Round 6 at Buttonwillow Raceway on the “Classic” track has been moved to September 13th, which is a SUNDAY!!
We were given the opportunity to do a relatively unused configuration so we are taking the chance to do it! We will be doing the 1A CCW configuration (yes the A is not a typo).
Plus side is that there should also be relatively less traffic to weave through on Sunday compared to the original Saturday date for this round.
Registration is now open for that weekend so if you still want to do 13CW on Sat, by all means get that extra secret seat time in to prepare for Sunday after our long summer break! It just won’t be an 86Cup round anymore and therefore count towards the schedule/points/championship/etc.
Our website has been updated to reflect everything and NorCal 86 Challenge will still be joining us so come out and throwdown!
Bittersweet for the 86Cup gang as this is our last event before a lengthy but well-deserved summer break! We had a bunch of folks experience Laguna Seca for the first time and a few veterans pop in to tackle their former personal bests.
Sadly, we had no folks in Unlimited class. It seems all of them were playing a bit further up north getting out of the 86Cup kiddie pool. Nonetheless there were some fierce battles between everyone who showed up!
So many upsets and PBs hit in 86Cup Competition Session 3 that the admins basically wanted to chuck their laptop across the garage! We’re kidding, we actually love to see this, but it just means you could go faster in the colder morning sessions.
Round 5 Class Winners are as follows:
Stock – Sean Irwin Street – Adam Johnston Modified – Bobby Tisher Unlimited – 😦
Bobby claims another $100 from the folks at OS Giken for being the fastest Modified class lap of the day. Both Bobby and Joseph have now won this award twice. Who’s going to be the first to get it three times this year?? Only time will tell.
Thank you all who came out to Laguna Seca with us. We hope you had fun! Enjoy some rest during your summer break but also get those cars prepped, the heat will surely crank up competition wise in the latter half of the year.
We may get together for a bbq/party over the break but we also hope you can join us at the K1 Circuit later this month for our 2025 awards celebration! It doesn’t matter if you won an award or even participated in 2025, it is open to anyone who wants to attend. DM us if you’re interested.
Thank you to Maxxis Tires for their support in presenting the series and providing the awesome tires for our competitors to smash through their personal bests. Thank you to CounterSpace Garage for the technical support but also the CSG Spec brake pads that won every single class this 86Cup round. Lastly, thank you OS Giken for providing for the Fastest Lap of the Day award and support of the series as well.
With all of that, have a nice summer! See you in September!
After a couple of roadtrip events, the 86Cup community had a small homecoming for Round 4. Making way to some action at Willow Springs International Raceway before it goes through a “reimagining” and the potential to never run the classic, one-way CW layout ever again going into turn 8 at over 115 mph.
Despite the heat, and the anxiety of the high risk of “Big Willow”, we still had a great showing for Round 4. Though it seems all of the 86Cup partygoers were partying it up in Stock class. Which is totally fine, as it’s arguably our favorite class! (sorry Street/Mod/Unlimited)
Round 4 Class Winners are as follows: Stock – Sean Irwin Street – Phuoc Hai Tran Modified – Joseph Alfonso Unlimited – Stephen Ellis
Joseph is the first person this year to win the OS Giken $100 Modified class fastest lap award twice this year. We’re sure he’ll be racking up a few more given that he had the 2nd fastest lap out of all of the 86Cup competitors during the competition sessions.
With that, we are nearing ever closer to our well-deserved summer break! We do have one last round to squeeze in and it’s a good one! Round 5 will take place at Laguna Seca Raceway on Saturday, May 30th. Live out your video game dreams of sending it through the corkscrew (hopefully on track). At the time of this post, Saturday is already supposedly sold out so join the waitlist if you haven’t yet and hope to get in! If you do join the waitlist with Speed Ventures, be sure to state that you’re an 86Cup competitor.
