GT Radial 86Cup Rd. 1 – Big Willow – Event Results

Howdy folks, the time has come! We shook off the rust and dust off our builds and ourselves for a lovely day out at Willow Springs International Raceway for Round 1 of our 2025 season.

As some of you are aware, this may be one of the last times we get to play out here, at least for this “cheap” so who knows what the future holds.

Anyways…

With new stickers provided by our awesome sponsors Racetreads and GT Radial, and the power of friendship to help install our new windshield vinyls, we were off to the races! Even more so for a few of you as we had some course records already broken in the first event. C’mon guys, we JUST updated the website and records tab haha!

STOCK Class

Stock class saw a true return to form with Luke Daley taking the helm and breaking the previous FA24 Stock Class lap record held by Matt Woolsey. Luke’s unadjusted time of 1:35.409 will be inputted into the record books shortly!

After that, Luke was chased by some first gen cars surprisingly considering that Big Willow is most definitely a power track. William Chen comes home with a 1:37.874 in his 2015 Scion FR-S after some unfortunate mechanical troubles later in the day. Arguably the only person who could really put a stop to Luke’s reign with his new FA24 platform.

In third we have Harry Galbraith take the final podium spot with a 1:38.892 in his 2019 Toyota 86. It’s nice to see Harry move up the timing charts event after event we see him at.

STREET Class

It seems that 86Cup is for the streets as Street class is a party once again. A lot of familiar faces from the last couple of seasons join us in the fray, along with some new ones joining 86Cup entirely or downgrading/upgrading their 86Cup build.

Ethan Lawrie channeling the power of Takumi in his Trueno edition GR86 comes home with a 1:34.818. Previously in mod class, he figured he’d join the shenanigans in the lower tiers. He takes home the win for this first round.

Phuoc Hai Tran in his 2014 Scion FR-S comes nipping at his heels with a 1:35.017, he’s arguably a longtime veteran of this particular class. If you ever need a ridealong or some advice definitely seek him out at a future round!

Lastly, we have Bobby Tisher starting off the season strong claiming the last spot on the steps with a 1:35.321 besting Cody by over half a second. Is this the year we finally see Bobby take home a clearly metaphorical first place award at the end of an event? Only time will tell!

We’d also like to welcome Carlos Ruiz to the fold with his Neptune Blue GR86, who was extremely eager to join our ranks. Welcome Carlos!

MODIFIED Class

(*crickets*……..tumbleweed blows across the mini-straight inbetween turns 8 and 9 at Big Willow……..)

UNLIMITED Class

Luke wasn’t the only person to break a course record during this event, we also had Jared Ramirez besting the previous Unlimited class record in his FA24 rocket with a time of 1:29.501.

Another newcomer, Joseph Alfonso comes onboard with his 2023 Toyota GR86 flying fast in the Unlimited class. He set down a 1:31.146 for this particular round which is definitely not something to shake a stick at.

Jonathan Geisinger comes out of his offseason nap to come play with us at Big Willow. On Nankang CR-S, he nailed a 1:33.245 for the day after all was said and done.

Lastly, we had another new face in Tim Chan come out to party with us in his first gen BRZ. It’s always interesting seeing the first gen cars in the Unlimited class. We hope to see you at more events as the year unfolds!

EXHIBITION Class
Something (not entirely but sorta) new to 86Cup is the exhibition class for this year. For those, especially (prospective) sponsors/shops/teams/etc. with FT86 cars that want to come out and play but don’t want to upset the championship dogfights, we invite you to take on the Exhibition class!

For this particular round, we had the CounterSpace Garage team take their shop 2022 GR86 and hand it to their notorious tame racing driver, who laid down a 1:29.061.

Despite having a full face helmet and a closed visor, we somehow interpreted that this tame racing driver did mention that this car could go much faster than the posted times. We wish them luck in their pursuit of squeezing even more speed out of the FT86 platform.

And with that, that wraps up Round 1!

How do you guys like the new graphic? How are you guys liking the new website so far? These event results will be posted their shortly and a new points standings will be shown as well at a later date.


Some other news while we have you all here…

Our 2024 Awards Ceremony has been scheduled for Sunday, March 30th at 2:15pm at K1 Circuit in Winchester, CA. If you’d like to go, please check out the “Schedule” tab for the event and it’s details.

If you can’t make it out to this event and you were a podium class finisher last year, let us know! We’ll be sure to accept the award on your behalf and bring it out to the next round you’ll be at.

There will be some information in the next couple of days/weeks on what exactly the 2025 contingency for Racetreads/GT Radial entails. There are obviously the vinyl stickers, and then some finer details.

CSG should be finalizing their 2025 details as well for their contingencies shortly.

For Round 2, we head to Chuckwalla CCW! We don’t get to do Chuck that often and it’s a long drive for most, except for you SD/Temecula/San Bernardino area folk so we hope you can make it out! Cabins are sold out for the weekend so best to look elsewhere or find someone to bunk with that got some quick thinking!

See you all then!

86Cup Admin Announcements

Hello World!

It’s been a long time coming, but the 86Cup admins have finally gotten around to updating our website! (You gotta remember, we’re racers/industry folks too and we’re all doing this pro bono)

That all being said, everything you see here while you’re probably reading this is still a work in progress for the time being.

We felt the site as it currently sits is a good enough foundation to finally show it off and to help keep 86Cup running where it needs to be in the pack for now but we’ll definitely look to add more features and pages as time goes on! As always, we are open to any and all suggestions coming from you folks.

For now, just sit back, relax and enjoy the upcoming season of 86Cup. With the growing pain of a stagnant website of yesteryear finally giving us the point-by of freedom on this flyer we’re on, we hope this new year is bigger and better than ever before!

‘Til then, we hope you’re getting your cars ready and prepped to tackle on the new season. Our first round is at the end of this month on February 22nd at Big Willow! And while you’re at it, check out our sponsors Racetreads.com, CounterSpace Garage, and OS Giken! They might know a thing or two about getting you what you need 😉

See ya out there!

-86Cup Admins