Thank you again to our sponsor Maxxis Tires for allowing us to present this series to you all. CounterSpace Garage for their parts support but also helping the community go faster with their vast knowledge of the 86/BRZ platform. And lastly a thank you to OS Giken for allowing us to provide the 86Cup “Fastest Lap” challenge prize to you all. This season has ramped up rather quickly and we couldn’t do it without them or you all in the community wanting such!
We’ll see you in Monterey in just a few weeks, but if not, we’ll see you after the summer break!
P.S. Speaking of summer break, we’re aware we still need to wrap up 2025 properly so look for some news soon on an Awards party/gathering soon for you all to properly close out that awesome year with us!
Round 4 of the 2026 86Cup presented by Maxxis Tires
After the last two “roadtrip” events, the 86Cup crew is heading back a little bit closer to home.
Round 4 sees us at Willow Springs International Raceway circuit aka “Big Willow” on Saturday, May 2nd.
Big Willow will be undergoing a “reimagining” relatively soon so this is your last chance to refresh some old PBs before we see some massive changes coming to the oldest permanent road course in America.
High stakes with high rewards for Round 3 as the 86Cup gang traveled out to Sin City to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Outside Road Course.
You guys came out in full force which was awesome to see! We were also joined by a lot of new friends and some Vegas locals. We welcome you all, and hope you had a ton of fun playing with us in the Vegas heat. Perhaps you’ll join us for some CA events but if not, we hope to see you as soon as next year!
Round 3 Class Winners are as follows: Stock – Ryan Robinson Street – Eric Robi Modified – Will Wattanawongkiri Unlimited – Jared Ramirez
Bobby Tisher claims the OS Giken $100 Modified class fastest lap bounty for Round 3! If we never see Bobby again, then he definitely took that $100 after Lotus of Siam and gambled it away to win big…
Round 4 is up next and coming QUICK! Round 4 will take place at Willow Springs International Raceway (aka Big Willow). If you’ve never been to Big Willow, or even if you have, this is probably one of your last chances to drive the track in its current configuration as the track will undergo a “reimaging” in the near future. Hopefully this leads to new layouts!
As always, a massive thank you to our sponsors Maxxis Tires, CounterSpace Garage, and OS Giken for supporting the series and allowing us to support roadtrip events such as this outside of California. Hopefully we’ll be able to venture out to farther events some day. We want to also give a massive thank you to Speed Ventures for hosting us and putting up with our shenanigans as always. We wouldn’t want it any other way for our track organizer
We hope to see you all at Round 4 at Big Willow, but if not, we’ll catch up soon!
Drivers faced near triple digit temperatures all day long even BEFORE the HPDE registration tables opened at 6:45am. Despite that, we still had double digit attendance which is awesome to see!
The Gen 1 FA20 gang asserted their dominance this weekend taking half the 86Cup class wins, super exciting to see. And both winners in a Gen 1 did such despite battling car issues that took them out for a portion or even the rest of the day.
Round 2 Class Winners are as follows: Stock – Ryan Ching Street – Brian Guan Modified – Joseph Alfonso Unlimited – Stephen Ellis
Joseph is also the first participant this year to claim the OS Giken $100 bounty for the fastest (Modified class) lap time of the day! So he’ll be getting a crispy $100 bill to use towards Vegas…however he sees fit
Speaking of Vegas, Round 3 takes place Saturday 4/18 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Outside Road Course (try saying that ten times real fast)! Registration for the track day portion is up and 86Cup already has double digit participants which is exciting! Sounds like we’ll have some folks from the greater Southwest join us and hope you can too!
Until then thank you to our sponsors Maxxis Tires, CounterSpace Garage and OS Giken for their support and allowing us to continue this series. And thank you to Speed Ventures for hosting a tightly organized day despite the heat. Hope to see everyone real soon!
The time is finally here! We apologize for the long wait but your 86CUP and Maxxis tire contingency and championship prize details for 2026 have been finalized!
Maxxis joins as the title sponsor for the North American 86CUP time attack series for 2026! Maxxis will provide Maxxis RC-1, VR-1 or VR2 tires as part of their 2026 86CUP Tire Contingency and the 2026 86CUP Championship Podium Prizes.
Maxxis Tires and the 86CUP will provide a discount code to registered 86CUP participants to purchase Maxxis RC-1, VR-1 or VR2 tire products ONLY.
ALL 86CUP competition classes are eligible for the Maxxis Championship Prizes and Maxxis 86CUP Tire Contingency.
For full details please head to over to the contingencies and sponsors tab under “Driver Resources” on our website at https://86cup.us/sponsors/ for full details.
We’re excited for you all to earn some Maxxis tires out there on track!
With this we are ready to truly get the season in full swing.
Round 1 came and went super quick and we’re already almost at March if you can believe it!
Round 2 of the 2026 86Cup presented by Maxxis Tires, sees us head east out into the center of the desert. Desert Center that is, and visit Chuckwalla Valley Raceway on Saturday, March 14th.
This 2.68 mile track may not seem like much on paper but when you’re out there, you’ll find that this track rewards those that are brave enough to really keep their average speed up and utilize the berms to their advantage.
However you don’t want to stay too glued to those berms for too long as the runoff at the edge of the track is usually a steep descent leading to bent wheels and busted subframes, if not worse.
Registration appears to be waitlisted as of this announcement but if you want to join the waitlist, do so ASAP and be sure to put down “86Cup competitor”. Speed Ventures will do what they can to squeeze in as many competition folks as possible at the last second.
As of writing this announcement, there are 17 folks signed up for 86Cup which is awesome to see!
Cabins at Chuckwalla have been sold out for this weekend for months, so best to look elsewhere in the locale for your lodging needs. Otherwise camping is a great way to wake up close to the track! It might be kind of chilly however…
The 86Cup driver registration form link will be up on our home page here about a week before the event. So be sure to fill that out so your times can count and you can potentially get award(s) at the end of it all!
We hope to see you all at Round 2! But if not, hopefully you all can make it out to Sin City with us in April. See ya when we see ya!
Drivers faced a new layout change with the Turn 9B chicane bypass and longer skidpad. General consensus was that it was something different and therefore somewhat exciting! You not only had to really trail brake at the end of the back straight after the bowl, but you also had to not scrub as much time on the “long form” skidpad where basically half your lap could be thrown away.
We had more than 5 newcomers join the #86Cup ranks which is always exciting to see!
Round 1 Class Winners are as follows: Stock – Ryan Robinson Street – Phuoc Hai Tran Modified – Kevin Liu Unlimited – Matt Rojana
Round 2 will take place on Saturday 3/14 at Chuckwalla. It’s already waitlisted it seems so hope to see you there! And if you didn’t sign up, best to get ahead and sign up for Round 3 in Vegas! Every round is with Speed Ventures this year so we can’t be too hard to miss!
Thank you to all that came out for this event! We hope to see you soon!
The new season is finally upon us! We are less than one week for Round 1!!
Round 1 sees us kick the season off at the newly-refreshed Streets of Willow at the Willow Springs compound. Tire walls, tire stacks, guardrails, berms and extra runoff will pose a new challenge even to those that have several events here under their belt.
Event registration for this round is basically sold out. We’ll be with our friends at Speed Ventures for the entirety of the 2026 86Cup season, so that makes it easy for you to follow along!
The 86Cup Driver Registration Form is already out as we’re less than a week away, you can find it HERE or on the homepage of our 86Cup website, updated for 2026!
If you’re attending Round 1, be sure to stick around until the end of the event as we’ll be hosting awards same day for the first time in forever for 86Cup!
We hope to see you at Round 1, but if not, there are plenty of chances to catch us for the rest of the year.
86Cup: 86/BRZ Time Attack Series 